"Nuh uh, it was the illegal immigrants we didn't kill with the razor wire", Ken Paxton after Harris wins Texas, probably.
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I've read it twice, and I agree. The plot amounts to spoiled, rich children take their ball and go home because they're mad the poors won't let them strip the world of resources for personal gain. The author makes it clear throughout the text that Dagny, Hank, and Galt are the heros for fucking off to larp as robber barons in the 1880's.
As a philosophic text objectivism is naive at best and a cynical justification for authoritarianism at its worst.
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand.
Creditors and debtors of what? Cause it kind of sounds like if you issued the government your birth certificate that would mean they purchased it and you sold it to them on credit.
They did it on purpose and ended up conning me out of a few hundred bucks I didn't have to lose.
My spouse became my ex.
Oligarchs usually don't have to.
I guess if you wanted, seems unnecessary though.
I don't get everyone's obsession with cybernetic implants. If I needed a replacement, sure. But could you imagine today's enshittified corporate structure making a cyberlimb? 100% a massive up front purchase and a hefty subscription, especially if it's not a functional replacement.
Personally I want a functional metaverse. Full dive computing.
Sweetie, we're all being punks right now using pirate reddit. What's more punk than undermining oligarch control of social platforms?
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Because the first time I read it I was a poor and stupid teenager slowly being pulled into an alt-right pipeline. After I figured that out I reread it with a more critical lens for closure.