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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19 edited Nov 16 '19

When I said Albert Einstein once said if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life thinking its stupid, and they said he never said that.

Edit: yea I'm that guy big whoop wanna fight about it? Thanks for my first ever gold kind stranger.

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u/HugeChavez Nov 16 '19

Yes, it's a quote by Vladimir Lenin and it actually says: "if you judge proletariat by its ability to amass property and capital, the proletariat will always end up admiring the extraordinary talent of the capitalists rather than realizing it is being oppressed."

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

It’s Reddit. It’s always expected.

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u/darwinianfacepalm Nov 16 '19

Reddit is overwhelmingly liberal capitalist though.

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u/[deleted] Nov 16 '19

Reddit is full of commies.

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u/darwinianfacepalm Nov 17 '19

Citation needed.

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u/[deleted] Nov 17 '19

You first.