Reminder: The Koch Brother Who Isn't Dead Is Still An Asshole

[Cristiano]

Charles Koch Network Pushed $1 Billion Cut to CDC, Now Attacks Shelter-in-Place Policies for Harming Business

Americans for Prosperity, a pro-corporate group, wants employees to return to work despite desperate pleas from public health officials to the contrary.

theintercept.com

 

[Free]

Charles Koch Network Pushed $1 Billion Cut to CDC, Now Attacks Shelter-in-Place Policies for Harming Business

Americans for Prosperity, a pro-corporate group, wants employees to return to work despite desperate pleas from public health officials to the contrary.

theintercept.com

 

[Isabeau]

I had forgotten the other krotch had died. I am happy all over again.

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

we were supposed to become more conservative with age

 

[Kamilah Hauptmann]

oh hell. spam post ahoy.



all y'all, with

 

[Free]

we were supposed to become more conservative with age

Imagine what sort of libertardians the Koch bros were at 12. WOW!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Imagine what sort of libertardians the Koch bros were at 12. WOW!

This, from a review of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan, a recent biography and critical study of the works of Ayn Rand, might suggest an answer:

Duggan convincingly shows that Rand’s enduring influence comes from the emotional wallop of her fiction—from her ability to capture the sheer exhilaration of personal defiance, human independence, and freedom from chains of all kinds. With her novels, Rand identified, touched, and legitimated the psychological roots of a prominent strand in right-wing thought. A skeptic about Roark’s ambitious plans poses this question to him: “My dear fellow, who will let you?” Roark’s answer: “That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”

That exchange captures the attitude of many people who want to do away with social programs like the Affordable Care Act, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Clean Air Act, even the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Call it Who-Will-Stop-Me Capitalism. It has special resonance among adolescent boys, but its appeal is much broader than that. The problem is that those who need to lionize men with “a contemptuous mouth, shut tight, the mouth of an executioner or a saint” tend to be terrified of something. Altruism really is okay. Redistribution to those who need help is hardly a violation of human rights.

The Siren of Selfishness | by Cass R. Sunstein | The New York Review of Books

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan University of California Press, 116 pp., $85.00; $18.95 (paper) Ayn Rand; drawing by John Cuneo As a teenager, I fell for Ayn Rand. More pre...

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[Katheryne Helendale]

Charles Koch Network Pushed $1 Billion Cut to CDC, Now Attacks Shelter-in-Place Policies for Harming Business

Americans for Prosperity, a pro-corporate group, wants employees to return to work despite desperate pleas from public health officials to the contrary.

theintercept.com

I'm starting to run out of cacti.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Even if Trump wanted to reopen the economy, it's not clear he could | Nick Obradovich and Renee C Wurth

Even if we thought it was acceptable to risk millions of deaths by ending physical distancing, it’s not clear the economy would rebound

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

This, from a review of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan, a recent biography and critical study of the works of Ayn Rand, might suggest an answer:

The Siren of Selfishness | by Cass R. Sunstein | The New York Review of Books

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan University of California Press, 116 pp., $85.00; $18.95 (paper) Ayn Rand; drawing by John Cuneo As a teenager, I fell for Ayn Rand. More pre...

www.evernote.com

I said imagine it. I don't want to read about it. Ewww!

 

[Innula Zenovka]

Did a New York Times article inspire Trump's 'back to work' plan?

A New York Times piece by a diet specialist appears to have informed Trump’s idea to open up the country by Easter

www.theguardian.com

 

[Free]

Did a New York Times article inspire Trump's 'back to work' plan?

A New York Times piece by a diet specialist appears to have informed Trump’s idea to open up the country by Easter

www.theguardian.com

If true, I don't know whether to laugh or to start punching the walls.

 

[Brenda Archer]

This, from a review of Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan, a recent biography and critical study of the works of Ayn Rand, might suggest an answer:

The Siren of Selfishness | by Cass R. Sunstein | The New York Review of Books

Mean Girl: Ayn Rand and the Culture of Greed by Lisa Duggan University of California Press, 116 pp., $85.00; $18.95 (paper) Ayn Rand; drawing by John Cuneo As a teenager, I fell for Ayn Rand. More pre...

www.evernote.com

That was good. I haven’t taken the time to read any of her books, but the ideas are everywhere.

People who used to be Rand fans, and now aren’t, can sound a lot like people who were in cults and then got out. The “what was I thinking” reaction seems to be pretty common.

Healthy, average people have empathy and have been getting told they’re not supposed to, which is not how most people actually work. I think the pushback against narcissism going on now is a good thing. I hope it lasts past this crisis, because there will be others.

 

[Free]

I miss the Ayniac threads from SLU.

 

[Innula Zenovka]

If true, I don't know whether to laugh or to start punching the walls.

 

[Brenda Archer]

Did a New York Times article inspire Trump's 'back to work' plan?

A New York Times piece by a diet specialist appears to have informed Trump’s idea to open up the country by Easter

www.theguardian.com

He’d rather listen to stuff like this than
*Dr. Fauci*
And every epidemiology department in the country

*mind boggles*

 

[Brenda Archer]

I miss the Ayniac threads from SLU.

My bad, but I don’t remember them (I do remember plenty of right wing types who thought they were uniquely convincing).