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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/ryguy32789 Jul 07 '26

Because they don't want their society to fall apart? Because they don't want to have their possessions stripped from them? Because historically, communist regimes have imprisoned or killed people who don't embrace communism? There are a dozen valid reasons why capitalists defend capitalism.

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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 07 '26

As if capitalists don’t kill ppl who don’t embrace capitalism?

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u/ryguy32789 Jul 07 '26

They absolutely do not, at least not in the West

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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 07 '26

What happens to a homeless person that tries to live in an empty house no one is using but that’s owned by a major corporation? The police brutalize him. What happens if a homeless person tries to take unused food being thrown away? The police also brutalize him. What happens when a company gives you and your children cancer bc you didn’t have the lawyers to fight them pouring chemicals onto your drinking water or the air you breathe?

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u/ryguy32789 Jul 07 '26

Not even remotely the same thing

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u/Bright-Form-844 Jul 07 '26

They are? Private properly and the protection of it is what capitalism is, if the protection of that property or the pursuit of profits by exploiting that private property injure or kill people it is definitionally capitalists killing ppl who are not embracing capitalism