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cthulu2016

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Fri Jan 6, 2012, 01:07 PM Jan 2012

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Ayn Rand

A young man named Raskolnikov decided that he was aboove human rules because he had the audacity and intellect to conceive of a relam beyond human rules.

He was endowed with a gift that was no one else's to own—the gift of being able to hit someone with an ax.

So he hit a nasty old lady (probably a collectivist of some sort) in the head with an ax and took her gold.

He met a young collectivist prostitute named Sophia who tried to convince him to feel bad about himself. He rejected that terrible advice, but did enter into a contract for sexual services in exchange for some of his hard-earned gold.

A police inspector questioned the propriety of Raskolnikov's method of aquiring the gold. Raskolnikov pointed out that possession is nine tenths of the law and that he clearly possessed the gold, and that the parasitic police inspector was merely jealous of Raskolnikov's genius, having not thought of the kill-people-for-their-money idea himself.

Raskolnikov invested the rest of the gold in something very clever and became the richest man in the world.

THE END.

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CRIME AND PUNISHMENT by Ayn Rand (Original Post) cthulu2016 Jan 2012 OP
It confirms my recent discovery that "GOP" actually stand for Idiot Party (with bad spelling). Jemmons Jan 2012 #1
Literary criticisms always appreciated. JackRiddler Jan 2012 #2
Trying trying to keep the tone up! cthulu2016 Jan 2012 #3

Jemmons

(711 posts)
1. It confirms my recent discovery that "GOP" actually stand for Idiot Party (with bad spelling).
Fri Jan 6, 2012, 01:24 PM
Jan 2012

The basic premiss of the GOP "ideology" is that you make it easy as possible to screw poor people and then try to convince them that they should vote for you. Surprisingly it works most of the time. Only in America!

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