Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"Is it the truth or are you just fucking kidding me?

You want to make this fire in Maphilindo even bigger.
x2

Old friend from the previous war,

You'll run the T-100 right over yourself.

Do not pick a fight with the defiant Singaporeans,

You will lose your fleet of black Baikonurs."
-Antic Order soldier near Mechanocracy-occupied Banyuwangi

"Banyuwangi was only an exception. If Fegelein wasn't that dumb and could actually use more conventional antics (and actually know the russophile offensive being planned at the very moment in that area), they could have saved energy to shoot down a few Baikonurs before being nuked. Also, how the fuck the local civilians didn't organize resistance is beyond me and I certainly didn't see any Antic going on."
-PLAYER

[True Refuge]

"When Dr Samun invented the ISBMs, I was pleased. Now we have a weapon that near-literally rain death on solar systems hundreds of light-years away using an advanced mini-warp drive. Unfortunately, King Jimothy won't let me use them...

General Jason Ex, Chief Military Strategist.

[Auroya]

"Are you ready to order, madam?"

"Yes, I'll have the meat, please."

"And what about the vegetables, madam?"

"They'll have the meat too."

--- Lady Langley a. Arneth at a restaurant with her advisors

[Bereia]

"I believe a job should be handed to the person who knows best how to do it, and that isn't always the person whose wall is covered in the most degrees."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Greater Mackonia]

"True Meritocracy means one must recognise those who fail do so by their own fault-and that helping them is fundamentally perverse. Man has become God and Gods do not fail."

-Tseila Kathangi.

[Dominated Earth]

"It is true that humans tend not to be able to keep up the technological progress. That's where we come in to force them to keep up"

- Al Bashir, Minister of Technological and Scientific Advancement

[Fatatatutti]

"To spank a child is not abuse, as long as it is done properly. It is a way of getting the child's attention to let them know that a given behavior, throwing food for example, is unacceptable and will bring nothing but discomfort if it continues."

-- Iris Christie, Citizen & Marine Reservist.

"Assault is assault. Take away one person's right not to be assaulted and you're on a slippery slope to a society where nobody is safe."
-- Warner Lee, Law Society of Fatatatutti

[Auzkhia]

"Oh, we just have cauliflowers for if a vegetarian comes."
-Heinrich der Ältere

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"... And then she fired a ping-pong ball out of her fanny and said: 'So is this your first stay at the Travel Lodge?
And that's the story of how I became a Member of Parliament."

-Kangaroo Dick, MP

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"If you say enough catchphrases often enough, you'll eventually be a mega-star. Or as Enzo Amore would put it: I'm a certified stud and a bonifide G and you can't teach that, sawft, how you doing, nice to meetch, love to seetch, bada-boom, realest guy in da room."

-Former wrestling manager Adam D'seevon

[Bereia]

"In a true meritocratic society, the most capable are given rewards and duties in keeping with their output, but that does not mean legal protections cannot be extended to all on equal terms."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

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"In a meritocratic society, the strong and the capable are bound by duty to the weak and the incapable. The weak, bluntly put, are carried on the backs of the strong. Yes, there are rewards to be had, such as power, wealth, and some measure of privilege, but in the end the strong man is not elevated so that he may step on the weak, but so that he may guarantee their safety. If he should happen to lose his way and seek only to advance his own power, then he is torn down and cast into the mud where he belongs."

-- President Dalton Barbosa.

[Etarr]

"a new day has basked us in light to write a new page in the worlds chronicoles, in fresh soil to create what we seek. By Firmness and small steps we place the base of life for our next generation. "
- Edmund Lerner, founder of Etarr

[Terra Britania]

"The firearm has solved more of society's problems than a signature on a treaty and a handshake."

- Gen. Raymond Bingham, opposing the attempted peace talks with a Middle-Eastern terrorist group

[Autem Galacticus Nexum]

"The Universe does not care about your rights as a human being; no one truly does."

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• The Sickened Mind

[Euro Asian Republics]

"They may all look the same to you, but there are different kinds and different levels of evil. A first class villain doesn't just target honest lives." -- Sören Koenig, member of Academy City's underworld, September 9, 2020

[Allancia]

"A myriad of routes can be used. You can go through the mountains, you can fly through the air, you can take this dangerous mountain path that hasn't been seen in over 500 years.
Or you could destroy the mountains with artillery. That works."

-Unknown

[Las Palmeras]

"Hey, boy, is that you in the door? I just saw some British movie about a cretin robot expert and his disgusting boss. It also has a robot bitch and a creepy sex slave- none of them were really likable. Come to think of it, the Japanese robot is somewhat like your wife, but like a high-end model.

Why must you be so cruel to me Mother?! Besides, that would never happen in Las Palmeras. I read it in newspaper polls. 69% of the populace dislikes robots and 65% feels uncomfortable about...eh...AI. 'Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a man's mind'? "
-Montserrat and Tsuneko Zorilla

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"Damn RetCon! Since when did Las Palmeras lead the world to a manual Future?!"
-???

[Xekliv]

"I can see clearly now, the rain has gone."

-- Xeklivian shaman

[Estainia]

"Mate."

"Oh, Cornelius, hello."

"You are fucking cursed."

"Oh?"

"This is the second time you've woken up in a field on a sunny day happened upon by an idiot hero with little memory of your past exploits."

"That it is. I remember you, at least."

"I leave an impression on people."

"I think it has more to do with the fact it's been a thousand years and a continent away and you haven't changed at all." - part of a conversation between Cornelius A. Maximilian and a tactician

[Greater Mackonia]

"The definition of meritocracy is rule by those who earn their power through ability, it has jack shit to do with 'the strong helping the weak', its about the best ruling the rest and if that means sending the weak to the gallows and dragging them there if they dwardle that is entirely compatible with Meritocracy. It may very well disagree with the moral diktats of the sky-jew or the omnipotent lawyers of New York: but that does not make it any less a Meritocracy and insisting otherwise is plain idiocy.

Likewise Britain is not a Meritocracy and any jumped up socialist who tries to use Britain to somehow discredit Meritocracy is an idiot, in Britain leadership is selected based on a popularity contest and thus favours those who have just enough ability to keep things the same but not an iota of intellect to question that status quo. One cannot be a Democracy and a Meritocracy the two terms are wholly exclusive, if you even remotely believe that those with ability should rule you should set your face like flint against those who passionately believe society should be governed by naught but mass consent with no remote regard for talent.

Furthermore any self-respecting Meritocracy must be able to legitimately tell itself that those who are at the top genuinely are so on merit. Not, for example, on wealth. So long as wealth determines merit and not vis versa no true Meritocracy is possible. Given wealth is frequently passed down arbitrarily and verily can be earned thusly also, it is laughable to presume a Meritocracy will remain true in a wholly laissez-faire society. The Meritocrats must swiftly bring business to heel but limit its intervention solely to providing equal competition between individuals. It is indefensible to believe an heirling educated at the finest public schools via the aid of private tutors and the third daughter of heroin junkies living in council housing could both be said to have earned their fates by their merits. This is by no means an attack upon the individual, it is a defense of the individual. Under Capitalism arbitrary social conditions such as these are allowed to subordinate the individual and hence weaken the cause of individualism giving the socialists fodder to abolish it all together."

-Premier Lithastir Mythurin.

[Fatatatutti]

"So-called 'meritocracy' depends entirely on who decides what merit is. Invariably it's the ones who already have the power patting themselves on the back."
-- former President Mickey Chang

[Ashkera]

"I don't know what you expected. Have you seen the stuff we're putting on television in this country? Have you not noticed the trend for each new work to try and be more 'sophisticated' and 'edgy' than the last, becoming more and more pretentious? Of course it turned out like this!"
- citizen arguing, regarding local pornography

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"Meritocracy is what you get when you eliminate excessive inheritance, private schooling, and all child poverty, including ensuring all children have nutritious meals and adequately large houses, so that being 'born-well' doesn't give you an unfair advantage. The next step is to place limits on high-end pay and enforce a high minimum wage, then create an adequate welfare state and free healthcare system, to ensure that people's work is actually being rewarded for what it's worth, and not for how little they are willing to work for when the alternative is starvation, or how much they can reward themselves with once they make it to the gravy train, and so that a freak illness or injury doesn't result in unearned penury. Next you need strong unions, so that a work-dispute isn't being fought one-on-one, with a massive corporation with a fleet of lawyers and inexhaustible money and influence on one side, and one single underpaid worker on the other... I mean, those are Goldberg vs V.K. Wallstreet odds. Next you'll need a strongly-funded system of legal-aid, so that the law isn't a two-class system, and money doesn't buy you justice... Look at the companies like Apple who blatantly ripped off the exact design for the iPod from a university student's idea in the 80's, when it was merely an academic exercise, and then turned around and sued Samsung for creating 'a tablet computer with Apple's trademark rectangle with rounded corners design.'

All in all, it takes a lot of work to even get close to meritocracy... Surely the closer we get the better, as a fairer world is no doubt worth building? Or perhaps theres' a limit... Perhaps no one's actually talented enough to legitimately and fairly earn the fortune required to fund the building of a new cable-network or a new satellite-design, or even a new Ribbleshead Viaduct... Or maybe these super-projects could be funded by co-operatives in the future, who knows, or indeed cares, we're far from there now. The fact remains that if a person sat on the modern equivalent of a gold throne carried by slaves says that the only thing required for meritocracy is 'Government leaving well alone,' they fly in the face of basic logic, common sense and established fact, and should be ignored, regardless of how many ads they pay for or conservative stooge politicians they pay to elect."

-The Great Long-Conk MP (Famed for zer humorous luminous nose)

[Bereia]

"If you want to know how to prevent the destruction of your dignity and the suppression of your God-given rights, a wise idea is to find all those in society who seek power, and keep them from it."

-- President Dalton Barbosa.

[Fatatatutti]

"If you want to know how to prevent the destruction of your dignity and the suppression of your God-given rights, a wise idea is to find all those in society who seek power, and keep them from it."

-- President Dalton Barbosa.

"Those who abuse their power often do it in the name of 'gods'."
-- former President Mickey Chang

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"If you want to know how to prevent the destruction of your dignity and the suppression of your God-given rights, a wise idea is to find all those in society who seek power, and keep them from it."

-- President Dalton Barbosa.

"Ah, so we should take Donald Trump and David Rockefeller's money away, lest they control employee's lives, massacre strikers, or influence political discourse, got ya.

But one problem with your plan: Those people who wish to utilise the power to keep people who want power from attaining power... Surely we should be keeping them from that power?"

-Satirist Ezekiel Thrombosis