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>This is the horror which Robin Hood immortalized as an ideal of righteousness. It is said that he fought against the looting rulers and returned the loot to those who had been robbed, but that is not the meaning of the legend which has survived. He is remembered, not as a champion of property, but as a champion of need, not as a defender of the robbed, but as a provider of the poor. He is held to be the first man who assumed a halo of virtue by practicing charity with wealth which he did not own, by giving away goods which he had not produced, by making others pay for the luxury of his pity. He is the man who became the symbol of the idea that need, not achievement, is the source of rights, that we don’t have to produce, only to want, that the earned does not belong to us, but the unearned does. He became a justification for every mediocrity who, unable to make his own living, has demanded the power to dispose of the property of his betters, by proclaiming his willingness to devote his life to his inferiors at the price of robbing his superiors.
This is a fucking psychotic worldview. It is absolutely demented and sociopathic in every way.

>> No.18435669

Objectivists are pro-war. That's more than enough to write them off by itself.

>> No.18435693

>>18435640
>champion of property
spooked

>> No.18435739

Bootlicking: The Philosophy.

>> No.18435741

>>18435640
>This is a fucking psychotic worldview. It is absolutely demented and sociopathic in every way.
No it isn't. Robin Hood is a thief. Supporting him is psychotic and anti-Christian.

>> No.18435800

Ayn Rand is a fucking retard. This book is ridiculous, Harry Potter for adults.

>> No.18435834

>>18435640
It’s written by a Jew.

>> No.18435844

>>18435741
>Supporting him is psychotic and anti-Christian.
Robin Hood was a partisan for Richard the Lionheart, considered by patriotic Englishmen the rightful king of England and the sword of God for his actions in the Crusades.

>> No.18435909

>>18435741
Christianity is psychotic and anti-human.

>> No.18435929

>>18435640
Rand is cringe but she is right on this one, charity is a scam and there is nothing righteous or moral about stealing from someone to give to another.

>> No.18437414

>>18435640
don't see anything incorrect in that quote

>> No.18437603

>>18435741
spotted the autist

>> No.18437614

>>18435909

90% of the good things on Earth stem from Christian civilization. Including your right to voice doubt.

>> No.18437615

>literally "stealing is bad"

LOCK EM UP AND THROW AWAY THE KEYS BOYS

>> No.18438033

>>18435640
Whats this? A coherent worldview?
Cant have that. Stealing is ok if the goodies do it.

>> No.18438477

>>18437614
No, that idea originated with the Greeks.

>> No.18438960

>>18435929
It's not theft to distribute stolen wealth back to the workers that produce it

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18439231

>taxing the rich to give to the poor bad
>taxing the poor to give to the rich good

Bow down to your superior anons, you wouldn't deserve his table scraps if you were starving to death

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18439390

>>18435669
>war bad

>> No.18439539

>>18435640
>This is a fucking psychotic worldview. It is absolutely demented and sociopathic in every way.
>>18435669
>Objectivists are pro-war. That's more than enough to write them off by itself.

>muh soiboi emotions!
You guys don't even give an argument.

>> No.18439998

>>18438477
the same greeks that sentenced Socrates to death for his teachings?

>> No.18440353

>>18435669
Rand was extremely anti-war just like the rest of the Old Right. Her intellectual descendants are bloodthirsty nutcases though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoAWCwm-UXw

>> No.18440361

>>18439231
What in the fuck are you talking about, bud?

>> No.18440679

>>18440361
The rich in the context of Robin Hood aren't exactly Galt's Gulch entrepreneur ubermensch, just random nobles who get money by coercive taxation.
The image is of the mentally retarded incest-baby king of Spain to emphasize that feudalism isn't a meritocracy.

I understand that Rand is raging against the idea of Robin Hood rather than a "reality" but it's telling she is sides with the aristocrat getting his purse stolen and not the peasant who is literally getting fleeced for his daily bread.

>> No.18441124

>>18438960
Does it hurt to be this stupid?

>> No.18441400

>>18440679
If you reread the text, she is railing against the misinterpretation of the Robin hood as rich against poor, instead of what it should be as the taxed against the tax man

>> No.18441605

NOOOOOOOO NOT THE HECKIN NOBLERINOS WHO EARNED ALL THEIR WEALTH AND CERTAINLY DIDNT LIVE ON THE SHOULDERS OF SERFS!! THOSE FIEFS ARE THEIRS BECAUSE…. LOOK, THEY JUST ARE, OKAY??!!

>> No.18441930

>>18441605
Not what she said, reread the text

>> No.18441942

>>18441400
Just rename tax to rent and there's no problem

>> No.18442116

>>18441942
No one will put you in jail for not renting

>> No.18442149

this is why everyone hates libertarians as much as commies. even has the same kind of revisionist history writing too.

>> No.18442181

>>18441605
literally the sheriff and the usurper did nothing wrong according to her. or are they really so wood-eyed that cannot see the irony of such statements?

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18442201

>>18439390
>war good

>> No.18442224

>>18442116
Try loitering for to long

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18442240

>>18435640
I like rothbard better. rand is a bit too crazy sometimes.

>> No.18442260

>>18441400
Yeah my bad I didn't read the first sentence closely enough

>> No.18442282

>>18442224
But you admit that you could just camp in the woods and you wouldn't get arrested

>> No.18442345

>>18435640
>This is a fucking psychotic worldview. It is absolutely demented and sociopathic in every way.
No, you're unironically just a loser.

>> No.18442562

>>18435669
That's so obviously false I'm just gunna assume you're trolling.

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18442597

>>18440353
>Rand was extremely anti-war
R*ghtards don't consider wiping out an entire continent to be a "war"

>> No.18442606

>>18442597
that's just might is right

and yeah, conquering the weak is not war, subhuman

>> No.18442670

>>18435640
Rand spent her old age on welfare. Btfo'd herself and doesn't need to get taken seriously.

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18442689

>>18442606
>conquering the weak is not war
So that's why the Vietnam War is considered a war

>> No.18442708

>>18439998
Yes

>> No.18442950

>>18442689
wut? DId you think you were making a salient point here?

What kind of moron compares natives to Vietnamese guerilla fighters?

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18443013

>>18435669
>I'm for freedom, democracy and capitalism, but I'm completely for the world being ruled by commies
Silence lolbercuck. America engaging in the cold war and its proxies was a good thing.

>> No.18444424

>>18435640
The only reason to take Objectivism seriously is to learn the differences between ideology and worldview. Randianism is an ideology.

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18445775

>>18442597
>Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum
>5 foot tall
very easy to rape
Hopefully she will take it with love because might makes right

>> No.18445837

>>18442282
woods where lol

>> No.18446105

>>18435640
robinhood did nothing wrong

>> No.18446397

>>18435640
>This is a fucking psychotic worldview. It is absolutely demented and sociopathic in every way.
Well. She's jewish after all.

>> No.18446405

>>18442282
>just homestead in a park bro

>> No.18446520

>>18438033
That is literally the position endorsed by the book. There's a guy there who says he is stealing from the undeserving to give to the deserving.

>> No.18446523

>>18442282
not if the woods have been claimed by an organization. Maybe it calls itself 'state' because of the way it has been structured.

>> No.18446529

>>18442597
This is the fucking "coherent worldview" woman

>> No.18446574

>>18435669
You can make an objectivist argument against war stating that it is a form of welfare parasitism as the machine consumes but does not produce

>> No.18446606

>>18442597
the existence of the standing army was morally wrong because it didn't produce anything but taking the land from them to use it to produce was perfectly acceptabe

>> No.18446621

Rand is a poor man's Nietzsche. She had no kids nor liked them, and it shows in Atlas Shrugged. There is no place for multi-generational altruism for the Randian Superman; the rational man who pursues his self-interests at all costs. There is also no place for society's losers in her ideology, those who lack the will to free themselves from "collectivism". And even justifies the murder of one such sheep in her very book.

>> No.18446659

>>18442670
taking welfare isn't wrong. demanding people receive welfare is wrong