Privatizing the US national helium reserve. Gonna laugh when in a few years the government of another nation ends up owning it. Helium is dwindling finite resource that key technological infrastructure relies upon.

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[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 years ago (99 children)

You mean Russia has been fascist since Peter the Great till now, with brief interruptions in 1905-1914 and 1991-1993 ?

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 62 points 2 years ago (17 children)

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

—John Rogers

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 years ago (15 children)

Atlas Shrugged and the Capital are mutually interchangeable in that quote.

I don't like the quote also because it implies that the reader would consider LOTR childish, thus accusing the reader of being a complete imbecile.

[–] panopticon@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago

thus accusing the reader of being a complete imbecile.

wonder-who-thats-for

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