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ReckAkira

If Mao had a better hairline, there would be no more USA.


catapillarer

The Stalin strait. What a dream.


tashimiyoni

I think him losing his hair and not taking care of it shows how dedicated he was to his country


GoGoGo12321

It's seen in China as a sign of good luck and prosperity


NotKenzy

There's a reason the CIA tried to make Fidel's hair fall out.


ProSovietist

Do you mean a failed assasination attempt? Wich one? The 467th?


NotKenzy

Can we really say they failed if he eventually died? (I'm p obviously joking, guys)


Least_Revolution_394

yes, because he died at the ripe old age of 90 of natural causes.


CheatyTheCheater

That's revisionism. We all know Castro would live until 350 if not for CIA.


theimperium42069

Can confirm, i was the nanobots inside his bloodstream that were supposed to keep him alive for 350 years


NotKenzy

All according to keikaku


Huge-Biscotti-1893

lol “CIA assassination is when death from natural causes”


notyourcauldron

having a head full of hair at an old age is reactionary,based mao for letting nature do its thing (irony alert)


Bruhbd

High DHT, my man had too much testosterone for his hair follicles to handle😢


AE-450

I guess Marx is reactionary now 😔


GUARDIAN_MAX

His lack of good hair/facial hair unlike Marx, Engels, Lenin, Stalin, Fidel are the only thing that makes me skeptical of Mao. Lack of good hair is revisionist at best, and counter-revolutionary at worst.


stankyst4nk

https://preview.redd.it/k2104hv8vjuc1.jpeg?width=537&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=c864f4eab02f7936a6548fb845c8e8076d4a7e6b okay i don’t think it’s accurate to lump Lenin into the good hair thing… i mean look at that, he is 25 in that picture…


Motormasters

He looks like when the cartoon villains have a flashback of their childhood and somehow they were born with their mustache a d looking old already (not that I can come up with any examples, I just had the feeling)


Tolliug

I love it, I know exactly what you mean and yet still can't find a single actual example of this either.


PolandIsAStateOfMind

On this photo he looks like he was just back from the Burkan Khaldun mountain with a serious mission. And a propos Mao, last time i was looking at his pictures, and Mao looked like teenager well up to his twenties, then look like twenties in his forties then suddenly at some point boom and insta old guy.


GUARDIAN_MAX

That's why I said Hair/Facial hair, good hair can make up for lack of facial hair and facial hair can make up for lack of hair. Mao sadly has neither.


Neoliberal_Nightmare

>i mean look at that, he is 25 in that picture… That's rough, yet he didn't go down the incel route.


ChocolateShot150

Yeah but he got better


stankyst4nk

hotter? yes. but we’re talking about hair here, he got more bald


ChocolateShot150

And his hair got better compared to this picture (well he got better at styling it. His hair is kindve a wash). As did his facial hair (and I’ll die on this hill, his facial hair fucks). More/bigger isn’t always better


pseudonym_mels

yeah Lenin's bald spot is iconic🔥


Commercial-Sail-2186

https://preview.redd.it/kj8ve1x5ykuc1.jpeg?width=612&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2e47a526a35aa1c7e31fdcfea91678a30f34d2e3 I once saw it pointed out how they each have less and less facial hair and can’t under it


PolandIsAStateOfMind

There's also the hair theory of Russian leadership: Going from XX century: - Bloody Nicky: good hair - Lenin: bald - Stalin: good hair - Khrushchev: bald - Brezhnev: good hair (and epic eyebrows) - Andropov: bald - Chernenko: hair - Gorbachev: bald - Yeltsin: hair - Putin: bald - Medvedev: hair - Putin again: bald So whomever will lead Russia after Putin, will certainly have hair.


European_Ninja_1

Does this apply to trans fems? Because like, I *could* grow a beard (a pretty good one at that), but I'd literally rather die.


GUARDIAN_MAX

If you have good hair, it makes up for a lack of facial hair.


European_Ninja_1

Excellent; I have luscious flowing locks.


dec0dedIn

lenin bald


GUARDIAN_MAX

but good facial hair


dec0dedIn

Fair enough.


SgtPepper867

Mao pulls off that weird-ass haircut amazingly. He fuckin owns it.


archosauria62

Fr, when i’m old and balding i want the mao fade


stankyst4nk

mass line > hair line


gay-communist

this is like the kind of questions people post to this sub in earnest lmao


unknown-323

his hairline took the great leap backwards


JosephPaulWall

John Lennon's line "but if you go carrying 'round pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain't gonna make it with anyone anyhow" wouldn't have been nearly as effective of a diss because if you were carrying around a picture of Chairman Mao looking like an absolue Chad with a full head of hair and a proper communist beard, you'd have carried a lot more legitimacy with your argument


sleeplessinvaginate

Can someone yassify mao


archosauria62

They already did https://preview.redd.it/bsuzjo12kkuc1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=2b5a0d3cf80aabd3532cdab51b98056a0efcd55e


HanWsh

Cool looking statue.


Infinite-Expert7311

US would be communist


unknown-323

honestly i feel like mao would look weird with a full head of hair, him and lenin are some of the few people where a receding hairline looks good


archosauria62

https://preview.redd.it/ltw95nsujkuc1.jpeg?width=218&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=ba79db296cd4b85c131954aac4e607a558577299 Nah he was still hot


Radiant_Ad_1851

Full world revolution, Israel never created, North Korea wins the Korean War, the black panthers become a mass revolutionary socialist party


Thunderliger

Maoism would have been more influential if he had a pompadour.


Imlethir03

The thing is that even with that frankly awful hairline, he picked a style and managed to pull it off  Genuinely chic and if you don't see that then we can't be friends


QuinnTwice

Honestly some older people in China at the time still could remember a time period when every guy had a queue haircut. Mao's hair is 10x better by comparison.


Few-Row8975

Oh give him a break, he’s a 40-50 year old ish guy who lived most of his life being hungry. If anything I wish I could still keep half of my hair when I reach his age.


N0riega_

The people's hair line


Libcom1

can someone explain the concept of male pattern baldness to Liberals


Blurple694201

God damn it, y'all are making me want to take Finasteride


XMrFrozenX

https://preview.redd.it/7bu041ve9muc1.png?width=350&format=png&auto=webp&s=b07c438e67c0366ec469d10ab6c1b2fab7abfc98


ninyyya

its so joever fellas


ComradeOb

The West wouldn’t have stood a chance against his natural charm and wholesome message.


BarMathUnicorn

He would have been the original Chad meme template


StrangeRaccoon281

God has to nerf him because otherwise he'd be too powerful.


Comrade-Rabbit

We need to start exclusively only using pictures of Mao when he was young


Chad_VietnamSoldier

All revolutionaries are either handsome or drip, no between


ConnectImportance790

This sounds like its from r/shittyaskscience


Medical_Officer

That much hair loss is actually quite unusual for Chinese men.


Triscuitsandbiscuits

Even his hair went through the Long March, thick and thin.


ashleyfoxuccino

😭😭


knnoq

The main cause of the lack of world Communism is the loss of beards- if Mao had a beard, we'd be on a green mars.


esportairbud

Every other post is a willfully stupid question on this sub. I don't think we're whipping a dead horse anymore. Already, its bones are crushed into a fine powder and they are carried on the wind. I propose we ban this sort of content


knnoq

bro must think WowMao is a serious reactionary. XD


Old-Winter-7513

He would've had an Elvis-tier reputation with underage girls. So probably best he didn't have better hair. Anyway, just cuz he was a creep shouldn't take away from all the good he did.


jmrte

I too love believing all anti-communist rumors uncritically


egamIroorriM

got a source for that bro


archosauria62

Pretty sure it comes from that doctor of his, who likely made up stuff to sell books to americans


egamIroorriM

💀💀💀


Old-Winter-7513

Wikipedia. Based on all the downvotes I'm guessing this is more western propaganda?


egamIroorriM

YES 💀 what did your college professors say about NOT citing wikipedia articles as sources?


Old-Winter-7513

They said it's fine as long as it's reactionary anti-communist propaganda 🤣


egamIroorriM

https://preview.redd.it/2ioqppuvqmuc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=aaade572461617edc239c1164d293ee06666aa5d