[cynicalkane]

This is a textbook ad hominem attack. It's trying to discredit someone using insults, and it is considered a logical fallacy. It's not the insult that makes an ad hominem, it's using with insults as an excuse to dismiss someone's arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem

It doesn't help that the OP's insult premise, despite its frothing anger, is your garden-variety, vaguely conspiratorial hate of evil rich people. This sort of stuff should come with a big [CITATION NEEDED] for those of us who don't believe the rich are a big conspiracy of fortunate sons, out to get the common people.

But what's most ironic is that Soros being one of the world's top finance guys gives him more credibility, not less; unless you believe he has a nefarious plot to make billions by lying in magazine interviews or something.

[yread]

I think it is correct not to trust what he says. He has a history of currency speculations, so stuff he says publicly might be just him trying to stir some shit. Is he short on euro again like with pound in 1992? If he discloses his positions, perhaps we can take what he says at face value.