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GiqueCee

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22. And I would stand in line...

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #11)

Fri Aug 29, 2025, 09:14 AM

Aug 29

... to bitch-slap Ayn Rand (real name, Alisa Rosenbaum), the black-hearted goddess of pathological selfishness. I met her once, back in '67 or '68, if only for a 2-second dead-fish hand-shake in a reception line after a vile speech I was forced to attend by my frothing-at-the-mouth "Objectivist" employers at the time.
She was a horrible person who screeched her hatred of altruism at every opportunity. She's long dead now, but her poisonous influence lives on in the sick and twisted soul of every Republican that Satan ever defecated.

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