Just because Ron Paul doesn't have a chance in hell to become president doesn't mean you can't enjoy his libertarianism in the comfort of your own home! It's this fully-funded Kickstarter game where you play as Ron Paul in a sidescroller. There will be "13 Boss Fights representing each branch of the Federal Reserve". And there's a beta out in June, and the game is going to be free to play in your web browser!

Also, watch the video on the page even if you aren't going to pledge any more. It's... something.

This is... interesting. He says you aren't going to be killing monsters, but rather guiding them to the exit, so it's sorta like... Lemmings? That's kinda disturbing.

Also, your link is broken, you've got an extra 'f' in the beginning that's screwing it up.

Maybe there's going to be a bonus level where Ayn Rand comes down and then tells you to get all the innovators to go on strike.

Nah, we all know all the innovators left the U.S. for other countries long ago. don't you read the news?! ;)

A good point, actually.

And here's a news story about that very thing. How cool is that? The racists telling immigrant families to go home... and they are!

I sometimes wonder just what in the fuck people mean by "innovators"... I somehow doubt it's anything more than "successful people who have my same philosophy".

That was very much the definition I gleaned from Atlas Shrugged. A novel so boring, so outlandish and so out-of-this-world, it's not worth the paper it's printed on.

Watch the movie. Actually, don't.

Well, appeals to authority (which is all it really is) are usually illogical as fuck when you get right down to looking at it...

My favorite Ayn Rand story is from the McCarthy hearings, where she was terribly disappointed that they wouldn't let her publicly denounce anyone that's she'd never met before. It would have been "damaging to the credibility of the HUAC." (lulz)

Apparently she could tell they were all dirty filthy commies just by LOOKING AT THEM.

This is amusing.

I totally disagree. Now go away before you scare off all the innovators with your with your different, thus totally wrong, ideas!

But, seriously, I think everyone these days has some sort of philosophical agenda. Just look how 'Us vs. Them' politics has become in the U.S. without even the barest minimum of actually trying to find a constructive solution (probably many other places, but I am not nearly as well acquainted with foreign politics). Huh, I liked it. But, then again, I also agree with most of her Objectivist principles. So, I guess that proves the point that is being made. ;)

Well, I've never been allowed to vote in any of the other countries in which I've lived but the US appears, from my perspective, to be a rather unique beast politically, at least among first world countries.

The divisiveness seems to be the logical result of any political system in a country where there's vast class and wealth differences (essentially because it's "easy" to pull off), and we're pretty lopsided in the US as the first world goes.

The fact of the matter is no one in politics, including Ron Paul, to me appears to have the maturity to take on the actual problems we face. In fact, one of our main problems is the vast majority of us are nearly completely unaware of just what the problems are...

If you have a couple hours to kill, I suggest you watch this series of documentaries which details the influence of Ayn Rand (if not, just the first episode will do) to the music of Brian Eno.

I totally agree with you, which is pretty depressing. Not that we agree, but that we agree that we are essentially hosed. I have referred to the U.S. Congress as 'those boys and girls on the Hill' for years. Seriously, they seem like middle schoolers with ADHD most of the time. All of them; I am very bipartisan in my annoyance.

Al Franken is usually good for a laugh and I genuinely think Wyden has his heart in the right place. Considering that's 2, at best, out of several hundred, yeah, we're fucked, completely agree.