Diapers and politicians should be changed often, and for the same reason. -Mark Twain

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-03-02T23:14:31+00:00

Because we shat ourselves.

JasonCarswell · 2021-03-02T12:46:41+00:00

Usually it's the quote that matters not who SaidIt. Some people in this forum have knowingly or inadvertently shared golden quotes on par with the best. Fame just promotes it. Twain is one of the most abused.

Optimus85 · 2021-03-02T07:23:59+00:00

"That's what ya get from copying random quotes off the Internet." -2Pac Shakur

Optimus85 · 2021-03-02T07:18:13+00:00

Thanks for that! Next time I post a quote I'll make an effort to double check.

Optimus85 · 2021-03-02T07:00:45+00:00

Dang it!

JasonCarswell · 2021-03-02T04:49:31+00:00

Thanks!

Vigte · 2021-03-02T03:40:37+00:00

A (ridiculously long) analysis of the phrase's evolution

Interesting.

JasonCarswell · 2021-03-01T23:43:57+00:00

A+++ Saved!

However, it is misattributed to Mark Twain:

Politicians are like diapers: they should be changed often, and for the same reason

Variant: Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason
Not found in Twain's works.
A 1993 newspaper humor column attributes this saying to Reader's Digest: "Picking it up from a Reader's Digest fan, Willie, our ex-shoe shine boy, says some politicians are like diapers. They both need changed often ... and for the same reason."[2]
Also attributed to Reader's Digest in Naomi Judd's 1993 book Love Can Build a Bridge: 'A quip I once saw in Reader's Digest said: "Most politicians are like diapers: they should be changed often, and for the same reason!"'.
Attributed to 1992 congressional candidate John Wallner
Not found attributed to Twain until 2010

~ https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mark_Twain#Misattributed

SaidOverRed · 2021-03-01T08:45:43+00:00

I do, but I'd actually like you to do so if you don't mind. I'm here mostly to see how others view things and push those views. Sometimes I take positions I agree with, sometimes I don't, but always to move things along and see what actually fits best.

The one thing I have noticed is that this type of engagement is vanishingly rare, to the point where people are confused what I'm doing.

Fitter_Happier · 2021-02-27T10:05:39+00:00

Yin · 2021-02-27T06:02:16+00:00

I could summarize the current state of world control but maybe you're getting the gist. It's not paranoia but it is literal conspiring.

SaidOverRed · 2021-02-27T04:56:09+00:00

Normally, I'd say this is paranoia and conspiracy theories. But holy crap is this the worst timeline. Gab's lack of banking says hi

magnora7 · 2021-02-27T00:24:29+00:00

Agreed!

Yin · 2021-02-26T22:56:54+00:00

The military-industrial complex is the technology division of the international central banking complex.

bobbobbybob · 2021-02-26T02:17:07+00:00

the history of Hitler's "final solution": relocation of jews to Madagascar. Not seen that getting much recognition.

bobbobbybob · 2021-02-26T02:16:24+00:00

his -story vs her a say

in 10 years, trump really will have ordered executions of people on the streets as his white supremacist armies, with their kekistan flag, murdered liberals in democrat cities before the elections.

Chipit · 2021-02-25T17:08:45+00:00

That history was written by the winners

cyburgh · 2021-02-25T06:32:05+00:00

based on the artwork, i guess it's the technological improvements we're supposed to be embarrassed by? looks like something a leftist would make.

jykylsin2034 · 2021-02-25T02:31:49+00:00

Poor guy, that sucks to finally find a quiet place then get fucking murdered by some jew lover

jet199 · 2021-02-24T21:58:49+00:00

This isn't true though.

There are plenty of whinny, bitter histories written by losers who can't admit the real reasons why they lost. Reddit is full of references to them and they are very popular in woke academia at the moment.

You get a hand full of decent ones and they are well respected pretty much across the board.

Questionable · 2021-02-24T20:40:18+00:00

Where as you see the history, I only see the quote.

Akali · 2021-02-24T15:54:27+00:00

History shouldn't ever be describe as good or bad, but as cause and outcome.

When opinions are added to history, then it isn't history anymore, but politics.

History of demographic census and law tend to be more free from biais than the history of events because events are wrote by the victor.

Earendil · 2021-02-24T15:11:45+00:00

How could someone be embarrassed being human? That is kind of bizarre, and probably unhealthy.

I guess I could see someone being embarrassed for other things about their experience, but not being a human.

Popper · 2021-02-24T13:59:41+00:00

Peiper was convicted in the Malmedy massacre trial and sentenced to death. The sentence was commuted, with Peiper serving twelve years in prison. Peiper was accused of committing the Boves massacre in Italy; the investigation was closed due to insufficient evidence that he directly issued the order to kill civilians. After his release from prison, Peiper worked for both Porsche and Volkswagen before moving to France, where he worked as a freelance translator. Throughout, he maintained frequent, albeit discreet, contact with his SS network, including HIAG, a Waffen-SS lobby group. Peiper was murdered in France in July 1976, after his identity as an SS member and war criminal had been publicized there.

A relatively insignificant combat leader, Peiper achieved cult status among those who romanticize the Waffen-SS.[1] With his good looks and a multitude of awards, Peiper came to represent the image of the daring Panzer divisions.[2] The admiration continues to the 2020s, with the official Facebook account of the United States Department of Defense featuring a glamorized picture of Peiper to commemorate the 2019 anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge.[3][4][5] The Waffen-SS historian Jens Westemeier stated that, "Peiper was an embodiment of the Nazi ideology and an egocentric, ruthless commander who ignored his own losses and created a culture within his unit where war crimes were not only tolerated but expected."[6]

Node · 2021-02-24T11:16:30+00:00

Standing near the edge can be pretty 'blackpilling', as they call it. Gray nailed it in his poem.

  No more; where ignorance is bliss,

  'Tis folly to be wise.

Vonnegut couldn't have chosen a more benign and massively understated word than 'embarrassment'. Can I have my ignorance back, please?

Questionable · 2021-02-24T10:38:59+00:00

Sometimes history is rewritten by the losers to obfuscate the past. And often as not the victors write down the history correctly. We can also take in the wrong lessons from history, drawing comparison based on over simplified appearances.

Interesting quote I suppose. But like most quotes meant to provide a lesson, it portrays a useful principle with wide applications, but can not be relied on as factual in every situation.

It may also suffer from it's translation. And can be weaponized as propaganda.

bobbobbybob · 2021-02-24T10:34:10+00:00

beautiful

bobbobbybob · 2021-02-24T10:24:27+00:00

my biggest concern. that this is the second such event in 80 years

EndlessSunflowers · 2021-02-24T10:14:26+00:00

More Great Vonnegut:

"Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded.
At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Kurt Vonnegut

Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let the pain make you hate. Do not let the bitter steal your sweetness.
Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree you still believe it to be a beautiful place. Kurt Vonnegut

Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance. Kurt Vonnegut

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

“Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs; so people pretend there is drama where there is none.” Kurt Vonnegut

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center. Kurt Vonnegut

"We were United World Federalists back then. I don't know what we are now. Telephoners I guess. We telephone a lot." Kurt Vonnegut

I break the chains that bind me. I leave the clown I was behind me. It was wonderful of you to remind me, that if I looked I would find me. Kurt Vonnegut, A Song for Selma

BeautifuLusers · 2021-02-23T17:16:45+00:00

Same orgin.

Chipit · 2021-02-23T17:13:41+00:00

Cretins, not Cretans.

BeautifuLusers · 2021-02-23T17:01:37+00:00

Ah. The Cretins. Paul said of them in his letter “Put them in mind to be in subjection to rulers, to authorities, to be obedient, to be ready unto every good work, to speak evil of no man, not to be contentious, to be gentle, showing all meekness toward all men. For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another. "

*edit The later part of the excerpt is the discription of a Cretin, and Paul is saying "we were all like this at one time before we knew Christ" but the Cretes were renown for this "assholedness" especially.

iDontShift · 2021-02-19T00:16:42+00:00

a back story about this quote. apparently the quote is not exactly true about when he said it and the position he held while saying it..

but apparently he did say it.

https://rense.com/general20/yes.htm

EndlessSunflowers · 2021-02-18T11:48:27+00:00

Few more great quotes from this man:

"Whatever you love to do, that's the sexiest part of you" Nick Offerman

"We are all brothers and sisters. I don't care if you're a librarian. I don't care if you're a litterbug. I don't care if you're a fan of celery. I don't care if you're that fuckin' guy. I don't care how low you are, we're all brothers and sisters on this planet. We're all sharing this space, and we all deserve the respect to treat each other with good manners. Say please and thank you. Get the door for each other. If somebody needs help with their groceries, jump up and give them a hand. You'll feel so much better -you'll blow their mind - feels incredible." Nick Offerman

"In wood working - everybody knows what a chisel is - it's a long flat piece of steel, the end of which forms a wedge shaped tip, that you sharpen to a very sharp edge, so sharp and strong, you can use it shape wood, like soap, or butter. and the first time you do that, correctly, you're hooked, you're bewitched. and everything in a wood shop is just some version of that chisel. A saw blade in a circular saw is just 36 little chisels in a machine that spins around. It's all just a form of a chisel shaping wood, and when you realize "I can shape this wood into anything I want to, it's so powerful, and I know I have a life time of study in front of me, that will be incredibly pleasing, just like eating pussy" Nick Offerman

"Avoid the mirror. The mirror, avoid it." Nick Offerman

"Intoxicants can provide some of the most beautiful and joyous moments in your life, they can certainly ignite your creativity, and just be fucking really fun, or you can use them like an asshole, and ruin it for the rest of us who just wanted to get high and go outside and look at a maple leaf." Nick Offerman

EndlessSunflowers · 2021-02-18T11:45:59+00:00

...... And what are people saying over that casket?

"Nice fucking shot, Chris."

Got any last words?

"Love one another, make something with your hands, and exalt the farmer."

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-02-10T10:06:15+00:00

I think I was feeling bad and obviously being fondled is a little out putting.

Melodic_Programmer · 2021-02-10T08:10:49+00:00

Context?

LarrySwinger2 · 2021-02-06T11:05:16+00:00

Do you have a source on that?

369 · 2021-02-06T01:36:26+00:00

Of course. The wage cage was developed to ensure the proles never learn about who is doing what, let alone how.

Jesus · 2021-02-05T23:06:35+00:00

Honegger was a 9/11 disinfo agent.

SilenceThem_Consume · 2021-02-05T20:15:21+00:00

Drumpf made a poo poo on the lawn today. Ignore the chin's puppet in your WH, pleblet.

LarrySwinger2 · 2021-02-05T17:42:31+00:00

The source is Barbara Honegger. Check out ErinCarson's post.

cisheteroscum · 2021-02-05T15:39:22+00:00

AWS kicked them off. What do you expect them to do?

Glad Russia is willing to host a free speech website and make money doing so at the expense of Amazon

Obbop · 2021-02-05T14:57:59+00:00

Balderdash. Losers mumble that trying to make up for their failures.

Winners bellow:

"To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the lamentation of their women. "

Then after the wenches are done crying enslave them to perform the dirty work and to serve the sexual wants and desires of their owners. Good times in days of yore.

Jesus · 2021-02-05T13:11:15+00:00

Fake

screwballeclipsed · 2021-02-05T06:11:36+00:00

It's awfully difficult to keep track of most of the shit that happens. It's an elaborate scheme that many cannot grasp.

369 · 2021-02-05T01:26:11+00:00

And let me tell you, hardly any of you have even the slightest of clues about what's really going on in the world.

zyxzevn · 2021-02-04T21:11:41+00:00

You are replying to what?

Popper · 2021-02-04T20:57:59+00:00

parler hosted on russian infrastructure

ErinCarson · 2021-02-04T16:36:27+00:00

https://conspiracyanalyst.org/2015/01/13/cia-flashback-well-know-our-disinformation-program-is-complete-when-everything-the-american-public-believes-is-false/

jet199 · 2021-02-03T18:31:39+00:00

You mean you haven't noticed their voices sounding funny?

The helium goes in the arsehole because it rises up the body and leaks it through the mouth which is why they have to hold their lips in a rictus closed smile all the time.

Xihaon · 2021-02-02T14:09:29+00:00

I thought helium only makes the voice sound funny. What hole are they using?

jet199 · 2021-02-02T14:01:47+00:00

Americans are ahead of the test of us in the pursuit of physical excellence.

They might look fat but actually they inflate themselves with helium.

Xihaon · 2021-02-02T13:06:48+00:00

Fliers?

EndlessSunflowers · 2021-02-01T14:09:34+00:00

Great book!

Zapped · 2021-01-31T12:58:40+00:00

Yes. Sometimes people in authority feel like they have to do something to justify their job, even if they are only in that position in case they are needed. It's like the old saying goes: if you're a hammer, everything else is a nail.

TokLwdSaNthg · 2021-01-30T22:52:26+00:00

“Extremes to the right and to the left of any political dispute are always wrong”. - Dwight D. Eisenhower

magnora7 · 2021-01-30T22:12:03+00:00

What matters more is what is said, not who said it

Akali · 2021-01-30T20:35:01+00:00

Agreed, the path to hell is paved with good intention.

Xihaon · 2021-01-30T19:41:55+00:00

The state was supposed to protect people from other states and bandits, so they can freely pursuit their idea of happiness. Not to endlessly advance its favorite causes.

wristaction · 2021-01-30T14:45:18+00:00

The thing is that all authentically held causes need to seek power in order to advance themselves and all powerful cabals, regardless of how corrupt and self-dealing they are, advance a pretextual cause.

Zapped · 2021-01-30T13:00:33+00:00

It's funny that you said "both parties" instead of "any party", but I know what you mean.

Zapped · 2021-01-30T12:58:13+00:00

I don't know if I agree with this quote. I think "advancing a cause" can be much different than protecting the foundation and principles of a good society.

magnora7 · 2021-01-30T06:54:07+00:00

And that applies to both parties

AndyMaleh · 2021-01-21T05:52:22+00:00

Oscar Wilde is a faggot. I don’t take any advice from him. Even if he were to repeat good advice from someone else, he corrodes it with his faggotry. No thanks! That’s like some money comes from followers of Satan. Some comes from followers of God. One kind destroys. The other saves. Know what’s what before accepting advice from anyone. If they don’t serve God, the advice can’t help a soul. It just tricks them into sympathy while stealing behind their backs.

Godspeed.

AndyMaleh · 2021-01-21T05:22:39+00:00

And yet that’s exactly how the enemy gets you by defeating you culturally first with a “short appealing read”.

Godspeed.

bobbobbybob · 2021-01-20T08:45:10+00:00

I like this.

Not having a phone to enable your tracking is probably a good idea.

remember kids, leave them at home when you go out into the world.

adultmanhwa · 2021-01-19T23:56:20+00:00

don't forget ignorance is a bliss, and that's not a fool maybe he's just one-punchman

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-01-19T17:52:19+00:00

Remember when seeking revenge to dig two graves.

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-01-19T17:50:38+00:00

The Art of War is a good read. It does have strategically sound advice. Short too. More like the pamphlet of war.

AndyMaleh · 2021-01-19T05:19:21+00:00

Never listen to advice from a chinc! Even spewing “helpful advice” is part of covert cultural warfare. Godspeed.

fschmidt · 2021-01-18T04:28:28+00:00

There is no remembrance of those who came before; and of those who will come after there will also be no remembrance by those who follow them.

Ecclesiastes 1:11

wristaction · 2021-01-18T01:06:22+00:00

Who's making a mistake? Is this more of that special Q plan-trusting by which apparent defeats are hidden, ultimate victories?

Tom_Bombadil · 2021-01-18T01:05:39+00:00

Cause the Yahoo cops let them in.

christnmusicreleases · 2021-01-18T00:31:03+00:00

That was Napoleon Bonaparte. Sun Tzu's quotation was "If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by."

TyranaSoreWristWreck · 2021-01-18T00:02:59+00:00

It's the second one.

Node · 2021-01-17T23:46:48+00:00

The caveat is you need to have 5D chess skills and be able to grasp the actual big picture. Did they screw up and lose a piece, or is that loss a trap that leads to your downfall.

Node · 2021-01-17T23:42:17+00:00

"Look, they're going to storm right into our trap."

FediNetizen · 2021-01-17T23:38:15+00:00

Exactly why a bunch of yahoos were able to storm the capitol building.

Vigte · 2021-01-17T21:23:46+00:00

One of the most universal of his teachings. Love it.

Applies to everything!

Order yours now!

weightypoplar · 2021-01-16T15:35:19+00:00

Those voices even have names, they are Facts, Logic, and My brain.

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-16T14:49:57+00:00

I believe you are correct. I knew it when I posted it too. That's why I reverse ordered the 4 mods of /s/Music. M7 rarely listens to me anyway, and I figure the other 3 would be more likely to make those subs if they cared to. It seemed weird to completely axe the 4th though.

fediverseshill · 2021-01-16T08:33:04+00:00

Bareack in 2016: luul we just prosecuted more whistleblowers than ANY other administration before us!!!! suckers!!!!

AmericanMuskrat · 2021-01-15T17:59:04+00:00

I dunno if it works the same here, but if you tag more than 3 people on reddit it won't notify anyone.

EndlessSunflowers · 2021-01-15T10:07:19+00:00

"Too many grown-ups tend to put themselves into little rooms with windows that don't open and doors that are locked,
and they want to close themselves off to any new ideas." Madeleine L'Engle

EndlessSunflowers · 2021-01-15T10:00:50+00:00

Old outdated ideas like: shallow money worship, an all powerful man in the clouds, the 40+ hour work week, corporate news, corrupt politicians with too much power, the steady rise of inflation, the unending for-profit war machine, blurry poisoned miserable alcoholic lifestyles, tv hypnotism, etc, etc, etc …...

hennaojichan · 2021-01-14T22:33:59+00:00

De Nile ain't just a river in Africa. — Mark Twain

JasonCarswell · 2021-01-14T21:40:27+00:00

No /s/Lyrics, /s/SpokenWord, or /s/PerformanceArt yet?!? /s/Music sidebox says no, though it's full and it seems time to start /s/Music/wiki for sub references and so much more.

cc /u/christnmusicreleasesMusic, /u/Stankmango, /u/d3rr, /u/magnora7

whistlepig · 2021-01-14T18:49:10+00:00

the hollywood affect... even affected Carlin

EndlessSunflowers · 2021-01-14T10:49:34+00:00

"Christianity and alcohol, the two great means of corruption.” - The Portable Nietzsche, page 652

Money is # 3 (along with greed, selfishness, shallow materialism, private property... etc etc)

369 · 2021-01-13T11:59:43+00:00

That's odd, considering that Socrates is practically the inventor of provocation.
Calling people a bunch of names is helpful for a variety of reasons, most just don't think about them or care to use them.

anescapee · 2021-01-13T08:11:29+00:00

For civil war you need two armies. You have one. One and a bunch of loosely connected rebels, which are now being described as insurgents. All that talk about FEMA camps? Well you know what they are there for now.

enefi · 2021-01-13T06:16:57+00:00

Maybe it's from Bruce Lee? I don't know, I saw very similar quote from Buffett I think and in the pic there isn't any author, so I left it out from the title. I hope that's okay.

Optimus85 · 2021-01-12T23:33:42+00:00

The origin and authorship of the quote seem to be debated but it's a good statement nonetheless.

d3rr · 2021-01-12T14:11:58+00:00

"Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind." Thomas Jefferson

Now this is something I can work with. Thanks TJ.

EndlessSunflowers · 2021-01-12T11:42:25+00:00

"Don't talk about what you have done or what you are going to do." Thomas Jefferson

"Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you." Thomas Jefferson

tomatosplat · 2021-01-11T20:20:22+00:00

Among the first ones lined up against the wall.

TheAmeliaMay · 2021-01-11T16:40:03+00:00

Remember when Twitter censored the Green Party candidate? Even if you're on the far left, don't think it won't happen to you too.

Iloveyounowfuckoff · 2021-01-10T01:04:04+00:00

Are you not mightily taxed?

That's not the hand of god reaching into your life.

magnora7 · 2021-01-09T18:55:09+00:00

Politics is just the HR department for billionaires to control hundreds of millions of people.

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex" - Frank Zappa

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