"Like Donald Trump." Now that's prophetic.

@davidtarnawski9904

7 жыл бұрын

The headline already says "Trump 'serious' about White House run."

@browncoat697

7 жыл бұрын

The video was posted like 8 months before he started running, weirdly enough.

@oro2play

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah but even then, I don't think anyone thought he'd _actually be the Republican nominee._

@FabricioSilva-ij8iz

7 жыл бұрын

Amem, brother, amen... Oh sorry, sister !

@Snowfoxie1

7 жыл бұрын

Watching this in 2016 and wishing they could go back to loving Ayn Rand because at least she can't run for president.

I saw Donald Trump and went directly to the date this was posted

@danieltheta304

3 жыл бұрын

Same. Better days those were

@hanniballahr94

3 жыл бұрын

I just scrolled down to comment something like that. 2014 feels so far away.

@BH901

3 жыл бұрын

Same!

@curiousabout1

3 жыл бұрын

@kommisar lol the US is in such a wonderful state right now lolllllllll

@rupert5390

3 жыл бұрын

Hatred is a far more powerful evil than reason is a force for good.

The part about Trump was stone cold chilling... especially when you notice this video was made in 2014.

@skoochoo5851

Жыл бұрын

In NYC he had a reputation for being a rich, phony asshole long before he was president

@HellHunter00

Жыл бұрын

They found their god resurrected.

@zacrl1230

Жыл бұрын

I had to check the date. They predicted this shit, but so did the Simpsons.

@joseayala2940

Жыл бұрын

Yeah!!, I totally agree.

@ready4ye461

Жыл бұрын

No it's not

"Like Donald Trump..." OH NO BABY, WHAT IS YOU DOING?!

@daborshy4089

3 жыл бұрын

So John Oliver encouraged the Trump presidency not once, but twice

@TQM

3 жыл бұрын

@@daborshy4089 I disagree, it's impossible for John to have encouraged Trump's presidency. He would have to watch these videos, and we all know Trump doesn't have enough brain power or patience to sit through someone, who is not himself, talking for more than 10 seconds

@kunstderfugue

3 жыл бұрын

If only you knew, Cooper Taylor from the past. If only.

@JoeZelensky

3 жыл бұрын

Doing more than you ever have done

Dear Conservatives, the Trump bit was a joke not an advice to follow

@bigums21

4 жыл бұрын

Who cares who I am that is really funny

@hansbass8119

4 жыл бұрын

You expect people who worship hypocritical, cheating, and selfish asshole to understand joke? You are asking too much for their brain (if they have any, i am not sure)

@Shozb0t

4 жыл бұрын

@Hans Bass >>>people who worship hypocritical, cheating, and selfish asshole

@jilliansmith7123

4 жыл бұрын

Shozbot (hey,Mork): Ayn Rand had a series of lovers and life upsetting issues with different men. She took partners for her work and then cast them off. I don't know if hypocritical is quite the word, but it's close. I still accept some of her philosophy--for one thing, it was the first time anyone ever pointed out we don't have to be sheep...but she asks us to be predators, and that's asking a lot. One example: don't give someone a gift because THEY will like it. Give them a gift that YOU want them to have. Period. Anything else is just morally WRONG. That's a typical Rand idea. I introduced my dad to Ayn Rand...THAT was a mistake!

@Shozb0t

4 жыл бұрын

@Jillian Smith Ayn Rand doesn't suggest we be predators, she suggests we be traders. And I don't know of the specific example you gave regarding gift giving. But I would say that according to most Objectivists, it would be meaningless to give gifts to people out of duty or habit. Gifts should be deserved and they should reflect your own values. And yes, you should avoid giving a gift which has zero or negative value for the recipient. That's where thinking comes into the picture. ABT, always be thinking.

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

@sandsjourney3170

5 жыл бұрын

That caught me off guard, hehehe

@tskmaster3837

5 жыл бұрын

They may not involve orcs but the Rand books do seem to be championed by them.

@GhostMishoPlayz

5 жыл бұрын

and catcher in the rye is gonna turn em edgy

@DizzleJay27

5 жыл бұрын

@@sandsjourney3170 Not gonna lie, they had us in the first half.

@austinm5630

5 жыл бұрын

I would love to know who you are quoting here. Sounds like someone I'd like to read more from.

It's hilarious and spooky how prophetic this bit ended up being. Remember, this was made many months before Trump announced his candidacy in June 2015

@jamwest3146

2 жыл бұрын

Ayn Rand died in 1980 dumazz.

@TheHighSpaceWizard

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, it blew my mind.

@sam-fc9ky

Жыл бұрын

All a Rockefeller agenda

@billwalker4836

Жыл бұрын

Yah so was Ayn Rand... Most of the conservatives I run around with think she's a wind bag... And never quote her

@Manuelziy

Жыл бұрын

Many people knew Trump was going to run after interviews in late 2014. The mainstream media began their propaganda campaign as early as possible to dissuade voters, it didn't work

“I have always found it quaint and rather touching that there is a movement in the US that thinks Americans are not yet selfish enough.” ― Christopher Hitchens

@spongeintheshoe

3 жыл бұрын

But now that movement seems to have taken hold.

@wingsonthebus

3 жыл бұрын

oh god he WOULD say something like that eugh

@Tambaha

3 жыл бұрын

All these socialists... still givin 'er 100 years, and 100 million deaths later... when will the children let go of their fantasy?

@spongeintheshoe

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tambaha A lot of it is because right now, we have too much capitalism, which means socialism is necessary to fix it. It's like walking on a tightrope: If you lean too far to one side, you need to lean to the other side in order to keep your balance. And if you lose that balance, it won't matter which side you're leaning toward; you'll fall off just the same.

@Tambaha

3 жыл бұрын

@@spongeintheshoe I respect your answer. But I disagree. We've been moving away from Capitalism for 100 years, and that is the cause of our decline. Not the opposite. At the same time, Asian countries have opened their markets to different degrees. And, depending on how much capitalism they employ, has determined their economic success It is only the case that regulation of people, and business will always increase. It is not often that regulation is removed

3:18 And boy, did they choose Donald Trump!!

@donaldsmith6814

7 жыл бұрын

And we won, you dumb fucks!

@albirtarsha5370

7 жыл бұрын

Donald Smith By saying, "we won," I presume that you are an oligarch.

@blaze7goku496

7 жыл бұрын

yes you won the Electoral college and if he loses in 2020 i hope he gracefully concedes in due time he won by tiny margins in three swing states.

@cat52

7 жыл бұрын

Ahhh yes, the Trumpanzees come out with their cursing and carrying on. Little do they know that they have voted against their own self interests and will be the ones to suffer the most. Oh wells, some of us do have money and will watch as those who do not, those who voted for someone like Trump suffer as all your social programs are destroyed and more jobs disappear and the economy collapses from a man who has no clue what he is doing. We are already witnessing this debacle.

@RussellTerBeek

7 жыл бұрын

Aaron Prince tiny, Trump-finger-sized margins.

My favorite dig against Ayn Rand is for Christopher Hitchens, "Don't you think it's a bit too much that Americans think the problem is the they just aren't greedy enough."

@mikeadams3931

4 жыл бұрын

He was a statheist.

@jabibgalt5551

4 жыл бұрын

@fitzy098 To be precise, Rand thought that the existed of a social safety net founded by force was tyrannical. She was not against people voluntarily cooperating to build such safety net, nor against a safety net, but only against forcing people to build it.

@adamplentl5588

4 жыл бұрын

@@mikeadams3931 except no he wasnt. Hitch was critical of the state for his entire career.

@DrCruel

4 жыл бұрын

It's a tribute to Ayn Rand that those on the Left can effectively attack her ideas only by lying about them.

@DrCruel

4 жыл бұрын

@fitzy098 I see. First, Objectivism is reduced to "Greed is Good." Called on this obvious falsehood, now Objectivism is characterized as offering nothing new. The argument usually made by Left fascists is that free market capitalism is necessarily exploitative, regardless of how willing the various participants are (see labor theory of value), and that only by putting all substantial capital and power into the hands of a socialist elite (often a hereditary socialist elite) can wealth be divided fairly among the working classes. Ayn Rand disagreed, and was labelled as "greedy" because of it. On which side of this argument do you stand, may I ask?

“Trump serious about White House run” It doesn’t get any more brutal than watching that

@christianmoore7109

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly I kind of wish that they stuck with Ayn Rand. Trump is so much worse.

@christianmoore7109

3 жыл бұрын

Trump is all the annoying stuff that came with Ayn Rand combined with a whole new sweet of other annoying things.

@HopeRock425

3 жыл бұрын

@@christianmoore7109 Trump is Ayn Rand but stupid

@et34t34fdf

2 жыл бұрын

@@HopeRock425 Well, he owned the libs by stacking the courts(abortion about to be illegal and ensuring coporate rule pretty much forever), not bad for someone who is stupid.

@gamebotzero9274

2 жыл бұрын

@@et34t34fdf so you are pleased about "corporate rule"?

Ayn-Ryan. Now I see what Bioshock was doing very clever

@CollinMcLean

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah. Bio-shock managed to do an excellent job of serving as an allegory for the inherent destructiveness of an unregulated market. It's like a George Orwell novel but you get to kill things.

@blakebruner5038

3 жыл бұрын

@@CollinMcLean Another thing I appreciated about Bioshock's story was that they presented a very believable form of individualism. They didn't just strawman the whole idea of free choice and make it look ridiculous. They actually took serious consideration to design a capitalist utopia that would most likely be very successful for some time before things went downhill.

@chahineboudemagh9596

3 жыл бұрын

@@CollinMcLean yeah it wasn't really that subtle though

@evanward3964

3 жыл бұрын

Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

@littelcreatchure506

3 жыл бұрын

@@chahineboudemagh9596 neither was orwell, who said things have to be subtle

It's pronounced "ein", as in "one", as in "the number of people she cared about".

@kinetic2245

4 жыл бұрын

@Mark Donald Not a single negative to being selfish? I am glad I am not you friend, member of your family, or your coworker.

@jabibgalt5551

4 жыл бұрын

It's pronounced "ah-een", as in "I".

@TheMattastic

4 жыл бұрын

@@jabibgalt5551 Not according to Wikipedia it ain't.

@jabibgalt5551

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheMattastic Nope. Wikipedia says "ain". Which is pronounced "ah-een". Rand herself said Ayn started with an "I".

@TheMattastic

4 жыл бұрын

@@jabibgalt5551 Wikipedia lists it as a one syllable word. If you think it's wrong, edit the page.

Well that Trump suggestion was taking a bit literally wasn’t it.

@CommandoCDN

4 жыл бұрын

Words from the entire American and Canadian population under the age of 50: “FFFFFUUUUUCKKK”

@ossertthewozzard

4 жыл бұрын

*taken

@julsie3195

3 жыл бұрын

omg I love your pfp

Sometimes I think that all satire manages to do is give people dumb ideas. - Hey, NSA, you really should read 1984! NSA: _We have read it, we're working on it._ - Kafka: The Trial German Bureaucracy: _Yes._ - Haha, republicans, why have Ayn Rand as your selfish hero when you could choose that reality show star, whatshisname, Trump? Republicans: _Brilliant idea, what could go wrong?_

@InservioLetum

Жыл бұрын

Mark Fuckerberg: hold my juicebox

@richsackett3423

Жыл бұрын

That's a dumb thought. Try to have another less stupid.

@roughhabit6496

Жыл бұрын

All Rand zealots despise William Buckley , the founder of the Conservative movement, so why is this lunatic narrator claiming she is some sort of champion for conservatives?

@dalelerette206

6 ай бұрын

If we read the parable of the sower in Matthew 13 we read that Jesus said a farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up - Anarchy. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil. It sprang up quickly, because the soil was shallow. But when the sun came up, the plants were scorched, and they withered because they had no root - State Ownership. Other seed fell among thorns, which grew up and choked the plants - Corporate Ownership. Still other seed fell on good soil, where it produced a crop-a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown - Family Ownership. Whoever has ears, let them hear. Anarchism advocates ‘no ownership’ of property and the means of production. Socialism advocates 'state ownership' of property and the means of production. Capitalism advocates 'corporate ownership' of property and the means of production. Distributism advocates 'family ownership' of property and the means of production. “The family that prays together stays together.” - Father Peyton - The Rosary Priest All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of their possessions was their own, but they shared everything they had. With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus. And God’s grace was so powerfully at work in them all that there were no needy persons among them. For from time to time those who owned land or houses sold them, brought the money from the sales and put it at the apostles’ feet, and it was distributed to anyone who had need. Acts 4:32-3

@Sonichero151

Ай бұрын

Poe's Law: "setting an extremely dangerous precedent to those that don't understand sarcasm since 2005"

1:17 Never thought I'd see The Inbetweeners on Last Week Tonight ;)

3:18 The irony of the fact that this joke became reality

@kartikadewi3270

3 жыл бұрын

I honestly still don't understand why Donald Trump is still the most hated president ever honestly

@chancerbox1935

3 жыл бұрын

@@kartikadewi3270 Trump: *Incites an insurrection, botches a pandemic response so badly that hundreds of thousands of Americans die and millions lose their jobs, separates migrant children from their parents and locks them in cages, wastes taxpayer dollars on a ridiculous wall, defunds crucial social programs, contacts a foreign leader to get dirt on a political opponent, sends his goons to kidnap protesters, lies constantly, throws a fit whenever he doesn't get his way, and literally attempts to end democracy as we know it* Kartika Dewi: wHy iS tRuMp sO uNpOpUlAr?

"like Donald Trump" You called it.

@robotechgunpod

8 жыл бұрын

+Lone Wolf Zakuro Joke was on us all along

@gur262

6 жыл бұрын

And it was . a joke. I dont know more about Drake than that he sounds tired but. Drake for President.

@daerdevvyl4314

6 жыл бұрын

Drake isn't a natural born citizen of the USA

@westsideisdabest7825

6 жыл бұрын

Trump's personal philosophy might be Randian, but his politics are nothing of the sort, he is a massive economic interventionist.

@CocaineDragon

5 жыл бұрын

daer devvyl Obama wasn't a US born citizen. It may be him relating when he seems to say that, but normally he says he was born in Africa (north Africa; he's my race of African, as a matter of fact).

I like how now whenever I see Ted Cruz I just think "I do not like that man ted cruz, I do not like his far right views. I do not like him with a beard, I do not like him freshly sheared."

@monicadaniels784

Жыл бұрын

I do not like him in a race I do not like him or his base

@delpullen730

Жыл бұрын

I like how whenever I see Ted Cruz I immediately think FUCK TED CRUZ!

@elaineb7065

3 ай бұрын

@@monicadaniels784 I do not like Ted Cruz at all That man, Ted Crus, can eat cut balls

"The morality of capitalism" is really something I never thought I'd heard. And here I thought Bioshock already made its case.

@keelysmash

2 жыл бұрын

All I remember about Andrew Ryan is that he got really uptight about Sweat ownership

@simonjenkin

Жыл бұрын

@@keelysmash ok but you both KNOW that andrew ryan was based on ayn rand, right? (hence the similar names) i feel like you do but i just need to make sure...

@keelysmash

Жыл бұрын

@@simonjenkin I actually didn’t make that connection till now

@WaltCronkite

Жыл бұрын

@@keelysmash Not just Andrew Ryan, either! The entirety of Bioshock is a direct response to Objectivism. The "Perfect Utopia" that is laid out in Atlas Shrugged is what Rapture is basically a replica of (with some liberties taken). The short-sighted nature of the endless, unadulterated churn of unregulated technologies and infinite potential of the individual. The American conceptualization of God as self really was ingrained into our roots; Manifest Destiny, folks like Andrew Carnegie pushing this concept of the self as the infinite being, responsible for the ouroboros of technological and industrial progression. Ayn Rand was merely a torch bearer. She may have given name to the torch, but she would have called it her own creation. A poor understanding of history will make a person rolling a rock down a hill believe that they were the first to invent the wheel, though. Such intensely religiously held beliefs, and yet, she proclaimed herself an atheist!

@HOTD108_

Жыл бұрын

Conservatives don't play video games. They think it's witchcraft.

"like donald trump" *sobbing* i want to go back to when that was a joke

@abthedragon4921

5 жыл бұрын

Me too

@callummurrayofficialyoutub1369

4 жыл бұрын

Salty boi 6969

@jessyan6455

2 жыл бұрын

Don't we all.

holy shit john oliver called the trump campaign!

@alsoyes3287

8 жыл бұрын

+hornylink In what way did they call that at all? It's footage of Trump saying he's running for president. It even says it right under his face.

@55555Athena

8 жыл бұрын

+Also Yes I think he meant that the show predicted Trump becoming the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. The footage didn't say that Trump was running for president, just that he was serious about it. In other words, it was before Trump declared his candidacy and rose to the top of the polls.

@morgengabe1

8 жыл бұрын

+55555Athena Didn't he run in the past 2 or 3 elections?

@qhsperson

8 жыл бұрын

+morgengabe1 Half-heartedly in the last one. He had a book coming out.

@MrCrockaG

8 жыл бұрын

+hornylink And Ted Cruz!!

She believed in unfettered capitalism and totally denounced any type of social program. However, at the end of her life she was relying on Social Security and Medicare.

@JD-my5ek

3 жыл бұрын

But I dont get why were surprised? All humans are hypocrites. You have to debate her ideas not her human flaws. She was a philosopher and I'm sure other philosophers like socrates, plato and tons of others were hypocritical but there is just no recorded documents. People who discount the human take the shortcut to discredit someone rather than the critical thinking needed to dismantle the ideas behind her philosophy

@PH--ov7tf

3 жыл бұрын

@@JD-my5ek - Call it what you like but her ideology was essentially fascism, which is definitely not a philosophy. It is well recognized that as individuals mature, they often reject her extremist, unbalanced and il measured ideology.

@JD-my5ek

3 жыл бұрын

@@PH--ov7tf I have a feeling the countless people who debate her ideas today imply her thoughts are a little more complicated than "facism." Also looking up the definition and seeing at least some of her theories, i would say you sound more intellectually lazy

@SethonanGaming

3 жыл бұрын

wich she probably paid for through her taxes; so unless she evaded taxes, you can't call that hypocrisy.

@SaintNyx

2 жыл бұрын

@@PH--ov7tf fascists are not free market libertarians. They advocate for strong central government, military rule, dictatorship, and often some form of nationalist collectivism.

7 years later, it’s Mark Cuban who opens an online pharmacy to reduce prescription drug prices… the world is weird 🤷‍♂️

@ComradeCatpurrnicus

Жыл бұрын

That's the "free" market at work. Too bad the only people that can compete with pharmaceutical companies is literally an already establish billionaire... almost like it's not really a "free" market, but one that has been allowed to have a few monopolies/oligopolies control entire sectors of our economy, all while highly exploiting the workers that make their profits in sectors where our basic needs are commodified when they shouldn't be for profit. "Freedom"

@resgresg

Жыл бұрын

Where's the contradiction?

@alexandrostheodorou8387

Жыл бұрын

He’s doing it to make money. Whats so bad about that?

@katherenewedic8076

Жыл бұрын

A drug seller 🤔

@Sarah-re7cg

Жыл бұрын

what policy environment lead to soaring drug prices in the first place?

Whenever someone mentions Ayn Rand, I immediately think of Bioshock.

@AceLM92

4 жыл бұрын

I think Steve Ditko

that donald trump joke aged like milk

@custos3249

6 жыл бұрын

Which would match Drumpf's cheesy complexion

@elliottd8329

6 жыл бұрын

DAR HAR HAR HAR! DONALD DRUMPF! I AM SO ORIGINAL AND EDGY! ....Watch as Generation Z turns National Socialist, and perhaps you will realize you are part of the reason why.

@amandasmith593

6 жыл бұрын

Because socialism has utterly destroyed all those Nordic countries. /s

@jjonewell1977

6 жыл бұрын

So we see that elliot d is a big ayn rand fan.

@Bill_Oddie_Face_Mask

6 жыл бұрын

quincy quincy I actually think it's 100 times funnier now. It was one thing for Leftists to joke that right-wingers should embrace Trump and his selfishness, but the fact that they have, and the fact that an orangutan with an alien living on its head is sitting in the White House, makes things like this impossible not to laugh at. If you take life as one big, ironic joke, and think of the Earth as God's plumbing, you'll find yourself a lot happier.

The biggest mistake is to to read an Author and just copy their worldview. You can take Rands positions ,self reflect ,analayze and critic them. You can still appreciate her work for what it is without becoming a regurgitating robot that throws out soundbytes. One has to recognize the time and atmosphere of the Author's work and factor this into their understanding. You can not defend your own position if you have no clue of a different position.

@8is

8 ай бұрын

Very true and important.

@ShaiFishman

6 ай бұрын

100%

@kylemenos

3 ай бұрын

The modern day person is the thing she hated the most. Those who point fingers at success and try say it is wrong. She predicted the downfall of American in it's obsession with righting the wrongs of the past by sacrificing itself to the lazy. Here we are being flooded by those of no merit and thought by those of no brains. Welcome to Socialism I suppose.

I got the PU commercial pushing Ayn Rand today...had to come and watch THIS video to GET SOME MOTIVATION.

Buy it? Surely there's a free copy in most public libraries?

@charleynewman5057

5 жыл бұрын

Surely you don't expect a good Republican to ever stoop so low as to use the disgusting and inessential socialist commy public libraries? Capitalism is key, the poor shouldn't be allowed access to knowledge anyhow.

@putsomething

5 жыл бұрын

But that would be socialism

@josephp.1919

5 жыл бұрын

You can get them free from some republican propaganda organization. I forget what it was called. But me and my friend got them payed for and shipped to our houses for free in high school.

@lonelychameleon3595

5 жыл бұрын

Or you can find them at like literally ever second-hand store because her work is poorly written and most people end up throwing them away.

@kennethhwang3425

5 жыл бұрын

Brock Lobster Honestly though, i’m from Vietnam, and the only type who picks up her books are well to do pricks, businessmen who can’t parallel park and complain about services every five minutes, or edgy financial majors. Other than that, any other students, professors, analyst or people who are decent at literature analysis never gets through half of Fountainhead, let alone Atlas Shrugged.

You leave Ska out of this

@BillytheSchmidt

5 жыл бұрын

Exactly, I'm 39 and I have no intention whatsoever to grow out of ska!

@byron2521

5 жыл бұрын

Leave Ska out of it? Leave hand jobs out of it!

@gorsh7870

5 жыл бұрын

@@byron2521 Both are great!

@charliericker274

5 жыл бұрын

Sublime was a great band, but they weren't Ska. I don't know of any great Ska bands. Those guys who sang the song from Tony Hawk Pro Skater? Here I am, holdin on to what I am... Is that Ska?

@Idontcommentonvideos

5 жыл бұрын

Charlie Ricker The Specials? Madness? Prince Buster? Come on now

The one time we really didn't want the John Oliver Effect to kick in.

How dare John Oliver! You're never too old for good ska and a handy!!

@dimthecat9418

3 жыл бұрын

Hey it’s a furry person. Also what’s ska?

@heavenhounddoberman6230

3 жыл бұрын

@@dimthecat9418 it's a type of music

@elaineb7065

3 ай бұрын

Ska is what happens when you take a bunch of Jamaicans & shove them in the UK for a few decades while rock & roll happens, at least musically. And it's brillent!!! My childhood was pretty much ska music, by both Windrushers & UK peeps influenced by Windrushers. I still remember a gabba night (harcore techno EDM) when some of the DJs played One Step Beyond. The whole place went nuts in the best way, me included!!!

i read that book in high school and was forced to watch a documentary about ayn rand. until now i really had no idea that she was a woman.

@BigGamer2525

8 жыл бұрын

Uhm... Which high school system was this?

@blue20000

8 жыл бұрын

cary-grove

@OwlsEyelash

8 жыл бұрын

+blue20000 This is one of the funniest things I have ever read on KZread. Thanks for the laugh, I needed that today! It is -25 degrees Celsius outside!

@unknown_10453

8 жыл бұрын

+blue20000 yep made to read a book by her in high school.

@GoblinTinkerer

8 жыл бұрын

+blue20000 Truly a triumph of the US educational system, then.

"Objectivism: Which is just the nice way of saying, 'Being a selfish asshole'" The accuracy of that sentence is almost unreal.

@nicholasfisher4952

8 жыл бұрын

+TimeWarp66 I'm an ex Rand fanboi (and still agree with some of her stuff) and it is actually entirely true. It might not have been intended as such (true libertarians do have an ethical conscience - it's the politicians who pretend they're libertarian who don't). However, the world in which Rand's philosophy works without turning you into a massive pile of shitheaded douchebaggery is even less realistic than the communist utopia Randians (and other capitalists and conservatives) take as the ultimate model of naivete.

@nicholasfisher4952

8 жыл бұрын

+TimeWarp66 Rand constructed a world in which being entirely selfish works out well for everyone because there are no structural power imbalances. So one moment Hank Rearden is gouging prices for Rearden metal at the expense of Dagny, the next Dagny is gouging prices for transport at the expense of Hank. It all works out in the end, and then they move to Galt's Gulch where everyone is equal and they all have a wonderful time playing the 'fuck each other over but it all works out in the end' game. The idea that the world will actually work like that - i.e. no structural power imbalances - is as unrealistic as the (cliched straw man) perception of communist ideology being that everyone will work equally hard for an equal amount of money and no-one will slack off. The world doesn't work like that - it's full of structural power imbalances which laissez faire economics only serves to exacerbate, as the people with power use that power to generate wealth which helps them accumulate more power. Even if we were able to start from a completely equal point, without historical inequalities lingering from a feudalist/colonialist past, one person would only need to have an advantage for a little while to begin to benefit from accumulated power alone without having to maintain any true merit - in Atlas Shrugged it is only the vagaries of chance that continue to ensure Dagny and Hank retain relatively equal bargaining positions and thus a model Randian relationship. It's a similar misunderstanding to the bullshit hard-on politicians and businessmen have for free market economics. No-one realises that free market economics is only a -model- which is based on a number of assumptions (perfect competition, etc). It's not how things work in the real world. The only way it works in the real world is for something to ensure that the assumptions of the model hold (sort of) in reality, and the only way to do that is through heavy regulation to prevent anti-competitive behaviour. Every time a politician proposes reducing regulation to create a 'free-er' market, they're actually moving the reality further away from the model and the real outcomes further away from the benefits free markets are supposed to provide.

@TheChrisneitoffer

8 жыл бұрын

+Nicholas Fisher I found your thoughts on Ayn Rand fascinating. Could you please care to explain some more? Pardon me, but English is not my native language, so I didn’t quite understand everything you said. Google Translate is of course in no use, since it is the grammar I have problems with understanding, and not really the words. If I may also come with a argument against it, or more so, a question. How did you think those with money got the money? Their power is given.

@nicholasfisher4952

8 жыл бұрын

+ChristofferHN Gaaaaaaaah I just wrote a long reply and then couldn't post it. I'm not sure how I can explain the general post better, without knowing what parts you need me to explain - perhaps just let me know what you had trouble with? Some of it is pretty dense critical theory which even English speakers have trouble understanding, but I'll do my best! To answer your question though - most of the people with -lots- of money either inherited the money, or inherited the things/opportunities which enabled them to make it, for example better education, other financial support (not -giving- them money, but providing collateral on a loan or something) and, especially, well connected parents. Even if you, technically, 'don't have any money', it's amazing what doors remain open to you if people know you're the child of Mr & Mrs Moneybags. Nearly every 'I started with nothing and became rich' story I've dug into has turned out like that - they started with $0 on the balance sheet, but daddy's friends and business partners were only too happy to give them loans. Now try and imagine the same opportunities for someone with no money and no friends... Some such people do make it though - just enough to keep the myth alive. They do, also, have to work hard - because the myth wouldn't be powerful without some truth to it. But they also get very, very lucky. There are people working just as hard, working 2-3 jobs, just to make ends meet. In fact, those people do -so much- just to make ends meet, they have no time or resources left to seek opportunity, so even 'luck' - if you could call it that - doesn't come as easily if you're not already starting with something. If that luck does come along though, in the form of anything other than an immediate windfall like a win in the lottery, then poor people can't afford to take the kind of risks they might need to capitalise on the opportunity. If a rich person sinks $50,000 into a business opportunity and it fails, they're probably going to be OK. If a poor person has the same thing happen, they're going to be screwed - unless there is a safety net such as unemployment benefits, which is a distinctly socialist policy. So again, pure capitalism would actually make it harder for poor people to 'just work harder/seek opportunity' because they can't afford the time or the risk. A couple of illustrative examples - I'm not rich but occasionally I get to move in those circles. I went to a party just recently, and some guy (early 20s, younger than me) walked in who'd just inherited his grandfather's fairly significant fortune. Not only was he -starting adult life- with all that money, but within 5 minutes every single person there had handed over their business card and offered to work with him. Meanwhile, my girlfriend has worked her ass off to raise herself up from absolutely nothing (including living with addicts as a kid) to get herself a PhD and a good job, and we're doing OK living in a nice area. But that one dude had more opportunities presented to him in 5 minutes than my girlfriend has had in a lifetime of hard work. He already has more money than we're likely to make, combined, in our lifetimes - and I have reasonably well off parents, so it's not like I haven't inherited -some- privilege myself. Second example - Gina Rineheart is a local mining billionaire who had (last time I checked) about $20 billion of personal wealth. She inherited her fortune from her father (who'd basically stumbled upon an iron ore deposit, so he's in the class of people who lucked out). Her returns on her inheritance are large, and no doubt she's done a lot of work to get them there. But that work includes - lobbying government for approvals for mining, lobbying the government for financial support and tax breaks for her mines, and securing heaps of financing for project for banks. These are all things that wouldn't have been possible without -already- having money, and having her fathers' connections. She also has easy access to the media, through her friendships with media owners, and can influence public debate around her actions in a way that Mr & Mrs Average can't. What's more - she goes around saying that poor people 'just need to work harder', while lobbying the government to allow her to pay her workers less - and she lobbies them directly, because she knows many politicians personally, because she's -really fucking rich-. So that's how capitalism works in a nutshell, that's why the meritocracy is a myth, and why libertarians are misguided at best, at worst they're totally full of shit.

@nicholasfisher4952

8 жыл бұрын

+Nicholas Fisher PS, all those things with a -strikeout- were meant to have dashes either side for emphasis, but I obviously don't know how youtube comment formatting works.

How is How Is This Still a Thing not still a thing?

The anti-god, anti-Reagan, pro-choice conservative hero

@bronisawwabienarz1136

3 жыл бұрын

shes more of a hero to free marketeers

@blueoval250

3 жыл бұрын

There’s nothing conservative about her. Conservatives love huge government.

@svenkobus4356

2 жыл бұрын

@Jeff Tighe did't she say that she hated libeterians because they were just anarchist.

@colleagueriley8451

2 жыл бұрын

conservatives and objectivism don't line up at all. Take Trump for example, he wants to regulate twitter for banning people for their political takes. An objectivist, such as Ayn Rand would say that twitter is twitter's (the company) private property and as such can ban people as they please. Also objectivism isn't an ideology, it's a philosophy built on reason and existence being an absolute.

@nofurtherwest3474

2 жыл бұрын

I think she's more of a Libertarian hero

LOL! no republican ever mentioned that she was an atheist and anti religious. Cherry picking at its finest

@ikesteroma

7 жыл бұрын

Let me let you in on a little clue: it's okay to hold someone in high esteem without agreeing with everything they say. This isn't hard.

@DarrinSK

7 жыл бұрын

republicans are not pro free market.

@d10fel

7 жыл бұрын

Paul Ryan is the biggest brown noser. Always trying to make rich people happy.

@rich1051414

7 жыл бұрын

Monopolism is anti-free market for a number of reasons. A market is only free when there is competition. Anarchy is only free when there are not a group large enough to enforce law. Its a contradiction which is obvious if you are capable of seeing the chess board further than a single move ahead.

@ikesteroma

7 жыл бұрын

Richard Smith History has proven that monopolies and giant corporations are almost always created with government oversight.

So many people completely forget the part where Rand makes it very clear that your selfishness must not directly impede in the ability of others to live their lives as freely as they can. All she has said is that you should not feel obligated to sacrifice your own ability to live your life as freely as you can to prop up others. If you WANT to out of your own love or respect for the people you wish you help, that's fine, because fundamentally it's your choice. However, when your government tells you that you "should" fight in their wars because it's the "right" thing to do, how can you not see that this is a fundamentally exploitative relationship? This and other circumstances like it are what Rand had an issue with.

@Danthemanwithaplan7

9 жыл бұрын

Her work made room for the possibility to help others because you want to but she herself repeatedly made clear in many public statements that any act that isn't as selfish as possible is morally wrong.

@RaitoYagami88

9 жыл бұрын

No one missed that part. It's just that it doesn't really matter. Ayn Rand doesn't advocate killing people or directly restricting their behavior. That's not the part we're concerned about. The part that is harmful is the indirect harm which she advocates. The indirect harm and selfish attitude can be just as destructive as direct and intended harm. You make the mistake of assuming that government is separate from the people. Perhaps in a dictatorship your argument would make some semblance of sense. However, you live in a democracy. The people you voted into office are the ones leading the country into war. It is the job of the elected representatives to act according to the will of the people. No on fucking tells you what wars you "should" fight. Do you even understand how democracy works?

@hopespringseternal7028

9 жыл бұрын

it is not a choice, but a duty to help each other on this planet. this is where we went wrong. greed rules.

@Sinlinara

9 жыл бұрын

There are many things that I disagree with Rand on, but this is not one of them. Unfortunately, like the Third Reich tried to do with Nietzsche, the politicians in America have similarly tried to latch onto the works of a greater mind than their own. It's sad that they are able to claim superiority through supporting her writing without fully believing or even understanding what the full implications are of what they say they believe to be true.

@scenopiachannel

9 жыл бұрын

RaitoYagami88 "The indirect harm and selfish attitude can be just as destructive" Its not about how direct your actions are but about the degree of causation. "You make the mistake of assuming that government is separate from the people." Actually, governments are not legally bound to do what the people want, so yes, they are independent. "you live in a democracy" No friend, the USA is a representative democracy, which means that only 535 men can vote on federal laws and regulations. "No on fucking tells you what wars you "should" fight." Oh, then why are we in the Middle East again? Show me a national plebiscite, or even a credible poll that shows that people are pro-going to war in 2014. You won't find any, yet we are forced to pay for everything. "Do you even understand how democracy works?" Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding whats for diner. Hardly something to be proud of.

My uncle gave me my dad's copy of Atlas Shrugged. My uncle ended up as a conservative and my dad ended up as a liberal. I still haven't read it.

@rupert5390

3 жыл бұрын

Wow how wonderful.

@thefamilyname1

3 жыл бұрын

Just check it out and have an open mind about it

@bonerbot7138

3 жыл бұрын

Lmao don't waste your time

@dustywaxhead

3 жыл бұрын

Read Dostoyevsky or Nabakov instead. She was not a great Russian writer

@colleagueriley8451

2 жыл бұрын

a liberal is closer to Ayn Rand than a conservative

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." -John Rogers

@Modenut

8 жыл бұрын

+dandic2342 Hehe, that reminds me of this (though I don't remember who said it): "What's the difference between The Hindenburg and Rush Limbaugh? One is a flaming, nazi gas bag. The other is a blimp."

@MrApplewine

7 жыл бұрын

Reason, Freedom, reality, productivity, self-reliance and human flourishing. So childish. Orcs are for adults. Cool! Ben love Orcs!

@Dan-yh4uz

7 жыл бұрын

MrApplewine come on. Rand is literally every teenagers favorite philosopher. I loved the Fountainhead as a kid, but her ideology is just shit, and you realize that when you get older.

@MrApplewine

7 жыл бұрын

You can't really have somebody who understands Rand's ideas and truly agrees with them and then later rejecting them. But, if a person admires rand's ideas or even similar values without rand and then choses to as they get older to reject self-reliance and reality I would say that is a much more childish state. That can happen because it is hard to face the world of reality and surrendering your mind can be a tempting fate for those who don't have the will to think.

@MarekHekselman

7 жыл бұрын

its funny, cuz lord of the rings isnt much different than atlas shrugged, both are anti-govt, pro-anarchy, about morality, human desires and their actions

Look, she seems like a miserable woman. But can we please just acknowledge that, "But I don't think of him. And the more I see, the less I think." is a GREAT line? Like, damn.

@bruno.6610

5 жыл бұрын

That's from her book, The Fountainhead. You should read it, if you aren't touched by it then you are the miserable one.

@lonelychameleon3595

5 жыл бұрын

If you want poorly written fan-fiction then yes I'd highly recommend The Fountainhead and even Atlas Shrugged.

@bruno.6610

5 жыл бұрын

@@lonelychameleon3595 How about you actually critique it instead?

@lonelychameleon3595

5 жыл бұрын

@@bruno.6610 - Fine. Plot is meh, characters are flat representations of what she thinks the world is like, philosophy is half-assed, and the book is a lot longer than it realistically needs to be to get her "point" across. If you love wasting your time with crap then I'd highly recommend it.

@davidwatson1144

4 жыл бұрын

Even a blind squirrel will find a but sometimes

I see John and his team snuck in Simon from the Inbetweeners getting a tug, good to know they're fans of quality television

Atlas Shrugged is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

@TheLowBrassDude

2 жыл бұрын

I threw my copy into the trash after I finished my junior year of college

@BugJuiceFlavor

2 жыл бұрын

Just because it doesn't have pictures in it and is over 100 pages long, doesn't mean you throw it away =)

@BugJuiceFlavor

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheLowBrassDude Did that to Das Kapital, tbh

@jamwest3146

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, it's got big words in it, over your head for sure.

@danielmuldoon1120

9 ай бұрын

Spencer Reid from “Criminal Minds” could read it on a flight from D.C. to L.A. 😉

About a year later...Donald Trump becomes the new Republican top runner.

@ardillarojo

8 жыл бұрын

+Wade Peng Goes to show how stupid so many people are in the US.

@darwincity

8 жыл бұрын

+Wade Peng Which makes the writers of this show visionaries.

@Shatterrize

8 жыл бұрын

+darwincity as in: they brought to life their vision of having Trump run?

@johngalt1629

8 жыл бұрын

+Wade Peng And future POTUS! He can't be a any worse than the last bunch of degenerates who have been POTUS.

@jordanneal576

8 жыл бұрын

Non-sequitur? Ayn Rand would hate Trump.

Here's the thing: Rand defined faith as "the acceptance of allegations without evidence or proof, either apart from or against the evidence of one's senses and reason... Mysticism is the claim to some non-sensory, non-rational, non-definable, non-identifiable means of knowledge, such as 'instinct,' 'intuition,' 'revelation,' or any form of 'just knowing.' " Which is exactly the faith and mysticism shown by her followers, who continue to promote her Objectivism despite all proof that her concepts, when applied to real life, simply do not accomplish what they claim it does.

@sybo59

6 жыл бұрын

Evidence?

All these years later, HOW IS SHE STILL A THING?!

@CPez

3 жыл бұрын

She inns of the most Brilliant Americans of all-time, and to people see her as evil. Utter Stupidity. She predicted the downfall of Theis country BOTH Socially AND economically, 25 years before the Economic Legend Milton Friedman said similar things.

@dustywaxhead

3 жыл бұрын

@@CPez lmfao people predict the downfall of markets every year and the year the market finally does implode they say "see i predicted it"

@ifarded4986

2 жыл бұрын

Because people are tired of paying into social "services" that don't work

@50733Blabla1337

2 жыл бұрын

Because the US is a utter shithole and regressed socially to people simping for their kinds when they throw crumbs at them

@chipchipperson80

2 жыл бұрын

You could never understand in a thousand lifetimes.

Today om Reuters: "In sign of the times, Ayn Rand Institute approved for PPP loan"

@astrobiojoe7283

3 жыл бұрын

lmao I came here because of that

@jlrinc1420

3 жыл бұрын

She got SSI because she didnt want to spend her book money to fight the lung cancer she got from thinking that the medical experts were just dumb about smoking being a cause of cancer. Lets see what right wing idiot do I know who thinks the doctors dont know what they are talking about? Oh yeah all of them.

Bioshock taught me everything I need to know about Ayn Rand.

@dcung8833

7 жыл бұрын

would you kindly?

@serginaru

7 жыл бұрын

being proud about playing video games? I$ western civilization already over?

@Necroskull388

7 жыл бұрын

That's sorta like saying that anime taught you everything you need to know about Japan.

@tbotalpha8133

7 жыл бұрын

...That her philosophy is garbage and would lead to disaster if it was ever embraced by society at large?

@MrBWhite88

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah pretty much.

I love the "How Is This Still a Thing" narrator.

@rozannmoake8146

6 жыл бұрын

Vicki Cupper lklm knell jkk upkeep

Helping others is selfish, and at the same time beneficial.

@danielnorth9902

3 жыл бұрын

Ayn rand said that btw

@pouncepounce7417

3 жыл бұрын

@@danielnorth9902 It is an logical conclusion, Humans are tribal, help your tribe and you help yourself by making your tribe stronger, so i doubt it is an original idea of anyone.

@georgenichols7718

3 жыл бұрын

This makes my head hurt.

@leeuwbama9433

3 жыл бұрын

@@pouncepounce7417 Tribalism is anti-freedom, anti-reason and anti-progress. Only if we freely strive our own dreams and goals and make agreements with other individuals to reach for our own sake, we will become a greater society.

@pouncepounce7417

3 жыл бұрын

@@leeuwbama9433 The problem is humans are tribal, it is an survival trait, but our "tribes" have become to big to work as such. An functioning tribe is considerd something in between the 90 to 120 individuals bracket, 200 is stretching it. Or brains are able at max to keep track of how we relate socially to that amount of people. An tribe is an karma economy, balance between individuum and tribe is necessary for the tribe to succeed, pretty much as with any societie. Right now we have the problem that we have what i would label an pointy elbows societie, and it is working not that well.

It's amazing how "some people" will rally around things that are taken out of context and then make it their mantra! Oh! He said it! He said it! Ooohmm! Ooohmm! Ooohmm!

She's not a hero as much for conservatives as she is for libertarians

@cynicaesthetics4341

5 жыл бұрын

the libs don't give a shit about nuance nor facts, especially the pompous twat known as John Oliver

@tarfielarchelone2674

5 жыл бұрын

Libertarians are irrelevant

@bruno.6610

5 жыл бұрын

Rand despised libertarians.

@CommanderOfTheEmuArmy

5 жыл бұрын

@@cynicaesthetics4341 Libertarians are fiscally conservative and socially mixed. The Libertarian Party members and supporters (such as Gary Johnson, Nicholas Sarwark, John Stossel, ReasonTV) praised her and have argued against the GOP making big difference. @Can'tThinkOfAName, I was generalising and never said Rand represented Libertarians/Conservatives and @Tarfiel, who cares if they're irrelevant, they exist and are active in the world of politics.

@cynicaesthetics4341

5 жыл бұрын

@@tarfielarchelone2674 You'd think so but a huge portion of the GOP's heavyweights have very libertarian views at the end of the day.

I don't know how the hell Ayn Rand has anything to do with conservatism. All I recall was that she's pro-capitalism, but she's against almost everything the socially conservative movement stands for. How the hell is her objectivism compatible with traditional family values? I'm guessing politicians reasonably assume their voters don't read it.

@SV67943

9 жыл бұрын

The majority of American conservatives aren't fans of Ayn Rand. Notice that it was Tea Party candidates talking about Rand, here, not John Boehner or John McCain.

@nullentry6032

9 жыл бұрын

SV67943 Paul Ryan and Rand Paul aren't TEA Party because they both support illegal aliens getting amnesty.

@AirahsELL

9 жыл бұрын

Only crazy people endorse her. The Tea Party is not all Republicans, it's the Republicans who are so stupid or insane that not even traditional conservatives want to be associated with them.

@SV67943

9 жыл бұрын

Erick Johnson I love it when the whackos aren't hardcore enough for their fellow nutjobs. Ryan and Paul not conservative enough. For fuck's sake...

@wheatboi8255

9 жыл бұрын

Her philosophy isn't compatible with the New Testament. But when was the last time you heard Jesus Christ brought up by Fox News and Rush Limbaugh? No no no that hippy love thy neighbor the "it's easier to pass a camel through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich person to enter the kingdom of heaven" crap doesn't jive with the conservative economic model. When the bible is brought up by mainstream conservative media it's always the fire and brimstone judge everyone and get your stones ready for throwing! That shit IS perfectly compatible with Objectivism, So you've got a party that's, at its worst, a mixture of the bat shit crazy hatred of the old testament combined with the "selfishness is good!" of objectivism. Resulting in a party that hates poor people ALMOST as much as they hate gays and holds the rich up as golden idols whose paths to greatness need to be cleared of all obstacles like worker safety and environmental regulations, minimum wage laws, and taxes.

My mom actually did her thesis on her. Apparently over the course of writing it, it went from about Rands ideas to how hypocritical she was.

@samrosendahl392

7 ай бұрын

Yes I’m sure your mom was a lot smarter than one of the great thinkers of the 20th century

@janeduardodesouzadickmann3639

7 ай бұрын

Yeah bruh, cause your mom is known for best-sellers, right?

@john2432

7 ай бұрын

@@samrosendahl392”Great thinker” lol nice bait

@Schokelmei

6 ай бұрын

@@samrosendahl392 She was great as completely hypocritical clown. If people would have treated her like she did and what she proclaimed, she wouldn't had left Russia alive but died of hunger before the age of 14. Which wouldn't have been a huge loss to mankind.

@samrosendahl392

6 ай бұрын

@@Schokelmei yes because her parents had no valid reason to leave russia-with their daughter from the perspective of ethical egoism. Her whole point is helping someone should benefit you in some way, the only moral relations are transactional relations, or should be anyway, this is her point, this is her philosophy, nowhere does she state imply to abandon offspring, actually few things are more in line with your self interest than helping a kid who will pay you back in all sorts of ways. Actually read someone before spouting played out caricatures.

She spent the last years of her life on public assistance.

@50jakecs

3 жыл бұрын

hence her hypocprisy

@anonymous_4276

3 жыл бұрын

@@50jakecs I don't really like her but if she really is selfish and believes in being selfish, why would it be hypocritical of her to live like that? She just lived her last year's selfishly. That is what she proposed. Selfishness entails that principles which apply to others need not apply to me.

@originalslothking

3 жыл бұрын

@@anonymous_4276 to flip the script on Rand in her own words: "why is it good to want others to pay into making her and others happy?" A selfish person only cares about themselves. How can you claim that selfishness is such a virtue while simultaneously using the selflessness of others to cling onto life for a few more years? If it wasn't for selflessness she would've been on the street looking through trash cans for a scrap of food to hold her over one more day. Hence the hypocrisy.

@tanyawade5197

3 жыл бұрын

Dominic Carrellas 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 I truly abhor her😡.

@Jabberwocky869

3 жыл бұрын

@@anonymous_4276 Selfishness is rather the afterthought of her belief system. She believed in fulfilling true individual potential no matter what. Women, especially in her time, were expected to give up any personal ambitions in favour of man and children. She believed in always putting the own self and selfish desires first. Whether she failed at it or not? Well, she is a Russian Jewish woman who became an acknowledged writer on her own merit, created her own branch of philosophy to live by and was married to the same man for 50 years till his death. She is still remembered today, where most of you won't be in 50 years after your death. I would say, she wouldn't give a flying rats ass what you are thinking about her if she where still alive. On the other note: she was one very unpleasant person.

3'13'' "Especially when there's so many advocates for selfishness they can choose, Like Donald Trump" This was said in 2014, congratulations, republicans heed your wise advice (facepalm)

All these comments about politics or philosophy and I'm sitting here thinking bout Bioshock..... 👀

@keithupton86ku

5 жыл бұрын

Best course of action. Funny username, btw.

@fallingcrane1986

5 жыл бұрын

To everyone who sees the comment I’m replying to, would you kindly like it? :)

@Hmm...Whats-Their-Name

5 жыл бұрын

@@fallingcrane1986 i dunno what comment you're referring to, but you sound like jeb bush. "Please clap..."

@blake9746

5 жыл бұрын

@@Hmm...Whats-Their-Name Someone doesn't know Bioshock.

@ironicname2

5 жыл бұрын

Bioshock definitely not political in anyway. Anyway my kids arent makin me enough money, time to inject them with slugs.

Fountainhead is a beautiful book for those who understand the desire to get the essence of things and build things that actually work. And not doing things that do not make sense just because other people or the mainstream say it's right. Those who I met in life and hate Fountainhead were like Peter Keating themselves. No wonder they hate the book.

The Sight of aan Achievement is the Greatest Gift a Human Being Could Offer Others ❤

“Saint Petersburg in revolt gave us Vladimir Nabokov, Isaiah Berlin, and Ayn Rand. The first was a novelist, the second a philosopher. The third was neither but thought she was both.” ― Corey Robin

@xnoreq

5 жыл бұрын

Not a professional philosopher, no, but I'd take that as a compliment.

@TheNefastor

5 жыл бұрын

Oh man ! Shots fired 🤣

@danomalley2473

5 жыл бұрын

What's the difference between "The Lord of the Rings" and "Atlas Shrugged"? One is a ridiculous fantasy novel popular with 12-year-old boys, and the other has Elves and Wizards in it.

@JOONYERful

5 жыл бұрын

“Indeed, for all the focus on the Frankfurt school and Hannah Arendt, it seems that the only political movements in postwar America that truly felt the impress of the European mind were on the right.” - one of the many obnoxious and completely wrong statements by Corey Robin

@spormlastname267

5 жыл бұрын

Short eyes on that Nabokov.

all I'm thinkin is Andrew Ryan from Bioshock

@MynameisBrianZX

9 жыл бұрын

You can't spell Andrew Ryan without Ayn Rand.

@PixelBrainMush

9 жыл бұрын

nik Bahtin Goddammit, now I'm seeing another layer to the game...

@wheatboi8255

9 жыл бұрын

Yeah the entire thing about Bioshock 1 was lampooning objectivism. Bioshock 2 was all about lampooning the conservative economic model, blind fevered patriotism, and racism. The blacks in Bioshock 2 were "paid" so they weren't really "slaves" but they were only paid enough to be utterly dependent on their employer with supposed opportunities to advance or leave being smoke and mirrors to mollify them and any critics. "Oh, we pay them. They're not slaves. We pay them just enough to buy food and housing... from us! And they can advance if they want to. We don't really have any examples of it. But it exists in theory. They can leave when ever they want. They'll starve and die. But they can leave any time they want!" Pure capitalism exists in this world and it's called China. Where there is no minimum wage, no environmental laws, no safety regulations, no entitlement programs. And so the bulk of their work force makes 50 cents an hour. Lives in employer provided housing. And, if they leave, run the risk of starving to death before getting another job. The skies of their cities are so polluted you can't see the sun and their fish in their rivers have so much mercury in them you might as well be putting a gun in your mouth. Many workers are missing fingers or entire limbs and a lot of them are children since there's no child labor laws. Welcome to the end result of pure objectivism and capitalism untainted by human rights or empathy.

@ZipplyZane

9 жыл бұрын

MynameisBrianZX And very much intentionally, seeing as that's who he represents. And, oddly, it's actually the most favorable interpretation I've seen of Rand by her critics. Ryan just gets in over his head and compromises his philosophy because he actually realizes it doesn't quite work. He just does it too late.

@maiqtheliar1

9 жыл бұрын

andrew ryan is the true hero of bioshock

And it doesn’t even mention how Atlas Shrugged has a speech that goes on for literally 90 pages

The shirt Rand Paul is wearing makes him look like a prison inmate 😂

@ishaanparikh485

3 жыл бұрын

Um thats a doctors coat

Republicans: Ayn Rand or Jesus. Choose one. You can't have both.

@KAvanAlten

8 жыл бұрын

+irllcd13 I choose none.

@gaulishrealist

8 жыл бұрын

+irllcd13 That's right, I choose Rand.

@irllcd13

8 жыл бұрын

German Capitalist Congratulations on being a disgusting human being.

@KAvanAlten

8 жыл бұрын

irllcd13 Why, because he does not have the same opinion as you?

@gaulishrealist

8 жыл бұрын

Krijn van Alten Apparently.

I love Ayn Rand, because if I'm talking to someone at a party and they say how they like Ayn Rand's "literature," it saves me a lot of time that would have been wasted talking to them.

@Shozb0t

4 жыл бұрын

@aluisious I hope your estimate isn't based on hearsay. Have you read any of her books yourself?

@bigwig8657

4 жыл бұрын

Not a fan of hers but I definitely have enjoyed books from authors whose views are very contrary to mine. I absolutely loved some of Rudyard Kiplings and Orson Scott Card and I find their political and moral views disgusting, but both managed to write a few of the handful of novels that did a good job at capturing the story of children essentially without parents and how the world can be both be incredibly kind and horrifically cruel and how that affects a person, unlike say Harry Potter which is a disgustingly Mary Sue and unbelievable versiom of a child abused without a safe space to sleep in since he was an infant who finds out he is secretly rich and has powers. It was appalling the first I learned about their political views but that still doesn't change their writing. Same goes for most art I feel, judging someone for that without knowing the motivation behind the enjoyment is fairly bigoted thinking, it could be something as small as a couple characters in her books they relate to or enjoy in some manner completely unrelated to the politics and narrative of a book. Not to mention just enjoying digesting other peoples views and philosophy. In my opinion it's probably best to digest books potraying views you do disagree with as better understanding and perspective are so much more important than confirmation and comfort. Her books did do that so while I won't read them a second time ever, I also do not regret the time spent in reading them and that is true for most expression that leans heavily in a single direction. Doesn't change that I find her philosophy to be ignorant and likely intentionally so because the alternative requires effort and not being a slave your ego.

@question-question

4 жыл бұрын

@kommisar How many lefties do you hang out with?

@question-question

4 жыл бұрын

@kommisar Relevance? - Obvious.

@question-question

4 жыл бұрын

@kommisar Asked you a straight question. Typical defensive right winger can't give a straight answer. Must get your debating tips from Trump.

Ms Rand had opinions on EVERYTHING and felt that EVERYONE was entitled to them.

Anthem is about an individual rejecting the term “we” for “I”

@Wolcik3000

3 жыл бұрын

because there can't be only one - and its not balance

Without Ayn Rand, there'd be no BioShock, so there's at least one point in her corner.

Rand Paul loves Ayn Rand so much he was named after her.

@randwilliams5552

5 жыл бұрын

Same

@chokin78

5 жыл бұрын

He was not. He started that a few times.

@jamesmiller2521

4 жыл бұрын

@@chokin78 well, he lied

I've always thought every Ayn Rand book should come prepackaged with a copy of The Jungle- just to give both sides of the story...

@tomscott4438

9 ай бұрын

Or Animal Farm.

Ayn Rand because someone asked "What if Superman was a douchebag?" Answer: Man of Steel.

@Al-xq4ec

2 жыл бұрын

What makes superman from man of steal douchebag?

@skylersneathen4799

Жыл бұрын

Like helping that woman in the bar, saving several soldiers, saving his Mom, saving Lois, saving that family from Zod. Yup, what a fucking selfish asshole.

any christian who believes in Rand's "virtues of selfishness" is a walking contradiction.

@joejohnson6733

6 жыл бұрын

Duh, she was Atheist

@sam2026

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah that's where I'm confused.

@planetmeowth3374

6 жыл бұрын

I taught my Don Ivanka Eric the virtue of selfishness --- and the art of SELF-IDOLIZATION! We are doing very well!

@planetmeowth3374

6 жыл бұрын

TBH I never read her books. I just like her clickbait title!

@ROArecords2

6 жыл бұрын

He's saying some people today who claim to be Christian (Paul Ryan) are fans of Ayn Rand and you can't be both.

died in social housing while receiving medicare lmao beautiful poetry

@kathygraham6251

4 жыл бұрын

they never share that info though. Must be hard to live on crow when the end is nigh.

@Judas_1989

4 жыл бұрын

First, this is not what actually happend, but whatevr. But second, for the case you responded - she paid her taxes for her whole life, which was something she disagreed, and now you - obviously advocating this scheme because you wrote this - are laughing at it? Ayn Rand pointed out how terrible the idea of medicare is. She proved it as you can see.

@gabrielebeimler133

4 жыл бұрын

@@Judas_1989 "but whatever" oh i see :-) "you are opposed to a system yet you particpate in it, how do you justify wanting to change things you hypocrite?" i hear this from her followers regularly how about you eat shit :-)

@gabrielebeimler133

4 жыл бұрын

@kommisar you didn't reply to my other comment already addressing this. guess you really do got nothing :-)

@freakfilicon

4 жыл бұрын

rights for me but not for thee

In her final years, Ayn Rand received benefits from Social Security. That...kinda flies in the face of her personal philosophy of self service as a moral imperative.

@Wheels_tcw

3 жыл бұрын

@That Dude I don't see how it's not hypocrisy. She put a name to a moral philosophy that demonized the structure of social welfare.

@hello-wj8hk

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wheels_tcw taxi for Tim ........

@vitalyjohnson3514

3 жыл бұрын

@@Wheels_tcw the government took her money. Man, you are thick.

@ivyweber4569

2 жыл бұрын

It's not hypocrisy because her only real philosophy was being a selfish asshole, and a selfish asshole will take anything they can get. It only becomes hypocritical if you assume that her selfish beliefs stemmed from a consistent underlying philosophy, but right-wingers usually do the opposite; construct philosophies and reasons on the fly to justify their self-serving actions and statements. It's why people like Mitch McConnell can block Supreme Court nominations from Obama because it's "too late in the presidency" then allow nominations from Trump even later into his term, because the belief was manufactured to fit the desire to have a right-wing Supreme Court.

@vedantsinghvishwanath3265

2 жыл бұрын

Incorrect. She was still selling something like 8000 copies a month

Fun fact she took social security

@kcl4364

2 жыл бұрын

And?

@zonker7

2 жыл бұрын

@@kcl4364 that was a repudiation of everything she espoused.

@kcl4364

2 жыл бұрын

@@zonker7 Not really. She was simply getting back part of what was taken from her in taxation. No doubt she would have hated having to do so but it's a pretty lame and low gotcha for her opponents to resort to

@zonker7

2 жыл бұрын

@@kcl4364 taxes are the price tag of civilization.I’m jus t not fond of her 8th grade level writing narcissistic theory. If you want to live her books I think Somalia would be ideal

@kcl4364

2 жыл бұрын

@@zonker7 I'm not a Randian. Just thought your remark was weak and a low blow

Pretty funny. I've read atlas shrugged once. I didnt need to read it twice, I understood it the first time. A major theme in the book is about how a civilization based on Objectivism would look like. So i dont know how you could read the book and think that Objectivism is against a civilization or that Objectivism is against the concept of dealing with other people. Overall i think Objectivism has small flaws but they are extremely minor comparing to average man's philosophy today. And they are far more thought out and far less ignorant. People have no idea how economy works Tons of people think that US has a capitalist economic system. HAhaha! And even more people dont even care enough to know anything about the subject because they love being ignorant.

@utopistmsoc

9 жыл бұрын

princeofexcess Capitalism is the system where the owner of the means of production is legally entitled to extract the a part of the wealth generated by workers using those means of production, called "profit". The US is a capitalist economy, since this is what happens. A system where the worker gets the wealth generated is called socialism, and can be of many varieties, free-market socialism, collectivist socialism and more. A system where the State takes part of that wealth (and pays workers a "wage") is called Statist Capitalism (more or less the Soviet Union).

@princeofexcess

9 жыл бұрын

Pablo Podhorzer united states is not a capitalist economy. it is a mixed economy in a capitalist economy all means of production are privatly owned. Bailouts cannot happen in a capitalist economy. Socialist programs (like public healthcare etc) cannot happen in a pure capitalist economy Food subsidies for farmers could not happen in a capitalist economy. Most economies are mixed. United states has a lot of central planning. Where it collects money from people and decides what to do with it. it is the same as central planning in soviet russia simply with smaller amount of the economy.

@utopistmsoc

9 жыл бұрын

Capitalism is not about private versus public. Is about ownership of means of production by those that produce wealth or by somebody else . Read Marx. Only in the US health care (what you would call "socialised health care") can be defined as" socialist "

@utopistmsoc

9 жыл бұрын

Is not about pure or not. Is about the dominant feature of the economy. In the US, the capitalist is king.

@princeofexcess

9 жыл бұрын

Pablo Podhorzer google economic system of united states. you will get "Although the United States is often regarded as a capitalist system, it is actually a “mixed economy.” And in US capitalism is not king. All other decisions government makes severely alter economy. Noone is even debating that in any serious economic class

I'd like to know how many actually read Atlas Shrugged vs the % claims to have read it. It's actually motivational for a young MD who started from basically nothing.

@theanalytic4123

7 жыл бұрын

I can see why - I've read some Rand work but never completed Atlas, so you can add me to that list of people. Generally, I think to know if you'll enjoy/connect with her books, you should ask yourself: "Are great people held back by society/the government/conventional morality?" "Do you consider yourself among those people?" If you answer yes to one or both of these questions, you'll probably connect with her work.

@VeronicaCorningstone

7 жыл бұрын

I've read it in its entirety. Being a teenager and not knowing anything about her or her philosophy, and on recommendations from several people, I plowed through it. I kept waiting for a plot twist to make everything okay but in the end I was just pissed that I spent like a month of my life reading it that I could never get back. I thought it was garbage, and that the woman clearly has serious issues and no concept of what consent means. But yeah, a lot of people complain about things they haven't actually read so I can see where you're coming from on that one.

@ikesteroma

7 жыл бұрын

Heh, heh. I'll openly admit I never read Atlas Shrugged. But then again, you won't see any harsh criticism of her coming from me either.

@irosencrantz4931

7 жыл бұрын

I've read Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead. I loved them both... 'cept for perhaps the rapey fireplace breaking of Fountainhead. (However, you can look at her and tell she probably had many a night alone to ponder those fantasies. She wasn't Sofia Loren.)

@NoConsequenc3

7 жыл бұрын

I don't know why it's bad to have rape in your book. Having rape in a book, or having your main character rape someone, isn't a statement of approval of rape. I saw the point not as "great people should be allowed to rape" but rather that people can still do terrible things despite being so god damn great at other things.

I showed this Christian guy who loved her books her interview from I think it was 1953 where she first explains her belief in the virtue of utter selfishness and then condemns the church as evil in its practices to help others. I could tell it hit him, because even though her philosophy of selfishness stains her entire body of work, it hits differently when you hear her lay it all out explicitly. Anyone of any major religion that keeps kindness to humanity as a core belief should be appalled by this creature. I’m agnostic, but I believe in the virtue of kindness and I find her repulsive.

@NorthMountainFairy

3 жыл бұрын

I was wrong, it was 1959 kzread.info/dash/bejne/nnyglLKqp7XJiZM.html

@Shozb0t

Жыл бұрын

The alternative to selfishness isn't kindness. It is selflessness--which means to regard your own life as having no value. Ayn Rand is opposed to sacrifice, not kindness. Sacrifice means the surrender of a value with the expectation of receiving a lesser value (or no value) in return. In other words, to harm yourself. That is not a rational goal for anyone to have. It is much better to be selfish. You only have one life. And what does a selfish person do? He lives his life to the best of his ability in order to be happy. He acquires gainful employment. He forms friendships. He raises his children. He determines and seeks out his highest values. If everyone was consistently selfish, the world would be a much better place.

@tonybates1537

Жыл бұрын

That last sentence is a great example of why many consider libertarians to be out of touch with reality. While I can't speak on behalf of all major religions, your post confirms that libertarian ideology and Christianity are fundamentally incompatible.

@Shozb0t

Жыл бұрын

@@tonybates1537 Technically, the philosophy influencing my views is called Objectivism. Libertarianism is a political ideology which borrowed from Objectivism the idea that the initiation of force is wrong. But it lacks the philosophical foundation which gives credence to that principle. Libertarians are uninterested in philosophy. Interestingly enough, there are libertarians who are also Christian. But there is no overlap between Objectivism and Christianity. That is why only Christians who have become disillusioned with their faith will take any interest in Objectivism. To the standard Christian, Objectivism is profoundly immoral. And to the Objectivist, Christianity is immoral. Which one is correct? Well, Christianity holds mysticism, collectivism and altruism as the core of its values. Objectivism holds reason, individualism and egoism as the core of its values. Are you an individual? If yes, then Objectivism is for you. Objectivism is a philosophy for living on Earth--not a guide for escaping to a paradise in another dimension.

@tonybates1537

Жыл бұрын

@@Shozb0t Yes, after I posted I realized I had conflated Objectivism with Libertarianism. As you say, Christianity and Objectivism are at odds with each other. As to which one is correct, your answer will depend on your worldview. If you believe that life on Earth is all there is, then it sounds logical at least to focus on your own happiness. I find it hard, however, to imagine every person making entirely self-serving decisions will lead to the best possible society. A Christian, of course, believes in an afterlife, but more importantly in an omnipotent god, who has laid out his will in written word. Reason is not to be disregarded, but is secondary to faith.

Yes, this is the sort of stuff you read when you are 19 and think the whole world is yours to conquer. *IF* you grow up you realise the world is actually a little more complex and there are no sui generis geniuses and, if you are honest, we are all "fellow-passengers to the grave" (Charles Dickens) so why not try to behave decently to each other while we're here?

@danielkraus5560

3 жыл бұрын

Objectivism doesn't say you shouldn't act nicely, it actually holds a premise of "benevolent universe" you should look it up in ayn rand lexicon it's pretty good stuff you might be surprised

@ifarded4986

2 жыл бұрын

Cuz I don't owe you a damn thing and you don't owe me a damn thing.

@AlessandroVolta1

2 жыл бұрын

Clearly you have not read the books. I suggest you read them. People should be able to get rewarded for their own productivity without being responsible for unproductive people. Of course artists, social workers, journalists and politicians usually hate that idea.

@crimsonmask3819

2 жыл бұрын

Rand _and_ Nietzsche.

@dontbefatuousjeffrey2494

2 жыл бұрын

@@AlessandroVolta1 Human value is not derived from simple notions like "obviously concretely productive worker bee = good". Artists bring us joy and/or questions to ponder; journalists news; politicians THEORETICALLY help organise social function constructively... and social workers are the front line of defence for people who've been damaged by ideas like yours. It's not a perfect system, but who are you to define "productivity"? What would you do with the profoundly disabled? I shudder to think :-( edit: and she was a f**king TERRIBLE writer. Turgid, ponderous and self-indulgent. For god's sake, grow up.

2 years later, three presidential candidates appear in this video. I think I should be scared.

Funniest review of The Fountanhead: This is a book that shouldn't be set aside lightly, it should be thrown with great force.

This has aged so well

There's a useful mnemonic for remembering how to pronounce her name: "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ayn Rand."

@michaelroberts1120

5 жыл бұрын

How about Ein Stein?

@davesvens8697

4 жыл бұрын

A wolf a Reich a rand ?

@osahju914

4 жыл бұрын

dave svens I think it’s one person one empire ayn Rand

@haru2322

4 жыл бұрын

@@osahju914 If you are looking for a translation it's "One People, One Empire, Ayn Rand"

@timkvenland1885

4 жыл бұрын

@@michaelroberts1120 At least one won't fit anyway, smart ass

When people read fiction, they still treat it as though they'd read an actual event. They don't literally believe it, of course, but they often talk as though it were evidence that the events could one day happen in a similar pattern. It's important to remember that books and movies don't show a realistic unfolding of events. Things happen the way they do in books _because the author decided to write it that way_, usually to be entertaining. You can't treat a book's plot as though it were a real social experiment. In particular I've seen people point to Atlas Shrugged almost as though it were proof of Rand's ideas, as though she'd been simply recording her observations, rather than actively constructing a fictional world where all her ideas would be _commanded_ to work.

@raggedclawstarcraft6562

Жыл бұрын

well, this book, as I gather it, written to convince people that her f**ed up ideas are 100% legit. True antiscience that could ruin society.

@hrc7715

6 ай бұрын

We live in a world where fiction and fantasy are too often elevated over reality and history

Apollo needs to stop cursing people with the gift of prophecy

Why does Ayn Rand look like Timmy from Whitest Kids U' Know?

The entire video was an ad hominem attack that briefly gave a highly distorted picture of what she actually talked about. Basically, every reason they gave is bullshit for disproving her ideas if you give it more than ten seconds of thought.

@visigothic67

9 жыл бұрын

Interesting because her great ideas evaporate into self serving bullshit after 5 seconds thought.

@poyokirby

9 жыл бұрын

It's satire.

@Danthemanwithaplan7

9 жыл бұрын

No it isn't an Ad hominem. It's a full picture of a person many people point to an a moral teacher. She was a mean selfish person who wrote some books about some people that thought they were the most special unique and important little snowflakes in the world. They thought they alone could vindicate all of humanity by being better than all of them.

@RaitoYagami88

9 жыл бұрын

You don't know what an ad hominem is. And if the reasons are "bullshit," why don't you try disproving some of them? You could have done that. But of course, it's more useful to make a stupid vague statement about how the video is wrong and then run away.

@Bresker18

9 жыл бұрын

Psh, your entire comment is an ad hominem attack that gives a highly distorded picture on criticism of Ayn Rand. Basically, if you think more than ten seconds about your comment you would realise it's bullshit. Objectivism is ofcourse bigger than what was discussed in this short satire (do you seriously expect satirical videos to have a full explanation of what they're making fun about?), but the jokes about how she idolized selfishness are completely valid.

3:16 it was a self-fulfilling prophecy...

@GuyUWishUWere

4 жыл бұрын

that's not what a self-fulfilling prophecy is.

The only good thing Ayn Rand inspired was Bioshock

@caffeinator1849

3 жыл бұрын

@Shonkhor like what? She's a joke in philosophy and academia. She misread and misrepresented every philosopher she cited, and her "objectivism" is 100% subjective since it was grounded on axiomatic doctrine that didn't even attempt to pass Hume's guillotine.

@mateus18PB

3 жыл бұрын

@Shonkhor I agree, it is sad that he didn't over react in a childish way for criticizing the ideas of a philosopher in a KZread comment

@shumeister1059

3 жыл бұрын

Ayn Rand is subjective, and a hypocrite, she criticizes the Natives, while being on Native's land, and judges them based on her own ideas of savages, which is appearance and mannerism that doesn't suit her own learned mannerism and behaviors. She's smart, but never the less her argument was flawed. Aside from that, I sense that she was a troubled person with a sense of scarcity.

@shumeister1059

3 жыл бұрын

The concept of savage is a subjective one. So... if being objective is the point, I can't imagine why she would utter such thing.

@shumeister1059

3 жыл бұрын

@Shonkhor you know you can edit, your previous sentence, it you want to.

I agree with all this except the shade being thrown and Ska and handies...both of which are great.

After a life of heavy smoking, she happily and hypocritically looked to publicly funded Medicare assistance instead of taking responsibility for her self-inflicted illnesses. There would have been no Medicare in the world of her ideals, but when she found she needed it, she decided to come over to the "irrational" world where people care for each other.

@kemvalen4784

8 жыл бұрын

Perfect, she was a massive hyprotic and hope that in ten years no one will believe her bullshit anymore

@thomasweyand7954

8 жыл бұрын

Actually, in following her philosophy it would be illogical to not use the social healthcare.

@mr.jamster8414

Жыл бұрын

@@thomasweyand7954 well thats kinda lame

@user-tt9kb1oz6l

Жыл бұрын

In fairness, she said since she was forced to contribute to Medicare, she had the right to use it.

@thememaster7

11 ай бұрын

Claiming back stolen oney? We can't have that now can we.

How do these religious conservatives reconcile all of Rand's anti-religious teachings? Seriously. I'm not bashing--I really don't know how they can advocate Rand and "God" at the same time. Thoughts?

@jabibgalt5551

4 жыл бұрын

It depends what you mean by God. I consider myself an objectivist, and yet, I believe in God. I don't believe in God as commonly described (an omniscient omnipotent supernatural living white man). By God I mean "The All", The Source, Existence; that which cannot be named, perceived nor understood. Under those terms, I certainly believe in God.

@peggyfranzen6159

4 жыл бұрын

Rand always looked up to someone better.The greatness she found in mankind's ability to achieve.

@kenabbott8585

4 жыл бұрын

Because liking a book, or agreeing with somebody's statement, doesn't mean we agree with all of their statements or positions. Ayn Rand's "Objectivism" is warmed-over Nieztscheism--the statement that each of us should be a hedonistic, insanely selfish asshole, followed by long, convoluted explanations of why we wouldn't necessarily act like hedonistic, insanely selfish assholes. But her defense of capitalism, and her relations of how government actions--often made with good intentions--interfere with it, was brilliant. Likewise, George Orwell supported socialism Even after he saw it in action in Catalonia, he looked at the murders and thefts and general tyranny and thought it was great--but we still read "1984" and "Animal Farm," and still advise that others read it.

@kenabbott8585

4 жыл бұрын

@J R Pretty much, yeah. Nobody thinks it's cool that Trump banged a hooker, but we'd rather have him and an economic boom than Felonia Von Pantsuit or Creepy Uncle Joe. If your choice is the crappy Christian or the person who literally wants to ban Christianity, you have an easy choice. If y'all could run a candidate that doesn't suck, you'd have this election sewn up. (also--mob associations? LOL)

@kenabbott8585

4 жыл бұрын

@J R "and it wasn’t just one hooker, it was many, and he also paid for them to have abortions and pee for his gross fetish" Yeeeeeeeah no, that's a steaming pile of bullshit, and if you had a shred of integrity you'd be weeping in shame right now. "uhh, yeah, you have to to build in the places he has built in, lol, you can look it up for yourself." so you don't have any evidence, but we're supposed to believe it anyway. Well, that sets the tone for the rest of your posts. " And Clinton never wanted to “ban Christianity”" Because it's not like she said that Christianity needs to change to support her beliefs, or was planning to infiltrate and bring down churches in her emails, or... Wait, wait, it is like that. It's EXACTLY like that. "just bc ppl want an actual separation of church and state instead of a politician who will blindly make choices to benefit his particular religious voting base. " Because sentencing people to re-education for refusing to mock God is an "actual separation of church and state." "Just don’t re elect him is my thing" And now watching him win the election in 2020 is going to be even better. Slow it down, man. You have five more years of unhinged, dishonest hatred to go.

Amazing how a book written in the 50s can so accurately describe what is happening in America today. She was way ahead of her time.

@Joshua_Froschauer

2 жыл бұрын

Right?!?

@tomscott4438

9 ай бұрын

She wasn't ahead of her time, she just espoused a life philosophy of greed and selfishness that a lot of greedy selfish people embraced.

@Airsails

9 ай бұрын

Freeloaders like you have trouble differentiating between individualism with prosperity and greed with selfishness. ALTRUISM HAS DAMAGED YOU.

New idea for a party game for nerds called "Are You Rand-y?". In it you are given a random famous political, economic, or moral philosopher from history, and you have to break down how their entire philosophical framework was just a flimsy excuse to justify and normalize their weird sexual fetishes.

@shalonanwar6882

2 жыл бұрын

Omg this is the greatest idea for a game ever! I might steal this idea and use it for those presentation night things people do on TikTok.

3:18 Congrats Jon looks like you gave the Idea for him to be the leader of the republicans....

@OfficialNWS

8 жыл бұрын

+Ramnath Pai John*

@shalom4301997

8 жыл бұрын

Look at the screen again. It says that he was already serious about a run

@oro2play

7 жыл бұрын

Right, but it didn't mean the Republicans actually had to vote for the guy.

@arisrayden

7 жыл бұрын

dude trump has been talking about running for president since the '90s -.-

Yep, I was a self actualized man until 7 years ago. I was a fucking jerk back then. It took alot to shake me out of that crap. People just didn't like me. So yeah, sometimes you have to get slapped in the face to realize your shit stinks.

@jonassamuel4376

9 жыл бұрын

*applaudes* respect sir! keep it up!

@chancylovell7170

9 жыл бұрын

I'm proud of you, man.

Kind of took stuff out of context here. I've read her books and I am by no means am objectivist, but Rand envisioned a world where capitalists are sensible assholes, not just regular assholes. I took what served me from her work and moved on.

@Friendlyfirefish

Жыл бұрын

How do they become sensible. The reason we have regulations on industry is because they have been proven time and again to not be sensible

Dammit, LWT, why did you have to give Tronald Dump an entire fanbase?

She sounds like a Sith Lord.

@osvaldocortes4598

5 жыл бұрын

But aren't Sith lords your specialty?

@daniellemckenna8576

4 жыл бұрын

*_"A Sith Lord!?"_*

@Shozb0t

4 жыл бұрын

@Obi-Wan Kenobi If John Oliver wants you to believe that somebody is like a Sith Lord, he will make that person look like a Sith Lord. You will notice that there was no voice in the video to defend Ayn Rand. You're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view. If all you know about Ayn Rand comes from this video, then your point of view is incomplete.

@rosegold2790

4 жыл бұрын

Only a Sith deals in objectivism.

@Shozb0t

4 жыл бұрын

@@rosegold2790 I see what you did there. But since Objectivism only exists in this galaxy beginning in the 20th Century, your claim is inaccurate. In terms of the actual line regarding absolutes, however, I think Obi-Wan was partially mistaken. Absolutes are in abundance in the realm of metaphysical reality. If something exists, it is an absolute. If something happens, it is an absolute. The things which aren't absolute are a person's irrational whims, wishes, speculations, and beliefs.

The frightening moment when you watch this in 2018 and they say "why not Donald Trump". I'd take Ayn Rand over Donald Trump.

@Nullifidian

6 жыл бұрын

True. Ayn Rand, in her present condition, couldn't possibly be a worse president than Trump.

@elix485

5 жыл бұрын

@@Nullifidian Now now, let's not get carried away. This is the woman who advocated individual freedom above absolutely everything else, after all.

@voodooros

5 жыл бұрын

@@elix485 Individual freedom is the basis of liberalism.

@elix485

5 жыл бұрын

@@voodooros It is.

@lonelychameleon3595

5 жыл бұрын

I'd rather have neither