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681 points Anon84 | 1 comments | 07 Dec 25 12:57 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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spankibalt ◴[08 Dec 25 08:06 UTC] No.46189647[source]▶
> "I was a politically motivated person when I was a teenager. Of all the books that radicalized me, it was the Aynd Rand books (Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged) that did."

A heartfelt "Thank you!" to Ken on account of having at least the courtesy of saving cool people's time by putting the Origin Story into the first sentences.

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1. balamatom ◴[08 Dec 25 09:50 UTC] No.46190393[source]▶
If you're so cool and all, do you have a hypothesis as to why in Slavic languages they keep translatin' "Atlas Shrugged" as "Atlas Straightened His Shoulders"?