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0_0 you/yours 1 Samuel 1-18  1mo ago (news.ycombinator.com) 292 thread views #306406

orange site user asks "what book changed your life?" :marseygrilling2: answers "atlas shrugged, so the :soysnooseethe: reveal themselves." hint: the :soysnooseethetyping: reveal themselves and seethe

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432#41766587 

								

								

									
									
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>"The best book I've ever read was Atlas Shrugged in 8th grade. Changed my life."
>Not because I remember anything about it, or believe anything it espouses, or even like it all that much, but because it's a useful filter for obnoxious people in meatspace.
>If someone I don't know too well asks me what my favorite book is, I say Atlas Shrugged. If they react inappropriately, I'll be cordial and treat them with respect, but I don't want to be friends. If they're way too supportive - the same rule applies.
>If they're critical in a way I can appreciate, then I know they can either tolerate ideas they hate or have the social accumen to not go too hard in the paint early on in a relationahip. Really, I'm just looking for people who won't jump down my throat on a faux pas.
>Later on in the relationship I'll tell them my actual favorite book, "A Canticle for Leibowitz", or "Neuromancer", or "The Dying Earth" (my opinion changes based on my mood).
cue seething from failures at shit tests
:marseysoylentgrintyping:
>I think you're dismissing the people such as myself that would note you as an idiot without comment and move on wanting nothing to do with you.
:soysnoo:
>The fact is, some people deserve harsh judgement. Including people who lie to someone and think they are morally superior for doing so
:soyjakanimeglasses:
>I don't want to pass this test. Someone who uses one of our first interactions to test how tolerant I am of Objectivism removing themselves from my life is an ideal outcome.


									
								

							

							

								
									
								
							

							

								
	

							

						

						
						

							

								
							

						

					

					
						

							
							
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lmfao this is p good
cant hate on a fellow neuromancer stan

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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I actually liked Atlas Shrugged despite it being politically a 1000+ page soyjak/gigachad comic, and functionally a reverse harem anime.
Leftists are right in that it's objectively (heh) poorly written. But nobody criticizes it for being Ayn Rand being uncontrollably horny and having a whole harem of chads she liked. Cool Steel mill chad Rearden in a business suit, playboy Francisco Italian chad relaxing in his house in his Pyjamas, Fabio looking pirate had described as being Swedish and Blonde looking. The world ending super chad John Galt. The Ayn Rand self insert Dangery having rough (r*pey) passionate s*x with both Rearden and John Galt, and passionate and close intimate moments with the others.
A good 10% of the book is contrasting the highly sexualized, tall, chads with the short, stout, ugly, fat socialists. Literally :marseygigachad: :!marseysoyhype:
Imagine if a guy wrote a political epic that was to summerize his philosophical worldview, and the self insert author was around a whole litter of different ethnicity beautiful women with massive breasts that just love him and want to impress him, and that's the plot.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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Ayn Rand's real life pretty much involved grooming a harem of men. She is a honorary moid

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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She was pretty girlboss in a lot of ways, and reminds me of Ann Colter.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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"A Canticle for Leibowitz", or "Neuromancer", or "The Dying Earth"
This guy actually has pretty good taste, and a great litmus test for r-slurs.
Also:
to test how tolerant I am of Objectivism
Of course media literacy lover cant understand the point of a simple test/joke.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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Have you read Canticle? It's a favorite amongst the Catholic :marseynerd2: crowd for obvious reasons. Neuromancer is also a classic.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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I have read Canticle, but not Neuromancer, though I do plan on it. Though the main thing was Dying Earth, I'm a big Jack Vance fan.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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That was the only one of the three I hadn't heard of. I'll put it on my list. :marseynotes:

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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If you have read Book of the New Sun, its heavily inspired by Dying Earth. If you haven't read Book of the New Sun, then drop whatever you are reading to read it; New Sun is the best SciFi book ever written.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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:marseynotes: If I'm around on this site for very long I'll report back. Also saved for the list.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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Why does every leftist cuck think objectivism means "being an butthole is the way to go"? I noticed this when the system mastery queers were discussing the orcworld book and  claimed that John Wick launching into a bizarre rant about how cruelty, strength, and treachery were the real virtues  was like Atlas Shrugged. I think objectivism is fundamentally silly, but honesty, avoiding parasitism and stealing from others either through manipulation, cleverness, or force,  thrift, hard work,  and learning are the objectivist virtues. Allowing disasters to occur so you can benefit from them, taking people's money through deception or fraud,  slavery, r*pe, torture, and murder are evil actions under objectivism. It's an ethos system. Not a good one but, unlike a Jihadist, you can safely interact with an objectivist.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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Ayn Rand may have been a hybristrophilic sociopath herself, but I feel like her work and Objectivism find their home with literal neurodivergents. It's a very simplistic worldview and it prevents them from being guilted and manipulated into anything, I understand why tech spergs are drawn to it :marseyautism:
They're a harmless people for the most part.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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It works with the fountainhead too, it's written pretty poorly because :marseyaynrand: learned English as a second language, but most libs hate it because they've been told the ideas in it are bad, even though they are pretty liberal in themselves.

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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I just say Sun and Steel because nobody would know Tsukumodou Kottouten

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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:#marseyhannibal:
Snapshots:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41756432#41766587:

						


						
							

							

								
									
								
							


							

								
	

							


							

								

									

										
										

									


								
						

					
				


				

				
					
	

	
		

			
		


		

			

				
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