This careless interpretation (if you can even call it that) completely misrepresents the meaning of the original work. It represents the idea of using a delicate touch to handle something with the idea of punching it like a child would instead. As another song by them put it:

“Don’t feed the people

But we feed the machines”

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    moving from Rand’s stark individualism to what he later called “bleeding heart libertarianism.”

    Do you know what ‘bleeding heart’ means? From your understanding, what is the difference between bleeding heart libertarianism and rand’s stark individualist libertarianism? This quote means he was not in favor of Rand’s stark individualism and instead favored bleeding heart libertarianism. Why don’t you read it that way? Why do you describe Ayn Rand as a ‘bleeding heart libertarian’?