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Re:Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down by dang on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:03PM (#20528362)
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Re:Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down by atlasunshrugged on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:47AM (#20523469)
Can you provide a source on your comments about Soros? I've seen this mentioned a few times over the years but I had also heard that it was taken out of context or that he had misspoken and later retracted. Would like to see the primary source if you have it
Re:Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down by thomasmeeks on Thursday July 25, 2019 @03:58AM (#20523508)
Snopes has a great write up on it that points to primary sources, including a “60 Minutes” interview.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/george-soros-ss-nazi-germa...

The tl;dr is that such accusations are weird, false, propaganda about Soros.

Re:Tesla co-founder and CTO JB Straubel stepping down by notahacker on Thursday July 25, 2019 @04:32AM (#20523654)
The TLDR version is there are many legitimate criticisms of Soros, but anyone using his wartime experiences as a kid forced to conceal his identity to avoid the holocaust to invoke "rapacious Jewish financier" tropes is exactly the sort of human excrement that would have cheerfully joined the SS themselves...