Excellent grouping. Personally I liked the smoking and drinking alcohol the best.

Ayn Rand
. She did not see the UN as a neutral or beneficial institution, but as morally irredeemable because it sanctioned and gave “moral cover” to oppressive regimes
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Core Criticisms
1. Moral corruption and complicity with tyranny
Rand argued that the UN’s very membership list made it complicit in evil. She condemned the inclusion of the Soviet Union — which she described as “the worst aggressor and bloodiest butcher in history” — as a “grotesque pretense” of world peace and human rights
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. She also criticized the 1971 UN admission of communist China, replacing the Republic of China, as a betrayal of justice, since the new regime had seized power by force and ruled through terror
Ayn Rand Lexicon
Ayn Rand Lexicon
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2. Inverting the purpose of the UN
According to Rand, the UN was created “for the alleged purpose of preventing wars by uniting the world against any aggressor, but proceeded to unite it against any victim of aggression”
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. She saw it as a tool that had become “a means of using the united might of the world to force the surrender of one helpless country after another into the aggressor’s power”
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3. No moral legitimacy
Rand believed that “an individual should not cooperate with criminals, and… free countries should not cooperate with dictatorships”
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. She held that the UN’s corruption, cynicism, and dishonor left “no margin for error” — it was, in her words, “a monstrosity”
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4. Political and strategic betrayal
She also saw the UN as enabling communist expansion by granting them “civilized respectability” and Western material support, while offering free countries nothing in return
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Rand’s Position on Withdrawal
“I do not sanction the grotesque pretense of an organization… which includes Soviet Russia… as one of its members… I do not believe that an individual should cooperate with criminals, and… free countries should not cooperate with dictatorships”
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.She explicitly endorsed withdrawal from the UN, arguing that free nations should not participate in an institution that, in her view, “irreparably enables evil”
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Ayn Rand’s View of the United Nations - YouTube
Jul 21, 2022 · Contrary to the popular view, Ayn Rand thought that the UN irreparably enables evil, and free countries should withdraw.

Lol, hard to pick just one but the smoker idea yum

Agree entirely, well written.
Old stuff but needs repeating.
What value is the UN to the US?
What value is it to anyone?

Let’s hope that the Democrats are scr….

Agree 100%

Good article! Growing up in the 50s and 60s I understood "melting pot" as a mixing of similar European peoples into an American culture. My neighborhood was such a melting pot as I am Scots-Irish decent and my friends were German, Polish, Italian, English and French. We all had the same "American" goals in life. It worked quite well. Producing, not pillaging, was what we were about.

Aha, the Rolling Stone! That mosquito trap was designed by a congressional oversight committee and only cost a few 40 or 50 million dollar grants to various universities. Who would have thought a common screw would serve so well as a visual aid to political reality? Nicely done, OUC! Thank you!

That Democrat invention could also be licking bait for any less fortunate Democrat with brains degraded badly enough to say men can get pregnant.
After all, me dino has read that always attributed to a Democrat claim more than once.
At least that claim faded from sight when replaced by the Schiff that men should be allowed to play (play? how about outmuscle?) women's sports.
THAT yucky yarn has yet common sense fully fade from sight.

And that's why it's part of the mix . . .

If all goes well, (leaking some level of doubt out of a life time of experience), The People will be in control.

The mosquito trap looks like a Democrat invention… making something more complicated than it needs to be. Kind of like the simplicity of capitalism versus the mess of communism.

Of course I agree with your assessment of these tech company leaders.

However, I have a feeling that's exactly how "Mr. Thompson" and his ilk felt about Dagny Taggart, Hank Reardon, etc.

And it doesn't change my stance against Big Government attempting to exert control over corporations.

But I gave up long ago thinking Trump would ever stop acting Trumpian.

1 troll. GOAT.

Going from spelling champ writing a book in 2012 to How to spell anything? chump in 2026, I get the question.
The excuse I use is: Too many Tabs open.

All for the free market but only for Consciously introspective Human beings which I don't think these so called leaders of industry are in total.
Most, I suspect are Schizophrenic at best with or without a fully functioning conscience.
The temptation is way too great, even for the best of us.
. . . and I won't even get into the adverse affects of a weakening magnetic field upon the human brain never mind a computer brain.

I understand your position, and I definitely did not miss that.

But I'm not interested in playing semantic games.

I will never be a fan of any Agreement signed by the heads of individual corporations and the leader of the U.S. federal government.

Had the leaders of the individual corporations themselves made an Agreement that did not include the leader of the U.S. federal government, then I would have no problem with it.

(But we all know the chances of the current leader of our U.S. federal government passing up the opportunity to sign his own name, big and bold, to such an Agreement, not to mention taking full credit for making it happen.)

All of that being said, I'm actually okay with this Agreement because I believe the leaders of these individual corporations know that (a) it is completely voluntary and toothless, so they can continue to do whatever the heck they want anyway, and (b) perhaps this grand smoke-and-mirrors (in other words, very Trumpian) show will have some kind of calming effect on the popular "AI is going to kill us all, so the government had better do something about it" fearmongering that's been going around, thus allowing these individual corporations to continue developing their AI tools in a wild, unchecked race with each other, with very little regard to long-term safety, privacy, or other concerns.

Ah... The beauty of the Free Market...

p.s. I just noticed that I misspelled John Galt's last name in my last comment, so now I'm questioning just how big of an Ayn Rand fan I actually am...

Excellent article. Thanks for posting. Coincidentally, I just picked up the book "It IS Islam" by Glenn Beck from a used book store. It was published in 2015 and offers a lot of background history to what this article is about.

AH, here is what you missed. It's not governments heavy hand, it's the "Agreement" they agreed to sign that is the heavy hand.
We all know it, We all witnessed it, now they are bound by their own actions and the "LAW" to do no harm.

It's the only way I know to get non humans to act Human , even if their handicap is the temptation of the work itself.
Many scientist experience that temptation to do a thing even though, if they could thought of it, wouldn't do it in the first place . . .(like create a virus?)

great set, thanks .

Had not thought of that change OGC. But it makes sense. The old globalist system is going to go away, they just do not have the power or the monies to keep up, but we have the Sovereign countries that will shortly, or already are, at each other.
We (US) has to win this one.....

We'll have to agree to disagree, OUC.

I've never been a fan of the heavy hand of government.

Which is why I'm a fan of Ayn Rand and a member of Gult's Gulch.

Exactly. Not anything worth celebrating, especially for Ayn Rand fans.

Seems like Atlas Shrugged come to life.

Absolutely.
They pressured us out of CRISPR/Gene Editing.
Meanwhile, their super soldier program is likely running fine.
They are probably messing with thousands of children invitro a year, and following them...
Tracking their intelligence and passiveness...

I have to think on this one. I go along with our neighborhood dino in that the other players need to keep their hands (with sleeves rolled up) on the table where Trump can see them as I don't trust them at all. Russia and China are not as communist as they were under Stalin and Mao, but both are totalitarian in nature and will behave as such if allowed to get away with it.

Kung Fu Fighting, glorious! Love it. Hansen Bros, went out in a text!