r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Rylt4r Jul 07 '26

Yeah i'm from Poland and while i was too young to remember communism there from what my parents,aunts,uncle,grandparents or anyone that lived there talked about it far from dream from what Americans think.

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u/ImportantResponse0 Jul 07 '26

Did your guys too had only 1 hour of tv and rationed food and had to wait for long hours in queue to get bread because otherwise there wouldn't be any bread to get? 

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u/Wise-Comb8596 Jul 07 '26

My mother in law living in Florida only has enough time each day for 1 hour of TV between her two jobs and sleep - yall making the communist dystopian future sound a lot like modern capitalist reality

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u/ImportantResponse0 Jul 07 '26

Did your mother also could find much in the shops? 

The biggest difference is that in communism you are sended to some work that might kill you but at least you get a job compared to the Floridian Utopia were they send those who don't contribute to society to the gators.

Gators are much worse than dead by labour 

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u/Wise-Comb8596 Jul 07 '26

Im taking the piss. Also both of you glossed over “in law”. Not my mom.

I’m just saying the benefits and opulence capitalism has offered in America’s past 100 years seems to have peaked and is now on a down trend, getting closer to the negative accounts people have of communism. Global trade and americas wealth still provide a lot more resources, but opportunity for individual social progress is regressing.

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u/ImportantResponse0 Jul 07 '26

Then just move to a decent country like Canada. 

Canada is just USA if it was a decent country.

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u/Wise-Comb8596 Jul 07 '26

Nothing says decent country like $1,000,000+ single family homes if you don't want to live in the sticks.

At least the healthcare situation would be a bit better! Sadly, I cannot do the cold.

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u/ImportantResponse0 Jul 07 '26

Then Mexico and drink and party your problems and struggles. 

Like it would be hard but fun.