Elon Musk is doing everything conspiracy theorists accuse George Soros of

https://forward.com/opinion/697000/elon-musk-george-soros/

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  1. But the Right doesn’t care because He’s not jewish.

  2. Well, yeah. That’s the point of accusing; preemptive justification. Turnabout is fair play and whatnot.

    It’s one of the *oldest* forms of manipulation in the book. Most effective too.

  3. This is why they accuse, to make an excuse for retribution.

  4. Everything is a confession. Everything.

    And then when they do it they never see the hypocrisy.

  5. I have a, unfortunately, very deluded MAGA cousin who who posted a meme earlier today that said: Dumb politicians are not the problem, the problem is the dumb people that keep voting for them” with a doctored photo of Nancy Pelosi. The comments were full of people saying how dumb democrats are, yada yada yada…

    This super anti-democrat cousin has been on SS disability income for nearly 15 years… Socialist! 🙄

  7. And there are people who defend his actions by suggesting the worlds richest man doesn’t need more money so he must be doing it out of the goodness of his heart.

    Absolutely naive.

  8. Nah it’s much worse:

    “Yarvin gave a talk about “rebooting” the American government at the 2012 BIL Conference. He used it to advocate the acronym “RAGE”, which he defined as “Retire All Government Employees”. He described what he felt were flaws in the accepted “World War II mythology”, alluding to the idea that Hitler’s invasions were acts of self-defense. He argued these discrepancies were pushed by America’s “ruling communists”, who invented political correctness as an “extremely elaborate mechanism for persecuting racists and fascists”. “If Americans want to change their government,” he said, “they’re going to have to get over their dictator phobia.”

    “Yarvin has influenced some prominent Silicon Valley investors and Republican politicians, with venture capitalist Peter Thiel described as his “most important connection”. Political strategist Steve Bannon has read and admired his work. Vice President JD Vance has cited Yarvin as an influence. The Director of Policy Planning during Trump’s second presidency, Michael Anton, has also discussed Yarvin’s ideas. In January 2025, Yarvin attended a Trump inaugural gala in Washington; Politico reported he was “an informal guest of honor” due to his “outsize influence over the Trumpian right.”

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  10. They claimed without proof that Soros was the shadow president for Biden and they deny the jumping Nazi billionaire in the oval office.

  13. Trump and his supporters are everything conservatives accused Obama and his supporters of being. And now Elon is what they claimed Soros was. It’s like poetry, it rhymes.

  14. And because they’re slow they’re going to notice too late.

  15. That was the point of the George soros conspiracy. To make Elon appear retaliatory.

  17. Accusation in Mirror (AiM). The right wing has been accusing everyone else of what the right wing has wanted to do for decades.

  18. I’ve been saying this for months. It’s fucking insanity.

  19. It’s because every accusation is a confession from them.

  20. They don’t see that as hypocritical. To them, it’s competition and one side has to lose for the other to win. To them, this headline is like “spectators boo when the opposing team gets a touchdown, but they cheer when *their* team does it! What hypocrites!”

  21. Hillary’s emails, because they were on a private server. Meanwhile we have BigBalls all up in our government servers.

  22. I know conspiracy theorists that think Soros is a Nazi! How can you equate a Jewish Hungarian that survived ww2 a nazi?? It’s freaking disgusting and I can’t abide by this anymore.

  23. I think many have recognized this pattern where right wing fanatics pick a scapegoat, whether it be a person, organization, government entity or authority figure, even an idea or initiative, and vilify this object of their obsession to no end. Creating narratives and myths that incite hostility, even violence for that matter, towards these nefarious personas and portraits of evil.

    And to what purpose(s)? *This* purpose for one.

    This is a common and traditionally used fascist tactic. The identification of these scapegoats and enemies helps rally these Trump/Musk zealots into a patriotic frenzy, uniting them against these perceived threats to their freedoms, their culture, their country, and in some cases, their white, Christian hegemony.

    > Influential conspiracy theorists across the globe portray Soros as a shadowy puppet master manipulating global politics and controlling media narratives to serve his own self interest. Fueled by antisemitic conspiracy myths, these accusations have portrayed Soros — and, more recently, his son Alex, the new head of the family’s philanthropic foundation — as the ultimate villain in the far-right imagination, blamed for fomenting civil unrest and organizing election interference.

    I’ve been saying something to this effect for a while, filling in the blank with not only figures like Musk, but with other politically scheming and Machiavellian-esque entities like the Koch Brothers, The Heritage Foundation, The Federalist society, Sheldon Adelson, Robert Mercer, Peter Thiel, and the list goes on.

    But the goal here isn’t just for Republicans to drum up fantasies and conspiracy theories about all these sordid, “radical leftist” villains that they can unite against in their imagined war between the forces of good versus evil, the goal is also to use these villains as a justification for their *own* unlawful and unsavory purposes.

    In other words, they can rationalize to themselves why Musk’s efforts are virtuous, even warranted. To them, it’s entirely legitimate for an unelected plutocrat like Musk, who has garnered immense power and political influence by throwing his wealth around, to go on an ideological crusade, enacting a destructive and undemocratic agenda that ignores the separation of powers and goes virtually unchecked.

    It’s perfectly acceptable to give one of the richest men in America who is scarred by his conflicts of interest, along with the coalition he belongs to, unfettered control over most, if not all government operations.

    Because in the end, it’s all to get back against these perceived threats and enemies, these evil Soros figures, these radical leftist plots that are undermining their country, their superior leadership, their sovereignty and hegemony.

    All the while failing to realize that the real danger is coming from inside the house.

    Supporters of these men cannot recognize that they exist in an entirely different orbit than the one circling these figures they worship. Figures who tell them that this is all for *their* sake, but in truth, these leaders that they put their undying faith in, are picking their pockets and carrying out an agenda that favors the few at the expense of the many.

    But these naive voters are too distracted to see it or even understand it because their focus is constantly on these scapegoats and enemies, on these culture wars, these conspiracy theories, on all of the propaganda and misinformation that has shaped their political identity, that has entertained their fears and phobias, that has helped cultivate this us vs them, good vs evil worldview.

  26. They have no principles, stop assuming logic will work. Stop trying to convince them, and take actions instead. Call congress, protest, boycott the billionaires, rally your community.

  27. Imagine the heads exploding if George Soros has paid 9 figures to get Biden reelected, then spoke for him in the Oval Office and later appeared in a joint TV interview with him.

    Conservatives are complete hypocrites.

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