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      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.

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        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.

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      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.

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    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.

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      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

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      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