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This book changed my life and my way of viewing it and the whole world. Would recommend to anyone.
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>>76060000
It's Jew trash

Nice quads
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Tried reading it once. While I agree with the principles, it's repetitive, boring and about as subtle as a chainsaw.
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Recommend me redpilled books guys
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>>76060000
What's it about?
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I agree with most of the principles, but the second half of the book is boring.
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>>76060000
i heard about this book before
can someone tell me what exactly is about?
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>>76060656
it's basically propaganda with a shitty story attached. similar to starship troopers when it gets preachy but a lot heavier of an agenda
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>>76060712
It's basically capitalist propaganda, thinly veiled by a shitty story with no interesting characters.
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>>76060000
Just started reading the first book. Spic fucking part was pretty weird, but in general it's not so bad.
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>>76060837
>>76060787
Woah
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>>76060000
Friendly Reminder: Evalion is the reincarnation of Ayn Rand
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>>76060000
Mum railroad
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Autism Thread
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>>76060000
It's shit.

Message is OK but the book itself is hamfisted and has dull prose.
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>>76060868
Is it hivemind or shillary textbooks?
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>>76060000
Fuck outta here with that trash
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>>76060891
Muh*
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>>76060614
You can read anything by Nietzsche and be a better man for it.

He's red pilled about all kinds of things. Like the Jews, for instance, though he's not overly critical of them. Nietzsche simply notes that Jews invented Christianity to bring the hated Roman Empire to its knees, and makes no value judgment on it.
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>>76060969
This. Genealogy of Morality is fantastic
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>>76060614

Since you're in the USA I'd advise reading these books by Thomas Sowell.

http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Sowell/e/B000APQ7EI

I'd also check out Murray Rothbard as he has some interesting views.

Nietzsche is a good read.

I'd also read this.

http://www.amazon.com/Bell-Curve-Intelligence-Structure-Paperbacks/dp/0684824299/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1465030093&sr=1-1&keywords=the+bell+curve
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>>76061012
I've read The Anti-Christ several times, The Gay Science (no homo) several times, and I'm currently working my way through Beyond Good And Evil.
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>>76060000
One of the most boring and asinine books I have ever read in my life.

It's not even the best book with the word 'Atlas' in it. Cloud Atlas is by far the superior novel.
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>>76061266
http://etcsl.orinst.ox.ac.uk/section2/tr24202.htm

Only vaguely related, but link related is Ubermensch tier.
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The books are boring but the three part film version was pretty based.
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>who is john galt?
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>>76060000
I believed the liberal propaganda but then I saw the first part of the movie and decided to read it. It's a masterpiece that's very relevant to our time.

Also, checked.
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>>76061266
have you read Turgenev's "Of fathers and sons"?
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>>76060614
You can't go wrong with Kevin MacDonald's "Culture of Critique". It explains Jew ethnic networking, and how it has rotted away the foundation of Western Civilization.

Free PDF of that book: http://www.angelfire.com/rebellion2/goyim/je1.pdf
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>>76061527
anymore good jew reads?
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>>76060566
Fpbp

Dubs
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>>76061324
thanks, I'll glance over that later.
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>>76061516
No. Russian / Russian Empire authors I have read are Dostoyevsky and Gogol.

>>76061629
Nothing comes to mind at the moment. One that I like, but that is not readily available, is Cry Havoc! The Great American Bringdown, which was written by Ralph Toledano, a Sephardic Jew who helped Bill Buckley found National Review. He names the Jew in it (published posthumously, of course), really points out the establishment of Cultural Marxism as a result of Adorno and that lot. Not a well known book, kind of niche, but worth reading if you ever run across it.
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>>76060876
Maybe if you freebase cocaine, it would appear that way.
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>>76060000
Great book. Fiercely anti communist. Fucking Long though. Not exactly thrilling, more sort of captivating, and it really sums up the essence of the failure of communism.

And yes, often seen as being pro-capitalist and laissez faire economics although Ayn Rand didnt necessarily intend it that way I think. pS sick quad
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>>76062432
""""anti-communist""" works that fail to name the Jew are practically worthless
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>>76060614
You have of course read George Orwell's 1984 and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World.

both are showing their age now but strangely they might be more relevant than ever. Read them and find out
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>>76060000
jaykenton pls go
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>>76062484
Haha okay then. I would'nt call Atlas Shrugged worthless though.

Have you read The Catcher in the Rye.
That is worthless
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>>76060000
the quads don't lie. personally while the writing is a bit dry overall, i loved the fuck out of francisco d'anconio or whatever's Greed speech. The fact that its' anti-communist is a plus, and the motivation to do good work is inspiring.
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>>76062667
It's worthless. Who is her chief acolyte in American politics today? Paul Ryan. What is he doing? Swinging a wrecking ball through our system, destroying our way of life, that's what. Poison, that's what Ayn Rand, (Birth name: Alissa Rosenbaum) is. Nothing but cyanide.
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>>76060000
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>>76061633
nice
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GET
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>>76060614
Mein Kampf
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>>76060656
It's what happens when titans of industry, suffocating by government bureaucracy, disappear. The country collapses. Great read if you're not a socialist / commie etc who get triggered by the fact that the govt can't run everything - direct conflict of their narrative.
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>>76062053
if nihilism is your thing, i recommend it, good short read.
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>>76061364
I liked the ridiculous cast & how changed between the movies. Also how they clearly only had the limo for one day in the second one & tried to make out it was a different one. Oh and Motorola Xooms being used. If you can get past the general amateur dramatic feel worth a watch though.

The whole book can be more kr less boiled down to one part - where the guy takes over all broadcast & has a fucking 100 page speech about shit. Literally the beginning of BioShock - it was based on this book. (Ayn Rand = Andrew Ryan)

>>76062501
-Huxley is based as fuck. Brave new world was fucking intense - but yeah a little dated with it's 'orgy porgy' and Detroit references / ford stuff.
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Just bought it at the book store. Pretty pumped to start it. I'll get one of those Who is John Galt? Bumper stickers if it really affects me that much
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How do you say her name?
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>>76063073

Terrible book. I read maybe the 1st half in high school thinking it would have some sort of insight into WWII. Nothing. It is meaningless propaganda intended to be stuck on the shelf of good Nazi members' book cases.

I remember reading along then came the words, "It was then I began to hate the Jews". I thought "wait a minute, I must have missed something", flipped back 20 pages and re-read. Nope, no context.

It's like Hitler & Co in the bunker at the end of WWII, and everybody expects him to say something to put the terrible war and struggle into some meaningful context. It didn't happen. It was just a domestic political movement run out of control. There is no great meaning to be found, only a warning.
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>>76060000
Good goy! You owe your race and nation NOTHING. There is no allegiance higher than the self. Capitalism is a perfectly rational system, and those who try to impede it do you a spiritual disservice! Oy vey!
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>>76063658
Ro-sen-baum.
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The intelligence paradox is an excellent read. It's interesting and has political implications of what is successful in society, and renders Marxism as just being a failure of applying abstract rational thinking to principles so fundamental to society thry shouldn't be changed. Also full of fun facts. Why liberals tend to have high IQs but are ultimately political failures etc.
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>>76060656
>>76060712
Was forced to read it in junior year of high school, easily one of the worst fucking novels I've ever read in terms of being interesting. It's spectacularly written (I think Rand is a spectacular writer, The Fountainhead is a much better read), but the novel has the worst fucking premise, is insanely boring, and has a shit story with awful characters. It's basically:

>DUDE
>GUYS, LISTEN
>What if ALL the businesses shut down because of regulations?

It's a good theme to explore, but Rand explores it in the most hyperbolic manner. It's slightly comical at first before it eventually becomes pedantic after hundreds of pages (it's a pretty long novel).

Then the last third of the book happens and John Galt (DUDE, individualism, am I right!?!? - the character) gives this long speech (and I'm not fucking kidding, it was dozens and dozens of pages) after hacking a radio to basically spew ultra right-wing propaganda for the author which can basically be summed up as:

>DUDE
>GUYS, LISTEN
>The human mind is fucking amazing, you can do so much with it
>But you can ONLY use that power for yourself, fuck everybody else

It's propaganda in its worst form. Do not recommend.
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>>76060969
>Nietzsche did not pass judgment on Christianity

I hope you meant that he did not pass judgment on the Jewish people for having brought Christianity to Europe. Which would make far more sense than how I am reading your post.

Nietzsche's main critique about Christianity was that the Jewish slaves of the Roman Empire felt shitty about being slaves and out of their resentment was born an ideology of weakness; a viewpoint that reimagined their conditions into a more tolerable mindset, but one that was subversive and rather than seeking to change ones conditions, focused on accepting them and making their weakness into nobility,

There was a disregarded publication later on, edited by his literal nazi sister, who spun an anti-Semitic twist on many of Nietzsche writings. This is despite Nietszche having such repulsion to anti-semetism in Germany and in his family that he left for many years.

Which of his writings are you actually familiar with? And have you read Heideggers lecture notes to get some historical perspective of the writer and what he was responding to?
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>>76060000
I tried reading the book but it was full of garbage 20 dollar words. Objectivism was something i was only ever introduced to by bioshock and I used objectivism to gauge my own self worth cause I used to be one of those nice guys that made no impact. Apart from that it doesn't seem like anybody can fully agree on what the block headed cunt meant by it including herself.
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>>76060000
>Atlas Shrugged
>Not Anthem
Also >>76060566 this. It runs counter-current to the idea of society, which is inherently degenerate..
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>>76063774

Rand does not say that you cannot or should not contribute to something greater than yourself. She just makes it clear that you should not feel obligated to do so.
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>>76063720
>flipped back 20 pages and re-read. Nope, no context.
maybe it was edited
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>>76061629
The International Jew by Henry Ford
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>>76063537
>tfw when we both mention the long ass radio broadcast
Thought nobody else would mention that, it's an atrocity.

Also, yeah, Huxley is pretty fucking based. Brave New World is easily in my top ten novels.
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>>76060969
>Nietzsche simply notes that Jews invented Christianity to bring the hated Roman Empire to its knees

Lmao what?
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>>76060000
Amber Heard is a Randbot

and shes currently trying to sue my boy Doug Stanhope cause he called her a blackmailer
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>>76064173
Makes sense to me.
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One thing I remember thinking being really fucked up were the interpersonal relationships - like Dagny & Rearden going at it until Galt shows up & goes to town on her sex parts, and all he has to say on the matter is "I've met him and I understand"
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>>76064360
Do you really think somebody would just go on the internet and tell lies?
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>>76063910
>I think Rand is a spectacular writer

:\
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>>76060000
((((((((Ayn Rand)))))))))
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>>76060000
I always did appreciate Rand mainly for this pretty based quote.
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ITT: butthurt fascists
Its essentially a libertarian must read, think of libertarianism what you will. Its also fiercely indivdualist. Ofc statists and collectivists will lose their shit over it, be it from the "right" or the "left".
Ill agree that it is really long and hard to read on parts though, abd Rand repeats a lot of stuff. Couldeve probably cut it down to 500 pages and still get the same message across. Still very insightful, especially on laissez-faire capitalism
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>>76060000

the most spiritually dead book i've ever read.

seriously.
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>>76064057
Kike kuntery. Anybody who does not feel obligated to something outside themselves is a subhuman piece of shit. Any parent who raises a child not to feel obligated to race, nation, species, world, should have his child taken and his balls cut off.
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>>76064776

it's the same argument zionists use to justify genocide and ethnic cleansing against the Palestinians. you did it, so why can't we?
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>>76064776
>EYO
>DIS BE CIVILIZATION???
>WHITEY BRING MY MAMA AS A SLAVE
>REPERATIONS NOW
>BLACK SLAVES OF KANGS DESCENT BUILD DIS CIVILIZATON NOT WHITEY
>WE HAVE ALL THE RIGTH NOW
>HILLARY GON BE EVEN BETTA THAN OBAMA YOU'LL SEE
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>>76060000
me too

written over 50 years ago and still accurately describes the shit thats happening today

I almost wish I didn't know about it, so I could have that rush again
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>>76060566
This. Fucking anti-racist kike garbage.
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>>76060573
>>76060682
well, that's fair comment, some of it is incredibly long winded

>>76060787
>basicly propoganda

kind of, but accurate for the most part
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>>76061203
>Thomas Sowell
sowell is dead to me after his ridiculous piece against Trump, calling him hitler, fucking coon
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>>76061309
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>>76060614
1984
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>>76064776
>thinks that colonists were justified in taking land from natives who rightfully owned it
>life's work was about telling everybody how horrible it is to take property from those who rightfully own it

she was a conniving jew, just fighting to keep her own pockets padded

I'll remind everybody that she unironically had a physical and emotional bf and condoned polyamory and cheating
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>>76060614
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>>76060614
God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater
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>>76063774
the point is that you should follow your own rational self-interest, and supporting your family, community and people can fall into that category, but you should not be forced into it by people praying on your feels or forcing you
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>>76064113
heh, I suppose that's a fair comment, still a great book though imo
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>>76060000

The book was commissioned by the Rothschilds, it is also an Illuminati programming book.

The only thing you should take away from it, is if trump wins they will crash te exonomy.

Hillary wins, they still crash it but slower and with a new form of currency. Hillary also lets them take over easier.
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>>76069185
you appear to be attacking the player, not the ball

the thread is about atlas shrugged, not how much of a jew bitch ayn was
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>>76063910
The average American attention span, everybody.
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>>76060000
Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed Atlas Shrugged and the Fountainhead, admittedly the latter is probably a lot easier to defend as its more about artistic integrity than the entire economic situation of America.

In Shrugged however, I see a lot of parallels between the book and what is going on today. The problem with Rand however is she's just too robotic.

She's an autist.

She doesn't seem to grasp, in her little economic meltdown simulation, the nature of people.

As the entire system collapses, if I correctly recall, there is no violence.

There's no rioting. There's no looting.

Now Americans know this to be bullshit. Economy goes to shit and everything is collapsing and there's no rioting?

No way.

So there is value to be taken from it, and you can enjoy the books without walking away a John Galt/Howard Roark wanabee saying shit like "It's not a question of who will let me, but who will stop me" or whatever the fuck he says.

Seriously, just don't become a Rand edgelord, because those idiots are autistic as fuck.

However I do appreciate her books, I enjoyed them, and I do stick up for her whenever some idiot does the whole HURR DURR SHE USED SOCIAL SECURITY or whatever original thing they think they're saying.

But yeah, don't be an edgelord.
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>>76060614

>pic related 1/2

You can find many as PDF. No get going and be redpilled. It takes a lot of time. It´s not like you would read 300 pages and be like "at least i truly see".... it takes more like 10000 pages... and a lot of time.
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>>76069866

2/2
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>>76060969
he's not in any way critical to jews. he literally praises the shit out of them for being the most intellectual race, which "accumulated from generation to generation in the long school of their suffering".
I thought /pol/ hated Nietzsche because of his egoistic, individualistic views. aren't you all collectivists?
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>>76070037
>/pol/
>collectivists

come the fuck on, how stupid can you be? are you serious right now?
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>>76060000
Everyone I know who read that book became an insufferable autist.
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>>76069866
>>76070014

And you can find many of these books on Mega:

https://mega.nz/#F!B4dB2SzQ!h_pMC30v2a_y31iD0dy0sg

>inb4 I ain´t clikcin this
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I got about 60 pages into The Fountainhead before I trashed it because Rand cannot write or character build without it coming across like a propaganda pamphlet.
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>>76060000
Italy scum reading a book from some delusional woman who was a hypocrite as well?

KEK, reminder that she used wellfare while writing that shit.
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>>76070208
>muh race
>muh nationalism
>muh isolation
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It's feminist subversion masquerading as capitalist propaganda. It's a smut novel. I read up to the end of the first part and got sick of it. After reading the synopsis afterwards and this stupid thread I wonder how everyone got jewed. Can't believe Atlas Shrugged is considered the epitome of capitalism. You could give it points for how meta-quaddimensional-ironic it is compared to some ideas more overtly expressed like 1984, as it is the downfall of America in a book. Inb4 >t.leech.
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>>76070208
i forgot
>muh christianity
people literally planning to buy land in namibia. These are not traits you would ascribe to a collectivists ideology?
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>>76071006
>/pol/ is one person
ebin! Is this the power of socialized education?
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>>76060000

Wait until you move out of your parent's house and have to survive in the real world.
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>>76071647
>DUDE REAL WORLD LMAO
Wants free stuff and is a fucking leach.
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>>76071647
>DUDE REAL WORLD LMAO
>Is a fucking leach that wants free stuff
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