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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 09:36 PM Original message |
Ayn Rand and Altas Shrugged are more dangerous to our republic than Hitler and Mein Kampf |
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freshwest (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
1. Agreed. Hopefully the newly converted will learn who Rand's role model for her Superman was. |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:06 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hum, I really think they are discredited afterthought except for the fact that they are used |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:09 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. Honestly, I think the elites actually do think they hold the world on |
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jimlup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:16 PM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Yeah, I'd agree with that |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:07 AM Response to Reply #3 |
28. who are the elites? |
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bigmonkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:29 PM Response to Reply #2 |
30. So, educate them about this? |
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Fool Count (878 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
4. It's certainly done more damage already. |
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LibertyFox (124 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:27 PM Response to Original message |
6. Sorry |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:08 AM Response to Reply #6 |
29. +1 |
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provis99 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
7. Rand was adamantly opposed to democracy. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:00 PM Response to Original message |
8. We need a word to describe the incessant aggression that is drumbed into readers of her books as |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:04 PM Response to Reply #8 |
10. We already have one. |
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applegrove (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
16. I mean the repetition of aggression that flips a few people into becoming followers because |
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Prophet 451 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:03 PM Response to Original message |
9. Not sure I'd go that far |
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bullwinkle428 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
11. Paul Ryan supposedly urged his staff members to read the works of Rand. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:06 PM Response to Reply #11 |
12. So does Clarence Thomas. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:10 PM Response to Original message |
13. Yes, that IS a wild over-reaction. |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:12 PM Response to Reply #13 |
14. Last time I checked those songs haven't caused any harm. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:22 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. LOL, I was just having a laugh. |
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MessiahRp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:44 PM Response to Reply #15 |
34. I don't think that's the point. |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:28 PM Response to Original message |
17. How the hell could anyone take Ayn Rand's writing seriously, is my question. |
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taught_me_patience (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:50 PM Response to Reply #17 |
35. A little fool named Alan Greenspan |
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Newest Reality (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:40 PM Response to Original message |
18. We are living in results that could as well make her a prophet, |
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Quantess (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 01:15 AM Response to Reply #18 |
21. It's all Yin-Yang? Really? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
19. Then why all the threads? |
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Sirveri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Apr-18-11 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
20. That's because Hitler is recognized. If he was obscure he'd be a greater threat today. |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 01:34 AM Response to Original message |
22. If not Rand, someone else would've filled that slot. |
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upi402 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 01:39 AM Response to Reply #22 |
23. Ayn Rand used Medicare for her lung cancer treatment |
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Raksha (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 02:12 AM Response to Original message |
24. I agree. It isn't possible to destroy the neocons as an economic and polical force |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 02:16 AM Response to Original message |
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JCMach1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 04:56 AM Response to Original message |
26. No more dangerous than Dianetics |
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Hugabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 11:01 PM Response to Reply #26 |
38. Really? How many politicians are trying to make laws based on Dianetics? |
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cali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 05:06 AM Response to Original message |
27. oh please |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:27 PM Response to Reply #27 |
32. Currently her ideas are more dangerous than Nazism. |
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checks-n-balances (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:23 PM Response to Original message |
31. This video has her talking about dictatorships... |
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roamer65 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:29 PM Response to Original message |
33. Rand was a serial killer groupie. She's human filth. |
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DeadEyeDyck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
36. Geeze, |
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former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 10:50 PM Response to Original message |
37. How would you rank it with the deaths by communism? |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Apr-19-11 11:04 PM Response to Reply #37 |
39. If we are discussing pure idelogy than it is very difficult |
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