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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 2019. Those will be also featured daily on the community sidebar.
The Dailyquote list for the last 4 months of 2019 starts behind the cut (with links)...
"If we start going after politicians who hook their family and friends up with sweet jobs, we probably wont have much of a government left."
(oportet)
"You know who's happiest from Soleimani's death? Daesh. And that says it all about Trump's strategic prowess."
(mahnmut)
"There may be some underlying reasons for the lurch towards authoritarianism; maybe we know in some collective subconscious that in a free-for-all society the difficult decisions cannot be made."
(johnny9fingers)
"Maybe Afghanistan is just too tricky a word to build a hashtag around - seems like we should give a shit more than we do, which seems to be not at all."
(oportet)
"I wonder how many bright young things will take the opportunity to move from the UK to the continent? It would be ironic for those who voted Leave and didn't realise that they were effectively telling their best to go."
(tcpip)
"Boris has won. Britain has lost. Simple as that."
(airiefairie)
"Socialism and capitalism are a continuum where idealised yardsticks of public vs private ownership, and different levels work better in different contexts."
(tcpip)
"Segmentation has broken the political culture".
(airiefairie)
10
"Is 'the Russians!' going to be a big thing again? At least wait and make sure you lose first."
(oportet)
"Lucky for boomers, the zoomers think the internet matters. That's a big disadvantage, but it may be fluid - the internet could matter; it could happen next week, it could happen in 2040 - there's not a countdown, we'll just wake up one day and be like oh shit now the internet matters."
(oportet)
"As for power, it corrupts, always. The longer you stay in power, the more corrupt you become, and the more of it you want, ever more badly."
(mahnmut)
"Socialism was a stillborn child. The only reason it survived for so long is that there was a huge powerful empire with delusions of grandeur supporting it. Until it didn't."
(fridi)
"I sometimes speculate what historians will think of this period. Then I hit the heavy liquour."
(tcpip)
"Well, when you're making stuff up as you go along, sometimes you say stuff that sounds a lot better in your head than when it actually comes out of your mouth."
(mikeyxw)
"The Don’s grasp of the nuances of diplomacy is legendary in his own opinion, and mythological in everyone else’s."
(johnny9fingers)
"Wall Street has fallen down the boogeyman ladder a good bit - still a solid round 3 villain but Nazis and climate change are all the rage these days".
(oportet)
"There are of course some things in her personal life which the Trump campaign can attack, but [Elizabeth Warren] can always point out that she hasn't asked a foreign government to intervene in a US election... twice."
(mikeyxw)
"Humans are so good and inventive at destroying their own habitat. Uniquely good in the worse way possible. To the point that entire civilisations have vanished by their own doing."
(airiefairie)
The Dailyquote list for the last 4 months of 2019 starts behind the cut (with links)...
"If we start going after politicians who hook their family and friends up with sweet jobs, we probably wont have much of a government left."
(oportet)
"You know who's happiest from Soleimani's death? Daesh. And that says it all about Trump's strategic prowess."
(mahnmut)
"There may be some underlying reasons for the lurch towards authoritarianism; maybe we know in some collective subconscious that in a free-for-all society the difficult decisions cannot be made."
(johnny9fingers)
"Maybe Afghanistan is just too tricky a word to build a hashtag around - seems like we should give a shit more than we do, which seems to be not at all."
(oportet)
"I wonder how many bright young things will take the opportunity to move from the UK to the continent? It would be ironic for those who voted Leave and didn't realise that they were effectively telling their best to go."
(tcpip)
"Boris has won. Britain has lost. Simple as that."
(airiefairie)
"Socialism and capitalism are a continuum where idealised yardsticks of public vs private ownership, and different levels work better in different contexts."
(tcpip)
"Segmentation has broken the political culture".
(airiefairie)
10
"Is 'the Russians!' going to be a big thing again? At least wait and make sure you lose first."
(oportet)
"Lucky for boomers, the zoomers think the internet matters. That's a big disadvantage, but it may be fluid - the internet could matter; it could happen next week, it could happen in 2040 - there's not a countdown, we'll just wake up one day and be like oh shit now the internet matters."
(oportet)
"As for power, it corrupts, always. The longer you stay in power, the more corrupt you become, and the more of it you want, ever more badly."
(mahnmut)
"Socialism was a stillborn child. The only reason it survived for so long is that there was a huge powerful empire with delusions of grandeur supporting it. Until it didn't."
(fridi)
"I sometimes speculate what historians will think of this period. Then I hit the heavy liquour."
(tcpip)
"Well, when you're making stuff up as you go along, sometimes you say stuff that sounds a lot better in your head than when it actually comes out of your mouth."
(mikeyxw)
"The Don’s grasp of the nuances of diplomacy is legendary in his own opinion, and mythological in everyone else’s."
(johnny9fingers)
"Wall Street has fallen down the boogeyman ladder a good bit - still a solid round 3 villain but Nazis and climate change are all the rage these days".
(oportet)
"There are of course some things in her personal life which the Trump campaign can attack, but [Elizabeth Warren] can always point out that she hasn't asked a foreign government to intervene in a US election... twice."
(mikeyxw)
"Humans are so good and inventive at destroying their own habitat. Uniquely good in the worse way possible. To the point that entire civilisations have vanished by their own doing."
(airiefairie)
