• Nath@aussie.zone
    6·
    3 days ago

    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?

    • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneM
      3·
      3 days ago

      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!!! 🙌

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    6·
    3 days ago

    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

  • MrFlibble4747@sh.itjust.works
    5·
    3 days ago

    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!

  • yucandu@lemmy.world
    96·
    3 days ago

    I wish people would realize it is neither socialism nor capitalism that leads to empty food shelves, but a lack of democracy.

    • Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml
      153·
      3 days ago

      Capitalism inevitably concentrates more wealth in fewer hands, it is fundamentally anti-democratic by design

      • yucandu@lemmy.world
        93·
        3 days ago

        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.

        • budget_biochemist@slrpnk.netEnglish
          7·
          3 days ago

          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.

  • SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
    33·
    3 days ago

    Capitalism is when the food on the shelves is expensive. Socialism is when the food is cheap but there’s none on the shelf.

    • Coupable@lemmy.world
      10·
      3 days ago

      “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.

    • Lumidaub@feddit.org
      5·
      3 days ago

      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)

        • Gorgritch_Umie_Killa@aussie.zoneM
          3·
          3 days ago

          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.