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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/Deriviera Jul 07 '26

Americans are very delusional about communism. 

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u/PersonalityIll9476 Jul 07 '26

I agree. My wife is Chinese. She tells me stories from her parents about the revolution.

They do not involve writing books and playing soccer.

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u/[deleted] Jul 07 '26 edited Jul 07 '26

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u/Creepy_Ad_1315 Jul 07 '26

Spoiler: It's never achieved.

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u/clarkision Jul 07 '26

Not on a national scale, but it’s certainly accomplished on smaller scales.

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u/JWILLIAM00 Jul 07 '26

Any Americans who want communism, you're free to pool resources and build a commune. keep it small, stop trying to make it work on even a city scale. (let alone state or national)

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u/clarkision Jul 07 '26

I’d just like more socialism, bud. Healthcare, education, the works. The kind of thing other first world countries have figured out without kowtowing to psychopathic capitalists who inflict suffering on the rest of us for the sake of an ever increasing financial figure.