04-13-2026, 01:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-13-2026, 02:17 AM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
we are against stealing - anything stolen may be pursued and recovered"
OK, I’ll play along. Rand’s soc sec checks (and Medicare!) were restitution for taxes she was forced to pay. Let’s agree then that other people who had items of value taken without permission are also entitled to some form of restitution? There’s precedent. Some citizens of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii and on the mainland received a one time payment for their forceful relocation into internment camps, including Kīlauea Military Camp. Many lost homes, businesses, and years of their lives while locked up.
Then there are Native Hawaiians and members of the monarchy. Should they receive restitution for the islands? Should Native Hawaiian descendants get something for work their ancestors performed in the cold adze mines on Mauna Kea?
Native Americans had most of a continent taken from them with broken treaties.
Let’s not even start on Africans captured into slavery and brought to America.
But sure, Ayn Rand is “entitled” to reclaiming her loss. Poor thing. Her first world white woman oppression must have felt like the weight of the world on her shoulders. Something Atlas could really shrug at.
Where do I line up and sign up for a rebate on Hawaii County services I pay for with my taxes but never receive? I once asked a County worker what I receive for my real estate taxes and she rattled off 10 things in an exasperated tone like I was an idiot. I told her I never benefited from any of those services. My point was that her assistance at the moment was all I would get for my $2200 that year. Should I write a book about how life’s unfair but no matter what I’m gonna take as much as I can get my hands on? Maybe call it “Too Bad Suckers I Get Royalties For A Book Against Government Assistance AND A Social Security Check And I’ve Convinced A Fair Number Of People That’s Not Hypocritical.”
Maybe she could have written a book that would explain how others in her very same situation could get their just restitution? Like she did. Or would throwing a bone to the little people be at odds with the Captains of Industry who would most likely be responsible to pay for it, with funds, lands, hours, etc looted from those little people?
OK, I’ll play along. Rand’s soc sec checks (and Medicare!) were restitution for taxes she was forced to pay. Let’s agree then that other people who had items of value taken without permission are also entitled to some form of restitution? There’s precedent. Some citizens of Japanese ancestry in Hawaii and on the mainland received a one time payment for their forceful relocation into internment camps, including Kīlauea Military Camp. Many lost homes, businesses, and years of their lives while locked up.
Then there are Native Hawaiians and members of the monarchy. Should they receive restitution for the islands? Should Native Hawaiian descendants get something for work their ancestors performed in the cold adze mines on Mauna Kea?
Native Americans had most of a continent taken from them with broken treaties.
Let’s not even start on Africans captured into slavery and brought to America.
But sure, Ayn Rand is “entitled” to reclaiming her loss. Poor thing. Her first world white woman oppression must have felt like the weight of the world on her shoulders. Something Atlas could really shrug at.
Where do I line up and sign up for a rebate on Hawaii County services I pay for with my taxes but never receive? I once asked a County worker what I receive for my real estate taxes and she rattled off 10 things in an exasperated tone like I was an idiot. I told her I never benefited from any of those services. My point was that her assistance at the moment was all I would get for my $2200 that year. Should I write a book about how life’s unfair but no matter what I’m gonna take as much as I can get my hands on? Maybe call it “Too Bad Suckers I Get Royalties For A Book Against Government Assistance AND A Social Security Check And I’ve Convinced A Fair Number Of People That’s Not Hypocritical.”
Maybe she could have written a book that would explain how others in her very same situation could get their just restitution? Like she did. Or would throwing a bone to the little people be at odds with the Captains of Industry who would most likely be responsible to pay for it, with funds, lands, hours, etc looted from those little people?