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talkpoliticsThe 3rd third of the year has begun, and of course, again for the purposes of the DailyQuotes list, here's the 3rd installment of funny/silly/thoughtful/whatev's quotes for 2015. Those will be also featured daily on the community sidebar.
The Dailyquote list for the last 4 months of 2015 starts behind the cut (with links)...
"Post-modernism backfiring, perhaps? Maybe progress is like an orb: if you advance too much and too fast societally, you reach a point where you eventually reach the buttocks of societal development, and return to the Stone Age..."
(airiefairie)
"By the looks of the press coverage and social networks response, the three main events of the year are Princess Kate serving as a royal incubator; JJ Abrams making a re-re-rerun of the original Star Wars trilogy; plus, Kim Kardashian eating her own placenta."
(luzribeiro)
"I've watched dozens of US teevee shows, reality shows, and now political rallies and townhouse meetings - and I've remained with the impression that the crowd would cheer and applaud even if the orator stood there for an hour, reciting cooking recipes or counting from one to one thousand and backwards in a very solemn voice."
(mahnmut)
"At some point, [campaign donations] aren't donations - they're investments."
(oportet)
"I've often found real genius to be in simplicity. In the ability to convey a message or idea in a way that anyone could understand."
(ddstory)
"Turks aren't white and Christian enough for their airspace to matter to NATO."
(underlankers)
"Unless NATO needs that space to operate from in order to bomb even less-white peoples."
(htpcl)
30
"The Israeli Orthodox tend to be funny analogues of American conservatism. "The state is the greatest evil in the history of ever! Worse than Hitler! But don't you touch my subsidies and expect me to live on my own, that would be worse evil than that!""
(underlankers)
"[Iran and Saudi Arabia's] very identity rests upon their respective sect of Islam, which makes them look like twin brothers who hate each other."
(luzribeiro)
"I expect the Turks and Russians will resolve this dispute by shooting a bunch of Kurds and then calling it even."
(mikeyxw)
"Any attempt to find a religious and a military solution to a social problem is doomed to fail."
(nairiporter)
"The people on whom anything depends wouldn't recognize a problem even if it splashed into their face like a 10-feet tsunami."
(ddstory)
"Even a hundred hits with a stick are too few if they're on someone else's back".
(htpcl)
"There are folks who've traded their brains for guts at birth."
(ddstory)
"All boats eventually sink, as well - unless they are maintained, or unless they are taken ashore and dismantled."
(garote)
"Over here, when an out-of-sight-out-of-mind-has-been politician comes out and says something interesting/provocative - it can only mean one thing... They have a book coming out."
(oportet)
"Well, there's always violent revolution. But we're all still way too productive and wealthy to consider that."
(garote)
20
"Such is the challenge of our style of democracy. 156 million people might vote for for the guy who would put anti-corporatist judges on the bench, but if the other 162 million vote for the other guy, he wins, and there's little to nothing the folks dismayed by the outcome can do about it."
(dexeron)
"[Snark] does sometimes help to keep the other foot out of the mouth."
(geezer_also)
"The best slave is the one who is convinced the scraps they've been granted qualify as food."
(mahnmut)
"Mmmm, god of the gaps. Me likey. It makes me feel so much safer. No questions remain unanswered. No questions even need being asked."
(abomvubuso)
"Fortunately for the lulz-hunters, Team Crazy never seems to be running out of champions to represent it."
(ddstory)
"A parent who teaches their kid of critical thinking has done an immensely greater job ... than a bookshelf of study-books."
(nairiporter)
"We don't want the world to do things our way, we want the world to want to do things our way."
(oportet)
"The nationality of the winners is absolutely irrelevant. There is no war but the class war."
(anfalicious)
"Weakness is only weakness if it is exploited."
(sandwichwarrior)
"Slowly and gradually suffocating an economy as a retaliation for their aggressive actions may not seem as flamboyant as a military response, but it tends to do the job just as well, if not even better - and certainly without bloodshed."
(htpcl)
10
"Anyone who could afford to be a bully, most likely would take the opportunity, and be one. History is full of examples."
(luvdovz)
"The sword can bring peace to the wielder, and a sort of peace to those against whom it is wielded."
(johnny9fingers)
"It's about wealth redistribution, and whether or not we should let Malthus determine policy."
(sandwichwarrior)
"Nah, we should just let humanity determine policy, as opposed to Mammon. Isn't that what Jesus would have wanted?"
(mahnmut)
"In field of more than a dozen serious candidates and a half dozen more fringe actors, there just wasn't enough oxygen in the room for a candidate who wasn't willing to set himself on fire."
(policraticus)
"It took us this long to create AI, and AI works faster, maybe it'll create the next step - AAI? - and we'll be like the favorite grandkids and AAI will put us back in charge and AI won't be shit."
(oportet)
"Aside from the socks with sandals and shorts, Germans are usually pretty good. They do seem to get disproportionately eaten by crocs here though, so read into that what you will".
(anfalicious)
"As long as there are dupes, there'll be cons. Such is the way humans operate."
(luvdovz)
"Joseph Smith: doing crappy-fiction and turning himself into prophet long before Ron Hubbard!"
(abomvubuso)
"Yes, people are entitled to believe what they want. They are not, however, legally entitled to impose twisted versions of their religious beliefs on other people. That's what terrorists do."
(stewstewstewdio)
"Iceland has been pretty damn cool for centuries now...mind you, a millennium ago."
(johnny9fingers)
"It might have warmed up a bit lately."
(ddstory)
The Dailyquote list for the last 4 months of 2015 starts behind the cut (with links)...
"Post-modernism backfiring, perhaps? Maybe progress is like an orb: if you advance too much and too fast societally, you reach a point where you eventually reach the buttocks of societal development, and return to the Stone Age..."
(airiefairie)
"By the looks of the press coverage and social networks response, the three main events of the year are Princess Kate serving as a royal incubator; JJ Abrams making a re-re-rerun of the original Star Wars trilogy; plus, Kim Kardashian eating her own placenta."
(luzribeiro)
"I've watched dozens of US teevee shows, reality shows, and now political rallies and townhouse meetings - and I've remained with the impression that the crowd would cheer and applaud even if the orator stood there for an hour, reciting cooking recipes or counting from one to one thousand and backwards in a very solemn voice."
(mahnmut)
"At some point, [campaign donations] aren't donations - they're investments."
(oportet)
"I've often found real genius to be in simplicity. In the ability to convey a message or idea in a way that anyone could understand."
(ddstory)
"Turks aren't white and Christian enough for their airspace to matter to NATO."
(underlankers)
"Unless NATO needs that space to operate from in order to bomb even less-white peoples."
(htpcl)
30
"The Israeli Orthodox tend to be funny analogues of American conservatism. "The state is the greatest evil in the history of ever! Worse than Hitler! But don't you touch my subsidies and expect me to live on my own, that would be worse evil than that!""
(underlankers)
"[Iran and Saudi Arabia's] very identity rests upon their respective sect of Islam, which makes them look like twin brothers who hate each other."
(luzribeiro)
"I expect the Turks and Russians will resolve this dispute by shooting a bunch of Kurds and then calling it even."
(mikeyxw)
"Any attempt to find a religious and a military solution to a social problem is doomed to fail."
(nairiporter)
"The people on whom anything depends wouldn't recognize a problem even if it splashed into their face like a 10-feet tsunami."
(ddstory)
"Even a hundred hits with a stick are too few if they're on someone else's back".
(htpcl)
"There are folks who've traded their brains for guts at birth."
(ddstory)
"All boats eventually sink, as well - unless they are maintained, or unless they are taken ashore and dismantled."
(garote)
"Over here, when an out-of-sight-out-of-mind-has-been politician comes out and says something interesting/provocative - it can only mean one thing... They have a book coming out."
(oportet)
"Well, there's always violent revolution. But we're all still way too productive and wealthy to consider that."
(garote)
20
"Such is the challenge of our style of democracy. 156 million people might vote for for the guy who would put anti-corporatist judges on the bench, but if the other 162 million vote for the other guy, he wins, and there's little to nothing the folks dismayed by the outcome can do about it."
(dexeron)
"[Snark] does sometimes help to keep the other foot out of the mouth."
(geezer_also)
"The best slave is the one who is convinced the scraps they've been granted qualify as food."
(mahnmut)
"Mmmm, god of the gaps. Me likey. It makes me feel so much safer. No questions remain unanswered. No questions even need being asked."
(abomvubuso)
"Fortunately for the lulz-hunters, Team Crazy never seems to be running out of champions to represent it."
(ddstory)
"A parent who teaches their kid of critical thinking has done an immensely greater job ... than a bookshelf of study-books."
(nairiporter)
"We don't want the world to do things our way, we want the world to want to do things our way."
(oportet)
"The nationality of the winners is absolutely irrelevant. There is no war but the class war."
(anfalicious)
"Weakness is only weakness if it is exploited."
(sandwichwarrior)
"Slowly and gradually suffocating an economy as a retaliation for their aggressive actions may not seem as flamboyant as a military response, but it tends to do the job just as well, if not even better - and certainly without bloodshed."
(htpcl)
10
"Anyone who could afford to be a bully, most likely would take the opportunity, and be one. History is full of examples."
(luvdovz)
"The sword can bring peace to the wielder, and a sort of peace to those against whom it is wielded."
(johnny9fingers)
"It's about wealth redistribution, and whether or not we should let Malthus determine policy."
(sandwichwarrior)
"Nah, we should just let humanity determine policy, as opposed to Mammon. Isn't that what Jesus would have wanted?"
(mahnmut)
"In field of more than a dozen serious candidates and a half dozen more fringe actors, there just wasn't enough oxygen in the room for a candidate who wasn't willing to set himself on fire."
(policraticus)
"It took us this long to create AI, and AI works faster, maybe it'll create the next step - AAI? - and we'll be like the favorite grandkids and AAI will put us back in charge and AI won't be shit."
(oportet)
"Aside from the socks with sandals and shorts, Germans are usually pretty good. They do seem to get disproportionately eaten by crocs here though, so read into that what you will".
(anfalicious)
"As long as there are dupes, there'll be cons. Such is the way humans operate."
(luvdovz)
"Joseph Smith: doing crappy-fiction and turning himself into prophet long before Ron Hubbard!"
(abomvubuso)
"Yes, people are entitled to believe what they want. They are not, however, legally entitled to impose twisted versions of their religious beliefs on other people. That's what terrorists do."
(stewstewstewdio)
"Iceland has been pretty damn cool for centuries now...mind you, a millennium ago."
(johnny9fingers)
"It might have warmed up a bit lately."
(ddstory)
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Date: 2/9/15 10:42 (UTC)Always first in the queue...
"Are we there yet?"