Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down.
And we have nuclear *fucking* weapons.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Hey, this is Europe. We took it from nobody; we won it from the bare soil that the ice left. The bones of our ancestors, and the stones of their works, are everywhere. Our liberties were won in wars and revolutions so terrible that we do not fear our governors: they fear us. Our children giggle and eat ice-cream in the palaces of past rulers. We snap our fingers at kings. We laugh at popes. When we have built up tyrants, we have brought them down.
And we have nuclear *fucking* weapons." in the context of "USENET posting to rec.sf.arts.fandom (28 September 2000), in the discussion of Robert A. Heinlein's quote "The cowards never started and the weaklings died on the way." from Expanded Universe, "How to be a Survivor in the Atomic Age")" to mean that wisdom is timeless.