‘Who you voting for?’ Dating apps get political in Brazil

By Mauro PIMENTEL / AFP In Brazil, supporting the right presidential candidate may actually get you a hot date. In Brazil, supporting the right presidential candidate may actually get you a hot date. “Please tell me that you aren’t a leftist, you are too pretty to be one,” Vivian read in one message she received on the dating app Tinder. But Vivian supports Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a leftist who is one of two politicians facing off in a presidential runoff vote on October 30. So no match occurred, a sign of how politics has seeped into intimate everyday realms. Indeed, the law of physics tha…

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