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Devotees of Ayn Rand now putting her ideas into practice. Looking at you Ryan. (Original Post)
kairos12
May 2017
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dalton99a
(81,444 posts)1. The ever self-reliant Ryan has been living off government checks all his life
kairos12
(12,852 posts)2. Hypocrisy is not part of the Reich Wing's lexicon.
brush
(53,764 posts)3. He's a no conscience bastard. Social security chks all thru high school and college then ...
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[t continued in politics and in office on government checks.
And he's been fantasizing on ending medicaid since college so others couldn't have access to the safety net he had all his life.
There are just no words to describe that kind of selfishness.
meow2u3
(24,761 posts)4. That's Ayn Rand's evil philosophy in a nutshell
They deny to others the same benefits they enjoyed--and then laugh in their faces while they blame you for the misery they caused.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)5. Hypocrisy is part of the philosophy
She actually argued that it was okay to take a government check as long as you didn't believe in it. 🤤