/lit/ - Literature

>>13407936
Test

>>13407936
>discoverer of the central philosophic essence at the heart of the American love of, and potency at living, life
>a Jew
Are you here to prove /pol/ right? Because that is what you are doing.

>>13407936
Kys

>>13407972
>/pol/
And you care what those reddit infested faggots think because?

>>13408017
>they are reddit infested faggots
>I am here to prove them right

>>13408023
Let me make this clear for you; only philosophical disintegrated louts echoespost.

>>13407936
My favorite objectivist work is the one with bad writing and boring plot. So all of them.

>>13408029
Not an argument.

>>13408049
t. echoesposter

>>13407936
/lit/ likes to abuse Rand but America is pretty based, anyone who crafts a philosophy to both extoll the constitution and point out it's flaws is ok in my book.

>>13407936

>>13407936
What are some comfy /lit/ to read on 4th?

>>13408201
The Wealth of Nations is pretty good.

>>13408037
Rude

>>13408201
Strictures upon the Declaration of Independence

>>13407936
>Alisa Rosenberg
cringe and bluepilled

Foreign Jew whose selfish policies would have been met with contempt by the founders, who considered merchants as seditious clowns

>>13410069
Source: your ass.

>>13408201
What to the Slave is the Fourth of July? by Frederick Douglass

remember when Ayn Rand died while in public housing living off government welfare programs?

>>13410875

>>13410875
Yes the format of these two images is a bit faggy, I know.

>>13410924
>forced to pay
False. At any point she could have renounced her citizenship and moved to a country where those taxes were not in force. By remaining in the United States she actively consented to pay taxes raised by the United States government

>>13410943
That is a statist rationalization. Coercive taxation is force. You are also dropping the context of the freedom America has that no where else on earth does. So she wouldn't even have wanted to.
Partial reclamation of one's taxed income is not hypocrisy. There are sundry, optional, socialist activities thst Rand could have engaged in and THAT would have made her a hypocrite, but she did not.

>>13407936

ayn rand is a massive psyop
US is an experiment
nvm

>>13411013
>Coercive taxation is force. You are also dropping the context of the freedom America has that no where else on earth does.
Nope. You choose to live in a place which charges these taxes, there are plenty of countries in which you don't have to pay them. If this was a Berlin Wall situation where you couldn't leave, you might have a point. But any American is free to leave any time they want.

>>13411032
And lose freedoms so we won't. "Don't like taxes: so leave" is disingenuous as one can take the other option of trying to induce philosophic change in policy. Which is exactly what Rand did.

>>13411023
/pol/ tier post

>>13408201
The Art of the Deal, unironically.

>independence; forth of july
>in dependence for the jew lie

>>13407936
Fuck Ayn Rand. She was retarded and subversive
>just be pure individualist, materialist and objectivist bro

She was addîcted to speed, it made her a bit squirrely...

>>13411969
>waah how come the left is the only one that gets collectivism, we want some too

>>13411969
>materialism
Primacy of Existence doesn't mean materialism dude. She materialism and spiritualism "two sides of the same bissected human".

>this thread
>"((("good ideas")))"
Railing against the tribalism some jews exhibit is fine but gold and even love of gold unironically did nothing wrong. Gold is frozen morality according to objectivism.

>>13407936
Rand is based. fuck trannys

I hate the 4th, and I’ve given up on pretending to enjoy sitting in a lawn chair staring at sparklebooms for an hour. Loud, hot, sweaty, and utterly plebeian.

I’m already a-bed, but the god damned music and incessant popping of fireworks is getting on my nerves.

>>13407936
How do euros react to seeing the odd euro celebrating 'Murica day?

>>13412349
*She said

>>13411241
Until you believe the law doesn't apply to you, you have consented to pay all taxes raised by the government. Doubly so in the case on an emigree like Rand who knew exactly the tax policy of the US before she moved there.
In any case, many countries have far more freedom than the US

>>13413512
>In any case, many countries have far more freedom than the US
Not overall they don't even today. Hong Kong and Switzerland approach it but have pitfalls of their own.

>>13413530
Don't believe the propaganda. America is about average for the west, not a standout. And in the 50s there were multiple states with no taxation policies at all

>>13407936
you desecrated an image of the American flag with Ayn Rand's face.

Not a very good writer desu, but a pretty good propagandist, and basically correct

>>13413581
Awful propagandist. She convinces nobody who isn't already on her side, good propaganda convinces people who previously disagreed

>>13413595
I'm sure she's convinced plenty of people. She won't convince anyone very sophisticated, but lots of impressionable young men read her.