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Mélanie Berliet

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“You read the papers and you’re led to believe that the world is a big, scary place. People, the narrative goes, are not to be trusted. People are bad. People are evil. I don’t buy it. Evil is a make-believe concept we’ve invented to deal with the complexities of fellow humans holding values and beliefs and perspectives different than our own. By and large, humans are kind. Self-interested sometimes, myopic sometimes, but kind. Generous and wonderful and kind.”
— Jay Austin, The Cyclists and the ISIS Militants
Tagged: Good And Evil, What Makes Up The World
“We have Malala sit on a flag and free-bleed. The interesting thing was, we noticed that when she free-bled on our nation's flag, the American flag started resembling the Chinese flag. And so we've started this menstrual flag program, and it's actually sponsored by the Clinton Foundation, and it's proving to be popular.”
— Nira Cain-N’Degeocello, Who Is America?, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: China vs. America, Clinton Foundation Jokes, Free Bleeding, period
“The NRA want to arm the teachers. This is crazy. They should be arming the children.”
— Erran Morad, Who Is America?, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: NRA, Kids and Guns
“I have moments of doubt where I think the only thing I'm good for is bashing people on the head. And that maybe I'm mad with this dream of becoming a world-famous artist just by using my shit and cum.”
— Ricky Sherman, Who Is America?, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Making Art Jokes, When You've Spent Most of Your Life In Prison But You're Actually An Artist
“Here’s the paradox: Every day, we see more unapologetically self-assured female role models, yet women’s extreme prostration seems only to have increased.”
— Sloane Crosley, Why Women Apologize, Andy Why They Should Stop
Tagged: Etiquette, Apologies
“I do not want you to judge me for this, but there was a time when my partner, Naomi, took a porpoise lover. A dolphin that she met in Tulum. I found it very difficult being cuckolded by a dolphin.”
— Nira Cain-N’Degeocello, Who Is America?, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Dolphins, Beastiality, Having Sex With Dolphins
“I was a healthy man, and Obamacare came in. I was forced to see a doctor. And suddenly, I had three diseases. Suddenly, I had, uh, diabetes one and two, I had obese legs, and I had chalky deposits.”
— Billy Wayne Ruddick, Who Is America?, Season 1: Episode 1
Tagged: Obamacare
“The goal was to preserve more fine details of the skin texture, but also not to alter the face dramatically. There are still areas needing finer retouch though! I am studying anatomy to maximize realism!”
— Rousselos Aravantinos, Dramatic Age Reduction(VIDEO)
Tagged: Age Reduction
“Snail mail might never make a comeback, but the pleasures of one-on-one communication are evergreen.”
— Jeremy Gordon, Let’s all go back to Tumblr
Tagged: Tumblr, Snail Mail, Different Types of Communication
“Aesthetics in literature are important, but literature as aesthetics makes me nervous. When did a candle-topped pyramid of paperbacks become a symbol of depth?”
— Sloane Crosley, The Virtues Of Shelf-lessness
Tagged: Books, library