i just can't stand how so-called "leftists" manage to synthesize liberalism into whatever radical tendency they find most asethetically appealing

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    3 days ago

    The "agorist" I argued with offline for at least an hour at my old local bookstore insisted over and over again that he in no way was into Ayn Rand, but wanted nothing different than Ayn Rand except a presumed different outcome with the same policies. galaxy-brain

    • Thallo [love/loves]
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      3 days ago

      except a presumed different outcome with the same policies.

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      • UlyssesT [he/him]
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        3 days ago

        I suppose to the "agorist's" credit Ayn Rand believed that pretty much everyone in society would stop and listen to an exhausting and repetitive speech from a malignant narcissist that went on for a sizable chunk of that shitty book and that the ultra-rich were actually the smartest and bestest at everything instead of just rent-seeking dynastic failsons and faildaughters, so the outcomes that Ayn Rand fantasized about (that also required magic metal and perpetual motion machines)! were bullshit from the start.

        The "agorist" just imagined a different fantasy with the same ruinous sociopolitical structure where everyone happily and merrily trades everything with no regulations and no societal rules except "have fun trading." i-love-not-thinking