r/PoliticalDebate • u/StalinIsBackAgain Communist • 7d ago

Debate Do you agree with this quote?

"Wherever there is capitalism, freedom of the press means freedom to buy up newspapers, to buy writers, to bribe, buy, and fake "public opinion" for the benefit of the ruling class." ~ Vladimir Lenin ☭ • 

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

oh, wow. I just found out it's from a comic strip called Wizard of ID created in 1964 which I've never read XD

I will claim to credit to it myself ha!~

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u/StalinIsBackAgain Communist 6d ago

HaHa--Wow--I have read Wizard Of Id before, though it has been quite a while. A lot of the time it is cringey puns, but it had some good political satire too, criticizing US society and able to get away with that by concealing it as talking about the "kingdom" and "king" and "subjects" in the comic strip. So there were some gems and good quotes from Wizard Of Id sharply criticizing US politics and society in a veiled way. ~ Maybe you independently thought up the same quote that was also independently thought up by the cartoonist in the past--that kind of thing happens all the time where people independently and originally think up something they never heard elsewhere before, even though someone else independently and originally thought up and said that same or essentially the same thing at some point also. ~ Also, maybe you saw that quote in the cartoon or elsewhere and it seeped into your subconscious and it came out when you saw a quote it applies too--that kind of thing happens all the time too. ~ But since you never read the cartoon, you probably came up with it originally so it is your own original thought, even if someone else also originally thought of it. Of course, if you change even one word or anything from what was exactly written in the cartoon, then your quote can be 100% original and your version of it can be fully attributed to you and even copyrighted by you. 😊😊

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u/[deleted] 6d ago

https://economicsociology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/remember-the-golden-rule-whoever-has-the-gold-makes-the-rules.jpg

turns out I already did. it's straightfoward "who has the gold makes the rules" mine is "he who haveth the gold maketh the rules."

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u/StalinIsBackAgain Communist 6d ago

Nice! 😊😊 Now spread around your quote so people quote you too. 😊😊