"Muh Soviet in a supermarket" story in 2023? My comment was also about McDonald's in the USSR, so they're feeling super exceptionalist over fast food slop.

Link You can't see this through Hexbear because they were banned for racism, war crime apologism and ableism chefs-kiss

  • Infamousblt [any]
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    Meanwhile on Sunday I went to my local grocery store and they had no carts. They said they removed carts because people kept stealing by filling them up and walking out the door. I wandered around a few minutes and wasn't able to find much on my list because they were out of what I needed. And then I left without getting anything and ate out instead.

    Sounds like capitalism grocery store isn't so good after all

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Critical support for the capitalist grocery store for letting people have free food 🫡

    • inasaba@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Some shops here have started requiring you to surrender your photo ID to the customer service staff as collateral for a plastic hand basket. I actually couldn't believe it.

  • VILenin [he/him]M
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    1 year ago

    Communist theory is thousand page tomes. Liberal theory is a series of unverifiable anecdotes.

  • KarlBarqs [he/him, they/them]
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    1 year ago

    Real choice is going into the cereal aisle in a grocery store and seeing eighteen different brands of HFCS all owned by the same company.

  • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    context for the Supermarket

    The great American supermarket lie

    author of "Supermarket USA: Food and Power in the Cold War Farms Race"

    So while middle-class consumers enjoyed a bounty of cheap and convenient food, small farmers, farmworkers, low-income consumers and supermarket employees suffered to make it all possible. Instead of embodying the supposedly inherent superiority of capitalism, the supermarket demonstrated how it produced winners and losers.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Commies say the dumbest shit

    Okay guy who named themself after a Nazi warplane

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    Okay now do uninsured person from a former Soviet state trying to get health care

  • drinkinglakewater [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Always funny when someone thinks American Exceptionalism means America is exceptionally great

  • VILenin [he/him]M
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    USSR: Supermarket items are a little basic, the interiors aren’t too ritzy, etc. but everyone is well fed and there wasn’t a horrifying system of exploitation that was needed to put food on the shelves. This is literally 1984.

    ‘Murica: one thousand flavors of sliced white bread brought to you by millions of suffering workers, plus they painted the interior green so it’s basically a luxury hotel. Behold, freedom and democracy!

  • sharedburdens [she/her, comrade/them]
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    1 year ago

    I grew up in a family of colonial enforcers

    I can't imagine why someone would include this information and expect anyone would take them seriously

  • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    Reminder that a lot of the food sitting on the shelves in pretty much any western grocery store is not even going to get sold but will just end up in a landfill.

    • BelieveRevolt [he/him]
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      I'm glad storm.front pre-emptively final resortedly defederated from us, because their comments are always by far the worst.

  • marx_mentat [he/him, comrade/them]
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    That person hates communism so much holy shit. They're definitely clinging to "communism bad" to justify some fucked up shit in their life.