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Forum Post: To the new "Randian" conservatives!

Posted 13 years ago on Nov. 17, 2011, 8:22 p.m. EST by soussherpa (3)
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Liberty is NOT Synonymous with GAME THEORY!

Selfishness is NOT a Virtue!

To HELL with JOHN GALT!!!

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[-] 2 points by bigbangbilly (594) 13 years ago

The philosophy is good with making art and architecture (but the copyrights are the bad parts) but very bad with money and freedom.

[-] 2 points by soussherpa (3) 13 years ago

I half agree, it's bad for humanity period. No one could have predicted that not only would Atlas Shrugged be rejected by quite a few of her fellow atheist, but be embraced by the Religious Right.

Look at the books section of this Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/people/Jon-Galt/6216429

It's disgusting.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 13 years ago

I would add, profit is not profiteering.

Opportunity, is not opportunism.

[-] 1 points by looselyhuman (3117) 13 years ago

Amen (but there's nothing very conservative about their radical immorality).

[-] 1 points by jjpatrick (195) 13 years ago

The problem with today's government is that we neither have socialism nor capitalism, but the worse of aspects of each.

We got a big government and a monopoly of corporations and they acts in a way to profit each other while the 99% get oppressed.

www.rootstrikers.org http://vimeo.com/30090293

The State-Corporate Complex: A Threat to Freedom and Survival by Noam Chomsky http://chomsky.info/talks/20110407.htm

[-] 1 points by number2 (914) 13 years ago

how true is that: the worst of each. I don't have a problem with a few social programs but when it becomes too large then we run out of other people's money to spend. And capitalism is great until you get into anarcho-capitalism where pirates run the country

[-] 1 points by jjpatrick (195) 13 years ago

I'm just glad Obama didn't bail out iPhone thinking Apple could supply the jobs we all need. If they did, no other cell phone would be able to compete and iPhone prices would be even higher than that what they are now.

[-] 1 points by tonybaldwin (235) from New Haven, CT 13 years ago

When corporate entities control the government, it's called "fascism", and that is precisely what we have.

[-] 1 points by soussherpa (3) 13 years ago

I prefer what Chris hedges (quoting Sheldon Wolin) refers to it:

Inverted Totalitarianism

[-] -2 points by RexDiamond (585) from Idabel, OK 13 years ago

You are all ate up with dumbass. Infected by your radical college professor.

[-] -2 points by RI915 (1) 13 years ago

Actually humans are selfish by nature.

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 13 years ago

Selfishness is a learned behavior.

[-] -2 points by BillyD (6) 13 years ago

Get a job, dweeb.

[-] 2 points by soussherpa (3) 13 years ago

Read your Bible, nitwit!

[-] -2 points by BillyD (6) 13 years ago

I don't have one, jerk-off. Nor would I ever get one.