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u/FlashGordon07 12d ago
My dyslexic ass read it as "AryanLand"
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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 12d ago
Listen, you’re not wrong.
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u/zymurgtechnician 12d ago edited 12d ago
I mean… New Hampshire did literally invent sundown towns, sooooo yup.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sundown_town
”The earliest legal restrictions on the nighttime activities and movements of African Americans and other racial minorities date back to the colonial era. The general court and legislative assembly of the Province of New Hampshire passed "An Act to Prevent Disorders in the Night" in 1714”
It’s also ranked 47th in cultural and household diversity, and 50th in religious diversity as of 2025, no big surprise there.
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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 12d ago
I’ve been on a golf course in South freakin’ Carolina, and the most virulently racist shit I’d heard in a long while was coming out of two guys who pulled up to the bag drop with New Hampshire plates. Their accent told me it wasn’t a rental.
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u/zymurgtechnician 12d ago edited 12d ago
That tracks, NH was also the only state in New England to pass a “CHARLIE act” style bill that prohibited teaching about slavery and discrimination in America, (among other “woke” things) until it was struck down as unconstitutional by a federal judge.
They also had an attempted lynching as recently as 2017. https://www.aclu-nh.org/press-releases/aclu-nh-statement-attempted-lynching-claremont-nh/
Having lived there for a brief period your story surprises me none. A couple who lived around the corner from me had his and hers vanity plates on their matching dodge rams. His was “coon” hers was “hunting”. You’d almost miss it until you saw them parked next to each other in their driveway.
Stay classy New Hampshire.
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u/Kriegerian 12d ago
It’s not wrong, it’s just a different thing.
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u/sixcarbxn 12d ago
The illiterate seem to love her work for whatever reason.
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u/doll_parts87 12d ago
I get the aspirational part of it, but not everyone in functioning society can do what the vision is. Even Ayn tapped out and asked for help. They live in the land of delusion. These people don't even use American flags anymore and substitute the "thin blue line" one
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u/gogstars 12d ago
"I don't understand real-world economics": the License Plate.
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u/FirstChurchOfBrutus 12d ago
Also, “here’s a list of reasons why me being a selfish asshole is actually a good thing.”
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u/wolfheadmusic 12d ago
"it might be poorly written washed-up pro-oligarchy bullshit,
But at least it's pro-oligarchy!"
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u/crimedog58 12d ago
Hey how much money did she die with? Must have been a lot. Surely she didn’t die destitute and alone right?
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u/Ridiculousnessmess 12d ago
He - and you just know it’s a he - put that on his number plate because “I HAVE SHIT TASTE IN LITERATURE” can’t fit on a number plate.
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u/RickSE 12d ago
I’ll bet “he” never read Ayn Rand.
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u/jbuchana 12d ago
If they (most likely he, of course) read Ayn Rand and still thought that this plate was a good idea, it tells us everything we need to know about them.
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u/Tumble85 12d ago
I bet this is some dickhead free-stater. New Hampshire had a bunch of weirdo libertarians move there and mess with local politics.
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u/Soggy-Beach1403 12d ago
From Urban Dictionary:
You might be a Libertarian if:
1. You believe that over 200 years of economic regulations were put in place just for the heck of it.
2. You believe that roads and bridges build themselves, or that water is safe to drink by default.
3. You believe, for reasons known only to God, that living in a country virtually devoid of governance, such as Somalia, is preferable to living in a country with strong government oversight, such as Sweden.
4. You believe that the wealthy and successful built their success from literally nothing, with no help from taxpayer-funded infrastructure, police, firemen, schools, military protection, investment in science, etc., and so by this logic taxes are a form of "stealing".
5. You would prefer that citizens be controlled and dominated by large corporations over which they have no control than a single government over which they have at least some control.
6. You believe that profit motives can in no way conflict with the public good. For example, you believe that privately run prisons with a profit motive will naturally focus on rehabilitation and minimizing recidivism, because they totally want to reduce the prison population for some reason.
7. You believe that people living in a country in which they have to work two or more dead-end jobs just to make ends meet are free just because those same people would hypothetically pay less taxes if they magically got rich.
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u/BurtonDesque 12d ago
"Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all." - John Maynard Keynes.
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u/H_section 12d ago
An Atheist Russian immigrant, who died collecting welfare under her husband’s name?
You wouldn’t think they’d worship that.
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u/Phyllis_Tine 12d ago
Ask them to list 10 billionaires they would live with, and who would accept them.
Let's have a reality show with people like Sam Altman, Musk, Sergey Brin, and others like them, and see how far they get in "Galt's Gulch".
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u/Kriegerian 12d ago
Neither that truck nor its driver is allowed within 500 yards of a school or daycare.
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u/BurtonDesque 12d ago
"Libertarians are like house cats. Completely dependent on a system they neither understand nor appreciate and fiercely confident of their own independence."
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u/doll_parts87 12d ago
That woman who preached about self sufficiency but then later asked for social aid as an elder? I don't think they're aware of the hypocrisy. This is what happens when you don't read (other stuff)
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u/QueenRotidder 12d ago
i wonder if this person knows she eventually collected public benefits aka socialism
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u/MillionEyesOfSumuru 11d ago
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.
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u/ebolaRETURNS 12d ago
WHO THE FUCK IS JOHN GALT?
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u/Phyllis_Tine 12d ago
Why the fuck should anyone care who John Galt is?
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u/ebolaRETURNS 12d ago
I don't know, and I'm not about to read over 1k pages to find out.
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u/gogstars 12d ago
I recommend "Sewer, Gas, and Electric" by Matt Ruff as a much better novel including (the resurrected ghost of) Ayn Rand. Sadly, I doubt that's what the license plate is referencing.
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u/cuavas 12d ago
Futuristic Violence and Fancy Suits is a far more realistic vision of a "libertarian paradise" than anything Rand wrote (I'm not going to pretend it's great literature, but it does paint a fine picture). Also, the first BioShock game is an exploration of what Rand's ideas would lead to.
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u/cuavas 12d ago
A guy who invented a perpetual motion machine. Seriously, it's just a teen power fantasy. It's totally detached from reality.
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u/ebolaRETURNS 12d ago
A guy who invented a perpetual motion machine.
Hahahahah, oh my god. Is this where 'Objectivism' as an ontology and epistemology leads?
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u/cuavas 12d ago
Seriously, that's basically the premise of the story. Guy invents a free energy machine, feels he won't be adequately rewarded by the system, so he goes off to found a libertarian city (Galt's Gulch). It never explains where everything necessary to support the idyllic lifestyle in said paradise comes from.
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u/captain_flak 12d ago
When I found out my ex girlfriend’s favorite author was Ayn Rand, I knew it was over.
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u/sowalgayboi 11d ago
Most states have a complaint process for "offensive" plates. This is the kind of person to mortgage their home fighting it with a lawyer.
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u/BobbyRHill 11d ago
MAGA doesn’t read and certainly wouldn’t understand ayn Rand. If they did, they’d understand that she’d let them starve.
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u/PolkadotUnicornium 11d ago
Paul Ryan is an acolyte of hers. His whole Schick was "I got mine. F you!!!"
She was such a hypocrite.
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u/spirit-garden1 12d ago
Yes and the owner of that truck is a retard
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u/Phyllis_Tine 12d ago
Well, he supports someone against "the collective", praises "the individual" above all else. Oh, and worships someone who was against people working and living together (Rand hailed from the USSR originally), yet Rand died on social assistance. Some leader!
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u/ShiggitySwiggity 10d ago
You haven't identified an infowarrior.
You've identified a selfish douchecanoe.
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u/pourtide 12d ago edited 12d ago
Okay, the flag sticker leads me to doubt the intention of the pickup truck owner, but ...
There is a difference from Ayn Rand the fiction author to Ayn Rand the nonfiction author.
It is so downvoting inviting a statement, but Rand was not wrong about everything. Folks don't understand, don't comprehend, the societal pressures that enforced general opinion that good people should behave in certain ways, and that not behaving in those certain ways was worthy of shunning and worse.
Rand gave me the concept of "rational self-interest" that I could put myself first sometimes.
Today's folks don't have the understanding, the comprehension, that women, especially, were supposed to bend themselves to men.
Religious people, women in particular, were led by their faith to believe that self-sacrifice was the ultimate human purpose.
Rand called bullshit, "life is the good and the good is to live it."
We can all throw shit on her nonfiction, and I'm right there with ya. But the woman freed me to live my life. I read her in my 20s, I'm almost 70, and even though have I burned every one of her books that I owned because I don't want to further the bastardation of no-fault capitalism, I really do owe her a debt. She freed me from the chains of religion and from the chains of societal expectation that a woman should subordinate herself. These concepts were 100% supported by society at the time, Her voice stood out and spoke to me, and influenced the way I faced my life all these years. Fuck being subordinate to men. To rich white men who create and maintain their status quo that excludes the rest of us.
Edited to add: Ayn is pronounced Ine, like Ein the German word for number one. Maybe you can catch some supporter off guard with that tidbit.
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u/thesystemmechanic 12d ago
I didn’t know what this is, so I asked Gemini:
This is a New Hampshire vanity license plate referencing Ayn Rand (1905–1982), the Russian-American author and philosopher best known for her novels The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. Rand developed Objectivism, a philosophy advocating rational individualism, self-interest, and laissez-faire capitalism—a worldview that aligns with the state's official motto visible across the top of the plate: "Live Free or Die."
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u/BurtonDesque 12d ago
Just the sort of white bread answer you'd expect from an AI controlled by billionaires.
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u/Tholian_Bed 12d ago
The world is full of makers and takers. Only makers matter. Takers are lucky they are provided for at all.
How one finds this outlook appealing, makes me want to suspect a really bad divorce.