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submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Groggio@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

Help find similar quotes? related: Voters upset choosing between the two US oligarch partys "get over yourselves" said Hillary.

I thought this would make a good post if I could find 3 or 4 quotes from modern autocrat leaders, and also historic autocratic leaders. Iconic like Bush's "mission accomplished" and other poigniant sound-bite sentences that boils down the very essence on out-of-touch dictator lackeys just spewing utterly inane nothings at a time of historic social change.

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[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 60 points 7 months ago

"Nothing will fundamentally change" has got to be up there on the list.

[-] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

"I won't apologize for the United States. I don't care what the facts are" is also a banger.

[-] CDommunist@hexbear.net 42 points 7 months ago

“Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!”

brandon speaking to a group of coal miners in 2019

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)
[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 7 months ago

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[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 41 points 7 months ago

I will preserve the principle of Autocracy as firmly and unflinchingly as my late father.

Not so great prediction from ol Nicholas the II

[-] davel@hexbear.net 37 points 7 months ago

Another Iron Lady banger (emphasis mine):

I think we've been through a period where too many people have been given to understand that if they have a problem, it's the government's job to cope with it. 'I have a problem, I'll get a grant.' 'I'm homeless, the government must house me.' They're casting their problem on society. And, you know, there is no such thing as society. There are individual men and women, and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look to themselves first. It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour. People have got the entitlements too much in mind, without the obligations. There's no such thing as entitlement, unless someone has first met an obligation.

[-] PKMKII@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

Thats the neurotic paradox of conservatism under neoliberalism: society is a thing that doesn’t exist, but also it needs to be protected from foreigners/debauchery/wokeness.

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 10 points 7 months ago

It's our duty to look after ourselves and then, also to look after our neighbour.

there is no such thing as society

Deeply Unserious

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 34 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I'm thinking...

Beer brewed around, is used to make beer around, is wuzzafaduh ooh Earth rider, thanks for the Great Lakes (Biden, at Earth Rider brewery)

Then there's:

Wolfgang Schäuble, the former German finance minister, put it, that ‘elections cannot be allowed to change economic policy’. (Something something, the E.U imposed austerity onto Greece, against the will of Yanis and the people there)

[-] TrudeauCastroson@hexbear.net 33 points 7 months ago

"I personally, as a mother and wife, look carefully at my credit card bill once a month, and last Sunday I said to the kids, 'You're older now. You don't watch Disney anymore. Let's cut that Disney+ subscription,"'

"I believe that I need to take exactly the same approach with the federal government's finances, because that's the money of Canadians."

  • Canada's finance minister with a Ukrainian Nazi grandfather Chrystia Freeland; on inflation.
[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

Vote Blue No Matter Who michael-laugh

[-] chungusamonugs@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago

hillgasm Pokémon go to the polls!

Also biden saying to fund the police in the SOTU after George Floyd. The exact quote disgusts me to such avail that I refuse to look it up.

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 4 points 7 months ago

I think that one got a standing ovation.

[-] Rx_Hawk@hexbear.net 32 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

A few months ago I told the American people that I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true, but the facts and evidence tell me it is not.

-Reagan

[-] SexUnderSocialism@hexbear.net 27 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I make no apologies for being the most pro-union president in American history.

[-] anarchoilluminati@hexbear.net 23 points 7 months ago

Happy birthday to this future president.

[-] Mardoniush@hexbear.net 14 points 7 months ago

Now the northern countries which were in their islands were quivering in their bodies. They penetrated the channels of the river mouths [the Nile Delta]. They struggle for breath, their nostrils cease. His Majesty is gone out like a whirlwind against them fighting on the battlefield like a runner, the dread of him and the terror have entered their bodies, they are capsized and overwhelmed where they are. Their heart is taken away and their soul is flown away, their weapons are scattered upon the sea. -Ramasses III, last major Pharoah of the New Kingdom, about the Sea Peoples.

Later in his reign was the first recorded strike in history, when his tomb builders stopped work due to lack of payment or supply.

[-] Pisha@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

I believe we are on an irreversible trend towards more freedom and democracy, but that could change.

I know it's almost cheating to use Dan Quayle, but this quote really says something about the liberal imagination of history as a march of progress that sometimes just goes in the wrong direction for a bit.

[-] itappearsthat@hexbear.net 11 points 7 months ago

The "let them eat cake" thing is not real in a historical sense btw

[-] krolden@lemmy.ml 10 points 7 months ago

Israel has the right to protect itself

[-] Coasting0942@reddthat.com 7 points 7 months ago

The Emperor Protects

[-] charlie@hexbear.net 6 points 7 months ago

“Tick Tock Toe, everyone a winner” isn’t nearly as bad as others here, but that cringe was palpable

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