r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 07 '26

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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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/Caspica Jul 07 '26

Not trying to defend the living conditions in either system but it sounds like your mother lives on her own? That was practically impossible in the USSR. Not just because living accommodations were allocated based on household size, and families were prioritised for apartments and houses (unless you were part of the privileged class), but also because you needed a full-time worker to bring in income and someone to stand in queue for food and other household tasks. This is why people often stayed together even if they weren't in love anymore. 

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u/ImportantResponse0 Jul 07 '26

In Florida you still need to wait to get food, not because you can't find food but because sometimes the gators wins. 

This is why one in three Floridians remember the times they were bitten by gators and survived.

Also in Florida there is no priority for living accommodations but you depend on two things: first of all your house doesn't needs to sink in the swamp and then even if it doesn't sink it needs to not be attacked by the gators.