Any one who has read Rand knows that she made it very clear that it is only through the rugged individual, standing up to the mob of takers and making sure the government bailed him out that we can hope to have a truly great society.
Not if Biden gets in and Senate gets flipped. And I don't think a vaccine will come that fast anyway, unless a Manhattan Project-size push gets funded.
Keep in mind, from the Objectivist point of view, National Socialism is a "people's state," because obviously no form of government should (or can? I am not completely clear on the reasoning there) own anything, while fascism is a blending of public force and private profit.
A friend of mine whose life's mission is pointing out hypocrisy (and who loves spreadsheets) found the Ayn Rand Foundation in there, and I laughed bitterly for about an hour, thinking of all my friends with actual small businesses who didn't get a penny.
(He also pointed out that the Young Turks got something above $1M -- a figure that seems insane to me, since their entire business model seems to be "white dude talks sanctimoniously at a camera," an activity that has not been interrupted by covid.)
That's me. Withdrew last year from IRA to finish house.This year my SS (sole source of income) was cut about $400 a month and my stim check was a whopping $183. Next year I'll get my SS back.
We all love what we love and that is as it should be, but a big time sport where a typical score is 1-0 leaves me bewildered. I thought games were supposed to be about scoring, just like life. I was disappointed when table tennis shortened games to 11 from 21 back in 2002. Changed the whole strategy of the game.Make soccer could goose the scoring by awarding fractional points for shots on goal, great passes or something. Make it more like figure skating with a panel of international judges. Yeah, that's the ticket.
It's like political donations in reverse!
I know that song, never had a clue what the title was. Merci.
Any one who has read Rand knows that she made it very clear that it is only through the rugged individual, standing up to the mob of takers and making sure the government bailed him out that we can hope to have a truly great society.
I'm disgusted. https://www.dallasnews.com/...
Not if Biden gets in and Senate gets flipped. And I don't think a vaccine will come that fast anyway, unless a Manhattan Project-size push gets funded.
but predictable.
I am so glad that gift cards became a thing.
I now know who really loves me and who is just an asshole whom I was always suspicious.
You sweet summer child.
Keep in mind, from the Objectivist point of view, National Socialism is a "people's state," because obviously no form of government should (or can? I am not completely clear on the reasoning there) own anything, while fascism is a blending of public force and private profit.
I got to Page 86 when I read it. What do I get?
Until she needed social security & medicare. But that's different!
Turnip, actually.
A friend of mine whose life's mission is pointing out hypocrisy (and who loves spreadsheets) found the Ayn Rand Foundation in there, and I laughed bitterly for about an hour, thinking of all my friends with actual small businesses who didn't get a penny.
(He also pointed out that the Young Turks got something above $1M -- a figure that seems insane to me, since their entire business model seems to be "white dude talks sanctimoniously at a camera," an activity that has not been interrupted by covid.)
That's me. Withdrew last year from IRA to finish house.This year my SS (sole source of income) was cut about $400 a month and my stim check was a whopping $183. Next year I'll get my SS back.
Backless to the floor? Whoo hoo!
We all love what we love and that is as it should be, but a big time sport where a typical score is 1-0 leaves me bewildered. I thought games were supposed to be about scoring, just like life. I was disappointed when table tennis shortened games to 11 from 21 back in 2002. Changed the whole strategy of the game.Make soccer could goose the scoring by awarding fractional points for shots on goal, great passes or something. Make it more like figure skating with a panel of international judges. Yeah, that's the ticket.