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[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.

― Vladimir Ilich Lenin


This comment is not legal advice.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Sell the people torches and pitchforks, which they promptly use to stab and char you. As they say, sell them shovels in a gold rush.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Except today, it would be a shovel that is designed to break at around 100 uses so that you have to come back to buy a new shovel every few days or so.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

You rent the shovel and it's geotagged to your region.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Nah see, the trick is to first convince the buyers other average people are the enemy. Double the sales, none of the consequences.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

Great quote, gotta keep that one in pocket for when this “hypocrisy” is pointed out every few days

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Shut the fuck up, Donny, you're out of your element

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Goo goo gajoo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

I think the earliest documented version of this quote (1955 October 31, The Commonwealth: Official Journal of the Commonwealth Club of California) is more intriguing:

Lenin wrote, “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”

—Major George Racey Jordan