cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/75148787
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9486838
So, this is the back aisle of some old Coles somewhere in rural Queensland?
(That’s a Coles sign describing whatever is in the next aisle)I’m guessing they’re out of toilet paper? What’s the context of the photo?
Leaving aside the “socialism/capitalism” thing for a moment, is there something going on in Queensland leading to shortages of something? Or is this guy using a photo from 2020?
This is the sane response of a normal person. But sanity has near zero engagement. Soooo, obscure and unrelated macro-economic debates it is! Yay!!! 🙌
I hope he dies soon, and I hope it hurts the entire time
Roberts and his family moved to Australia in 1962
So this cunt grew up in an Australia far more socialist than any millenial could ever dream of and pulls this shit
Get in the sack
Capitalism is when the food on the shelves is expensive. Socialism is when the food is cheap but there’s none on the shelf.
I wish people would realize it is neither socialism nor capitalism that leads to empty food shelves, but a lack of democracy.
Capitalism inevitably concentrates more wealth in fewer hands, it is fundamentally anti-democratic by design
I mean, that is why the Athenians used to tax the shit out of their upper class.
I’m no advocate for capitalism, but right now the most democratic countries on earth are ones that you would probably label “capitalist”, although I would say they are more accurately labelled “mixed economies”.
But again the problem isn’t the economic system that leads to the lack of food. It’s how much you concentrate power in the hands of a few people.
But again the problem isn’t the economic system that leads to the lack of food. It’s how much you concentrate power in the hands of a few people.
It’s the economic system that is concentrating power in the hands of a few.
Delusional
I cannot believe you’re making me defend Malcolm Roberts 😡
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.
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 😡
It does sound suspiciously like “stop complaining, it could be worse”, though.
(I have no horse in this race, am from the other end of the planet, drive-by posting)
lol your bio says german! good luck! it sounds like you’re soon going to elect a whole ton of Malcolm Roberts of your own :)) 😩
I saw a post breaking down how that Saxony election in a ‘first past the post’ electoral system would have delivered all but like three seats to AFD on only ~42% of the vote.
Ueybmore evidence that its the preferential voting system for the representative win!
Too bad places like Britain and most of the US won’t pull their fingers out on this system flaw.
100%!
Preferential voting, superannuation, universal healthcare, as bad as things can be I’m pretty happy I live in Australia!
Too true.
(｡ŏ﹏ŏ) (Certainly not me personally)
Whats being mocked here is the same conclusion you’re reaching though, “socialism is when empty shelves.”
Then I guess it’s done in a bad way, saying socialism/communism sucks does not imply capitalism is perfect
Keep going and one day you wont be a billionaire too!
what are you talking about
Im talking about you swallowing boot.
I’m afraid the joke is on anyone who replied to eyekaytea. They seem to he a known downvote farmer around these parts. For as much sense as that makes on a platform with no karma score
Some people collect figurines, some people collect rocks, this person…
It would seem so. I just read a little more, I guess they have some sort of chip on their shoulder for the fediverse and this is them taking their revenge. There was a manifesto. Riveting stuff.
“I went to Cuba once and stubbed my toe. Socialism is when people stub their toe” ^ This is you. This is what you sound like.
Well we have had a fair serve of Malcolm, and it is vomit making, send him to a Gulag for a real taste of Real Politic
Malcolm believes he is the smartest guy in any room! Delusional fwit!
