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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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[–] [email protected] 42 points 5 months ago (1 children)

“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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Holy shit really

Wow https://youtube.com/watch?v=VDRK0MyuuIM

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy: