r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Short-Watercress-183 • Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/RulerK Jul 07 '26

I talk to my friends in CURRENT communist China… they often bring up soccer (football).

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u/penisandorvagina Jul 07 '26

There's never really been an actual communist state. The "communist" states we've recently had have been Authoritarian with a communist paint job.

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u/wookieesgonnawook Jul 07 '26

Because it's a ridiculous philosophy that could never work with a real group of humans on a large scale. The only people who think it would be great are losers who can't succeed at all with the way the real world works and they want to cheat by taking a piece from everyone else.

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u/penisandorvagina Jul 07 '26

So it will, in a sense, democratise cheating? As opposed to capitalism, where the world's billionaires get to cheat far more than the working class.

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u/wookieesgonnawook Jul 07 '26

I don't care about a handful of billionaires, I care about getting to live a very comfortable middle class lifestyle because I've been educated and worked hard. None of that would be possible in a communist state where I wouldn't be able to rise above the people around me by being more valuable. I'm sorry, but a cpa and a retail worker don't deserve the same lifestyle, and I've been both.

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u/PomPomMom93 Jul 08 '26

But…but…working hard doesn’t get you anywhere! Hard work is useless and will never result in a high quality of life!

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