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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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[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey a cult’s only a problem if you’re out to harm your members eh?

~/j~

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

- Jared Leto has entered the chat -

Also, that cat just shit in his mouth.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I would match you immediately.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago

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!

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

weird, I actually read the opposite if you look here

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks for the very thorough response

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you are very welcome, always glad to correct misconceptions like this stalin heart hands

(if you really wanted to learn the context behind why we use that quote you could always ask questions in good faith in a separate post here on this comm or on [email protected] or [email protected] )

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

I love counting unborn people in my death rates spongebob-i-fucking-love

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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