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Not reporting is bourgeois


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Thesis: Anonymity plus free speech is revolutionary because it allows dialectics without ego. It allows people to advance mistaken positions, get corrected by the masses, change their mind, and adopt a new position without a transitional period of shame or remorse.

Antithesis: Anonymity plus free speech is reactionary. It allows mobs of backwards people to swamp young and impressionable minds by advancing simple, easily repeated, bigoted and chauvinist narratives.

Synthesis: Anonymity with a strong well-read ideologically committed modocracy allows dialectics without ego… as long as you ban namefags and get rid of flags.

>>41044
So when are you going to start reading?

>>41044
More like
Synthesis: We don't have either of those because jannies are alive, stfu

>>41044
Flags were the greatest cultural innovation of /leftypol/, although they've now withered and died. They allowed you to flag your ideological tendency (or in the case of someone like British SocDem, to check people are reading the words and not the flag by flagging yourself misleadingly) so people know where you're coming from. An anti-Stalin post is interpreted very differently depending on whether it comes from a SocDem flag, a 4, an Anarchy symbol, or a Stalin mustache, and much more efficiently (in most cases) states the theoretical background of your argument. (Of course, you may state a different set of premises in-text, and someone may ignore them and look only at the flag - but then you know they're lazy and not worth your time.)
When /leftypol/ was at its most culturally vital, people mostly-accurately flagging their tendencies caused people to competitively argue their case. You got a good "team" identity for both your ideology and for the board as a whole, which could be donned or abandoned at will while still basically retaining anonymity. For a board of so-called materialists, you'd think people would understand more clearly that this is the kind of environment that incubates a wildly successful meme like "Made by X gang".

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>Thesis
[the synthesis of OP's post]
>Anti-thesis
When I do get into debates I try to make little OC's and play as them. This means I don't care if I lose since it's a character I made up losing and not me personally.
I don't know if that counts as a para-ego or what but it's made me a better listener, and better able to figure out why someone of certain material conditions may think a certain way.
>Synthesis:
debate threads should have mandatory roleplay avataring so people don't attach their real egos to the matter at hand.


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