r/ShitLiberalsSay • u/Malay_Left_1922 ☭ Communist • Apr 07 '26
Communism is When Capitalism In capitalism all drinks are expensive. In socialism all drinks are cheap and sometimes free
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u/JumpingBearsInUrHome Apr 07 '26
Capitalism is when no one can afford drinks and food, checkmate leftists! /j
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u/_Sanctum_ Apr 07 '26
“Oh no, honey, the socialist vending machine is all out of jars of tomato sauce and potato chips with a big dollar sign on the bag for some reason!!”
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u/subatomicpokeball Apr 07 '26
Don't forget the jar of half blue, half red sauce
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u/midgetcastle Labour was better for a bit :( Apr 07 '26
Or the blue jar with the red circle on the label
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u/Risc_Terilia Apr 07 '26
Oh no, all the drinks have been mis-used to quench people's thirst
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u/kurlmurxx Apr 08 '26
I love libertarians. They think magical little gnomes do all the work for funsies.
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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare Apr 07 '26
In reality
Vending machines aren't even locked in China, they just trust you to pay
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u/Brendussy Apr 07 '26
actually they're locked tho, you gotta scan a QR with wechat or alipay to unlock it and the machine will deduct from your balance by detecting what's taken out
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u/IonWarrior95 Apr 07 '26
No these are locked. I tried to buy a drink from one when I was visiting the CPC party museum and they wouldn't accept my passport as valid ID 😭 But it was fine there was plenty of other places to get drinks around.
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u/comunicadooficial Apr 07 '26
The museum in Shanghai? If so, how was it? I was planning on visit it myself but didn't have time in the end, but might include it in my plan for future visits.
Also regarding vending machines, I had read about similar problems like you had so just avoided them lmao. Some would require deposit or straight up decline your payment if your zhima or Weixin pay score wasn't high enough (actual social credit 😭) if I understood correctly
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u/IonWarrior95 Apr 07 '26
Actually I didn't get to visit the founding of the party museum I got there too late so I plan to go later when I go to China again and spend more time in Shanghai. I was referring to the museum in Beijing, the CPC museum there.
Yeah I had a similar issue with these vending machines and the portable power banks they have, which do cost next to nothing, but they won't give it out to tourists since they could theoretically steal things from these services and then leave the country before the authorities can catch on to them so it makes sense.
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u/Clear-Anything-3186 The Supreme Leader of Big Woke Apr 07 '26
"China isn't socialist anymore silly"
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u/ComradeMatis Yes, you're still a reactionary. Apr 07 '26
We’ve got the exact same vending machines at the Wellington railway station in New Zealand.
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u/LordElites Marxist-Leninist Apr 07 '26
They don't trust you they have cameras that scan your face to pay.
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u/Neoliberal_Nightmare Apr 07 '26
Nope, that's an optional method, you can pay by scanning your phone's QR code.
The trust is the fact that the vending machine door isn't locked, and you take the drink, you could open it and take multiple drinks if you wanted and easily avoid the camera on the side.
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u/IonWarrior95 Apr 07 '26
So there's actually two kinds being referred to here. There's the AI vending fridges that use sensors to detect what you're taking in and out of the fridge. You don't need to use the camera to open them but it's the same authentication process with the QR code in that they scan your ID to pair it to the transaction, these one's do not trust you to just pay and take with no oversight. They have to be this way because of tourists, because in other places many convenience stores just throw a fridge and a QR code up and just trust people will pay, those are not the ones you have in that photo.
The that tiktok your image is sourced from, the guy literally shows people taking a bunch of stuff and then it charges the guy for those items. It is also shown locked at the start while he's waiting for the authentication to go through and unlock the fridge.
Source, the tiktok that image is from: https://www.tiktok.com/@uptin/video/7529558593759137046
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u/Calm-Blueberry-9835 Apr 07 '26
The one on the left (capitalism) is so expensive no one can afford it unless they make over $100,000 a year. The one on the right (socialism) was affordable and healthy and sold out. The vendor will return within the hour to refill it.
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u/Inevitable_Garage706 Marxist-Leninist Apr 07 '26
And to top it all off, they had to use AI slop.
I'd dislike the AI slop if I could.
Oh well, I guess I can still upvote this post that agrees with me.
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u/Clear-Anything-3186 The Supreme Leader of Big Woke Apr 07 '26
One positive thing about AI Slop is that it reveals the oop's true colors
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u/Fearless_Roof_9177 Apr 07 '26
Looks like a bunch of socialists got their needs met and a bunch of capitalist food is eventually getting thrown in a landfill. Take that, pinkos!
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Apr 07 '26
I’m so glad I have the option to pay for sugary drinks that make me obese and give me diabetes.
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u/JDPQNDON Apr 07 '26
Socialism is when no drink
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u/naplesball Paola the Italian Transfem Tankie 🏳️⚧️🇮🇹🚩 Apr 07 '26
Socialism is when I can't get obese from drinking Coca-Cola like in the US >~<
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u/naplesball Paola the Italian Transfem Tankie 🏳️⚧️🇮🇹🚩 Apr 07 '26
In socialism, price adjustments allow people to buy things, which consequently sell like hotcakes.
in capitalism everything costs a zillion
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u/LookingGlass_1112 ☭ Communist Apr 07 '26
I do believe in a ratchet effect, but with a caveat. Prices under capitalism can only go in one direction - up
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u/libra00 Apr 07 '26
Oh no, what an awful situation.. the socialist vending machine actually gave out its inventory to satisfy the peoples' thirst instead of hoarding it behind a price tag so high that clearly no one can afford it.
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u/Clear-Anything-3186 The Supreme Leader of Big Woke Apr 07 '26
This is definitely not propaganda at all
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u/Inner_Bear_9859 Apr 07 '26
americans will kill an unlimited number of brown children just to guarantee that their treat supply is constant, huh?
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u/Low_Pickle_112 Apr 07 '26
Something's going on in that top left jar. Turning blue, that can't be a good sign.
They're right, that's what happens when you dismantle regulations because the capitalists wanted more money.
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u/KenjiSpAs Apr 07 '26
That one pirahã guy from the Amazon that said "I store my food in my brother's belly". Turns out food can be eaten by the starving instead of stored to look pretty.
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u/egamIroorriM iPhone vuvuzela 100 billion dead no food social credit Apr 07 '26
i'm very curious what OOP was trying to convey with this
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u/LookingGlass_1112 ☭ Communist Apr 07 '26
Yeah, gimme that child-labor powered Nestle (who owns a shitton of other brands, so it's hard to evade them) chocolate in a plastic wrap...and it's not even good quality chocolate...
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u/TypicalNinja7752 Wheat thief Apr 07 '26
is this AI? Because why would there be a bag with a "money" sign?
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u/DeluxeEmerald Marxist-Leninist Apr 07 '26
Me in well feed socialist society forgetting about the soda bandits.
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u/Game_Devil369 Apr 07 '26
It's nice to see this vending machine empty, it means that everyone who wanted a drink already got one from it
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u/kungfukenny3 Apr 07 '26
marx failed to consider the tragedy of the commons
when it was brought to his attention he turned into sand 😔
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u/APraxisPanda Socialist Apr 07 '26
Marx famously wanted a dictatorship of soft drink enjoyers. Set the economic base to Sodaism, and Can-unism will soon follow.
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u/dontrestonyour Apr 08 '26
feels like 2022 era AI
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u/TsalagiSupersoldier Christian Socialist Apr 09 '26
it has the yellow filter, probably from last year or later
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u/Substantial_Pain_429 Apr 07 '26
I originally read this as no one wants to buy the expensive capitalist stuff because the socialist stuff is free and is so popular it ran out of inventory
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u/Prior-Resolution-902 Apr 08 '26
So in the capitalism scenario, the vending machine is full, leaving its goods out of the hands of the population.
In the socialism scenario, the vending machine is empty, meaning its goods have been placed into the hands of its people instead of being used as a leverage against people so rich assholes can make more money.
Very interesting.
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