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BelieveMe3

(134 posts)
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 10:00 PM Nov 2012

who is this guy


Who is this guy running ads about us becoming a socialist country??? Saw it in FLA and NC. He says he grew up in a socialist country and he's spending his own money to warn us about the dangers of socialism. ummm..who is becoming a socialist country? Where do they get this garbage!

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who is this guy (Original Post) BelieveMe3 Nov 2012 OP
I love socialism! Rosa Luxemburg Nov 2012 #1
Heh.. blazeKing Nov 2012 #2
He is the founder of Interactive Brokers.... Sekhmets Daughter Nov 2012 #3
Another angry nutjob!! Really we have to put these underthematrix Nov 2012 #4
Some billionaire asshole spreading filthy lies. limpyhobbler Nov 2012 #5
Looked it up. 1620rock Nov 2012 #8
What bothers me most is that there is no rebuttal. limpyhobbler Nov 2012 #11
He's a propaganda peddler UtahLib Nov 2012 #6
InterActive is just a bunch of Wellstone ruled Nov 2012 #7
Mitt Romney? Ztolkins Nov 2012 #9
He is an arrogant Uglican! Kteachums Nov 2012 #10
Some liar who is purposely convoluting socialism with Soviet communism. sadbear Nov 2012 #12
He is Mrloserpunk Nov 2012 #13

1620rock

(2,218 posts)
8. Looked it up.
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 10:16 PM
Nov 2012

His name is Thomas Peterffy
Born 1944
Budapest, Hungary
Residence Greenwich, Connecticut
Citizenship United States

Occupation: Founder and CEO of Interactive Brokers
Net worth US $ 5 billion
Spouse(s) Divorced, 3 children

Thomas Peterffy (born 1944) is a Hungarian-born American entrepreneur. He is the founder and head of Interactive Brokers (Nasdaq: IBKR) and played a key role in founding the Boston Options Exchange. Peterffy worked as an architectural draftsman after immigrating to the United States and later became a computer programmer. In the 1970s, Peterffy purchased a seat on the American Stock Exchange and played a key role in developing the electronic trading of securities

limpyhobbler

(8,244 posts)
11. What bothers me most is that there is no rebuttal.
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 10:43 PM
Nov 2012

There's nobody to answer it and say hey you are misrepresenting socialism.

Same with the oil and gas commercials that are running around the clock (at least here in southeast Ohio).

They are promoting a dirty energy program, but there is nobody to rebut it and expose the climate impact of that energy program.


UtahLib

(3,179 posts)
6. He's a propaganda peddler
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 10:14 PM
Nov 2012

I'm seeing that ad in Utah too. Sorry to say, he's probably preaching to choir here.

 

Wellstone ruled

(34,661 posts)
7. InterActive is just a bunch of
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 10:16 PM
Nov 2012

blood suckers. This is just another High Frequency Trading outfit. Nothing but thieves,using computers to trade 10 thousand hits per second on the Electron Trading System. This turd is scared shitless because in Europe the new trading bans against HFT's has come. It's all about killing off the new Banking and Trading rules.

sadbear

(4,340 posts)
12. Some liar who is purposely convoluting socialism with Soviet communism.
Fri Nov 2, 2012, 10:48 PM
Nov 2012

He didn't grow up in a socialist country. He's Hungarian, not Norwegian.

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