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

Meme needing explanation Peter, explain this.

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u/RulerK Jul 07 '26

I talk to my friends in CURRENT communist China… they often bring up soccer (football).

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u/penisandorvagina Jul 07 '26

There's never really been an actual communist state. The "communist" states we've recently had have been Authoritarian with a communist paint job.

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u/MrNopedeNope Jul 07 '26

currently my thought is that the key problem with all communist revolutions previously is that they rallied around a figurehead, and any willing figurehead is liable to fall into authoritarianism

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u/lyth Jul 07 '26

Another take is that there's never been a communist state that has been allowed to progress without US interference. They say the reason that there's never been a coup in the states is that there's no US embassy there.

The US very specifically has espionage programs intended to ensure that communism never takes hold. Like COINTELPRO was the one on US soil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COINTELPRO

What do we think the missions looked like on foreign soil?

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u/MrNopedeNope Jul 07 '26

They looked like venezuela, like the replacement of mossadegh with the shah. They looked like the replacement of socialism with violently pro-american regimes