Soros donates $100 Million to Human Rights Watch

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Phokus

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1. You started a thread about Soros donating, making the ignorant claim that the Koch's do not. Thread backfire.

2. This country was founded on the ideology of individual liberty and limited government. No one can read the writtings of our founders and come to any other conclusion, unless they're deluded.

Any shift away from the authoritarian now would be a good one. The idea of individual liberty and responsibility is NOT destructive to America. Quite the contrary, it's what made us the last remaining superpower.

The socialist authoritarian ideal the left follows is what will destroy us, not liberty.

3. Nice attempt at diversion. But your OP seeks to compare charitable contributions. You lose. Thread backfire. Fail.

Not really, Soros is open in all his donations, BOTH political and charitable. Wow, the Koches are public with their contribution to the arts? How self serving. There's a reason why they aren't public about their donations to tea party causes: because there's obviously some shame involved. They are polluters and raper of the environment, there's NOTHING they want more than to get rid of Obama and replace him with polluting friendly politicans like the GOP can offer.

Also, ahhahaha, 'freedom'. You mean freedom to destroy the middle class and ship all our jobs out? There's your freedom.
 

nonlnear

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Yeah too bad Soros is transparent to who he donates to, both in Charitable and political causes and the Koch's are not.
Are you counting Soros' "merely [taking] advantage of known weaknesses in the international financial system" in the same column as the Koch brothers' less noble activities, or is that all fine and dandy just because you don't understand it?
 

Amused

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Not really, Soros is open in all his donations, BOTH political and charitable. Wow, the Koches are public with their contribution to the arts? How self serving. There's a reason why they aren't public about their donations to tea party causes: because there's obviously some shame involved. They are polluters and raper of the environment, there's NOTHING they want more than to get rid of Obama and replace him with polluting friendly politicans like the GOP can offer.

Also, ahhahaha, 'freedom'. You mean freedom to destroy the middle class and ship all our jobs out? There's your freedom.

Wow, sore loser, aren't you?

Should I make quotes of this thread and put them in my sig like your childish ass does when you trump someone?

Naw.

You, and this thread, failed miserably Phokus. That tends to happen when you're blinded by bias. You've swung so far to the left you can't even think straight.

Come back to the middle, Phokus. That's where the sane folks are.

And jobs shipped over seas is a direct result of over regulation. A LACK of freedom.
 

Phokus

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Are you counting Soros' "merely [taking] advantage of known weaknesses in the international financial system" in the same column as the Koch brothers' less noble activities, or is that all fine and dandy just because you don't understand it?

Compared to what the Koch brothers have done, what Soros has done is cupcake. Also, blaming Soros for the international financial system is like blaming China for taking American jobs by exchange rate manipulation when it's the American government's responsibility to protect American jobs.
 

Phokus

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Wow, sore loser, aren't you?

Should I make quotes of this thread and put them in my sig like your childish ass does when you trump someone?

Naw.

You, and this thread, failed miserably Phokus. That tends to happen when you're blinded by bias. You've swung so far to the left you can't even think straight.

Come back to the middle, Phokus. That's where the sane folks are.

And jobs shipped over seas is a direct result of over regulation. A LACK of freedom.

Ahahahahaha, you're dumb as hell. There's no denying that the Koch brothers are secretive about the political donations while Soros is not. Again, big fucking deal, they like to brag about their charitable contributions, that's completely self serving.

Oh and please tell me what regulations ship jobs overseas? Oh, you want Americans to work for 80 cents an hour to compete with the Chinese? Is that it? Look how terrible you are.

As for you telling me to go back to the middle, ahahahaha, a loony LOLbertarian like yourself should be the LAST person to tell me that.
 

nonlnear

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Compared to what the Koch brothers have done, what Soros has done is cupcake. Also, blaming Soros for the international financial system is like blaming China for taking American jobs by exchange rate manipulation when it's the American government's responsibility to protect American jobs.
Except I didn't blame Soros for anything. You're deflecting, and quite poorly at that...
 
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I believe that Phokus has finally lost it.

Children...let this be a lesson to you...being a partisan hack is all fun and games until somebody gets an eyed poked out!
 

nonlnear

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Yeah sure you weren't.
I observed that he was one of a certain class of moguls. Is it malicious to point out facts so obvious that even Soros himself is comfortable saying in public? Why do you accuse me of malice when I say nothing worse about Soros than Soros himself? That is some insecurity you are nursing there.
 

Phokus

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I believe that Phokus has finally lost it.

Children...let this be a lesson to you...being a partisan hack is all fun and games until somebody gets an eyed poked out!

You guys are being dishonest, not me. Soros is pretty open about his giving and to some extent it hurts the causes he gives to considering conservatives like to scream about the billionaire elite supporting liberal causes. The Koch brothers and their tea party donations? Not so much.

But hey, if you guys want to keep being dishonest about it, feel free.
 

BoberFett

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Yeah too bad Soros is transparent to who he donates to, both in Charitable and political causes and the Koch's are not.

He's transparent about the media friendly charities he donates to, just like the Koch's.

How do you know he also isn't making money off of smuggling weapons around the world? He's already been known to manipulate currency for his personal gain, isn't that bad enough?
 

Fear No Evil

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OK, you have made the accusation that parents will steal it, what is your basis for calling them thieves?

History and experience of such programs in the past. YOU are using the term thieves.. I'm saying the parents will not use it for its intended purpose. Is that theft? I guess I'll let Soros decide that, its his money being wasted.
 

Phokus

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I observed that he was one of a certain class of moguls. Is it malicious to point out facts so obvious that even Soros himself is comfortable saying in public? Why do you accuse me of malice when I say nothing worse about Soros than Soros himself? That is some insecurity you are nursing there.

Actually, what's more telling is what you were replying to, a complete nonsequitor of a reply in relation to his charitable giving.

Yeah too bad Soros is transparent to who he donates to, both in Charitable and political causes and the Koch's are not.
 

Hayabusa Rider

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He also gave every family with children on welfare in New York State $200 to buy school supplies, a grant worth $35 million that enabled the state to gain access to some $175 million in federal money for which it would not otherwise have qualified.

What a cluster fuck that was. He didn't give $200 for each kid. His money AND the Fed pork did.

Oh, but that got these poor school kids (which qualified everyone with a pre-schooler as well) supplies? Fuck no.

What we found out (this was from 2009, not 2010- it's all over) is that Soros insisted there be no stipulations on how the money was spent. It did not have to go for school supplies or anything else. You just got fast cash. All well and good eh?

Nope. Because of how the grant was written the Fed dollars had to be distributed with the same strings as in none.

So no problem. People would take it and spend it on these kids, right?

Nope.

On the day the checks came out ATMs ran out of cash, liquor and smokes flew off the shelf- HDTVs were sold out along with IPods, PS3s and other gaming consoles.

Guess what was left virtually untouched? School supplies and clothing.

Thanks George, you cost the US taxpayers $175 million out of your stupidity.

Great work.
 

nonlnear

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Actually, what's more telling is what you were replying to, a complete nonsequitor of a reply in relation to his charitable giving.
I was responding to the general thrust of yours which is that the Kochs are evil and Soros is a boon ot the world. My apologies for hitting reply on the most convenient of your idiotic posts and not sifting through the drivel.

Keep deflecting...
 

Phokus

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He's transparent about the media friendly charities he donates to, just like the Koch's.

How do you know he also isn't making money off of smuggling weapons around the world? He's already been known to manipulate currency for his personal gain, isn't that bad enough?

So Boberfett, have you stopped beating your wife, or is that still going on?
 

Phokus

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I was responding to the general thrust of yours which is that the Kochs are evil and Soros is a boon ot the world. My apologies for hitting reply on the most convenient of your idiotic posts and not sifting through the drivel.

Keep deflecting...

You're the one who can't seem to keep a train of thought alive without going off tangent.
 

Amused

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You're the one who can't seem to keep a train of thought alive without going off tangent.

Wow... Just wow...

Your thread backfired, Phokus. Deal with it. Stop being a whiny little brainwashed bitch and deal with it.
 

nonlnear

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You're the one who can't seem to keep a train of thought alive without going off tangent.
Clue: the center is not on any tangent line of a non-degenerate circle. Ergo my focusing on your central premise is not a tangent. :p
 

Phokus

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Wow... Just wow...

Your thread backfired, Phokus. Deal with it. Stop being a whiny little brainwashed bitch and deal with it.

Deal with what? That you're a dishonest piece of shit? No, i can deal with that pretty easily, that's your MO.

You trying to equate Soros giving to HRW, which, btw, conservatives bitch about, especially in relation to their stance on US torture and Israel, and Koch giving to arts is laughable.

It's absolutely shameless that you would make such an equivocation when you know damn well Koch's decision to be public or private with his contributions is a matter of self serving interests.
 

Phokus

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Clue: the center is not on any tangent line of a non-degenerate circle. Ergo my focusing on your central premise is not a tangent. :p

You can make all the retarded smiley faces you want, doesn't change the fact that you responded with a nonsequitor.
 

nonlnear

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You can make all the retarded smiley faces you want, doesn't change the fact that you responded with a nonsequitor.
I see you have no rebuttal for the words which preceded the smiley face...