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PenFM: Fall back in love with writing via your terrible friends

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Re: PenFM: Fall back in love with writing via your terrible friends

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The logical convolutions you have to go through to make Ayn Rand into Hitler are absurd. Marxism has easily killed ten times that number, many by accident, many intentionally, yet few hold Marx personally responsible or would find his face a repugnant symbol of death. You're allowing your opinion of an ideology to turn it into nazism, but in so doing you must overlook what makes nazism unique: that it does indeed adv…

>yet few hold Marx personally responsible or would find his face a repugnant symbol of death. You obviously don't live in America! By the way, telling someone to "calm down" makes you a douchebag. And strawmen don't help either. And let's not kid ourselves: she's in the image because someone in that company is an Ayn Rand fan. There is no shortage of Randists among tech people. Quite a bit fewer among literary types…

Yes, clearly it's a conspiracy to promulgate Objectivism, and not a simple collection of four author's faces. The world must be so interesting to you.

Re: PenFM: Fall back in love with writing via your terrible friends

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>yet few hold Marx personally responsible or would find his face a repugnant symbol of death. You obviously don't live in America! By the way, telling someone to "calm down" makes you a douchebag. And strawmen don't help either. And let's not kid ourselves: she's in the image because someone in that company is an Ayn Rand fan. There is no shortage of Randists among tech people. Quite a bit fewer among literary types…

Yes, clearly it's a conspiracy to promulgate Objectivism, and not a simple collection of four author's faces. The world must be so interesting to you.

Newsflash: Individuals who create stuff put their favorite things in the stuff they create.

It says a lot about your intelligence that you immediately jump to a worldwide conspiracy theory from a single instance of a single individual putting his personal favorite author in a logo for a writing website.

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