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0 pointsforensic13y ago0 comments

>yet few hold Marx personally responsible or would find his face a repugnant symbol of death.

You obviously don't live in America!

By the way, telling someone to "calm down" makes you a douchebag.

And strawmen don't help either.

And let's not kid ourselves: she's in the image because someone in that company is an Ayn Rand fan. There is no shortage of Randists among tech people. Quite a bit fewer among literary types for obvious reasons.

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fusiongyro13y ago

Yes, clearly it's a conspiracy to promulgate Objectivism, and not a simple collection of four author's faces. The world must be so interesting to you.

forensicOP13y ago

Newsflash: Individuals who create stuff put their favorite things in the stuff they create.

It says a lot about your intelligence that you immediately jump to a worldwide conspiracy theory from a single instance of a single individual putting his personal favorite author in a logo for a writing website.

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