Ayn Rands SS checks

[daveman]

If she wasnt impoverished why did she accept the evil she railed against?

Because it was her money to begin with.

If your car gets stolen, are you going to insist the thief keep it, or would you want it back?

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

If she wasnt impoverished why did she accept the evil she railed against?

Recovering her property is evil?
She demanded it back Im sure.

 

[Truthmatters]

She railed against those who collected it all her life

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

She railed against those who collected it all her life

Link.She certainly was against government confiscating money I dont recall her being against recovering the funds

 

[Truthmatters]

New Statesman - We the Living


The heroine tells a Bolshevik admirer, "I admire your methods. I loathe your ideals", and later asks him, "What are the masses but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?" One of the few writers of fiction to succeed in making the Bolsheviks seem attractive, Rand did not hate the new Soviet regime because it oppressed the masses. She hated it because she believed it did not oppress the masses enough.

 

[Truthmatters]

Allowing the masses to be trampled underfoot was what Ayn Rand thought was perfectly acceptable policy.

 

[manifold]

Allowing the masses to be trampled underfoot was what Ayn Rand thought was perfectly acceptable policy.

Much better they be in shackles right?

 

[Ravi]

New Statesman - We the Living


The heroine tells a Bolshevik admirer, "I admire your methods. I loathe your ideals", and later asks him, "What are the masses but mud to be ground underfoot, fuel to be burned for those who deserve it?" One of the few writers of fiction to succeed in making the Bolsheviks seem attractive, Rand did not hate the new Soviet regime because it oppressed the masses. She hated it because she believed it did not oppress the masses enough.

I can see why Dud is such a big fan of hers.

 

[Truthmatters]

Allowing the masses to be trampled underfoot was what Ayn Rand thought was perfectly acceptable policy.

Much better they be in shackles right?

How about neither.

How about the people being in power like the founders intended

 

[daveman]

Allowing the masses to be trampled underfoot was what Ayn Rand thought was perfectly acceptable policy.

I didn't know she was a Democrat.

 

[Truthmatters]

Oh so now you dont like Ayn Rand so much huh?

 

[daveman]

Oh so now you dont like Ayn Rand so much huh?

Never read any of her stuff, actually. So you like her now?

 

[manifold]

Allowing the masses to be trampled underfoot was what Ayn Rand thought was perfectly acceptable policy.

Much better they be in shackles right?

How about neither.

How about the people being in power like the founders intended

As long as they are prevented from using that power to oppress, as the founders intended, it works for me.

 

[Truthmatters]

That is why they chose a republic instead of a direct democracy.

In a republic its only money in the hands of a few buying the system you need to fear.

 

[boedicca]

In a pure democracy, it's the power of the mob that destroys liberty.

Or, as Tocqueville called it "the tyranny of the majority".

What we have now is the "tyranny of a minority" which rigs the game in its favor and poses as the majority.

 

[Truthmatters]

So you think we no longer have a democracy?

 

[Truthmatters]

Oh so now you dont like Ayn Rand so much huh?

Never read any of her stuff, actually. So you like her now?

Never have and never will.

If you know nothing about Rand you better learn about her. She is the philisophical god of the right wing.

 

[Mr.Fitnah]

Next time you are tempted ask for someone to point your lies TM Just remember this thread

 

[boedicca]

Oh so now you dont like Ayn Rand so much huh?

Never read any of her stuff, actually. So you like her now?

Never have and never will.

If you know nothing about Rand you better learn about her. She is the philisophical god of the right wing.

What works of hers have you actually read?

 

[Sallow]

Never read any of her stuff, actually. So you like her now?

Never have and never will.

If you know nothing about Rand you better learn about her. She is the philisophical god of the right wing.

What works of hers have you actually read?

I got through half the Fountainhead. It was absolute nonsense.