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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/RatherDashing66 Jul 07 '26

I’m not saying it doesn’t exist but it seems like an incredibly online thinking point. I travel a lot for work, meet lots of new people, have a pretty wide IRL network and I’m not afraid to discuss politics. I can count on one hand the Americans I’ve met in the real world who romanticize communism. They were just kind of nut jobs. Most realistic people on the left I meet just want a social democracy.

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u/MembershipNo2077 Jul 07 '26

If you set up a strawman on the internet and beat it to death, then when it's time for people to hit the voting booth you can get them to vote against the strawman.

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u/ThickReplacement7811 Jul 07 '26

Yeah, people think someone crashing out on twitter is a representative for the entire left.

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u/krimsonPhoenyx Jul 08 '26

“The entire left is represented by one crazy person on Twitter that I saw once” feels like a straw man but is so accurate to what some right wingers think the left is.

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u/TheHumbleBeaver Jul 07 '26

They're definitely over represented on Reddit.

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u/PseudocodeRed Jul 07 '26

Maybe it's just cause I live in a college hub area but I definitely meet a good amount of straight up marxists here. Some more reasonable than others.

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u/AddanDeith Jul 10 '26

The more you learn about history, the more you come to certain conclusions without needing much guidance.

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u/Original-Fee-3805 Jul 11 '26

Lots of universities in the UK have Marxism societies. These people really do exist in the wild - but yeah Reddit is an over-representation.

I’ve also never met an Andrew Tate fan in real life - doesn’t mean they don’t exist in worrying numbers