Rey Erso
julfAnd this is from the Cato Institute - Co-founded by Charles Koch and with strong links to the Ayn Rand Institute - and not some "liberal woke propaganda".
GJ Groothedde 🇪🇺@julf If Adolf Hitler was a leftie, so was Ayn Rand.
Mark Gardner
Marius@mjg @cstross "The relationship between Cato and the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) improved with the nomination of Cato's new president John A. Allison IV in 2012. He is a former ARI board member and is reported to be an "ardent devotee" of Rand who has promoted reading her books to colleges nationwide."
@julf @cstross Allison was an #AynRand fan, sure — he would give out copies of “Atlas Shrugged” to employees, even. But just because he jumped to #Cato doesn’t make Cato “linked” to ARI.
ARI's mission is to advocate Rand’s full philosophy of #Objectivism as a whole system, not just politics. Rand herself blasted #libertarianism for reducing her ideas.
Allison’s stint at Cato reflects the same mistake that libertarians make in using Rand to justify their politics. It has nothing to do with ARI.
Riley S. Faelan@julf Er, are you sure it's "Ayn Rand Institute", in reference to a certain Russian immigrant, and not the RAND Corporation, an early research arm of the US military?
@riley "The relationship between Cato and the Ayn Rand Institute (ARI) improved with the nomination of Cato's new president John A. Allison IV in 2012. He is a former ARI board member and is reported to be an "ardent devotee" of Rand who has promoted reading her books to colleges nationwide."
Nacho
Karen E. Lund 💙💛@julf I disagree with the choice of a donut/pie chart to display the data. In this case the motivation for political violence does not need to be only one cause. A politically motivated murderer could be motivated by right-wing ideology, religious belief (not necessarily Islamist; there are plenty of Christian terrorists), and other factors such as race. The total of all motivations could be more than 100% of ideologically motivated murders.