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self.agency • 24 days ago

45 years ago , when my mom was pregnant with me, she was at a taping of donahue when ayn rand was his guest. during audience q&a my mom said something that pissed rand off so much she went off on my mom and threatened to leave the studio during commercial break. youtu.be/WqpwTAzdPUI?...

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notaspiring2bhmbl.bsky.social•24 days ago

Iconic behavior from your mother.

fishladyabs.bsky.social•23 days ago

I love the way she finally gets a chance to explain what she means and she opens with “It’s basic” XD

Ayn Rand, Basic Bitch since 1957.

notaspiring2bhmbl.bsky.social•23 days ago

She was absolute trash. I used to work for Penguin Books and of all the free books I was offered, hers were the only ones I declined.

fishladyabs.bsky.social•23 days ago

The only reason I’ve ever been tempted to read Ayn Rand is to better understand the villain of Bioshock, but there are so many other examples of godawful capitalist simps and I barely find time to read *good* books as it is.

notaspiring2bhmbl.bsky.social•23 days ago

Life is too short for bad books 🤗

shiftercat.bsky.social•23 days ago

I recall a comment from a college professor who was forced to teach Atlas Shrugged. He assigned his students Bioshock.

fishladyabs.bsky.social•22 days ago

LOL I love it!
Also the Bioshock Infinite DLC I hope, because they really take the time to show you what kind of self-important douchebags were attracted by the prospect of Rapture, from the ground up.

nyccittamia.bsky.social•24 days ago

This is incredible!!

larastheme81.bsky.social•24 days ago

This was amazing! Thank you for sharing! 😃

annia.bsky.social•23 days ago

I normally can't stand The Daily, the New York Times podcast, but Michael Barbaro did an episode on Phil Donahue and iirc this incident with your mom was a big part of it and it was absolutely wonderful

annia.bsky.social•23 days ago

your mom rules

nellyalouatta.bsky.social•24 days ago

Isn't she pleasant 🙃 I think her statement about the inability of money to buy power is being disproven.

lemonhead.bsky.social•23 days ago

A mere ten years later, I wrote a paper entitled ‘Ayn Rand: She’s an Egg-Suckin’ Dog’ for a philosophy final

shiftercat.bsky.social•23 days ago

Your mother was more tolerant of Phil Donahue than I would have been. If someone had repeated that line about the "invisible hand" to me, I'd have snapped, "An invisible hand sprinkling libertarian magic dust?"

iamalive.bsky.social•24 days ago

Wow, just wow. I knew she was an a**h*** but this is pure supremacy thinking. Taking offense on something as trivial as saying "am more educated now" and being a bitch about it. Thanks for sharing this gem!

pluckyduckling.bsky.social•24 days ago

wow... just wow... This is so cool that it's documented.

unbusted67.bsky.social•24 days ago

This is great. Remember when dialogue was a thing? Imagine if this was a Facebook thread?

duncanpoundcake.bsky.social•24 days ago

"I'm more educated" 👍🏻

florisartist.bsky.social•24 days ago

Ayn Rand calling the Arabs savages? And the sense of self importance? All clocks up now.

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