Citations Needed: The Tiktok

  • Grebgreb [he/him, they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I tried to read the quote at the end and gave up after tiktok automatically unpaused+restarted the video four times, I did my part. :07:

    If this person doesn't have a youtube or a podcast where they explain this stuff in a better format I feel like they're missing out, this video by itself seems like it could contain enough information to be a Blowback season or something.

    • TerminalEncounter [she/her]
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      edit-2
      2 years ago

      "All over the world, wherever there are capitalists, 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 bourgeoisie."

      - VI Lenin 1921, A Letter To G. Myasnikov

      (Also worth a read on its own! It's a short letter)