The Ayn Rand Institute Gets A $350K To $1Million PPP Loan To Save Itself From The Free Market

[skews13]

Irony just dropped dead, and may be stored in a refrigerated tractor trailer.

The Ayn Rand Institute bootstrapped its way to a PPP Loan of at least $350K.

The Ayn Rand Institute, a nonprofit(??) “devoted to applying Rand’s ideas to current issues and seeking to promote her philosophical principles of reason, rational self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism,” has recently accepted—I assume grudgingly—government assistance to the tune of a Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) loan between $350K and $1 million, according to The Wall Street Journal‘s Pat Fitzgerald.

The Ayn Rand Institute gets a PPP loan of 350K to $1 Million to save itself from the Free Market

Irony just dropped dead, and may be stored in a refrigerated tractor trailer. The Ayn Rand Institute bootstrapped its way to a PPP Loan of at least $350K. The Ayn Rand Institute, a nonprofit(??) “devoted to applying Rand’s ideas to current issues and...

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[C_Clayton_Jones]

The right’s capacity for hypocrisy is infinite.

 

[theHawk]

It’s big government welfare, just what you always wanted. Enjoy.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

This seems like an Onion article!
Does anyone know if it is confirmed?
I confess I want this to be true....

“Irony just dropped dead, and may be stored in a refrigerated tractor trailer.” — just perfect.

; )

 

[Blackrook]

You care nothing that BLM and Antifa are killing people and burning things down, but you whine about this.

Pathetic.

 

[Disir]

Vocal Opponents Of Federal Spending Took PPP Loans, Including Ayn Rand Institute, Grover Norquist Group

Norquist and Citizens Against Government Waste have both criticized the CARES Act, with Norquist saying the bill's unemployment program 'delays growth.'

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Yep and others, too.

 

[TNHarley]

The govt forcing shutdowns isnt the free market. Its fascism.
"The irony" LOL idiots

 

[Norman]

And?

Do they not advocate taking the benefits given that they pay taxes?

Bait not taken, libertarian will continue take all benefits in full.

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

You care nothing that BLM and Antifa are killing people and burning things down, but you whine about this...

Only hysterical and frightened people ...
Who have lost all sense of proportion and common sense ...
Could think this OP is ... “whining.”

A mind and a sense of humor
Are terrible things to lose.

: )

 

[TNHarley]

You care nothing that BLM and Antifa are killing people and burning things down, but you whine about this...

Only hysterical and frightened people ...
Who have lost all sense of proportion and common sense ...
Could think this OP is ... “whining.”

A mind and a sense of humor
Are terrible things to lose.

: )

What is funny about it? The govt forces places to shut down then has to use the fruits of our labor to pay them not to completely shut its doors
That's bullshit, not humor

 

[Moonglow]

It’s big government welfare, just what you always wanted. Enjoy.

"Thanks for the free grub Trump" is what you are saying?

 

[Moonglow]

The govt forcing shutdowns isnt the free market. Its fascism.
"The irony" LOL idiots

It is only closing down certain types of businesses.

 

[Disir]

Just those ones that people work at.

 

[TNHarley]

The govt forcing shutdowns isnt the free market. Its fascism.
"The irony" LOL idiots

It is only closing down certain types of businesses.

Thanks for the info everyone already knows, boomer

 

[midcan5]

Libertarians are a funny bunch. Lots of info below.

Why I Am Not a Libertarian

www.spectacle.org

Why is libertarianism wrong?

Origins, background, values, effects, and defects of libertarianism.

web.inter.nl.net

Marxism of the Right

Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that ind

www.theamericanconservative.com

'Why libertarians are wrong' They don’t appreciate that the political crisis could come sooner than the economic one'

Why libertarians are wrong

Libertarians take for granted the conditions of the 20th century. They don’t appreciate that the political crisis could come sooner than the economic one

spectator.us

What happens when libertarians try to build a new society? | Aeon Essays

Libertarians are united by opposition to government, but when it comes to planning a new society they are deeply divided

aeon.co

 

[Blackrook]

You care nothing that BLM and Antifa are killing people and burning things down, but you whine about this...

Only hysterical and frightened people ...
Who have lost all sense of proportion and common sense ...
Could think this OP is ... “whining.”

A mind and a sense of humor
Are terrible things to lose.

: )

I'm not hysterical or frightened.

You am saying you are a hypocrite, pointing out the splinter in another's eye, while ignoring the plank in your own.

 

[Harry Dresden]

The right’s capacity for hypocrisy is infinite.

geezus...lol ...like the left is not....you are a pussy jones....care to comment?....

 

[Tom Paine 1949]

Libertarians are a funny bunch. Lots of info below.

Why I Am Not a Libertarian

www.spectacle.org

Why is libertarianism wrong?

Origins, background, values, effects, and defects of libertarianism.

web.inter.nl.net

Marxism of the Right

Free spirits, the ambitious, ex-socialists, drug users, and sexual eccentrics often find an attractive political philosophy in libertarianism, the idea that ind

www.theamericanconservative.com

'Why libertarians are wrong' They don’t appreciate that the political crisis could come sooner than the economic one'

Why libertarians are wrong

Libertarians take for granted the conditions of the 20th century. They don’t appreciate that the political crisis could come sooner than the economic one

spectator.us

What happens when libertarians try to build a new society? | Aeon Essays

Libertarians are united by opposition to government, but when it comes to planning a new society they are deeply divided

aeon.co

Nice criticisms, mostly coming from a somewhat conservative perspective, though I see you call yourself a liberal/progressive. Nothing wrong with that. The second article is perhaps easiest to “get.” I enjoyed reading it, and at least skimmed all of your other links.

I never waste much effort debating “Libertarians.” I just don’t take them seriously. As your first article explains, they are really only influential here in the USA as a crackpot philosophy where old colonial and post-colonial “pioneer spirit” mythologies of freedom, rebellion, exaggerated belief in individual rights absolutism, and apologies for or ignorance of how unfettered corporate power really works in society, get all mixed up in a stew of anti-government fanaticism and even Cold War anti-communism.

Ayn Rand “Objectivism” is only one cult version of Libertarianism, of course, and hardly the most influential, though even Federal Reserve chieftains have been know to celebrate her. Ayn Rand’s books are as terrible and adolescent as social philosophy as they are as literature. Libertarian theory would be funny if it weren’t also dangerous when used by powerful men to defend special interests.

Most Libertarian “theory” really is something like a “Marxist / Utopianian Philosophy of the American Right” — but it lacks any historical analysis of society. Marxism — as wrong as its assumptions and historical predictions proved to be, as totalitarian as “Marxists” like Stalin and Mao were — at least provided a methodology and historical analysis that could be usefully checked against real world developments.

As a critique of capitalism, if not as a guide to revolutionizing society, “scientific socialist” Marxism was provocative, novel and intellectually & politically important in the second half of the 19th Century and the beginning of the 20th. Today, in the 21st Century, neither “left“ nor “right” have much in the way of philosophical systems to rely on. But extraordinary national and international contradictions continue to plague our increasingly state capitalist world.