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The Dailyquote list for July-October will follow here... (to be regularly updated)
"As has been true of walls since Hadrian's and the Chinese tried the Great Wall, found it wanting, and naturally kept trying it again for no gain."
(halialkers)
"Fair'n'balanced(tm) FTW, yo. It takes tons of bullshit a single right-wing outlet to balance out the occasional bullshit that a ton of moderately progressive "lame-stream" media keep spurting day in, day out."
(dreamville_bg)
"A public space where the norm is that there are entire victimized groups that are entitled to special protection, is doomed to intellectual decay."
(dreamville_bg)
20
"Are the dreamers still here? Do we still have Obamacare? Are we still technically in the Paris Climate Accord? Are there still transsexuals in the military? Still no wall? Abortion still legal? If you answered yes to all of these questions - ask your doctor if toning down the outrage is right for you."
(oportet)
"AI is dangerous stuff to tamper with. If you don't believe me, just watch more Hollywood movies."
(abomvubuso)
"How will the media assign this [latest shooting] to be the latest one-off lone wolf when there's enough of them to field a couple of baseball teams at this point?"
(halialkers)
"When the dear leader of North Korea calls your president mentally unstable, you know something must have gone terribly wrong with your democracy."
(abomvubuso)
"Trump is great now! I mean, now that he's with our guys! I'm sure now he's going to make America great again!"
(mahnmut)
"Nature is a pitiless blind idiot god that couldn't give two shits about the lifeforms that emerge and crawl upon the thin film of the biosphere in an equally harsh, arbitrary, and uncaring universe."
(halialkers)
"Nobody stands for freedom because it's a Trojan Horse rhetorically to justify imperialism in the modern age. Leopold II butchered ten million Congolese for cheap rubber in the name of civilization and the abolition of slavery. The USA imposes dictators and kleptocrats in the name of freedom."
(halialkers)
"Favoring multiculturalism is something Westerners give a lot of lovely lip service to until they have to actually do it."
(halialkers)
"The real principles of Western society have been 'nice horde with spears you got there. We have machine guns. Fuck you' the last 150 years."
(halialkers)
"Everyone fucks up. It's a given. Small fuckups are a blessing if they prevent larger ones."
(johnny9fingers)
10
"HOW CAN YOU SAY BOTH SIDES??? Ok, so maybe there is video and photographic evidence of violence from both sides, but....but it's not fair...Trump said it, it's wrong....RACISM! somethingPHOBIA!"
(oportet)
"Hypocrisy in politics is so fascinating. It's almost like theater on steroids."
(kiaa)
"[A good conspiracy is] only disproven if you're naïve enough to listen to scientists and other shills of the conspiracy... such as every airline pilot".
(mikeyxw)
"[The protesters] are a spectacle, they are fascinating TV - like a live unscripted day long Jerry Springer episode every other weekend or so."
(oportet)
"All I hear is grumble-grumble-grumble."
(mahnmut)
"Must be your stomach. You're just hungry for Trump drama."
(fridi)
"It's not over yet. Wait until we pull out #FreeUkraine #RussiaIsBad #IStandWithUkraine... Vlady will be sorry he ever tried this."
(oportet)
"If the anti-Trumpers and the party of NO would stop undermining the president we would see better results... oh wait."
(luzribeiro)
"It's said that "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Sadly most people think being outraged is the point, and the paying attention part is optional."
(garote)
"Everyone always thinks everyone else is inferior; that, and weapons, leads to manners, eventually. Even the wise know they are only a bit less inferior than everyone else."
(johnny9fingers)
"What's with conservatives' love for the awesome and freedom-promoting enlightened regime of Saudi Arabia? Oh wait. Oil."
(mahnmut)
The Dailyquote list for July-October will follow here... (to be regularly updated)
"As has been true of walls since Hadrian's and the Chinese tried the Great Wall, found it wanting, and naturally kept trying it again for no gain."
(halialkers)
"Fair'n'balanced(tm) FTW, yo. It takes tons of bullshit a single right-wing outlet to balance out the occasional bullshit that a ton of moderately progressive "lame-stream" media keep spurting day in, day out."
(dreamville_bg)
"A public space where the norm is that there are entire victimized groups that are entitled to special protection, is doomed to intellectual decay."
(dreamville_bg)
20
"Are the dreamers still here? Do we still have Obamacare? Are we still technically in the Paris Climate Accord? Are there still transsexuals in the military? Still no wall? Abortion still legal? If you answered yes to all of these questions - ask your doctor if toning down the outrage is right for you."
(oportet)
"AI is dangerous stuff to tamper with. If you don't believe me, just watch more Hollywood movies."
(abomvubuso)
"How will the media assign this [latest shooting] to be the latest one-off lone wolf when there's enough of them to field a couple of baseball teams at this point?"
(halialkers)
"When the dear leader of North Korea calls your president mentally unstable, you know something must have gone terribly wrong with your democracy."
(abomvubuso)
"Trump is great now! I mean, now that he's with our guys! I'm sure now he's going to make America great again!"
(mahnmut)
"Nature is a pitiless blind idiot god that couldn't give two shits about the lifeforms that emerge and crawl upon the thin film of the biosphere in an equally harsh, arbitrary, and uncaring universe."
(halialkers)
"Nobody stands for freedom because it's a Trojan Horse rhetorically to justify imperialism in the modern age. Leopold II butchered ten million Congolese for cheap rubber in the name of civilization and the abolition of slavery. The USA imposes dictators and kleptocrats in the name of freedom."
(halialkers)
"Favoring multiculturalism is something Westerners give a lot of lovely lip service to until they have to actually do it."
(halialkers)
"The real principles of Western society have been 'nice horde with spears you got there. We have machine guns. Fuck you' the last 150 years."
(halialkers)
"Everyone fucks up. It's a given. Small fuckups are a blessing if they prevent larger ones."
(johnny9fingers)
10
"HOW CAN YOU SAY BOTH SIDES??? Ok, so maybe there is video and photographic evidence of violence from both sides, but....but it's not fair...Trump said it, it's wrong....RACISM! somethingPHOBIA!"
(oportet)
"Hypocrisy in politics is so fascinating. It's almost like theater on steroids."
(kiaa)
"[A good conspiracy is] only disproven if you're naïve enough to listen to scientists and other shills of the conspiracy... such as every airline pilot".
(mikeyxw)
"[The protesters] are a spectacle, they are fascinating TV - like a live unscripted day long Jerry Springer episode every other weekend or so."
(oportet)
"All I hear is grumble-grumble-grumble."
(mahnmut)
"Must be your stomach. You're just hungry for Trump drama."
(fridi)
"It's not over yet. Wait until we pull out #FreeUkraine #RussiaIsBad #IStandWithUkraine... Vlady will be sorry he ever tried this."
(oportet)
"If the anti-Trumpers and the party of NO would stop undermining the president we would see better results... oh wait."
(luzribeiro)
"It's said that "If you're not outraged, you're not paying attention." Sadly most people think being outraged is the point, and the paying attention part is optional."
(garote)
"Everyone always thinks everyone else is inferior; that, and weapons, leads to manners, eventually. Even the wise know they are only a bit less inferior than everyone else."
(johnny9fingers)
"What's with conservatives' love for the awesome and freedom-promoting enlightened regime of Saudi Arabia? Oh wait. Oil."
(mahnmut)
