The most astonishing thing about Rand's praise for Hickman's "intelligence" is it was based on nothing, entirely circular The evidence is the biggest thing he did in life was something anyone could see was not only reprehensible but a total dumbass move
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
But she read genius into an impulsive reckless fool's atrocities *because they were atrocities* It was simply the fact of how vile he was that made him "special" He never once demonstrated any ability to do what others could not, only what they would not, which she conflated
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
For almost any normal person, including fans of mafia movies or heist movies or the like, there's nothing to admire about someone like Hickman He wasn't even a *successful* bad guy like a Scarface or an actual serial killer, he wasn't even *smart*
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
It takes a hugely distorted perspective to read "genius" into kidnapping a little girl because her parents trusted you and then killing her and delivering her body to her parents when collecting her ransom - *that they were willing to pay* - because you're just quirky that way
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Huh. This REALLY bothers you doesn’t it. Something tells me 23 year old Ayn Rand would be rather pleased that she has co completely got your goat. But, if you read the passage, she agreed with you, saying she was probably wrongly idealizing him in her, once again, private journal
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"Ho ho ho, I got you, I got you, successfully trolled" Yes It's deeply fucked up and it should bother anyone who hears about it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
The worst thing about that passage is, in fact, Rand's contempt and fury at what, if she were on the Internet today, she'd call "virtue signaling" Her rage at all the people "piling" on to call Hickman a sick twisted fuck That normal people were proud of being normal
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
Look at this shit, this totally nonsensical unhinged rant Yeah, actually, I've done a lot in my life I'm not proud of, but I've never strangled a little girl and cut up her body and delivered it to her parents And yeah, if you had to compare me to him, I AM proud of thatpic.twitter.com/6EgHXLftmS
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
Ayn Rand fuming here about the concept of trial by jury, like a cartoon supervillain "Judged by a jury of my peers? I HAVE no peers" Who am I to judge that Hickman is guilty? JFC I'm someone who didn't murder a child and he's someone who did! Holy fucking shitpic.twitter.com/A7YO213lAh
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Replying to @arthur_affect @financebroseph and
poorly dressed, overdressed, shabbily dressed. ...make up your mind about what's bad ann.
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The men are shabbily dressed and the women are overdressed because the women go spending all the men's money Rand loved misogynistic sneering at "typical" domestic gender roles of the time
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Fat_DTEA and
Like a big part of the point of this passage is just calling the men in the jury box "cucked"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Fat_DTEA and
This thread got me thinking again about my friend who doesn't care for Ayn Rand's philosophy but loves her books for the writing style. Still not sure if that's worse.
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