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@matrix @ArdanianRight @druid i don't really have a position as to whether she was a fascist or not; my beef with her is that she was a hypocrite and a whore whose entire ideology expired back in 1982 when she turned her back on every principle she'd previously espoused. Too bad she didn't die before she managed to convince people like Alan Greenspan that social safety net programs should be reduced, causing suffering to untold thousands; we can thank social security and Medicare for keeping her alive long enough to ensure that later generations got fewer benefits than she enjoyed in her lifetime.
@matrix @druid @ArdanianRight Ayn Rand spent her entire life railing against social security and medicare, only to sign up for it herself (and her husband) at the end of her life. Her foundation and her followers have a multitude of weak excuses for why it was ok for her to be a hypocrite instead of starving to death like the "leeches" she condemned to starvation and deprivation for years, because reasons, ok. Also she was a cheating whore who was fond of rape fantasies like the ones she put in her books, but that's not important right now.

http://www.openculture.com/2016/12/when-ayn-rand-collected-social-security-medicare.html

It would appear that the road to hell is not paved with good intentions but with bad intentions by people who want to appear to have good intentions.

@charliebrownau
Ain't that, sadly, the truth. I can't believe those people. They are fighting against their own interests.

I knew that, and started fighting the best way I know how. I started to pay for a space with . I am kind of isolated, but I guess, this is a small price to pay for .

I figured, since I am paying them, they have to tolerate me a little. 😁 I stopped contributing to due to that very purpose.

But I am for free speech, even if I disagree ✌️

Give a man mastodon, he'll toot until he's banned. Give a man pleroma, and he'll post for life.

Criticize China: You're a deep state shill!

Be fair to China: You're a China bot!

Suckers I'm both. These are hard times and two pay cheques are better than one.

@0x00 @nick @terryenglish thanks for incidentally reminding me about that one time Pepsi bought a bunch of the Soviet navy in exchange for syrup

> As a result in the spring of 1989, Pepsi and the Soviet Union signed a deal that will go down in history. Pepsi Co. came into ownership of 17 old Soviet submarines, a frigate, a cruiser, and a destroyer. This for a brief time meant that a company was in the top 10 rankings of the world as a military power, more specifically the 6th most powerful military power in 1989.

https://medium.com/history-of-yesterday/how-pepsi-became-a-global-military-power-777f8fb62dd3
@moonman @Ricotta @nick @solidsanek No, I imagine it is not. This is FSE's sole concession to "big emoji".
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