Oh, so that's why Randy keeps remaking the 'simple words' gag. He thinks it's totally cool to just do the same thing over and over again, much like Weezer, burn!
The thing about these White Hat comics is that we never get any context for what he's saying. The whole point of the comic is for Randy to rail against whatever particular turn of phrase is irritating him today.
And what a weird particular turn of phrase it is. I wish that this was a multi-panel comic, where he really went in-depth with his reasoning. Is his whole thing that it's a cliché and it doesn't necessarily change people's minds? Or is it, as the alt-text implies so condescendingly, that it misrepresents the medical condition of insanity?
Anyway, here's my defense of the insanity quote: If you do the same thing over and over expecting a different result, that is a foolish course of action. You can hit a tree with a feather all you want, but maybe try an axe instead if you want it to fall down. I can't think of any examples of people trying the same tactic over and over and eventually it worked, but I can think of a lot of examples of people trying the same thing over and over and it keeps failing for the same reasons. That's what that quote is intended to highlight, at least most of the time. Maybe in this instance, White Hat is using it completely incorrectly, but since we aren't shown what he's saying it in reference to, I'm going to have to assume that Randy's just being a presumptuous asshole here. Especially when he's saying "has it convinced anyone to change their mind yet". I really don't think anyone is expecting anyone else to change their minds based on a well-known quote, quotes are more of a supplementary material to a larger argument.
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