My friend (hinduvata, somehow still less racist than most of the other white people I have to be acquaintances with for work purposes) keeps bringing up George Soros and how much he hates him.

Apparently, according to him, Soros helped the nazis during WW2 kill 60,000 jews, and also I am being paid by him.

My question of course is, who the hell is George Soros and why do I keep seeing random right wingers bring him up as if he is the final boss of communism?

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    7 hours ago

    For decades Soros has been a lightning rod for every flavor of antisemitism. A whole gamut of unhinged conspiracy theories have developed around him. I wouldn’t investigate too deeply because the rabbit holes have no bottom; it’s a big waste of time.

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    9 hours ago

    Your average billionaire prick like Musk and the others, he funds propaganda and color revolutions but nazis use him specifically in propaganda because he’s Jewish so according to them that means he controls the Earth’s core, Solar System, Milky Way and their left nut.

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    10 hours ago

    Open societies foundation is a CIA front like the NED

    I don’t know anything about the man himself

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    10 hours ago

    Didn’t the Soros Fund support Trump recently?

    Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

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    10 hours ago

    The Hindu nationalist talking point about Soros is that he funds the opposition to BJP which is as baseless as it is ludicrous.

    What George Soros is in general I couldn’t tell you. He is a billionaire who seem like a one man NED.

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    11 hours ago

    Soros is a right-wing billionaire who funds color revolutions but since he is Jewish a lot of fascists think he’s actually a leftist who secretly controls the world. He would have been only 14 at the end of World War II so it seems unlikely that he could have helped the Nazis.

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      8 hours ago

      He would have been only 14 at the end of World War II so it seems unlikely that he could have helped the Nazis.

      Ok that’s actually pretty funny. My friend was talking about Soros as if he was a nazi collaborator infiltrating Jewish societies to out people. Technically, he was part of the Judenrat established by the Nazis, but he was forced to join at the age of 13 and made to hand out deportation notices (what I’m seeing in Wikipedia).