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KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
Nahhh... Trump the Poisonous is more of an 'A. Hitler' than a 'King George III'. But then, same result... We wound up doing war on that A.H. too. https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE #Texit Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016. Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power. |
betreger Send message Joined: 29 Jun 99 Posts: 11361 Credit: 29,581,041 RAC: 66 |
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed†~ Ayn Rand 55 years ago I read and believed The Fountain Head and Atlas shrugged. By my early 30's I realized she was proposing total crap. I'm soon to be 71. |
KWSN - MajorKong Send message Joined: 5 Jan 00 Posts: 2892 Credit: 1,499,890 RAC: 0 |
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed†~ Ayn Rand The Fountainhead... good novel. Read it 3 times. Read the novel 'Atlas Shrugged' 4 times. Currently reading one of her collections of essays 'Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal'. https://youtu.be/iY57ErBkFFE #Texit Don't blame me, I voted for Johnson(L) in 2016. Truth is dangerous... especially when it challenges those in power. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
You may find Ayn Rand more palatable if you are not Jewish! edit: You may find it even more than palatable if you sort of turn off your mind while reading her.... |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Howard Roarke is such an interesting character, it's taken me 1 year to get through 1/4 oof the book. Reading Limbaugh went so much more quickly. Even "Earth in the Balance" went more quickly! Spoiler as to what happens after the first quarter of the book? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed†~ Ayn Rand Anywho: 1) Couldn't this go in the Hillary RODHAM Clinton thread? This thread is for Donald JOHN Trump and in your post, it lacks the sometimes necessary overlap. 2) This is one of the few things Rand says that makes complete sense. Are we sure she didn't actually say "When a man cannot make the courts agree with him, he's not truly a man ... not worthy of being called human"? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Howard Roarke is such an interesting character, it's taken me 1 year to get through 1/4 oof the book. Reading Limbaugh went so much more quickly. Even "Earth in the Balance" went more quickly! I have no problem with wanting to be functional and original. Creative. I am sometimes creative. I do have a problem with the idea that following anything classic is sub-human. Putting in the realm of architecture? Maybe interesting in the 1920s? Now? It's boring? Ms. Francon and Mr. Toohey and the dances they do to appear different? Boring. Roarke and Ms. Francon's weird submission/domination dance? Perhaps a bit creepy, what I've read so far. Should continued reading shed any light for me, understanding the minds of others? Particularly, Trump and his supporters? Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
celttooth Send message Joined: 21 Nov 99 Posts: 26503 Credit: 28,583,098 RAC: 0 |
Ayn Rand was instrumental in the cleansing of Hollywood of not only Communists but Jews by way of the House Un-American Activities Committee. Right in the thick of all of it was Walt Disney working hard to get rid of most of the Jewish, Latino, and other such un-palatable persons from his organization. You may be asking: "So what?" I have always believed that the true nature of any one is directly related to the things they do in life. I was not impressed with some of the terrible things that Ayn Rand did, and what I think she represented as a philosopher. I think she should have stayed writing screen plays. edit: I believe she may be reasonable for some of the heartless justifications now used by oligarchs in your country in their dealings with your citizens.... re-edit: I have been waiting years to write that.... |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
The former Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul, is named after Ayn Rand! In the contemporary view of Ayn Rand she was an ideological extremist but without academic authority. She praises egoism, rejects taxation and advocate the nightwatch state. But her books sold well and she became a great inspiration to many entrepreneurs, politicians and cultural workers. Sounds like someone Trump could like. |
JaundicedEye Send message Joined: 14 Mar 12 Posts: 5375 Credit: 30,870,693 RAC: 1 |
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomedâ€Ayn Rand aside, what is not true in that quote? "Sour Grapes make a bitter Whine." <(0)> |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomed†~ Ayn Rand Wow there she is again . A Russian old lady whom has been proven to be a complete dunce and her theories disproven in a classic experiment and you American quote her . Wow how she had so much power boggles me . She had the ear of Greenspan and others wake up She is a true communist and so are her ideas god dam it |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Should continued reading shed any light for me, understanding the minds of others? Particularly, Trump and his supporters? Clyde I get really annoned when I here her F-ing name man . America is a refection of her theories right now and why your in so much trouble in the classic experiment to prove her crap it failed not even 1/2 way into it and what happened in that experiment is exactly what you see in you country bully's taking your right and wealth away from you . GRRRRRRR to Ayn Rand |
Gone Fishing Send message Joined: 19 Aug 16 Posts: 70 Credit: 2,393 RAC: 0 |
Should continued reading shed any light for me, understanding the minds of others? Particularly, Trump and his supporters? I will give you this CLUDE. AYN Rand found that the real Power in America was in the Movie Industry. After, as a spoiled brat, in Soviet Russia, as she moved to the USA, she realized that the only way to Power was Sucking Up. All of Ayn Rand's Philosophy has no more relevance than the bile spewed by Stalin. Her's was just a Mindless Recoil. I actually like Her work, as Fiction, Nothing More. |
Darth Beaver Send message Joined: 20 Aug 99 Posts: 6728 Credit: 21,443,075 RAC: 3 |
Your 100% right there guido you said what I was trying to say . |
janneseti Send message Joined: 14 Oct 09 Posts: 14106 Credit: 655,366 RAC: 0 |
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Gone Fishing Send message Joined: 19 Aug 16 Posts: 70 Credit: 2,393 RAC: 0 |
Alan Greenspan was so wrong about the GFC that it could be said he caused it. |
Sarge Send message Joined: 25 Aug 99 Posts: 12273 Credit: 8,569,109 RAC: 79 |
Revealed: Donald JOHN Trumps's Debt. Capitalize on this good fortune, one word can bring you round ... changes. |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Revealed: Donald JOHN Trumps's Debt. Yeah, great, but I gave you link to that story two (2) days ago. |
bobby Send message Joined: 22 Mar 02 Posts: 2866 Credit: 17,789,109 RAC: 3 |
“When the law no longer protects you from the corrupt, but protects the corrupt from you – you know your nation is doomedâ€Ayn Rand aside, what is not true in that quote? It does not take into account the words of the 2nd President, John Adams: It is more important that innocence be protected than it is that guilt be punished(source) The presumption of innocence requires the law provide protections for the guilty (and thus the corrupt). Rand is wrong, the nation is not doomed, its people are better off. I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that ... |
W-K 666 Send message Joined: 18 May 99 Posts: 19062 Credit: 40,757,560 RAC: 67 |
Trump increasing payments to himself or his companies as campaign donations increase. Donald Trump 'quadrupled rent for own campaign's Trump Tower HQ as donor funding increased' The rent increased from $35,458 in March to $72,800 in April, $110,684 in June and $169,758 in July. It is unclear if the campaign increased the space it occupies in Trump Tower, though staffing levels have remained consistent. |
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