Similar Souls Unite ... Progressives Only
Similar Souls Unite ... Progressives Only
Niche Dating App for Leftwing Progressives, brought to you by Brazil + China
Meet Lefty, the Dating App for Progressives.
So I fell down a bit of a rabbit hole when a friend made a Facebook post about Lefty, a new dating app for progressives to help them find like-minded mates, because y’know, can’t have a diversity of cultures or ideas in the progressive social justice mating ritual etc etc blah blah blah.
From Dating Advice: Thanks to dating apps like Lefty, liberal singles* can find comfort in knowing that they’re not a small fish in a big pond. Lefty is a dating app that is designed for singles with a Lefty political affiliation. For some people, dating a person outside their political view is a no-go … “Relationships with people who think very differently from our political convictions tend to wear out over time. We believe that all this trouble can be avoided if we find a person who thinks as we do!” said the Lefty team.
*[Note the definition of liberal: willing to respect or accept behaviour or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.]
Alex Felipelli, the founder of Lefty, thinks and believes that the future of online dating is with niche dating apps. In fact when the IT specialist turned vegan several years ago he created a dating app for Vegansexuals like himself. What’s a Vegansexual, you ask? Gonna be blunt with my answer, reader. Vegansexual describes a human being who only wants to fcuk vegans, and expressly does not ever want to fcuk carnivores. Felipelli has partnered with Samuel Yeun to create Similar Souls. Similar Souls has partnered with NINE, China's safest and most human-centric digital matchmaker.
Okay, being a Canadian—that means currently living in a country under direct attack of Chinese foreign interference at the highest political levels—I sort of doubt anything digital or cyberspacey from China could be deemed safe. I suppose this depends what we mean when we use that word safe. Anything that passes through Chinese cyberspace cannot be guaranteed safe for a Canadian, not sure about the situation in the United States, however Biden did recently sign a bill banning TikTok. You can read Sam Cooper’s seminal reporting here, at
.So let’s get back to NINE for a quick moment, aka Jiuzhuan Information Technology Co. Ltd, a subsidiary of Huazhu Group, headed by some Chinese billionaire named Ji Qi, who favours digital disruption of state-dominated sectors, a Chinese homegrown strategy. Ji Qi founded the Ctrip Platform, China’s top Online Travel Agency (OTA), let’s call it China’s answer to Travelocity to give readers an idea of the scale and scope of Ctrip. China has a small group of internet giants dominating its digital industry — BAT, an acronym for Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent — heavily invested in the OTAs.
Do you want your personal information going into a database owned by an app housed on Chinese cyberspace? Are you certain about this? Whatever floats your boat, however, I think it would behoove North Americans to become more aware of the cyberspaces we frequent in the apps we choose. Given what I know about Chinese Communist Party tactics being deployed in my own country, Canada, I would feel wary trusting this app. The Cyberspace Administration of China co-operates with Russia, so American might want to be wary of where they conduct their internet business.
Question to which I don’t know the answer — does Israel have eyes and ears on this matter? I would imagine it would have a dedicated unit to this stuff?
Here’s a screenshot from the Lefty blog. Note the AI-generated photo to accompany the blog post telling progressives why they need a speshul dating app where the bad conservatives won’t be there to make them feel unsafe blah blah intellectual apartheid blah blah echo chamber blah blah diversity turned on its head. Looking at this screenshot here’s what I see — the token hijabi1 in that small graphic in the sidebar, big block letters EQUALITY in the main image, the revolutionary fist we association with Marxist radicals and communists. Look closely to see the sinister facial features from a crappy AI rendering — the metaphorical Stepford Wife happy creepy horror movie vibe would make me want to become celibate if I wasn’t attached and this was my dating pool prospect. Reader! Seriously? Love and solidarity the interplay … gag me, okay? Also scroll up to see the childish and antisemitic memes that Lefty has used in its recent Twitter activity to denigrate the GOP and Trump supporters, ahem that’s called election interference, my American friends. This has foreign interference written all over it, I’m afraid. Election year in America, guard yourselves my American friends!
Note, your vote is no one’s business but yours, my American friends. Vote as you want to, make your choice for you and your family and your life, not any influencer or foreign agent!
Why do the tolerant and inclusive liberal progressives need to apartheid themselves from the rest of society if they think and feel with such morally superior social values? It seems manipulative to state the value and then offer the action which amplifies the opposite of what the value expresses. Yet that’s what we have, that’s the psychological abuse of social justice progressivism, it misrepresents itself because it is a branded approach to life and not a values-based one.
Lefty tells me it’s about connecting with people who share a commitment to social justice, environmental sustainability, and political activism, because apparently Conservatives don’t human in these ways, is that the thinking? Interestingly, agnostics also apparently need to be segregated from the larger dating pool.
So, this seems rather socially conservative though, this need to close oneself off from those not in your tribe. Let me go back to this question, what does social justice mean? San Diego Foundations tell me it’s the view that everyone deserves equal economic, political and social rights and opportunities, so everyone is equal according to social justice. Again, if you value social justice as a lifestyle choice, you believe all humans to be equal and so why do you need to segregate yourself in order to mate, to create progeny? Surely diversity of choice leads to an embodiment of social justice through the mating of very different walks of life? Hybrid vigour remains a valid and reliable mating concept, does it not?
Do I misunderstand the concepts?
Also, did I correctly understand that, because I am Conservative minded,2 I have no commitment to social justice, environmental sustainability and political activism? Wow.
Okay, I believe in G-d, have my whole life followed Him, in fact followed Him out of two religions and into deeper inquiry about what is human morality and faith practise, I live very simply without a car and reject the jet-setting travel lifestyle, I gave up my career to perform motherhood duties for three humans, and ultimately destroyed my mental and physical and spiritual health in a massive nursing career burn-out from which I never recovered, and which had a profound destructive impact on my marriage life and family, and I have been cancelled by my society for standing up against tyranny and hate, so career reentry for me is dashed and my hopes, kaiboshed.
But, since I deplore left wing progressive politics and the associated “social justice” cult, I should take my seat beside Donald Trump and Benny Netanyahu, is that the thinking? And it makes me an evil + selfish Nazi, apparently? Even though I favour the Jewish faith tribe and culture and thinking and fight for the right of Jewish people to live free from hate and harassment and know as much about Holocaust history as any seasoned Jew? Wow. This must be the segment of the population who doubts the death toll of the Holocaust, and who thinks reproductive science is a European Imperial hoax to thwart black and indigenous people, not-serious humans, and if I were looking for a breeding mate this level of low intelligence would disqualify any man. But okay, Roxanne—shhhh.
Historically, power imbalances have been prevalent in dating relationships, with traditional gender roles and societal expectations contributing to unequal distributions of power. Recognizing these dynamics and actively working to dismantle them is essential for fostering healthier relationships built on equality and respect. — LEFTY Blog
So, you heard it here first! For millenia humans have been doing the dating thing a wrong! It’s all about niche! It’s a good thing Alex and his pals came along to show us how to do this mating thing the social justice and inclusive way, you know because fcuk this tradition bullsh1t, amirite? Acknowledging and accommodating nature would definitely lead to social imbalance, these little social justice communist sh1ts know so much more than any of us seasoned conservatives do, particularly anyone who follows a religion, following a tradition that holds three thousand years of wisdom and raising two humans from childish dependence to functional adulthood is no match for the social justice warriors of today hatched in an ad firm boardroom. Sarcasm Alert.
Like, reader, can we talk about how a hijab wearing young woman is essentially her father’s property and there’s no way in hell she is getting near any dating app to date some boy from a foreign culture? This is so whypipo teen vogue silly and culturally illiterate it is a Kids in the Hall Skit!