#election

In the span of three years, the Iraqi people participated in three elections, drafted a constitution, and elected a new government. While more work remains, this is remarkable progress. ↗

— Tim Murphy

#drafted #elected #elections #government #iraqi

I've noticed that in the U.S., when the president hits the three-year mark in office, he goes into re-election campaigning. ↗

— Lee Myung-bak

#goes #hits #i #into #mark

Basically, the start of my thinking process is: 'OK, if you didn't have to worry about re-election, what would you be doing?' That's kind of how I'm starting to think. ↗

— Ray Nagin

#basically #doing #how #i #kind

After listening to Rick Santorum, I'm now for late-term abortions (say up to age 53). ↗

— Quentin R. Bufogle

#birth-control #presidential-election #rick-santorum #women-s-rights #age

The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. ↗

— George Washington

#history #patriotism #political-parties #political-philosophy #politics

They’re called sock puppets. We create armies of artificial online personas – user accounts that espouse views certain interested parties want espoused. We flood forums, online comment sections, social media. ... It’s amazing what a few people and a little money can accomplish online. Our puppets have turned whole elections. … Everything the public sees is managed. If there’s a valuable brand to protect – whether it’s a person or a dish soap – these fuckers are out there protecting it, shaping the narrative. I mean… who the hell follows dish soap on Twitter? How does anyone believe that shit’s real? (p. 292-294) ↗

— Daniel Suarez

#artificial #computer #election #internet #manipulation

Rosa Parks sat so Martin Luther King could walk. Martin Luther King walked so Obama could run. Obama's running so we all can fly. ↗

— Jay-Z

#election #music #obama #politics #usa

It wasn't torpor that kept her - she was often restless to the point of irritability. She simply liked to feel that she was prevented from leaving, that she was needed. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#mutation #natural-selection #nature

Natural selection involves no plan, no goal, and no direction — just genes increasing and decreasing in frequency depending on whether individuals with those genes have, relative to other individuals, greater or lesser reproductive success. ↗

— Randolph M. Nesse

#natural-selection #nature

To win the people, always cook them some savoury that pleases them. ↗

— Aristophanes

#falsehood #government #hypocrisy #politics #popularity