@SeraphimDawn  
Joe Biden actually dropped out of a race back in 1988 because of plagiarism. So the idea that it is not a big deal is questionable; it can be, as it draws your integrity into question.
 
Especially when, you know, you plagiarize something about integrity and hard work.
 
Moreover, that Brietbart page contained some obvious nonsense (hardly surprising - they’re a notoriously unreliable news source). The claims about Hillary Clinton plagiarizing were a link to them accusing her of plagiarizing from herself when she wrote a book (which is nonsense in context - the only situation in which that’s relevant is if you’ve sold the original material, or if you’re lying about something being new, neither of which were the case), and complaining that she “stole Bernie Sanders’ talking points” (you cannot own an idea).
 
Sadly, that sort of dishonesty is all too common with people like that, who don’t really understand the issues at hand. Especially when they are trying to defend neo-Nazis.
 
On the other hand, there are many instances of people plagiarizing. Generally speaking, how big of a deal plagiarism is depends on a variety of factors.
 
As Melania is not a politician, it really doesn’t matter very much, it is just embarrassing for the Trump campaign.
 
The list is extremely poorly constructed, incidentally - plagiarizing your thesis is extremely serious. Biden got slammed for his plagiarism because he was plagiarizing a story which was supposedly about himself. Conversely, Clinton’s section was pure nonsense (ironically, the sort of thing you can get in trouble for if you are a real journalist), while Obama’s plagarism was more rhetorical and the guy who he cribbed it from didn’t care.

@Titanium Dragon  
Look who Obama plagiarized off of
 
And alot more by other Democrats
 
Nobody made a big deal about it.
 
 
I can’t help but to feel they are just picking up whatever dirt they can find to attack Trump with at this point.
 
Michelle copied parts of her 2008 speech from Saul Alinsky

@Background Pony #4414  
It is plagarism. She simply took someone else’s speech (or rather, a section of it) and only barely reworded it and presented it as her own. That’s plagarism.

@unconventional trixie  
Nothing and no one is safe from the slimy fingers of politics.

Is this OK that I feel bad about it?  
They dragged our sacred ponies into their filthy politics

Alright. Who was the wise guy who wrote this speech?

@evilpresident  

 
Actually, I’m betting he was expecting people to notice. This is epic trolling, people.

@Titanium Dragon
 
just WHAT picture they used of Twilight makes it all even better and more unbelivable too!

@Background Pony #9116  
>TFW Twilight Sparkle will never be the president of the united states
 
Why even live?

Twilight Sparkle would mop the floor with the current candidates especially with her campaign team being her mare friends and Pinkie being her campaign manager. XD

Ugh… Calling that plagiarism is like calling every wedding speech ever plagiarism, cause it started with “let’s have a toast for the bride and groom”. CNN’s comparison video is best. At one point, only two WORDS were highlighted as the same, between the two speeches. It’s literally a string of common, speech friendly lines. I’d like to see who Michelle plagiarized her speech off of, if we’re using that argument.
 
I can’t believe this is even a thing, but then, yes… I can believe it. Demi are behind it, and people LIKE to see Trump burn. I don’t care for him, but I despise Hilary even more.

This is one of those things that no one is going to believe isn’t an edit.

@Background Pony #D510  
They didn’t quote anything from it they used a line from the episode as a comparison to show it doesn’t count as plagiarism but they got the context wrong.

@LiroXIV  
I don’t even remember anything from that episode that resembles that speech.

My little speeches: Plagiarism is magic

@Background Pony #D510  
Getting warmer
 
What happened was that Trump’s chief strategist defended her alleged plagiarism by saying she was actually referencing a Twilight Sparkle line from “Do Princesses Dream of Electric Sheep?” and not Obama.

I don’t…. I don’t get it. Is it a gag about how Melania Trump repeated a few lines from Michelle Obama’s speech?

Yes because these sort of ideals are brand new, never before seen and could only come from one common source and if felt by anyone else could only mean false mimicry since being so diffrent they couldn’t possibly have anything in common and one must be lying.
 
Also I do notice subtle changes in some of the phrasing and that can be important and in some cases the point.
 
Particularly on the scale of presidential elections it can be the difference between insinuating one should;
 
Believe and work hard enough to “take” what they want.  
Or  
Believe and work hard enough to “make” what they want.

@Lucky Shot  
Same book.
 
Rob Marsh - Business success in South Africa

@Theopticals  
Well I just had to laugh.

People in politics steal and plagurize each others speeches all the time. Even obama is guilty of this.  
It’s nothing to be too riled up about though it is eye roll inducing when it happens.

@LiroXIV  
Pffthahaha okay then.

@Pagan  
Read up on it; this actually happened. Basically, Trump’s chief strategist claimed that Melania Trump’s RNC speech last night, which people say was plagarized from Michelle Obama’s 2008 DNC speech, was influenced by other sources, and named a quote from “Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep” as an example in an interview on CNN, attributing Twilight Sparkle by name.
 
Tara Strong was one of the first people within the pony realm to bring this up. It exploded from there.

What does this have to do with pony? This just looks like obligatory pony.

@Background Pony #940E  
Later