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1. Antanicus (antanicus@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 04:36:44 EDT Antanicus

   "For him, (...) a free society depends on free (...) markets. But this assumed connection has proven to be a false one. The decades since the end of the cold war have demonstrated that, without a perceived existential enemy, capitalism tends to undermine the very culture of trust, compassion and empathy upon which Soros’s “open society” depends, by concentrating wealth in the hands of the very few."

   The freer the market, the freer the people, huh?

   https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/jul/06/the-george-soros-philosophy-and-its-fatal-flaw

   1. Antanicus (antanicus@social.coop)'s status on Friday, 06-Jul-2018 04:41:12 EDT Antanicus

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      "(...) Soros published an updated version of Opening the Soviet System, titled Underwriting Democracy, which revealed his new strategy: he would dedicate himself to building permanent institutions that would sustain the ideas that motivated anticommunist revolutions, while modelling the practices of open society for the liberated peoples of eastern Europe."

      "Liberated" as in: "now finally free to sell themselves at the lowest price possible to serve as Europe's private third world"