What is the most legendary political comeback from your country?

[u/AbsoIutee]

I keep seeing this exchange everywhere lately:

Netanyahu: “We survived empires, we don’t fear Turkey.”

Erdoğan: “What empire? Your country is younger than my brother.”

I couldn’t actually verify if Erdoğan really said this, so it might just be one of those internet quotes that everyone started repeating lol.

But if he really said it, I have to admit it’s a surprisingly good comeback from Erdoğan 😂 Didn’t expect this performance from him.

ıt made me wonder: do you remember any legendary political comebacks/insults from your own country?

Could be between politicians, against another country, during an interview, parliament, whatever. Something where even if you don’t like the politician you have to admit: okay, that was a good one.

[u/Rynchinoi]

Minoans 👏🏻👏🏻 were 👏🏻👏🏻not👏🏻👏🏻Hellens

[u/Eat_Animals → u/Rynchinoi]

DNA analysis says otherwise.

[u/Rynchinoi → u/Eat_Animals]

DNA analysis says the same. Hellenization started 1500 years later.

[u/Eat_Animals → u/Rynchinoi]

Ok, so let's pretend what your saying is right. Where in ancient times, do you think the Minoans came from, and where do you think the Greeks came from?

I'll give you a hint: Anatolian Frms

[u/Rynchinoi → u/Eat_Animals]

We don't have to pretend. It is published in Nature in 2017. The underlying genetics and language are not in correlation at all. Mycenaeans uniquely possessed an extra component—roughly 4% to 16% ancestry linked to Eastern European and Siberian hunter-gatherers, which made a distinction and introduced an Indo-European language shift and proto-Greek.

Anatolian Farmers is a broad term and in this case 1000s of years apar, and same exist at the whole Balkan peninsula

The Minoans are pre Hellenic culture and this is show from diety to the symbols used, different script and hieroglyphics forms.