• SpiderFarmer [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      23·
      3 months ago

      It is important. It really demystifies that fuck. Lot of unfinished lists and run-on sentences. Hard to believe someone followed a man with such incoherent writings. Still not as poorly written as The Fountainhead, though.

      • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
        10·
        3 months ago

        Still not as poorly written as The Fountainhead, though.

        Atlas Shrugged takes what went wrong there and expands upon it in just about every way it could possibly be worse, especially that notorious pretentious speech that because of fiction magic captivated all of society instead of boring and annoying them 2% into its run.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      10·
      3 months ago

      The bookstore always has conservative NY Times best sellers but I haven’t been able to find a copy of Blackshirts and Reds, Inventing Reality, Settlers, or even Manufacturing Consent. I love living in a place where Hitler has protected free speech but leftists get soft-censored.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    17·
    3 months ago

    insisting one need to deliberately expose oneself to conservative thought, read conservative articles, consume conservative media, etc, is the most overt confession to dim wittedness and/or affection, I swear.

    you could live in a cave for 20 years and know what conservatives want and pencil out 3-4 talking point strategies they are using to make it happen.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      8·
      3 months ago

      insisting one need to deliberately expose oneself to conservative thought, read conservative articles, consume conservative media, etc, is the most overt confession to dim wittedness and/or affection, I swear.

      That’s why Jordan Peterson fanboys insist you must consume tens of hours of his crocodile-teared misogynistic ramblings before you are even allowed to form an opinion about him, and if you form the wrong opinion clearly you didn’t understand his timeless universal truths. up-yours-woke-moralists

    • Cysioland@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I feel like one of the core tenets of liberalism is an ultimate lack of belief and confidence in your own creed. Always assuming that inherently you’re wrong and working as if you were wrong

    • InevitableSwing [none/use name]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      He’s a real turd.

      Rana Plaza collapse

      The Rana Plaza collapse (also referred to as the Savar building collapse or the collapse of Rana Plaza) occurred on 24 April 2013, when the eight-storey “Rana Plaza” commercial building collapsed due to a structural failure. The rescue team’s search ended on 13 May 2013, with a confirmed death toll of 1,134. Approximately 2,500 injured people were rescued from the building. It is considered as one of the deadliest structural failures in modern human history, as well as the deadliest garment-factory disaster in history, and the deadliest industrial accident in the history of Bangladesh. Amnesty International called this “The most shocking recent example of business-related human rights abuse.”

      Matty wrote this.

      Different Places Have Different Safety Rules and That’s OK

      April 24, 2013

      Then Matty followed up with a non-apology apology.

      Some further thoughts on Bangladesh.

      April 26, 2013

      It seems like the entire Internet has registered its objections to this piece I wrote on the Bangladesh factory disaster. And I have to say that my overwhelming personal response, as a writer and as a human being, is to be annoyed by the responses that I’m getting.