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A place to share screenshots of Microblog posts, whether from Mastodon, tumblr, ~~Twitter~~ X, KBin, Threads or elsewhere.

Created as an evolution of White People Twitter and other tweet-capture subreddits.

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But I hear it's terrific. (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Atlas Shrugged is the conservative wet dream of "what if the rich people that totally do all the work and hold everything together got tired of the poors being so whiny and ungrateful and stopped." It's an-cap fan fiction.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

you missed out the part where they go to live inside a holographic volcano and pay each other with gold - which of course is useless inside a volcano but the book glosses over that

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Ayn Rand wrote robber baron fan fiction

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

And then died living off social security and Medicare.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Like a true hypocrite

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

S'what I said

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

"Robber baron" needs a resurgence for modern times