Oh. Yeah. If you ever start to wonder if you might enjoy any part of our political process, you will not.
Rhetoric without substantive argument is just pandering. I’ll take both over either, please!
Intelligence Squared has good debates. They have a podcast and a youtube channel I think. There’s only been one instance I can remember where one side of the debate was arguing in bad faith, and I’ve been listening for a while so I assume it’s pretty rare.
For an example -NSFW strong language-, here’s an AI imitating/mocking the US presidential debate
I did debate club in highschool and early college, but it was parliamentary style debate. I didn’t observe that much bullshit, so I’m guessing the US debate style is different
Nah that’s how debate club is everywhere. Middle, high school, and college.
The debates you see on TV are designed for whatever channel it’s on though.
Local councils are basically what you see on Parks and Rec. It’s where the OG crazies shine since they’ve mostly been banned from the internet lol.
