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iirc he played some role in the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, and I think I've heard his name in one or two other intelligence contexts? I also just saw him mentioned in this thread, where he may have somewhat influenced Deng's economic reforms? I want to read more about this guy.

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[-] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Scott Bessent’s mentor.

Read my effort post here a while back about the Asian Financial Crisis in 1997. He was instrumental in bringing down the rise of ASEAN and the proposed East Asian Economic Caucus that was to form the ASEAN +3 (China, Japan and South Korea) independent of Bill Clinton’s APEC designs for the US Asia-Pacific strategy.

I’ll leave you to decide if Soros is merely a forex trader or an agent of American imperialism who just so happened to conveniently crush the rising Southeast Asian economy the moment they wanted to decouple from American hegemony.

It is also very interesting that his protege, Scott Bessent, is now running Trump’s trade war.

[-] YknsNMo000@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 days ago

a forex trader or an agent of American imperialism

What's the difference? :D

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 19 points 5 days ago

Not that interesting imo. He was a forex trader who took out some huge positions and caused problems for some sovereign banks

https://cs.stanford.edu/people/eroberts/cs201/projects/1998-99/financial-transactions/large_investors2.htm

World class piece of shit basically, these antics made him a shitload of money but also resulted in real misery for lots of people

[-] YknsNMo000@thelemmy.club 5 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

But what's the story with reddit nazis thinking he was satan. It was fashionable for a while. Is it solely because he's jewish and rich?

[-] huf@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

he also funded a lot of dem-coded NGO shit the world over

[-] Fishroot@hexbear.net 12 points 5 days ago

Basically a Jeffrey Sachs like character but with more cash. He does finance a lot of liberal causes and I believe he does believe in some kind of progressive liberalism.

[-] godlessworm@hexbear.net 9 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

just some rich fucking asshole

to clarify i dont know anything about him other than that but thats all i need to know to hate him and know hes bad

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 5 points 5 days ago

I think there's a Some More News episode about him.

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