"90% of politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation" - Henry Kissinger
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I know this: that in your own hearts and in your own souls, you are just as much responsible for the Vietnam War as I am for killing these people.
- Charles Manson
I'm not sure I understand the wisdom here. It comes off as "we live in a society"-esque. And doesn't really acknowledge just how many people protested the Vietnam war.
"Sure, I murdered those people, but aren't all of the complacent, disaffected, yet broadly powerless masses equally responsible for their nation's unjust acts of military violence? We're not so different, you and I."
Ronald Reagan had the best 'in soviet Russia' jokes.
Here is one paraphrased from memory:
A man in Moscow goes to the car dealership to buy a new car. After everything is arranged, the dealer tells comrade that his car will be delivered in 9 months. The man asks, in the morning, or the afternoon?
Why do you care comrade? It's 9 months from now. Well, the man says, the plumber is coming in the morning.
Also Reagan.
Boris and Ivan are chatting and Ivan says that one day he wants to go to America.
Boris sneers. "Anything they have in America we have in Russia. They have cities and we have cities. Both got mountains and beaches and farms. No difference."
"In America you have freedom! I can stand in front of the White House and scream that Ronald Reagan is a big dummy and no one will arrest me."
"You can do that here. Go stand in front of the Kremlin and scream Ronald Reagan is a big dummy. No one will lift a finger."
"Please touch my dick. I will buy you a horse." -Elon Musk
Is that, a real quote? I just learned that Musk at one point got a penile implant. Like a boob job but in his dick. Idk how, if it's like silicon sacs, or if it's like an exension or what, but the hard part of the story is not this part because it was a botched job, and he can't keep it up now.
That's why he test tubes all the kids I guess. Because of his vanity, and insecurity, wanting to be more like the minority of the population with a dick the size of what he was going for, somewhere around monster sized I'm sure, he lost function of his penis for procreation and recreational activities. It must be bad if viagra doesn't make up for it.
Anyway he got plugs of hair implanted in his skull too, that one worked for him at least. I wonder if it's ass hair or armpit hair or if they got he plugs from some unfortunate palestinian civilian caught in Israel's sweeps, tortured, interrogated, then executed and organ harvested to sell to people like Elon Musk.
Bill Cosby - You spend your whole life making yourself the old person you're going to become.
Actually, he said a lot of really good things...
“The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes” -Adolf Hitler
My people have a terrible sickness, the only treatment for it is Gold. Hernan Cortez
"I'd rather have someone tell me 'have a nice day' and not mean it than say 'fuck you' and mean it." -Kim Kardashian
Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice
Barry Goldwater
“Only through the breakening of one’s legs, can an orangutan ever be cooked well.”
—Benito Mussolini
Why aren't you complaining about the age of this account?
I did it elsewhere twice. More than that seems a bit overkill, considering the account is on the front page twice, suddenly.
Lol, 🤡
I apologize that I didn’t meet your heretofore unknown posting requests. I’ll do better going forward.
Edit: changed “meat” to “meet,” please stop downvoting me now.
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"If you break your legs, it is hard to cook orangutan." - Adolf Hitler
"Das war ist Befehl. Der Angriff Steiner war ist Befehl!"
It has so many meanings, from being mad about COVID lockdowns to being angry about not being able to hold a conversation with a cat. Absolutely beautiful quote.