Ron Paul Will Make Acting Debut in Third Atlas Shrugged Movie
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(Seriously though, Ron Paul could have saved the country if everyone opened their eyes back in the Primaries).
<youtube=rUa7s3xuqxI>Witty Name Here said:
See the length of that sucker? Randroids are going to have to suck it up, there's no way the whole damn thing is going to get into the movie.
OT: I've never seen a movie get forced into theatres as hard as this one...
EDIT: I found out why the second one got released... it was released by <link=http://www.imdb.com/company/co0431646/?ref_=ttco_co_1>Atlas Productions.
It's the only film they've ever produced. >__>
Well, the second movie was far and away better than the first one, so there's a 50-50 chance the next one will make for something acceptable... which oddly reminds me of my journey through the Star Wars prequels. Honestly the movies have been something of a chore, and it's pretty obvious that these movies are being made for the purpose of saying there has finally been a film adaptation. Not sure what those who strongly disagree with the views are so worried about, the movies are bound for obscurity cause there's very little going for them. Worst thing that'll happen is that it's going to be mentioned in some nostalgia show 20 to 30 years from now as something that happened.
When will people realise that greedily is not the way to live, see collectivism is essentially, be a greedy twat. Hopefully this film fail at the box office, maybe it'll the point across.
The correct route it to be an actor first, then a politician. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Reagan did that and both had success.008Zulu said:
Hypocrites or Self-righteous or ***** or average TEA-party memberGamerMage said:God, I hate that woman and her philosophies. "Welfare Queen" indeed. There;s a word for people this, but I can't exactly think of it right now...Ratty said:Ah yes, the best known work of Ayn Rand, who also produced delightful and enlightened nuggets like this one.
Kind of like how Ayn Rand secretly took advantage of government assistance programs even as she publicly railed against them. [http://boingboing.net/2011/01/28/ayn-rand-took-govern.html] Or as some of her most devoted followers might put it when describing someone else, Ayn Rand was a "Welfare Queen".Geo Da Sponge said:
The scary thing is that Ron's son Rand Paul (yes named after Ayn Rand apparently) is a high profile contender for the next GOP Presidential nomination.
choose which one sounds best
But anyway, I'm still waiting for an objectivist to address the following:
1. Why prioritizing short-term wins and breaking the social contract leads anywhere useful, especially considering we've seen plenty of examples on how this hurts everyone including the person thinking they're getting an advantage
2. How anything can be objective when it's a subject to moral luck
3. Generational wealth. It's the right to do whatever you want with your money (leave to your kids), when it means locking out potentially more capable people from competing.
4. You guys realize that this philosophy has been hell for the planet and is actively preventing us from doing anything about it, right?
5. Why go this extreme when Anarcho-capitalism is subject to the same human factors that cause other systems to fail?
I would say that continuing to flog an idea when it's clearly failed on the market level is hypocrisy for someone advocating a Randian ideal, but as Rand herself was apparently more than a bit of a hypocrite to a Randian ideal, maybe there's a certain symmetry.
Alan Shore had it down. I mean, I know he's not a real person, but I'm not convinced Dr. Paul is, either. I suspect him of being a collaboration between Jim Henson and Andy Kaufman.Micah Weil said:
I didn't say that the message was repeated verbatim and was popular verbatim. In fact, I love the fact that so many of the Rand heads in the US are also professed and devout Christians. I loved it when Paul Ryan came under fire when some Christian group or another actually called him on it and he had to about-face. I find it weird that more Rand followers didn't take that kind of shit, but hey, I can't get everything I want for Christmas.Not G. Ivingname said:
(not to single out Christians, I just don't know of any prominent American politicians who belong to another religion and worship at the altar of Ayn. If anyone can name a Jewish or Wiccan case, that will similarly amuse me. IT's just funny hearing "Jesus" and "Ayn Rand" uttered together so frequently).
Instead, the Lizard people won their thirty second consecutive Presidential race.kajinking said:
He never said to entertain all ideas as if they're equal. He said entertaining an idea without accepting it - the opposite of entertaining all ideas as equal - is intellectually speaking worth it.Witty Name Here said:
Troglodytes, man? Was that necessary?super_mega_ultra said:
Sure, the people overreacting here - I'm sorry Witty Name Here, but you kind of did overreact just now - need to simmer down a bit, but saying they're troglodytes isn't really needed and doesn't help carry your point across.