Atlas Shrugged: The Movie

[Archbio]

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They only saw the film version (the phillistines) starring Andy Serkis as the voice for a CGI'd up Zarathutstra and Nick Frost as the Ugliest Man and directed by Spielperg.

It's in english. Of course.

[Fifthfiend]

I think we need to get back to how fantastic it is that they're making a movie set in the modern day about liberals and unions opposing a railroad.

Like if Dagny Taggart was real Joe Biden would literally be kicking her door down carrying giant burlap sacks with dollar signs painted on the front of them and begging her to use American-made steel; the Randian supermen all hate rail because they think creating jobs doesn't CREATE JOBS unless they're building things that murder people.

[Aerozord]

I'm guessing Hitler just latched onto the ubermenchen concept, that germans were inherently this, and thus should lord over all. This being why the political party was called nazi, people then just started assuming there was a deeper connection there, when if fact it was a very shallow one to begin with.

[Osterbaum]

Well if you murder people I guess the jobs of those murdered are now open for other people.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

They went into a bookshop to buy some Nietzsche, the shopkeeper didn't have any but wanted some of their stolen gold so got a copy of "who caused the black plague: the jews!" a famous middle-ages picturebook and wrote Nietzsche on the front.

Also if you murder people you open jobs for gravediggers.

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Archbio

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They only saw the film version (the phillistines) starring Andy Serkis as the voice for a CGI'd up Zarathutstra and Nick Frost as the Ugliest Man and directed by Spielperg.

It's in english. Of course.

I'm legitimately and sincerely on the edge of my seat waiting to find out where you're going with this.

[Archbio]

Originally Posted by Fifth

Randian supermen all hate rail because they think creating jobs doesn't CREATE JOBS unless they're building things that murder people.

Actually isn't CREATING JOBS kind of a necessary evil (for now) for Randian supermen? I mean, to want to create jobs specifically seems to mean not wanting other people to starve to some degree.

That sounds positively evil!

Originally Posted by POS

I'm legitimately and sincerely on the edge of my seat waiting to find out where you're going with this.

Hey, when subtle just doesn't work...

[Fifthfiend]

Originally Posted by Smarty McBarrelpants

Also if you murder people you open jobs for gravediggers.

Don't be ridiculous, we're America. We just mount plows on the front of our tanks.

[Fifthfiend]

Gravediggers are scum anyway. I hear some of them earn as much as thirty thousand dollars a year? With HEALTH INSURANCE? America can't afford to support these good for nothing parasites! Certainly not when hard-working Americans like me are struggling to get by on a paltry $200,000 salary!

[POS Industries]

Originally Posted by Archbio

Actually isn't CREATING JOBS kind of a necessary evil (for now) for Randian supermen? I mean, to want to create jobs specifically seems to mean not wanting other people to starve to some degree.

That sounds positively evil!

To be fair, working to improve other people's lives is acceptable within the Randian ideal, but you can only do it if it's something you want to do because it will increase your own profits in some way, even if it is merely philanthropy for the sake of good press.

But just out of the kindness of your own heart? You might as well be burned at the stake for that shit.