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@mrbayoa1 Maybe she has money grubbing relatives. This way no one can ask her to buy them a house.

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@Pat_RickUSA https://t.co/41Ayv2Ejea

[Jen Dziura @jendziura]

@river_is_nice Here are some deadstock Fruit of the Loom shirts from the 60s – the fruit has brown leaves that look kind of like a cornucopia. Note that the logo on the tag doesn't have this, but the packaging does. Found here: https://t.co/4l5eWyYIqA

[Tom Morello @tmorello]

Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit.

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@colin_fraser What? The fake AI friend burdens you with its emotional problems? Why would I pay for this?

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@ced_jayy This is what computers looked like in 1939. Most people had never seen one and they were certainly not creating special effects for movies.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Netanyahu’s extremist government is completely out of control.

Not only are they starving children in Gaza, they are now breaking international law by dropping bombs on Qatar, a U.S. security partner.

When is enough, enough?

NO MORE U.S. MILITARY AID TO ISRAEL.

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@parakeetnebula When evaluating books, if the main character is just knee-deep in titties despite being an average dude with no admirable qualities, I tend to think the book is maybe not the best, literarily. It's rare to get the gender swapped version, but in this case, no feminism has ensued.

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@parakeetnebula she told him he MUST be attracted to her because of shared values. He was not, but he bought this argument for a time, with disaster ensuing.

Rand on the right, Branden next to her, with their spouses.

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@parakeetnebula have allowed her (not a beautiful woman) to swap out those qualities for beauty and to partner with the world's most strong-jawed man. Very similar to the argument she made to her (younger, married) lover Nathaniel Branden –

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@parakeetnebula In the whole Gulch – which according to Rand contains the only people worth anything – there is only one other woman there, a famous and beautiful film actress. Here we see Rand's self-insert wish fulfullment: her own valor and commitment to capitalism

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@parakeetnebula When the main female character – Rand's stand-in, who of course gets the guy – finally lands in Galt's Gulch, she crashes her plane and her dream guy rescues her, makes her eggs, then charges her for the eggs. They agree this is just and good.

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@parakeetnebula That said, I don't mind books where the characters make unrealistically long speeches that are clearly just the author's philosophy laid out. This also happens in Brave New World and in BF Skinner's Walden Two. In case you like speeches!

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@parakeetnebula were Rand supporters who were despondent because they were simply people who could not, say, invent a new type of metal and dominate everyone around them

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@parakeetnebula But politics NOT aside: a lot of blaming the victims for their own mass death, that sort of thing. Rand's acolyte (a much younger married man she coerced into being her lover) Nathanial Branden went on to work as a therapist, where many of his clients

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@parakeetnebula Politics aside, you probably would think a book where all the heroes are tall and handsome and the villains are short and ugly is an old-fashioned story for children, right? So that's the level of lit we're dealing with.

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@parakeetnebula Where to even begin? All the capitalists have strong jaws and all the socialists are constantly being called fat and jowly. It's cheap.

There's also a bizarre scene where a bunch of people die on a train stuck in a tunnel, and Rand says they deserve it. Here are some of them:

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@parakeetnebula When evaluating books, if the main character is just knee-deep in titties despite being an average dude with no admirable qualities, I tend to think the book is maybe not the best, literarily. It's rare to get the gender swapped version, but in this case, no feminism has ensued.

[Get Bullish @GetBullish]

@parakeetnebula she told him he MUST be attracted to her because of shared values. He was not, but he bought this argument for a time, with disaster ensuing.

Rand on the right, Branden next to her, with their spouses.