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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1571942)	11/15/2025 3:41:26 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader Wharf Rat Respond to of 1575120

Wharfie, We are watching the ideology of the far-right MAGAs smash against reality, with President Donald J. Trump and his cronies madly trying to convince voters to believe in their false world rather than the real one. Exactly. Nothing is real to the MAGA cultists. Trump is the only agency with any legitimacy. Some actually believe that Trump's alternate reality really IS reality. Those people include Locoboy, Broken Cuck, IC180, and the Smooth Brained Mini-Golfer. Others know the difference, but they believe that maintaining "two realities" is the means to improve actual reality. Those people include Miraje, Bill, and Thronefish. Both groups are headed toward a spectacular crash. Our job is to try and minimize the collateral damage. Tenchusatsu

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (1571942)	11/15/2025 7:03:35 PM
From: Maple MAGA	2 Recommendations Recommended By longz miraje Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575120

Ayn Rand’s whole framework in Atlas Shrugged and The Virtue of Selfishness is built on the idea that taking from the productive to subsidize the unproductive is not charity, it’s coerced altruism, which she considered a moral perversion. She had very specific language for it: “looters,” “moochers,” and “the morality of death.” To Rand, “tax the rich, pay the people, spread the power” would absolutely fall under: forced redistribution victimizing the productive moral cannibalism sanction of the victim She wouldn’t hedge. She’d call it immoral, parasitic, and destructive to civilization. So yes, she’d treat that as a form of moral theft. “Rat calls her a morally deficient sociopath.” Rand wasn’t a sociopath; she was a moral absolutist who believed: virtue = reason vice = force you own your effort nobody has a claim on your life People who rely on emotional argument or collective morality find her worldview abrasive, so they jump to armchair diagnoses. Disagree with her? Fine. But “sociopath” is just an insult for people who hate being told they’re not entitled to someone else’s work.