The Oceans Divide: A World Of Laughter, A World Of Tears II

[andry2806]

Holy shit. That sounds like the beginning of another step down the Stairway of Horrible Distopy.

 

[Doctor What]

Oh, this won’t go well...

 

[Workable Goblin]

Ironic. They're so anti-Communist they do...exactly what Communists did!

 

[statichaos]

Ironic. They're so anti-Communist they do...exactly what Communists did.

Yeah, both Rothbard and von Mises made that observation regarding her group. I just decided to take it to the logical extreme (and "The Fountainhead Filibuster: Tales From Objectivist Katanga" was a huge inspiration for this development).

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

Yeah, both Rothbard and von Mises made that observation regarding her group. I just decided to take it to the logical extreme (and "The Fountainhead Filibuster: Tales From Objectivist Katanga" was a huge inspiration for this development).

That is very true-actually makes me wonder what Rothbard is up to ITTL.

 

[GJohn902]

Ayn Rand and Roy Cohn working together.

I look forward to our impending hard-libertarian hyper-capitalist dystopia

 

[stirlingdraka]

Ayn Rand and Roy Cohn working together. This TL keeps getting worse.

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

Ayn Rand and Roy Cohn working together. This TL keeps getting worse.

Yeah I trust Ayn Rand about as far as I can throw her. And I trust Cohn even less.

 

[Xenophonte]

Ayn Rand and Roy Cohn working together.

I look forward to our impending hard-libertarian hyper-capitalist dystopia

Well,I would define more than as an fascist wet dream...

 

[statichaos]

Yeah I trust Ayn Rand about as far as I can throw her. And I trust Cohn even less.

By all accounts, she was a petite woman, so you could probably get some decent distance..

 

[John Spangler]

Ayn Rand and Roy Cohn working together.

I look forward to our impending hard-libertarian hyper-capitalist dystopia

Talk about a match made in hell!

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

By all accounts, she was a petite woman, so you could probably get some decent distance..

Yes but I have low upper body strength. Although I at least can trust how Rand will be like she is, Cohn is just going to be shitty however he pleases.

 

[statichaos]

Yes but I have low upper body strength.

Yeah, but she had to have weighed, what, about ten pounds soaking wet?

 

[Anarcho-Occultist]

Yeah, but she had to have weighed, what, about ten pounds soaking wet?

OK, rephrased: I trust Ayn Rand about as far as I could throw a bookshelf full of copies of Atlas Shrugged.

 

[statichaos]

OK, rephrased: I trust Ayn Rand about as far as I could throw a bookshelf full of copies of Atlas Shrugged.

Fair enough!

 

[Xenophonte]

Also, I'm thinking that as happened in OTL, the 'RED panic', the extreme anti-communism of the kind that believe to see one in anybody that not share their political beliefs or social-economics ideals nor could fit in their own definition of the 'Americanicity'... Would be doing the exact opposite and thus could be creating the fertile grounds the more extreme Soviet inspired/backed movements, that in OTL, never could ever dream to achieving...

 

[Unknown]

This partnership won't end well, methinks...

 

[Shevek23]

I look forward to Ginny Heinlein (not sure she took her husband's name, but people know who I mean) snapping out of her dogmatic propertarianism, Robert reverting to his New Dealer/Ham and Eggs/Navy days, teaming up with any survivors of the OTL New Left and leading a pragmatic social-democratic-antiracist-really libertarian counterrevolution, along Revolt in 2100 lines but less Tom Paine, more class struggle. With Isaac Asimov grumbling about the Army even if it is a revolutionary one but in the trenches, along with Fred Pohl and Ursula LeGuin in an underground insurgent collective out West.

 

[Miss Teri]

I'm guessing this is when the Mental Health Act stuff begins.

Absolutely horrifying.

 

[Medusa]

Roy Cohn and Ayn Rand. This can not end well.