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[โ€“] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 16 minutes ago)

I cannot believe you're making me defend Malcolm Roberts ๐Ÿ˜ก

He didn't say capitalism is perfect, he said shoppers are getting a taste of what it's like in a socialist country, this is a throw back to the USSR and its empty supermarkets:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8LtQhIQ2AE

And the President of the USSR's visit to an ordinary shop in America:

When I saw those shelves crammed with hundreds, thousands of cans, cartons and goods of every possible sort, for the first time I felt quite frankly sick with despair for the Soviet people. That such a potentially super-rich country as ours has been brought to a state of such poverty! It is terrible to think of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_visit_by_Boris_Yeltsin_to_the_United_States#Grocery_store_visit_in_Houston

So Roberts is saying our country will have empty supermarket shelves all the time if we go full socialist/communist, therefore capitalism > socialism/communism, which is not at all a deep a point, it's literally surface tier and yet you guys somehow still messed it up

Thanks again for making me defend professional fuckwit Malcolm Roberts ๐Ÿ˜ก

[โ€“] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 1 points 37 minutes ago

I hope he dies soon, and I hope it hurts the entire time