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   histoire ??☢️?? (histoire@pleroma.skyshanty.xyz)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 15:32:12 JST histoire ??☢️??

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   Despite being accused of worshipping her several times, I've never actually read anything by ayn rand
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     MondoBizarrro (mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 15:32:11 JST MondoBizarrro

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     @histoire @MercurialBlack i guess if you want read atlus shrugged. I havent read it but like thats her most famous "work". I have zero context on it other than everyone ive talked to that was super into ayn rand ended up kinda being weird (that could be a coincidence tho). And its not something i myself am gonna be into considering im on fucking xenofemme.
     
     Also semi related: personally i always had trouble rating things objectively, so when your ideology is called "objectiveism" its gonna be a very hard sell.
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     r o w . ᚂ (rowb1t@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 15:55:22 JST r o w . ᚂ

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     @Mondobizarrro @histoire @MercurialBlack if you're going to read any Ayn Rand you should read We the Living. it's semi-autobiographical so you can get some background into how she turned out how she did (her family was bourgeois, like just about everyone who fled socialist revolutions and engaged in right-wing griftery) and it's thankfully fairly short. but more interestingly there is a socialist character that is actually not like the strawmen that would become characteristic of her later work and is portrayed sympathetically. at one point this character lays out one of the best egoist defenses of communism that i've ever read (that the Ayn Rand self-insert character dismisses because le 'commies don't understand basic economics' meme).
     
     t. someone who has unfortunately read a good bit of Ayn Rand
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     MondoBizarrro (mondobizarrro@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Monday, 31-Jul-2023 15:56:10 JST MondoBizarrro

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     @rowb1t @MercurialBlack @histoire i mean the biggrst people against communism would be the people they want to kill/displace. Not really a surprise