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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:36 PM Original message |
What would you tell to a teenage cousin about Ayn Rand? |
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MikeG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
1. Isn't it strange how all the liberals in her books are ugly? |
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Squeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
8. No, there are no liberals in her books |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:50 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. Dubya is Clearly |
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Fenris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
2. Most kids grow out of Rand once they take a freshman philosophy course. |
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eyesroll (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:40 PM Response to Original message |
3. Tell her to write the essay and win the scholarship. |
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AverageJoe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
4. Tell her that it's great that she's reading the books |
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flamingyouth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
5. If she's 16 it's probably just a phase |
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Parche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
6. who |
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Gothic Sponge (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:48 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. She's a porn star |
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Callissto (28 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
7. The Ayn Rand Phase |
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LongTomH (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:50 PM Response to Reply #7 |
13. Ayn Rand would've made a perfect James Bond villianess...... |
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rwenos (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. Good Novelist; Lousy Political Philosopher |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 05:01 PM Response to Reply #9 |
30. that's how you lured them into your atelier? |
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amber dog democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:48 PM Response to Original message |
10. I would say Ayn was a very confused and unhappy person |
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TrogL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:49 PM Response to Original message |
12. Ayn Rand appeals to simplistic thinking |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:51 PM Response to Original message |
15. She'll grow out of it when she hits college. |
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Commie Pinko Dirtbag (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:52 PM Response to Original message |
16. Four words: unattainable utopia, like Communism. |
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Zuni (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:17 PM Response to Reply #16 |
24. My opinion exactly! |
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regularguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:54 PM Response to Original message |
17. Tell her about Rand's intense hatred of Jazz. |
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jonnyblitz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 02:55 PM Response to Original message |
18. her following is cultlike. n/t |
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pschoeb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:04 PM Response to Original message |
19. Try this Ayn Rand qoute |
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Phillycat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:12 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. There you go. Beautiful. |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 05:05 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. yes |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 04:02 PM Response to Reply #19 |
29. Yep...the rape scene between Roark and Dominique says it all |
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Lars39 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:09 PM Response to Original message |
20. She needs to know the Greenspan/Rand connection |
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Merrick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:10 PM Response to Original message |
21. I recall reading in a bio of Karl Rove - |
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amazona (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
23. basically I would tell her what my mom told me... |
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dpbrown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
25. Objectivism is checkmated by Greed |
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liontamer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:21 PM Response to Original message |
26. I read (and liked) ayn rand |
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leftyandproud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:38 PM Response to Original message |
27. Rand is THE anti-Marx, so.... |
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rumguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 03:57 PM Response to Original message |
28. Ayn Rand is perfectly fine - she's libertarian, not a right-winger |
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LoZoccolo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-15-04 05:04 PM Response to Original message |
31. "All your friends think you're a bitch." |
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