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Hail, U folks! While we're about traditions, here's the place where we begin the new 4-month installment of our DailyQuotes list™, the collection of weird and funny lines that may cause occasional bursts of lulz and/or inspire deep thought in some of us. Huh huh. As usual, a link to this DQ list will be displayed at the sidebar of the comm's front page, while the list will be updated daily.



So here follows the January/April 2014 list of DailyQuotes...


60
"We'll never be admitted to the Federation of Planets speaking 8,000 languages. So everyone needs to start learning 'merican now."
(fizzyland)

"If Putin decides to "go into the West," he will not be intending to "diminish and remain Vladimir.""
"Why, Mikhail did exactly that!"
(mahnmut)

"This is why we need gangs in every town!"
"We already have them they're called cops."
(sandwichwarrior)

"Whenever conservatives want to score points at Obama's expense, they invoke the mantra, Benghazi. Whenever liberals want to dismiss a criticism of Obama's diplomatic choices of action, all they need to do is invoke the mantra, Benghazi."
(luzribeiro)

"Papers don't print what their readers need to learn about, they print what their readers want, full stop."
(enders_shadow)

"My pet theory is that the major networks administer a psych evil on each new hire to ensure that they are hypocritical assholes."
(sandwichwarrior)

"Django Unchained was about a self-motivated entrepreneur having his business compromised by a piece of mass-murdering property."
(kylinrouge)

"I need to clear the air here to prove I'm not a whackjob. What's the best outlet for that- AHA! Alex Jones!"
(kylinrouge)

"What Would Jesus Do? Remember whipping bankers is not out of the question..."
(enders_shadow)

"There are no Russiansuits. Only Putinnipples."
(luzribeiro)

50
"I wonder how the US would react if China sponsors a communist coup in Canada."
"Wait, you mean Canada isn't already communist?"
(htpcl)

"The weird thing no one talks about (aside from George Carlin, of course) is that other people's shit smells worse than your own."
"It's physiologically logical."
(luvdovz)

"The party of temporarily embarrassed millionaires doesn't want their hard-earned potential future money to be spent on people they don't agree with."
(kylinrouge)

"We should come up with a new term, "fallacionism", the practice of sticking a label out of the list of fallacies to an argument, in the hope that said argument would go away."
(mahnmut)

"There's so much cruciFICTION wood among a certain brand of Internet denizens that one could build a whole second Noah's Ark with it."
(luvdovz)

"I'm pretty sure "pretentious gag fest" is a synonym for "open mic night"."
(anfalicious)

"I suppose we have to believe in angels since there are so many demons of our own creation."
(malasadas)

"The Amish and Mennonites originated in the German-speaking portion of Switzerland. If they'd stayed in Switzerland the Large Hadron Collider might have been built in the US instead of Switzerland."
(prog_expat)

"Even a clock that's low on batteries shows approximately the right time, just two seconds after the measurement has been started."
(luvdovz)

"Once you have been called human, what worse can be said?"
(yes_justice)

40
"Mexico is no longer smelly people with big hats but smelly people with smelly cigarettes."
(sophia_sadek)

"LOL Russia is a tough country."
(hardblue)
"It's full of badasses, really. Quite literally."
(ddstory)

"If we're to be entirely blunt, the reality is that the rules are being set by those who have the power to set them, to the extent that their particular capabilities allow them to. Everything beyond that constitutes blowing hot air out of various bodily orifices."
(luvdovz)

"Teams are not based on political fantasies like countries and states, they're based on corporate fantasies of rich people."
(the_rukh)

"So what's so awesome about Scandinavians?"
"Simple. It's the horns. Means we're always horny (Or was it regularly cheated upon? You never know with those multiplayer love patterns that we have up there)."
(ddstory)

"I'm waiting for Russia to go to the UNSC and complain that they've been invaded by Ukraine. After all, now that Crimea is part of Russia, those Ukrainian troops are violating Russia's sovereignty."
(mikeyxw)

"If Justin Bieber would have punched Mayor Rob Ford instead of a limo drive, Toronto would probably have given Bieber a ticker tape parade."
(stewstewstewdio)

"Heroin revenue pays for guns, and guns are only useful when there's constant strife and destabilization - preferably in a region that's separated from those producing the guns and collecting the revenue by a dozen thousand miles and a few oceans and seas".
(htpcl)

"Realpolitik cuts both ways, no?"
"Only if [the] other side is willing to wield a knife."
(policraticus)

"Patriotism is a good way to convince large groups of people that not-us are evil and must be destroyed."
(brother_dour)

30
"Love for one's people and country should begin with the ability to criticize them. The same way wisdom begins with the ability to laugh at oneself."
(htpcl)

"Patients are not analogous to customers. Neither are criminals."
(yes_justice)

"You cannot "win a war". You can only rationalize the losses."
(yes_justice)

"Life is short! Live for the day, and leave nothing behind. The future generations be damned, the world is coming to an end in X days, anyway!"
(luzribeiro)

"Liking isn't helping. Volunteering does. So grab a Molotov cocktail and show your sympathy [to the Ukrainian people]!"
(luzribeiro)

"It's bad enough that Capitol One can show up at your home or workplace uninvited but now, we'll be hearing Lawrence Fishburne asking "What's in your subconscious?" during otherwise relaxing nighttime viking adventures."
(fizzyland)

"Yep, I'm sure there's some chick out there who['s] reading this on her mobile phone while hauling water and wondering why we're complaining about having to go pay once a month to get running water."
(mikeyxw)

"Guns. Don't forget you have lots and lots of guns. This is why [America's] opinions matter."
(anfalicious)

"I really like to see the annual U.S. government handbook on who is America's friend, who's foe and what's in America's best interest, just so I know what to expect this year."
" I'll let you know when the next issue is issued. It should be out after the bidding by vested interests."
(peristaltor)

"Two suggestions which I believe would help immensely: 1) don't rely on religion for scientific insight; 2) don't rely on science for spiritual fulfillment".

20
"When you truly love something, you point out when it's fucking up."
(yes_justice)

"If I want to be a slave, who is the government to stop me!?"
(anfalicious)

"When it's political conversation, the blatant stupidity, bullshit, and cluelessness can get obscured since much of what is being discussed is opinion. But with math there's no getting out of it. Except of course the bullshit tactics will work on people who feed on it."
(notmrgarrison)

"People can't be allowed to get in the way of a pure ideology."
(anfalicious)

"Look, a nation's greatness is measured by how much of its shit it leaves in little bins in the bathroom and its ability to bomb weddings everywhere on Earth."
(malasadas)

"To call some place like the Discover Institute a "think tank", shouldn't they be required to actually think?"
(fizzyland)

"The "purpling" of Texas is well under way as brown people replace cranky old white ones."
(fizzyland)

"I've had this theory that famous people for the last few decades have been largely clones/robots created by the labels to stop pesky rights disputes."
(anfalicious)

"I hear that as a foreign agent you get to lurk at LiveJournal political chat sites."
(sophia_sadek)
"Nah, that's just for Russian agents."
(dv8nation)

"I can understand why [the] Nepalese would side with Mao. He was a mountain of a dude."
(sophia_sadek)

10
"Rich bastards all own condos in San Francisco so that they can spend time at the Folsom Street Fair without having to book a hotel room."
(sophia_sadek)

"I had someone put a gun to my head and make me watch Miley Cyrus. It was awful."
(enders_shadow)

"How do I get a job as a foreign agent? It seems to be very steady work AND I'd get to constantly dick with foreigners. Fun and profit!"
(dv8nation)

"Do not underestimate the ability of well-organized, disproportionately vocal groups with military-like discipline and fanatic determination to steer the discourse into one direction or another, especially when "stimulated" in the proper way by the proper authorities".
(htpcl)

"He who lives by the nitpick, dies by the picked nits of the future".
(peristaltor)

"Anyone who still insists on the notion that China gives two pigeon droppings about the economic efficiency of its endeavors, must be blissfully dwelling in Fantasy-Land."
(mahnmut)

"If you've regulated the internet, you've already broken it."
(badlydrawnjeff)

"Say what you want about the American Mafiosi, but at least when they controlled the garbage business in NY they actually picked up the trash."
(policraticus)

"What is dreamed in sci-fi today is tomorrow's history!"
(hardblue)

"Shooting people shouldn't be what makes a revolution a revolution, at least not to me. A revolution is about a shift in ideals, policies, and practices that will benefit all."
(lantean_breeze)

(no subject)

Date: 9/1/14 19:52 (UTC)
From: [identity profile] abomvubuso.livejournal.com
Some real nuggets out there *nod*

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Post-Truth Politics Revisited

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"The NATO charter clearly says that any attack on a NATO member shall be treated, by all members, as an attack against all. So that means that, if we attack Greenland, we'll be obligated to go to war against ... ourselves! Gee, that's scary. You really don't want to go to war with the United States. They're insane!"

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