Kevin O'Leary says 3.5 billion people living in poverty is 'fantastic news'

Lou.m

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuqemytQ5QA

I HATE THIS MAN

zetalambda

If anyone deserves a drastic and unexpected change of fortune, it's him. I'd love to read about him going bankrupt or losing all of his wealth. It always amazes me just how obsessed he is with making even more money considering he's already a multi billionaire.

Icepick

2/5 trolling

TeddyTedson

What a horrible ignorant view.
Or is it merely trolling?

Annasopra

Who?

Wabbit Ears

LOL, he totally trolled the fcuk out of her...epic win.

donvito99

I assume he's one of these noisy contributor-to-CNBC, wall street types who haven't a shred of credibility outside of the United States?

Gustavo Kuerten

I agree it's fantastic that some individuals learned how to be extremely wealthy. Don't see the problem.

zetalambda

Gustavo Kuerten wrote: »

I agree it's fantastic that some individuals learned how to be extremely wealthy. Don't see the problem.

The point she was trying to make was that if Kevin O' Leary was born in sub Saharan Africa, he would not currently be a wealthy billionaire.

Gustavo Kuerten

zetalambda wrote: »

The point she was trying to make was that if Kevin O' Leary was born in sub Saharan Africa, he would not currently be a wealthy billionaire.

The governments in Africa need to make changes to their societies and economies which encourage efficiency and wealth creation. Giving them money won't help much.

Fox_In_Socks

'ibertarian.

NegativeCreep

"Oh wait, I don't have socks!"

Pissed my pants.

zetalambda

Gustavo Kuerten wrote: »

The governments in Africa need to make changes to their societies and economies which encourage efficiency and wealth creation. Giving them money won't help much.

I don't think any type of help from the outside world will help drag Africa into the 21st century and they're clearly not capable of making effective changes themselves. You only need to have a look at the article below.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2517510/Sex-attacker-confronted-victim-Kenyan-court--female-GOAT.html

Spunge

Kevin O Learry is hilarious

Kintarō Hattori

Gustavo Kuerten wrote: »

The governments in Africa need to make changes to their societies and economies which encourage efficiency and wealth creation. Giving them money won't help much.

I agree that throwing money at them won't resolve anything and governments there do need to mature and grow their economies in a mature sensible manner BUT if you're born somewhere in Africa chances are that life will be a struggle and you'll be hard pressed to make a success of things. You'll very much so be a victim of circumstance, something beyond your control and you'll be highly unlikely to be in the top tier of globally wealthy people..... simply as a result of where you were born.

BillyMitchel

Who the fock is Kevin O Leary?

Menas

Kintarō Hattori wrote: »

I agree that throwing money at them won't resolve anything and governments there do need to mature and grow their economies in a mature sensible manner BUT if you're born somewhere in Africa chances are that life will be a struggle and you'll be hard pressed to make a success of things. You'll very much so be a victim of circumstance, something beyond your control and you'll be highly unlikely to be in the top tier of globally wealthy people..... simply as a result of where you were born.

Poster you are replying to has been banned. I wonder why?!

Kintarō Hattori

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Poster you are replying to has been banned. I wonder why?!

I had seen that but wasn't sure if he was one of those hilarious folk who change that title to banned.

Idbatterim

bloody hell, that is ridiculous, he is so adamant and says we would celebrate the fact, honestly one of the most ridiculous, non piss taking things I have ever seen!

Retrovertigo

He is taking the piss, it's part of his shtick.

For anyone who doesn't know him he is a venture capitalist and appears on the Canadian and American Dragons Den. Just look up any of his videos on You Tube and you'll see him doing the exact same to contestants.

zl1whqvjs75cdy

God he's a **** even if he's a troll.

Lapin

BillyMitchel wrote: »

Who the fock is Kevin O Leary?

With a name like his, probably someone who will get a certificate of Irish Heritage from Enda Kenny when he comes over here to buy up half of Co Leitrim while its going cheap.

Liger vs Tigon

Trigger Happy wrote: »

Poster you are replying to has been banned. I wonder why?!

He's a re reg.

KyussBishop

It's not trolling when the person actually believes what they are saying - it's no coincidence that it happens to align almost precisely with his other views and actions, portraying it as 'trolling' is just letting him off the hook for holding extremely bigoted views.

It's how bigots/ideologues push the boundaries of what is acceptable in all areas of discussion:
Take the most extreme of your views that are not publicly palatable, advocate and then defend those views in a facetious 'lol just trolling' manner - then take the 'out' of pretending you're joking (to avoid the backlash), and repeat this over time.

People become used to the expression of these views, then one day the person no longer needs to use the 'out' of pretending they are joking, they then switch to being serious about it instead - since people are used to these views being expressed, it's "old news", "shure they've been saying that for ages, what's the big deal" - it shifts the overton window in the favour of the person spouting these views.


You see it on boards from time to time too - it's like a right-leaning poster trying to 'bait' left-leaning posters, by spouting extremist stuff like O'Leary - then you see a bunch of those right-leaning posters band up, and pretend with a wink and a nod to one another, that they are just trolling.

This is not trolling though - generally what they are arguing aligns very closely with their views, and their facetiousness is often actually present in all of their arguments anyway, because it's useful for them to switch in/out of (and to blend together) facetious and serious arguments: It lets them fool people who support their general views, into thinking - when exposed to more extreme/bigoted versions of those views that they are unlikely (in the present, but succumbing later) to support - "hmm, nah he didn't mean that, he's just trolling", until over time, they are affected by the same shift in the overton-window that I mention above, and end up supporting the same stuff.

So this kind of stuff is not trolling, it's not even just pure tactlessness/idiocy either (though there's certainly a fair bit of that): It's actually a way of propagandising, and shifting the overton window, to shift what is acceptable in public discourse, to align more closely with the persons own ideological views (and it fools fans/acolytes into falling deeper into the ideology, over time, through repeated exposure - turning what was once 'trolling', into serious/'respectable' views).
The extremist nutjobs - and their acolytes - spouting bigoted nonsense, are 'useful idiots' for achieving this purpose.

beks101

Bit of context to this, Kevin O'Leary's role on CBC's Lang and O'Leary Exchange is based entirely on the rapport between both presenters - mainly his ability to troll and rile Amanda Lang, one of Canada's premiere business journalists.

As an aside, I used to work with Lang, she's a pint sized bucket of sex-appeal and I say that as a straight female.

O'Leary is a multi-millionaire troll, knows exactly what he's doing and his producers will forever keep him there because of his ability to yield network ratings.

donegal__road

he doesn't come across as being very intelligent.. even if he is trolling.

dickface

Reminds me of this.

Fox_In_Socks

beks101 wrote: »

Bit of context to this, Kevin O'Leary's role on CBC's Lang and O'Leary Exchange is based entirely on the rapport between both presenters - mainly his ability to troll and rile Amanda Lang, one of Canada's premiere business journalists.

As an aside, I used to work with Lang, she's a pint sized bucket of sex-appeal and I say that as a straight female.

O'Leary is a multi-millionaire troll, knows exactly what he's doing and his producers will forever keep him there because of his ability to yield network ratings.

That's grand, so.

TeddyTedson

KyussBishop wrote: »

It's not trolling when the person actually believes what they are saying - it's no coincidence that it happens to align almost precisely with his other views and actions, portraying it as 'trolling' is just letting him off the hook for holding extremely bigoted views.

It's how bigots/ideologues push the boundaries of what is acceptable in all areas of discussion:
Take the most extreme of your views that are not publicly palatable, advocate and then defend those views in a facetious 'lol just trolling' manner - then take the 'out' of pretending you're joking (to avoid the backlash), and repeat this over time.

People become used to the expression of these views, then one day the person no longer needs to use the 'out' of pretending they are joking, they then switch to being serious about it instead - since people are used to these views being expressed, it's "old news", "shure they've been saying that for ages, what's the big deal" - it shifts the overton window in the favour of the person spouting these views.


You see it on boards from time to time too - it's like a right-leaning poster trying to 'bait' left-leaning posters, by spouting extremist stuff like O'Leary - then you see a bunch of those right-leaning posters band up, and pretend with a wink and a nod to one another, that they are just trolling.

This is not trolling though - generally what they are arguing aligns very closely with their views, and their facetiousness is often actually present in all of their arguments anyway, because it's useful for them to switch in/out of (and to blend together) facetious and serious arguments: It lets them fool people who support their general views, into thinking - when exposed to more extreme/bigoted versions of those views that they are unlikely (in the present, but succumbing later) to support - "hmm, nah he didn't mean that, he's just trolling", until over time, they are affected by the same shift in the overton-window that I mention above, and end up supporting the same stuff.

So this kind of stuff is not trolling, it's not even just pure tactlessness/idiocy either (though there's certainly a fair bit of that): It's actually a way of propagandising, and shifting the overton window, to shift what is acceptable in public discourse, to align more closely with the persons own ideological views (and it fools fans/acolytes into falling deeper into the ideology, over time, through repeated exposure - turning what was once 'trolling', into serious/'respectable' views).
The extremist nutjobs - and their acolytes - spouting bigoted nonsense, are 'useful idiots' for achieving this purpose.

Thank you, at last someone gets it!

nullzero

Touch of the Jermemy Clarkson's about that. Does he really believe in the wildly offensive opinions he has for money? (*that he is paid to have, for shock value)