Even Ayn Rand would have pegged Trump as a taker, someone who invented or created nothing, but (literally) put his name on others’ works. Randians, not so much, but she’d have thought most of them were takers, too. - ThreadSky

kurtbusiek.bsky.social • 6 days ago

Even Ayn Rand would have pegged Trump as a taker, someone who invented or created nothing, but (literally) put his name on others’ works.

Randians, not so much, but she’d have thought most of them were takers, too.

Reposted from 🏳️‍⚧️ Josephine Riesman ("Feuchtwanger Was Right")

Oh my god, a gallery is selling a letter that Spider-Man co-creator Steve Ditko wrote to a fan late in life, in which Ditko REALLY fuckin' rips into Donald Trump

The guy may have been a fan of Ayn Rand, but he had his limits!

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kellytindall.bsky.social•6 days ago

Ditko was a New Yorker, which would have made him almost automatically sick of Trump's lifelong graft and corruption.

kurtbusiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

I was a New Yorker from 1982-90, and that sure worked for me.

kurtbusiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

He could practically be a character in one of the novels. “Tremendous, Roark! It’ll dominate the skyline — with my name atop it in gold!”

“Your name?”

kurtbusiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

Steve Ditko already had more than enough of big talkers who took credit for things they didn’t do and then stiffed the workers.

jameslp.bsky.social•6 days ago

Excelsior?

bate.bsky.social•5 days ago

THE MAN

dottiedino.bsky.social•5 days ago

she’d use his equivalent to suggest charities are literally just theft machines and then during the big trial he’d be forced on accident by the prosecutor to show his actual records

pkbrooks.bsky.social•5 days ago

And somewhere in an X-rated AI art generator on the seedier part of the internet, a photo of Ayn Rand pegging Trump was generated.

aavedonpaulakroy.bsky.social•5 days ago

@dangvozden.bsky.social

dangvozden.bsky.social•5 days ago

Wish it was still for sale (I also wouldn’t be able to afford it, I imagine).

mccabeagent.bsky.social•6 days ago

This applies to Musk too

kurtbusiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

Pretty schematically, yes.

missedith.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yeah like, all the people in politics and business and so on who cite that book -
What do they think their roles would be, in Galt’s Gulch? They grab onto the bits about how it’s the worst possible moral failure to care about others and completely miss that they are in the book! Not at the Gulch but

kurtbusiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

Galt’s Gulch is bafflingly stupid anyway — who’s going to grow the food? Dig the sewers? Mine the ore? — but even as a fantasy, they wouldn’t get in.

missedith.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s been 33 years since I read it but I thought it did discuss (unrealistically, ridiculously, and very vaguely) that people who dig the sewers are useful and incorporated into the town but - so so vague and actually impossible haha but at least she knew ppl need toilets?

kurtbusiek.bsky.social•6 days ago

It’s been over 40 years for me, but I didn’t get that from it. It seemed like it was going to be a paradise of all generals, no privates.

missedith.bsky.social•6 days ago

Oh for sure. I think there was some sort of oh yeah, we love these salt of the earth types they are not takers let’s just say they are here and part of us but like, they don’t get to go to Galts fucking Opera House with the Extra Specials? We have def thought about this for longer than Rand Paul lol

missedith.bsky.social•6 days ago

Whereas these guys, if it even occurs to them that things need doing, wld feel entitled to enslave sanitation workers or some shit. As bad as she is, the weird guys who fantasize about this kind of shit put zero thought into any of it beyond I Matter and Others Do Not Let’s Starve Some Kids!

missedith.bsky.social•6 days ago

Not defending Rand in any way whatsoever but I have read Atlas Shrugged and to be one of this handful of worthwhile people you have to (ironically lol) form a community with others with complimentary skills etc. Like the titans of the railroad or metal inventors and the plumbers and workers and-

missedith.bsky.social•6 days ago

Iirc, some opera singers or something but - your Rand Pauls and Paul Ryans or Gaetz’s and yes, a Musk, an Ackerman - Ayn Rand is especially vicious about those types. She writes about them like she does her fictional factory communists and so on. And they just don’t see that?

missedith.bsky.social•6 days ago

TBF I highly doubt they’ve actually read it it’s become some sort of weird right wing oral tradition probably bc these fucking people smh

jacobtlevy.bsky.social•6 days ago

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/elon-musk-thinks-he-is-an-ayn-rand-hero-nope-one-of-her-villains-silicon-valley-thiel-andreessen

see also

numerius.bsky.social•6 days ago

That’s just Musk. He also names things after ships in The Culture series by Iain M. Banks, while being a perfect villain for it. Quote the namesake Culture: money is a sign of poverty

numerius.bsky.social•6 days ago

He either has the reading comprehension of a potted plant or is really into public humiliation. Or both.

kevinforbesarts.bsky.social•6 days ago

𝓔𝓿𝓮𝓷 𝓐𝔂𝓷 𝓡𝓪𝓷𝓭 𝔀𝓸𝓾𝓵𝓭 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓹𝓮𝓰𝓰𝓮𝓭 𝓣𝓻𝓾𝓶𝓹

You're welcome, America.

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