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smirkymonkey

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10. What do all the Trump nominees have in common?

Reply to dgauss (Original post)

Mon Dec 26, 2016, 05:46 PM

Dec 2016

They are all aficionados of extremely bad literature. WTF? How can anyone think that Ayn Rand is even a nominally decent writer? She is dreadful as a writer and even worse as a philosopher. What is wrong with these people?

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Rex Tillerson's favorite book in college: Atlas Shrugged [View all] dgauss Dec 2016 OP

So greed safeinOhio Dec 2016 #1

Another version of kipling's "the white man's burden" bhikkhu Dec 2016 #2

Not fair Bucky Dec 2016 #8

In context, it was about playing the suffering unappreciated hero bhikkhu Dec 2016 #9

Yeah, I teach that poem every year in my world history class Bucky Dec 2016 #13

Of course MFM008 Dec 2016 #3

oy vey. how twisted is his soul? pansypoo53219 Dec 2016 #4

It only takes two eyes and a brain to read Atlas Shrugged. Gravitycollapse Dec 2016 #5

It's such a bad book MountCleaners Dec 2016 #6

well, of course it is Bucky Dec 2016 #7

What do all the Trump nominees have in common? smirkymonkey Dec 2016 #10

He'll find a soul mate in Paul Ryan lunatica Dec 2016 #11

Selfishness. Objectivism. Lack of empathy. Roland99 Dec 2016 #12