Doing this bit will stop you from getting banned. It will also give you a chance to listen and learn without getting banned. It will also stop you from accidentally (or purposely?) harming your comrades, preventing you from getting banned. Hexbear is not theory but it can be a decent start so shut up and read and listen and maybe at most ask some simple questions about things and then accept the good answers you get so you can try to learn instead of posting your shit take and thus getting banned.

We go through this cycle once in a while and the folks who survive it are the folks who already have correct takes and the folks who shut up and listen to and learn from the correct takes. If you aren’t sure if you’re the former then make damn sure you’re the latter.

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      Then you may share them but only if you preface them with “I am so high right now” and also only if they are functionally meaningless takes like 'what if Mars is made of eggshells from the Celestial Dragon"

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    NO INVESTIGATION, NO RIGHT TO SPEAK

    Unless you have investigated a problem, you will be deprived of the right to speak on it. Isn’t that too harsh? Not in the least. When you have not probed into a problem, into the present facts and its past history, and know nothing of its essentials, whatever you say about it will undoubtedly be nonsense. Talking nonsense solves no problems, as everyone knows, so why is it unjust to deprive you of the right to speak? Quite a few comrades always keep their eyes shut and talk nonsense, and for a Communist that is disgraceful. How can a Communist keep his eyes shut and talk nonsense?

    It won’t do!

    It won’t do!

    You must investigate!

    You must not talk nonsense!

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    I support this as long as it doesn’t become the new “touch grass” mantra to try to shut people up regardless of “investigation.”

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      It shouldn’t if people just ask gentle open ended questions when they don’t understand rather than shit bad takes out their face holes

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    glad I grew out of the tendency to form an instant take on everything single thing that happens, including things I’ve never thought about up until that very moment. reddit and twitter did a number on my brain

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    This type of policy stifles freedom of thought.

    There is no such thing as people who “already have correct takes” who can be treated with the authority your words imply.

    Yes we should all listen more. But we also need to speak so that others may listen and so all can benefit from a diversity of ideas.