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
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
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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?”
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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
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!
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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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
I love counting unborn people in my death rates
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 !asklemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml or !communism101@lemmygrad.ml )
I think you’re overthinking this. Literally just say “I’m a communist”, that’s gonna weed out pretty much everyone you wouldn’t want to get with anyway.
I did this once and shortly thereafter had the hottest date of my life with a dope commie
“I don’t date conservatives or liberals, but I’m repeating myself.”
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☭ < fuck subtlety, put this in your bio
@Finger@hexbear.net say the line, bart
no more half measures walter
That’s my man :picard-pointing:
Get ready to have your feelings hurt a lot
Like a lot a lot
the entire transcript of
“hey leftists can you gimme something subtle”
“lead off with denouncing US propaganda against the soviet union, yknow, to test the waters”
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
A more genuine answer might be the Debs soul in prison quote. It’s a really clear statement of values without being frighteningly radical.
That’s actually a pretty good suggestion
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”
A yellow Parenti filter on the pfp should work too
“I only sleep with communists. I will test you”
More of a foghorn i suppose
“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”
these are so corny i love them
So corny they would’ve been advised for use by the Kruschev admin
Death to America
Something about yards of linen
I met my wife by just putting that I was a communist in my bio. She had that she liked to read communist political books. You could just outright say it but that might be dangerous depending on who you’re meeting up with.
my dating bio is just the Maoist cult pizza slave story
Here is about 10 good ones I wrote, if you can’t see them you must be a
and unable to hear the dog whistle.Okay so you are not the first on hexbear to ask for this. There was another user with a similar query about a year ago. I dug thru my old account, but couldn’t find the thread, but if you search your own question, then it should probably turn up right quick - Maybe that’ll give you some good ideas too.
Good dogwhistles have to be subtle enough that it’s not just “THE ONLY THING WRONG STALIN DID WAS STOPPING AT BERLIN” while not being so subtle or niche that you come off as a weirdo eccentric (unless you want that to be your vibe) like posting a Zizek quote or something. It also should still be something that relates to you as a person - just posting something that does not vibe with you apart from being a signifier is not optimal.
My advice is to take a short and sweet quote unrelated to leftism by a lesser known revolutionary figure - Quoting something inspirational from Rosa Luxembourg is a good idea. Alternatively a left/left-adjacent artist/philosopher like Ursula K. Le Guin or the “we must imagine Sisyphus happy” by Camus are (I think) good examples of this. Also the fun-fact about women in east Germany having better sex.I’ve helped quite a few friends with having fun with dating apps. If you want some general advice, you can click the spoiler.
Unasked-for general dating-app advice
First off: It’s a market and a capitalist institution which immediately makes it toxic. It’s important to know what you want from the app, what it is capable of giving you and what the pit-falls are. Be careful of using it for validation or serotonin activation, because that is what it is designed for and it is not good. Personally I think Feeld and Hinge are the least toxic apps on the market, but you do still have to market yourself, which is not good. Treat it mentally like going to a bar looking for a hook-up or date, and it might mean less to you, which is good. Do not ever feel obligated to do anything.
Do not my friend become addicted to matches, they will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence.With that outta the way let’s get to optimizing your profile:
You’re gonna want 4-6 pictures of yourself.
1st should be a profile of you where you’re smiling (to show you’re not an axe-wielding maniac).
2nd should be a full-phrame photo of you (to show youre not an axe-wielding wielding murderer ashamed of their body).
3rd should be of you with friends (to show you’re not an asocial axe-wielding maniac).
4th should be you doing some physical or creative activity (to show rather than tell about something you enjoy, and also that you are either productive or stay physically fit).
The 5th and 6th are sort of optional but they are a sexy picture and then a silly picture. You can have both or either or. Depending on your vibe you may want you profile (shoulders and up-photo) to also be slightly silly or sexy. Make sure you smile tho, or people will think you’re a murderer.Then the profile text: This is important, it is what will (in large part) determine the quality of your matches and what they write. If you write nothing then there is nothing for people to determine wether you have anything in common. This will mean more people match with you, which means you have to spend more time writing and sorting people away, this is not good for you.
No text also makes it harder for people to write personalised openers, which means you’re just gonna get a lot of cheesy one-liners.Your text should focus on what you enjoy, rather than what you dislike. Optimally it is about a paragraph long and includes the following:
Description of yourself “just a fun-loving doctor from Ohio looking for love in the big city” or the like.
A short sentence about what you are looking for on the app (not knowing is fine!)
Description of thing/activity you enjoy. Fun fact or cheesy joke (something that gives people an idea of your vibe/humor).
And then something that gives people a light discussion to engage in (pineapple on pizza discourse).
You can have an additional text that is a story or something you value or a joke or a question or something. You can dedicate that extra text to going into more detail as well.
You can also add in a description of an ideal date or a nice Sunday morning or the like. You can also add a clearly ironic thing “I’m just looking for someone to share a bucket of booze with”. The important thing is that it is 1. Personal 2. Inviting and 3. Gives people something to work with.I hope these help!
