/lit/ - Literature

>>9632705
...you didn't read the references and citations, did you? You probably went to PubMed rather than a research dB and just read the abstract, not the peer reviewed papers that *it* cites, which includes a catalog of peer- reviewed articles on protein poisoning, aka 'rabbit starvation', in support of their core assumptions.
Right?
Right.
Again, your only point is
>'you are reaching the right conclusions, but I don't like how! You *HAVE TO ADMIT HE WAS POISONED* or else your critiques of how he was ill-prepared, under-equipped, unskilled, untrained, and reckless are *MEANINGLESS*!
which is funny, but now I starting to think you're mental.
If he's had skills or training?
>wouldn't have died
Proper equipment?
>wouldn't have died
Map and compass?
>wouldn't have died
Properly scouted the area?
>wouldn't have died
Meanwhile here you are
>"it was poison; it was poison; it was poison; it was poison; it was poison; it was poison; it was poison; it was poison; it was poison; it was poison; it was poison"
That was already admitted as a possibility that doesn't matter, so now you;re
>no such thing as rabbit starvation; no such thing as rabbit starvation; no such thing as rabbit starvation; no such thing as rabbit starvation; no such thing as rabbit starvation; no such thing as rabbit starvation; no such thing as rabbit starvation
Also irrelevant. Whether you believe it or not, whether it is true or not, the core critique
>Dumbass dies of ignorance and laziness
remains correct *as you admit*
So why do you care?
Oh. Yeah.
Your ego.

>>9299179
>Cuba is better off than almost every other Latin American country.

>>9269037
>Just got back from visiting relatives in Liechtenstein; there is a strong movement to give the Prince even more power that has broad popular support
>Uncle works in Luxembourg
>We went to Monaco for the weekend
>My father makes money contracting with Saudi Arabia and Oman
>You think monarchy is 'universally refuted'

>>9114619
>The book goes into great detail about how these people are entirely self-sufficient
Proving you've never worked on a farm.
Farming is very labor intensive. Even with modern mechanization farming takes a LOT of work.
That mechanization, BTW, requires a lot of support.
The comic is making a very simple, direct point. If you are going to be "self-sufficient" including growing all of your own food be prepared for 6-16 hours of hard labor EVERY FUCKING DAY just for the food part!
Dagny gets to the gulch she hears
>"So and so is mining for gold"
*Incredibly* labor intensive.
>"We all built our own houses"
Who made the tools? Processed the lumber? Made the hinges? Made the fucking *glass windows*?! Who was working the fields for you while you built it by your fucking self?
>Francisco is mining for copper
Really? How long each day *by himself* is he driving a shaft into solid fucking rock in between slopping the hogs and weeding the barley?
Half the fucking strikers in the valley are old men with backgrounds as musicians and college professors, yet we are expected to believe these guys wake up at the crack of dawn and tend to a farm all day and make a go of it? Do you have any idea how many farmers with experience, formal training, and a staff struggle?
We aren't even to the fact that the Gulch is at 8,000' elevation! You're growing hay and a little barley and a yard garden at that altitude, kid, and the short growing season means not a ton of it, either.
That fucking comic points out just how little Ayn Rand knew about the things she was writing of.

>>9040243
>Democrats are Left
>Republicans are Left-Centre
try reading this
>>9040220

>>8921650

>>8526794
>he still managed to predict the present

>>8334349

>Greetings and salutations

FUCK, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING