Flutterby™! : So

So

2017-12-18 20:50:09.392118+00 by Dan Lyke 5 comments

So, wait, the looters take over the government and we have a train crash? Holy shit, we really are living in an Ayn Rand novel.

[ related topics: Objectivism moron Machinery Trains ]

comments in ascending chronological order (reverse):

#Comment Re: So made: 2017-12-21 18:28:23.018963+00 by: concept14

I suppose Peter Thiel imagines he is John Galt.

#Comment Re: So made: 2017-12-22 23:46:30.570389+00 by: TheSHAD0W

It's been a long while since I've read Atlas Shrugged (though I got the movies, I ought to watch them), but IIRC the railways were free-market until the government took them over. Amtrak's been owned by the government for how long?

#Comment Re: So made: 2017-12-24 00:14:58.716196+00 by: Dan Lyke

The big disaster (the tunnel) was, I think, attributed to government meddling in the railroads, and some sort of public private partnership failure.

#Comment Re: So made: 2017-12-29 16:37:09.19163+00 by: concept14

This got a few likes on Tumblr https://www.nodynasty4.us/post...ers-take-over-the-government-and

#Comment Re: So made: 2017-12-30 05:52:10.153196+00 by: Dan Lyke

Thanks! I need to up my Tumblr game...

Add your own comment:

(If anyone ever actually uses Webmention/indie-action to post here, please email me)

Format with:

(You should probably use "Text" mode: URLs will be mostly recognized and linked, _underscore quoted_ text is looked up in a glossary, _underscore quoted_ (http://xyz.pdq) becomes a link, without the link in the parenthesis it becomes a <cite> tag. All <cite>ed text will point to the Flutterby knowledge base. Two enters (ie: a blank line) gets you a new paragraph, special treatment for paragraphs that are manually indented or start with "#" (as in "#include" or "#!/usr/bin/perl"), "/* " or ">" (as in a quoted message) or look like lists, or within a paragraph you can use a number of HTML tags:

p, img, br, hr, a, sub, sup, tt, i, b, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, cite, em, strong, code, samp, kbd, pre, blockquote, address, ol, dl, ul, dt, dd, li, dir, menu, table, tr, td, th

Comment policy

We will not edit your comments. However, we may delete your comments, or cause them to be hidden behind another link, if we feel they detract from the conversation. Commercial plugs are fine, if they are relevant to the conversation, and if you don't try to pretend to be a consumer. Annoying endorsements will be deleted if you're lucky, if you're not a whole bunch of people smarter and more articulate than you will ridicule you, and we will leave such ridicule in place.

Flutterby™ is a trademark claimed by

Dan Lyke

for the web publications at www.flutterby.com and www.flutterby.net.