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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"
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
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)
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...
Hey a cult’s only a problem if you’re out to harm your members eh?
~/j~
- Jared Leto has entered the chat -
Also, that cat just shit in his mouth.
I would match you immediately.
if anyone has this in their bio, I'm sliding straight into their DMs with "death to landlords, wanna grab coffee?"
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.
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
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!
weird, I actually read the opposite if you look here
Thanks for the very thorough response
you are very welcome, always glad to correct misconceptions like this
(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] )
I love counting unborn people in my death rates
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
It was based off of a boots riley tweet that was posted here some months back. I'll go digging for it after I clock off work
https://hexbear.net/post/262581
This post right here, though I misremembered the number, it would have been 9 million dead theoretically
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