Galt's Gulch

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  • Posted by Solver 8 years, 5 months ago
    Looks just like a typical day at one of the many public indoctrination centers, where the most rational, intelligent, logical, objective, productive, independent individuals get boxed in the name of progressive equalness.
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  • Posted by $ splumb 8 years, 5 months ago
    Hilarious, no. Terrifying, yes. It's in the early stages in campuses all over the country right now. And my blood ran cold. Thank goodness someone has the guts to pillory the Thought Police and SJW. Maybe it's not too late to reverse it.
    Brilliantly done!
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  • Posted by kevinw 8 years, 5 months ago
    I see stuff like that and I think "there just can't be people out there like that", then I see the news and the headlines.

    Didn't Ayn Rand say "today's uncontested absurdities are tomorrows facts"?
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  • Posted by $ allosaur 8 years, 5 months ago
    A feel goodie modurn educayshun 2 + 2 = droppie downie rabbit hole behavyour.
    Suddenlee oih feels like ein rewind hind looky at A Clockwork Orange unce agan.
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  • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 5 months ago
    Yes. My little son is having me help him tackle common core math now. It's very ....enlightening. Imagine getting a sheet of several multiplication problems and being asked, "Which problem doesn't belong?"

    It's over folks. The fat lady is taking a deep breath in...
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    • Posted by khalling 8 years, 5 months ago
      hmm. I assume it is misplaced parentheses? I'm having trouble even divining their intent with that?
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      • Posted by $ Abaco 8 years, 5 months ago
        No. He worked out all the problems and all except one had a 4-digit answer. One might guess the one with 3-digits was the correct selection (for a crazy person). I had him write over the question, "My dad is an engineer and doesn't understand this question." Teacher was fine with that.
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  • Posted by johnpe1 8 years, 5 months ago
    if that is hilarious, my tears for this nation and Australia are wasted.
    I sent the url out to my favorite online people, and hope that
    they will also send it. . to alert, however, not entertain!!! -- j
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  • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago
    What I like a lot about Trump is that he ignores political correctness. He is also more electable than the others and actually has a chance to beat Hillary. We need rejection of political correctness in our country and I would vote for him for that alone as well as his organizational abilities. As to his performance as president, his major power will be the veto, and since most if not all the laws presented to him by congress are BAD, if he vetoes most everything during his 4 years I would not be upset. The alternative is Hillary, who lies, cheats, hides, and manipulates.
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    • Posted by peterchunt 8 years, 5 months ago
      I agree on the need to get rid of political correctness. However my problem with Trump is I can’t figure out what his philosophy is, but one thing I do know, it isn’t close to Objectivism.
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      • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago
        Rand Paul could be considered the closest to Objectivism of any of the candidates, but even he isnt close. The rest of them are in various degrees of rationality ending up with Sanders/Hillary. We need to beat out Hillary, and I think Trump is the closest to be able to do it. In a general election, I would rather have Rand Paul, Trump, Carson in that order. BUT, I think that only Trump could beat Hillary. Marco Rubio is way out there somewhere and I would rather have him than Hillary, but I might at that point just vote for Sanders and get this socialism stuff over with quicker
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        • Posted by $ WilliamShipley 8 years, 5 months ago
          You don't get socialism over by giving it power -- because when it doesn't work they explain that the problem is that you didn't give them enough power and there are still people working against the collective good who must be dealt with.
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          • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago
            But Sanders would bankrupt us as it did in the end pages of AS. There will be no more productive people to feed off. I can tell you I am already less interested in making money, and for sure less interested in making more than I need to live on. I dont want to die rich and have the government take whats left.
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            • Posted by JCLanier 8 years, 5 months ago
              Term: Well, you better start spending it...

              (I'm not picking on you Term, it's just that I can't resist your comments - I like them.)
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              • Posted by term2 8 years, 5 months ago
                I know. Its hard to balance off living expenses for as long as I will live with resources. I want to die penniless and not have to work any more than I need to in order to survive at the level I want.
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  • Posted by JCLanier 8 years, 5 months ago
    Khalling: ...This is so close to the probable reality of things to come that it is actually painful to watch. It was uncanny but it reminded me of the "Wet Nurse's story of how the university had crippled his mind, had broken his spirit and turned reasoning upside down. Probably one of Rand's more poignant moments in AS.
    Also, the video reminds us of what destroyed the "Twenty-first Century Motor Company in AS, "From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs." and therein started the mythical (so everyone thought) "Who is John Galt".
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  • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 5 months ago
    This video ignores problems like ace erasure and otherkin hate.
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    • Posted by khalling 8 years, 5 months ago
      what are those?
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      • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 5 months ago
        It's a silly joke. A few weeks ago someone posted an article here that mention "safe spaces". It really changed my views. It had a link to the school newspaper apologizing for publishing a reasonable moderate Republican opinion piece and not maintaining a "safe space". I searched on the phrase and found http://safespacenetwork.tumblr.com/Sa...

        It has a list of the kinds of discrimination proscribed in Orwellian-named "safe spaces", where people "can relax and fully express". My favorites were "ace erasure" and "otherkin hate", which respectively are discrimination against asexual people and people who do not identify with the human race (I think they've jumped the shark on that one). I find this bizarre.

        I completely agree with their desire not to offend people. If someone doesn't want a partner, it's impolite to keep saying, "you should really find yourself a nice b/f" after the person says she's not into partners. The safe space thing has gone completely berserk, though, in assigning names to all ways of being rude and then treating them as if it were crimes.

        For some reason I find it comical they says indignantly “this blog will not tolerate ace erasure”. I try to laugh about it by saying "hey, that's ace erasure."
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        • Posted by khalling 8 years, 5 months ago
          both of these anti-concepts defy being human, which I find kinda interesting. everyone defying reality in some way and then trying to bully or shame those who recognize reality. Politeness is one of those things where you don't have to hang out with rude people, but why do you have to have a list of anti-concepts when you could just say you're rude! and walk away?
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          • Posted by CircuitGuy 8 years, 5 months ago
            "why do you have to have a list of anti-concepts"
            Exactly. And creating a "safe space" where being rude is a crime is bad for many reasons.

            We already have rules about incitement to riot. You can't tell a crowd, "Come on. Let's go find some aces and f#($!@& erase 'em!" LOL Actually you can b/c it sounds absurd. I cannot even type about ace erasure without laughing.

            Trying to be serious for a moment, I've known a few people who apparently never had b/fs or g/fs. Maybe they are gay but feel a religious objection to expressing it. Maybe they were abused or had some bad relationship. Maybe they just by nature are not into it. That's fine. I don't need a word to tell me not to bug them about it. I see nothing human-defying or reality-defying about them not expressing sexuality.

            I have no idea what this otherkin thing is. I also don't know what dyadism, trans-misogyny, and multiplicity hate are. I'm only vaguely aware of what cissupremecy and binarism are. When I read that list I'm happy to see racism because I know what racism is. In a few years my kids will probably be embarrassed by ignorance.
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  • Posted by $ KahnQuest 8 years, 5 months ago
    My college humanities classes all felt like this.

    BTW, I love how the "incorrect" math is used to distribute grades and assign privilege points.
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