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Atlas Shrugged not the only dystopia Rand predicted

Posted by red6rick 7 years, 5 months ago to News
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Has anyone else noticed how much the media today, especially after the Trump election, resembles The Banner? Full of itself, and convinced that it alone could shape the truth? Promoting "social justice" stories etc., and writers like Ellsworth Toohey (in disguise as Paul Krugman)? I'm not sure whether to be amused or sad...


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  • Posted by rbroberg 7 years, 5 months ago
    Well, the media has gone beyond good and evil. It is the authoritatively self-proclaimed ubermensch class. The will to power is strong with this one.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I reckon that's a prank but now me dino wonders if someone ever thought they really had to eat cold turkeyl.
    Chantix works. I only had just one night of side effects weirdness.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Eight years of gravy train corruption is an addiction that's painful to break cold turkey.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Tiamat, Anu ,Enlil, and Marduk and the rest of the Annunaki from Sumarian days of old. Manipulators
    Slave masters no conscience. The first of the "fallen retards".
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  • Posted by $ Olduglycarl 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Thanks...interesting enough, That is the main discussion in my book...found out after publishing that it goes right back to "those that fell favor to the daughters of men"...I since have referred to them as the: "Fallen Idiots".
    Idiots or Retards...no difference in my mind.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    You could be on to something OUC. Of course it would not hurt to have being educated as a goal for individuals to strive for. Most people worry about how others perceive them. They need to feel included , to be in the group. Status is given to those that have , not those that can do. Creation ,inventiveness , self reliance , common sense these are beaten to a pulp by Altruism, leading to a society that doesn't take responsibility i.e. Dems blaming Putin for HRC,s loss , modern art (puke) , "if he didn't invent it someone else would" I know preaching to the choir , but I so do appreciate your consciousness.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hey Dino ,
    "Lib would call bad for not being PC" for those that don't know. I think you meant bad hair.
    From all that is going on , recounts , falsely blaming Russia for email leaks "fake news" the democratic establishment is totally freaked out.
    As are the companies with cozy govt contracts.
    But they , the co.s , many will be likely rational and are now scrambling to figure out how to keep the business. Lobbyists are on the defensive.
    I have never witnessed anything like it.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Of course Trump is a racist and everything else a lib would call bad for not being PC.
    He is a Republican who ran against and, worse, beat a Democrat.
    His beating the evil hag just balloons the whole thing super big time.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I think there is just TOO MUCH media trying to get our attention so they can sell us ads. They just try to make something out of nothing most of the time.
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  • Posted by term2 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    I started to realize during this election period that no matter what happens in politics, I still have my life to live, and what I do makes more of a difference in that than what they do. It will be easier if the country doesnt go socialist for sure.
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  • Posted by JuliBMe 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    LOL, that's a bit of typical Carlin cynicism. Maybe that's where I got it and turned into something more palatable (or charitable?) in my mind?
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    With Trumps no holds barred tweeting , maybe he will put the outgoing looter in his place.What does he have to lose he is already a racist according to all the elite lapdog media, report it and boring .....big yawn
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  • Posted by Robairete 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    George Carlin said something similar... "'Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Unlike Bush who retired to shut up and sit down, out Narcissist-In-Chief sorely lacks an off button.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hi Prof Chuck,
    Trump has made his fortune already.
    Is the objectivist philosophies goal to get rich or for fiscal rewards for all you do?
    Or in this case could it be to use your experience and talents to be a public servant with the reward of improving The nation for the future John Galts.
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  • Posted by Dobrien 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Hi Dino,
    I glad the boob tube has an off button ,because He can't keep his nose out of it.
    Also he's gonna do fundraisers, gonna raise money ,raise money, raise money ahhhhhhhhhh.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    That reminds me. Two or three months ago the DNC sent me a donation-seeking questionnaire with a metered mail envelope.
    The way I answered that questionnaire would make an angry little snowflake cry. I also sent back saved for the occasion cutout photos of Hillary with Hitler mustaches drawn on them. Some also had cartoon balloons drawn but I forget what I wrote in them.
    Retried old dinos have to find things to do to keep busy.
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 7 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Me dino has already been doing that for years. Trouble is, I believe I'm gonna have to keep on doing that.
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