My friend made me install Bumble. I want something that leftists will recognize but that won’t immediately scare off liberals (I can fix them)

Does anyone have any cool Lenin quotes for this purpose or something

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sure thing just put this in your bio:

“The Maoist uprising against the landlords was the most comprehensive proletarian revolution in history, leading to almost totally equal redistribution of the land amongst the peasantry”

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Can’t wait to match with the leftist love of my life only for our accounts to get terminated before exchanging phone numbers because we’re inciting violence against landowners

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smh my head, this is why we need open source dating apps

(but like if we could get everyone on dating apps to use one that unironically would be infinitely better than the shit we have now)

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I keep trying to think of some witty, humorous commentary about an open source dating app, but all of them are just abusive precursors to founding a cult…

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I would match you immediately.

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if anyone has this in their bio, I’m sliding straight into their DMs with “death to landlords, wanna grab coffee?”

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Weird, but then why Wikipedia says “Mao’s policies were responsible for vast numbers of deaths, with estimates ranging from 40 to 80 million victims due to starvation” ? 🤷 EDIT : Oops didn’t realize on which instance I was, sorry.

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For context, tens of millions of people being wiped out by famine was something that happened every couple of decades in China. What makes the famine under Mao notable was that it was the last famine China ever had, thanks in large part to the comprehensive revolution mentioned above, which allowed the state to pursue long term policies that benefitted the whole society instead of the wealthy class

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Famines on this scale were relatively normal in China and a mainstay of the Chinese Empire’s boom and bust cycles, as well as ecological catastrophe spreading thin the fragile bureaucracy. Only one government in China has been shown to be able to decisively end famine since, and it’s the same one that eradicated absolute poverty. Hope that helps!

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weird, I actually read the opposite if you look here

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Thanks for the very thorough response

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If you used the same metric to quantify the deaths during the Great Depression in the United States, you would end up with a death toll of 11 million

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I love counting unborn people in my death rates

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yeah awesome show. Plus there’s this synthwave mix I really like on youtube that loops this scene and it mesmerizes me every time I put it on for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAhvvQQurw4

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☭ < fuck subtlety, put this in your bio

@Finger@hexbear.net say the line, bart

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no more half measures walter

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That’s my man :picard-pointing:

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I did this once and shortly thereafter had the hottest date of my life with a dope commie

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“I hate writing bios on dating apps, I’m always Stalin for time”

“My favorite Christmas tune is Engels Bells”

“Seeking soulmate to form vanguard party with”

“Not swiping on my profile is a twelfth form of liberalism”

“Looking to make a Great Leap Forward in my dating life”

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these are so corny i love them

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So corny they would’ve been advised for use by the Kruschev admin

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Death to America

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the entire transcript of

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“hey leftists can you gimme something subtle”

“lead off with denouncing US propaganda against the soviet union, yknow, to test the waters”

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If you don’t shout “Joseph Stalin saved the world from fascism and the reactionaries who formed the Nazi Arming & Training Organization will never forgive him for that!” at everyone you’re attracted to you are basically a liberal ngl

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A more genuine answer might be the Debs soul in prison quote. It’s a really clear statement of values without being frighteningly radical.

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That’s actually a pretty good suggestion

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best in thread. It has the side effect of triggering centrists/conservatives who will inevitably think they are liberal but balk at this quote all like “but what about the murderers they should be in prison”

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A yellow Parenti filter on the pfp should work too

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