• RedCat
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    8 months ago

    Does anyone know how common it is for people to pretend to be socialists to hit on someone? I am always incredible anxious to let anyone I don’t know know how I feel politically.

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      8 months ago

      Obama admitted to doing it in college to pick up women.

    • Gay_Tomato [they/them, it/its]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Obama did it. obama-sad

      oof

      “Looking back, it’s embarrassing to recognize the degree to which my intellectual curiosity those first two years of college paralleled the interests of various women I was attempting to get to know: Marx and Marcuse so I had something to say to the long-legged socialist who lived in my dorm; Fanon and Gwendolyn Brooks for the smooth-skinned sociology major who never gave me a second look; Foucault and Woolf for the: ethereal bisexual who wore mostly black. As a strategy for picking up girls, my pseudo-intellectualism proved mostly worthless; I found myself in a series of affectionate but chaste friendships.”

      Barack Obama, 2020
      
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      It’s common for a lot of people to feign interest in anything to hit on someone. But the thing is that it’s very easy to spot because few people are committed enough to a single person to learn more about a topic they don’t agree with or care about

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      Does anyone know how common it is for people to pretend to be socialists to hit on someone?

      obama did it in college, unsuccessfully.