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Hey, thanks for this link and sorry it got you downvoted by losers who can't take a rant like a man :p This was probably the best response of all because it pr

by qb45 9y ago

Hey, thanks for this link and sorry it got you downvoted by losers who can't take a rant like a man :p This was probably the best response of all because it provides a plausible explanation why this started only recently. I mean, I swear I have never seen Rand mentioned on HN by anyone in any way until lots of people suddenly started making fun of her few weeks ago.

DanBC 9y ago
> I mean, I swear I have never seen Rand mentioned on HN by anyone in any way until people suddenly started making fun of her few weeks ago. No, a group of people have been posting about Rand for years. Here's a thread from 8 years ago people on both sides of the like/dislike divide. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=427292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=427292 Here's a post with over 40 points that's just a quote from Atlas Shrugged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5860250#5860696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5860250#5860696
- qb45 9y ago
  But I haven't seen these posts before so your argument is obviously invalid :p I'm not saying that it never happened but that it wasn't the case that she was mentioned in every other flamewar about politics. From hn.algolia.com, excerpts from all "Ayn Rand" posts in the last 10 days, except replies to these posts: Was there ever a honest belief by anyone (except the Ayn Rand fanboys) this could work? Yeah, that would be great in the Ayn Rand's fantasy land I had a coworker who was a hardcore Ayn Rand type who had a real harsh point of view like this, until his infant was born with a congenital heart defect that resulted in hospitalization for 3-4 months. [this one actually isn't dumb] HN is nothing but startup bros, armchair economists, and card-carrying Ayn Rand fan club members. For an entire generation community-oriented principles, egalitarianism, collectivist ideas, and far-left leaders were demonized as Soviet sympathizers, replaced with rah rah unregulated capitalism, Ayn Rand-ian individualist, and military might. [tl;dr, might be reasonable] Nobody cares about your Ayn Rand pablum anymore. Argue on morals that have any grounding at all in the real world.
  - DanBC 9y ago
    They do all sound harsh!
    - qb45 9y ago
      I don't even care about harsh, fwiw I've barely suffered through maybe some 40% of The Fountainhead when I tried. What caught my attention was that most of these posts look like mindlessly repeated viral meme. Not that it's anything particularly unusual of course, but boring.

by qb45 9y ago

DanBC 9y ago

> I mean, I swear I have never seen Rand mentioned on HN by anyone in any way until people suddenly started making fun of her few weeks ago. No, a group of people have been posting about Rand for years. Here's a thread from 8 years ago people on both sides of the like/dislike divide. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=427292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=427292 Here's a post with over 40 points that's just a quote from Atlas Shrugged: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5860250#5860696 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5860250#5860696

qb45 9y ago
But I haven't seen these posts before so your argument is obviously invalid :p I'm not saying that it never happened but that it wasn't the case that she was mentioned in every other flamewar about politics. From hn.algolia.com, excerpts from all "Ayn Rand" posts in the last 10 days, except replies to these posts: Was there ever a honest belief by anyone (except the Ayn Rand fanboys) this could work? Yeah, that would be great in the Ayn Rand's fantasy land I had a coworker who was a hardcore Ayn Rand type who had a real harsh point of view like this, until his infant was born with a congenital heart defect that resulted in hospitalization for 3-4 months. [this one actually isn't dumb] HN is nothing but startup bros, armchair economists, and card-carrying Ayn Rand fan club members. For an entire generation community-oriented principles, egalitarianism, collectivist ideas, and far-left leaders were demonized as Soviet sympathizers, replaced with rah rah unregulated capitalism, Ayn Rand-ian individualist, and military might. [tl;dr, might be reasonable] Nobody cares about your Ayn Rand pablum anymore. Argue on morals that have any grounding at all in the real world.
- DanBC 9y ago
  They do all sound harsh!
  - qb45 9y ago
    I don't even care about harsh, fwiw I've barely suffered through maybe some 40% of The Fountainhead when I tried. What caught my attention was that most of these posts look like mindlessly repeated viral meme. Not that it's anything particularly unusual of course, but boring.