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Silent3

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7. I feel sorry for the local hardware stores and workers in Chile who are getting cheated...

Reply to KamaAina (Original post)

Wed Sep 17, 2014, 09:26 AM

Sep 2014

...but I won't shed the smallest tear for any of the investors in this scheme.

Hell, if I ever gave into the urge to be a con artist, the people who fell for this ugly Randian pipe dream would be exactly the kind of people I'd most enjoy swindling, victims of their own selfishness and greed.

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Libertarian ‘Utopia’ Styled After Ayn Rand Book Spectacularly Falls Apart Almost Immediately [View all] KamaAina Sep 2014 OP

Anyone who believes Randian nonsense is an easy mark for a con artist. BillZBubb Sep 2014 #1

Go to the following website and marvel in the comments section rpannier Sep 2014 #3

Found this on the fraud's website rpannier Sep 2014 #2

LOL: They'll build radically new pit latrines! FSogol Sep 2014 #8

Surely nobody could have foreseen etc etc nxylas Sep 2014 #4

No way! ZombieHorde Sep 2014 #5

What's funny is the list of the "Elite" probably includes someone who owns a lumber yard.... Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2014 #6

I feel sorry for the local hardware stores and workers in Chile who are getting cheated... Silent3 Sep 2014 #7

The funny thing there is that Ayn Rand treestar Sep 2014 #9

It would be hard enough to keep a commune of socialists or liberals going. JoeyT Sep 2014 #10