I would especially like to personally thank, slobama, surlykong, captain scar, RMK, Envoy, Chaotic, Andrewfinlyson, and whoever

Goodbye and good luck.

I've may have forgotten some people, feel free to comment.

Good luck. Don' t die

Farewell, sorry for being an asshole 2 years ago (right?). I wish you the best of luck in your life's endeavors.

Don't worry, i won't delete my account. Due to fears of someone trying to impersonate me (Again) And also don't worry, i won't come back here and troll. That seems f**king childish if you ask me lol. Again, to all my followers, DM and tell me a thing that you really hate about me for some reason.

Farewell T0mmy, looks like we'll need to have to hire one more senator to now replace you to represent the anime stream or another stream...

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Thanks, but i forgot to add you, but i couldn't, because the title characters are minimal.

Yeah that's okay, you probably had other people to thank before me because you probably would have known them for longer

Sorry to see ya go, Tommy. Good luck with whatever you do in life.

*Slautes*

Farewell, kind stranger. I hope you enjoyed your stay at Imgflip! Happy travelling, best of luck out there!

Welp there goes one of the last remaining liberals here. Haha.

Eyyy thanks for the shout-out. Please enjoy this series of memes about how much Ayn Rand sucks. When I was youngerI was unfortunate enough to ingest Atlas Shrugged and for a time there made it my whole personality, before life and college set me straight.

Never go full Ayn Rand. That is my parting advice to you.

Cheers

I agree with her on "screw the government" and there are some good quotes from her that I might repeat in my memes because "haha funny Ayn Rand quote", but her views on society and religion were kinda weird.
She had great potential to become another Solzhenitsyn among Russian emigres, but missed it. Probably my main point of contention with Objectivism is, other than the outright promotion of selfishness, the support for big, multinational corporations. I honestly think that you can't have a free market without ensuring some level of competition, because corporate monopolies are just as disastrous as communist and fascist state monopolies. Also, anarcho-capitalism won't work, ever, as anarchy is not the natural state of man. True anarchy, the absence of any state or authority, is impossible to maintain for a significant amount of time, because someone, whether it be a biker gang or a rival government, will take power and establish a de facto state. Even in "anarchist" societies, the anarchist commune or anarcho-capitalist corporation will be the authority, and thus a state. The solution is not to destroy the state, which will only create another, but to limit the state's power as much as possible (libertarianism). I'm far more of a Ron Paul fan than an Ayn Rand fan. Ayn Rand wasn't completely terrible though. She did have some good points, especially on communism. Also, I had no idea you read Atlas Shrugged, wow.

"I had a hard time with Ayn Rand because I found myself enthusiastically agreeing with the first 90% of every sentence, but getting lost at 'therefore, be a huge asshole to everyone.'"
- Randall Munroe, xkcd

Well said. I disagree with her quote, but anytime someone invokes the concept of “socialism” it’s hard to know what they mean.

Her quote would make sense when discussing *radical* socialists whose objective is to give literally everyone an equal amount of wealth and income. That’s also the same objective as pure communism, and I suppose it wouldn’t particularly matter if it’s achieved by vote or at gunpoint. Though it’s hard to imagine a majority of voters anywhere who would actually vote for that.

Most “socialists” favor — and “socialism” in practice tends to constitute — a toolbox of much more limited measures intended to smooth out the rough edges of capitalism. Things like unemployment benefits, so if you lose your job you aren’t instantly thrown out on the street. Or Social Security and Medicare, which allow seniors to have healthcare and live out their final years with some measure of financial peace. Most countries (but not the United States) have some type of paid family leave policy, so that parents can spend a few months at home with their newborns if they choose to. Public schools can be considered a form of socialism, though it aids the interests of capitalism by producing a supply of workers that can (considering minimal objectives) do math and sit still and follow directions and actually contribute productively. Some public school students learn a lot more than that; others don’t even graduate high school. Regardless, just about every country has made a choice that having kids in publicly-funded schools is a net benefit to society rather than the bad old days of throwing kids into coal mines when they’re 10. (Though this also still happens around the world, legally or illegally.)

These sorts of measures are hardly controversial, and I totally reject equating them with communism. However, Ayn Rand saw it all as mooching despite hypocritically drawing Medicare and Social Security herself.

Anyway. Have fun with this:

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I mean we do have a new Aussie Liberal on this stream who was very close to leaving this stream but is badly needed to end this stream's fascist problems...

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This should be a template

Oh yeah this one should be a template if it isn’t already, no question.

But… not right now. It’s 4:30 in the morning here and while I can’t sleep, I probably should

But I’m coming back for you, baby

I’m coming back for you!