Current Events > I want to live in a world where Ayn Rand and Lance Armstrong never existed

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Weird combo
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Atlas Shrugged, got on a bike, and rode it to Mexico.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

Atlas Shrugged, got on a bike, and rode it to Mexico.

With one nut
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It is funny how people who really hate Ayn Rand usually know nothing about her. I remember Colbert talk to someone on his old show about her and he assumed she was a religious conservative and almost broke character finding out she was pro choice and hated religion.
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But we wouldn't have Bioshock if Rand never existed
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http://www.cc.com/video-clips/v0fegj/the-colbert-report-jennifer-burns

found the clip actually. It's so obvious how much Colbert just panders. At least Stewart did research.
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/v0fegj/the-colbert-report-jennifer-burns

found the clip actually. It's so obvious how much Colbert just panders. At least Stewart did research.

you know he's playing a character, right?
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

It is funny how people who really hate Ayn Rand usually know nothing about her. I remember Colbert talk to someone on his old show about her and he assumed she was a religious conservative and almost broke character finding out she was pro choice and hated religion.

I actually don't hate Rand. I hate people who think Atlas Shrugged is a literal prophecy.

And most of those people are actually religious conservatives.
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ChromaticAngel posted...

MARKINGRAM22 posted...

It is funny how people who really hate Ayn Rand usually know nothing about her. I remember Colbert talk to someone on his old show about her and he assumed she was a religious conservative and almost broke character finding out she was pro choice and hated religion.

I actually don't hate Rand. I hate people who think Atlas Shrugged is a literal prophecy.

And most of those people are actually religious conservatives.

Look I am not into that whole objectivism stuff and people greatly exaggerate her role on modern libertarians, when Murray Rothbard is what people paint her as. She also had issues dealing with reasonable disagreements in her old age, but people fail to understand when they view her as uncaring she grew up in the soviet union where people in the 100's of millions died from communism and the idea of equality and selflessness used as a way to control people.

I can't imagine religious conservatives using Atlas Shrugged as literal prophecy in any large numbers though...
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ChromaticAngel posted...

MARKINGRAM22 posted...

It is funny how people who really hate Ayn Rand usually know nothing about her. I remember Colbert talk to someone on his old show about her and he assumed she was a religious conservative and almost broke character finding out she was pro choice and hated religion.

I actually don't hate Rand. I hate people who think Atlas Shrugged is a literal prophecy.

And most of those people are actually religious conservatives.

Just want to say though, I think people on the left(and everyone) should look at her on various other subjects. I think they would be impressed and intrigued by some of her speech's/statements on social issues. Her views on race really were enlightening to me.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdeI9NfbfT8

I think this is it.
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

Just want to say though, I think people on the left(and everyone) should look at her on various other subjects. I think they would be impressed and intrigued by some of her speech's/statements on social issues. Her views on race really were enlightening to me.

I'm not really going to comment on her opinions of race, but I will say that Atlas Shrugged does seem a little somewhat contradictory to her other literature.

I think Ayn Rand may have had a change of political opinions later in her life.
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My favorite Ayn Rand tidbit is that it's not physically possibly to deliver the massive monologue that John Galt gives in the three hour timespan he does in the book. The closest anyone has ever come while still sounding intelligible was something like six hours.
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MARKINGRAM22 posted...

It is funny how people who really hate Ayn Rand usually know nothing about her. I remember Colbert talk to someone on his old show about her and he assumed she was a religious conservative and almost broke character finding out she was pro choice and hated religion.

Her "literature", if you can even call it that, is objectively horseshit
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UnholyMudcrab posted...

My favorite Ayn Rand tidbit is that it's not physically possibly to deliver the massive monologue that John Galt gives in the three hour timespan he does in the book. The closest anyone has ever come while still sounding intelligible was something like six hours.

It took me 40 minutes to read the "Nate the Snake" joke outloud to some friends and that's not really even that long. Like a 5 minute read if you concentrate and brisk through it.
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DuranOfForcena posted...

E32005 posted...

Weird combo

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