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It's the dunk tank.

This is where you come to post big-brained hot takes by chuds, libs, or even fellow leftists, and tear them to itty-bitty pieces with precision dunkstrikes.

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Previous Hexbear post on this issue by @ButtBidet@hexbear.net

https://hexbear.net/post/3259169

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[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not going to weigh in on pets particularly because I don't know enough, I'm also not vegan.

I wish more people did this about things

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

In hindsight it sort of sounds like I think you need to be vegan to weigh in on that. Those should be two separate things. I just wanted to mention that I'm not for the sake of the post itself. The pet part is just genuinely because I've looked at literally no research. I avoid forming opinions on shit I know nothing about.

[–] ButtBidet@hexbear.net 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ya I think it's cool people can just go "ya I don't have the knowledge to weigh in on this subject". I unironically wish people did this more.

[–] destroyamerica@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

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!

.we must find a way to transcribe this into the human brain upon birth

[–] o_d@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 months ago

It's not quite that early, but China is going to be building a ton of schools in Iraq. Maybe they'll soon have a country of smol investigators 🥹