Definitions

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  • noun slang, derogatory A supporter of Ayn Rand's philosophies, particularly an overzealous one.

Etymologies

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Blend of Rand and android.

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Examples

  • And, just as true believers find confirmation of Scriptural predictions in cherry-picked semi-coincidences in real life, so does Moore -- former Cato Institute man, presumably a Libertarian, and what people smarter and funnier than I call a "Randroid" -- discover that events of today (the bailouts, the economic stimulus packages, etc.) are proving Rand prescient.

    Ellis Weiner: On Atlas Shrugged as a Guide to Our Times 2009

  • And, just as true believers find confirmation of Scriptural predictions in cherry-picked semi-coincidences in real life, so does Moore -- former Cato Institute man, presumably a Libertarian, and what people smarter and funnier than I call a "Randroid" -- discover that events of today (the bailouts, the economic stimulus packages, etc.) are proving Rand prescient.

    The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com 2009

  • Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.

    Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011

  • And (b), they already did that – they just went to Uncle Sam for 3/4 $trillion, and to Randroid Heaven, the Federal Reserve, for a couple of trillion more (nobody knows, ‘cause the Fed doesn’t tell anybody).

    Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » No Kidding 2010

  • It is also evident from sampling some Randroid postings elsewhere on the Web, that what they really mean by "Existence exists" is that they only believe in the evidence of their senses, equating "Existence" with "material Nature."

    January 21st, 2009 m_francis 2009

  • Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.

    Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011

  • Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.

    Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011

  • Upwards of a thousand of the former are all over the trailer's web page, holding forth in that peculiar combination of arrogant certainty, indignant victimization, and pseudo-wised-up, cockily confident wrongness that marks the true Randroid.

    Ellis Weiner: "I love John Galt!" (Atlas Shrugged: the Movie) Ellis Weiner 2011

  • Randroid to conservative, randroid to screaming liberal, yes.

    Making Light: Open thread 134 2010

  • This person HAS to be a Randroid Libertarian—notorious windbags all!

    Sexy Science Students Sought for Sexy Nerds Reality Show - Pink Raygun.com 2010

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