Most political debates boil down to:
>I get my news from this network and here's what THEY said
vs
>Well I get my news from this OTHER network and they said the opposite
which then becomes both sides saying
>LOL you actually trust THAT news source over the one I trust??
There's almost no point to formal political debate because of this. Unironically 4chan style pol discourse is superior to institutionalized debate for advancing political ideas.

>>508098462 (OP)
>muh debate
The gayest fucking shit on the planet earth.

>>508098544
Exactly. Debate is vain sophistry

>>508098462 (OP)
lmao, normies actually believe this

If you rely on the authority of your source then you already lost the debate. debate is about the content of the message not the mailman who delivers it.

>>508098462 (OP)
Debates are worthless time sinks, no one has ever convinced their opponent to their worldview

>>508098587
if debating worked in any form, in anyway in history, war would not even be a concept.

>>508098687
>no one has ever convinced their opponent to their worldview

Jehovah's witnesses convinced me that God's name is not God.

>>508098663
Precisely. This is why debate should always be visceral and based on firsthand observation and mutual verifiability. This is why showing someone's own internal logic as faulty is better than "outsmarting" them as many try

>>508098905
Jehovah's Witnesses dont understand anything salvific about God

>>508098462 (OP)
I base all of my political opinions and world views off of gut instinct, my imagination, and my frens on /pol/.

>>508098462 (OP)
I don't care what source a jew uses, I'm going to 100% believe it's jewish and bullshit.

>>508098687
>Debates are worthless time sinks, no one has ever convinced their opponent to their worldview
The opponent may not admit it at first, or it may not happen immediately, but a person can have their views changed through debate.
Even if you don't win over your opponent, you may convince the audience. And it's useful for finding weaknesses in your own position.

Yeah because ethics are ultimately justified via religious or quasi-religious belief and cultural norms. It’s possible that there is an objectively correct ethic, but people don’t necessarily apprehend it because it’s objectively correct. Like religion, they adhere to this or that ethic whether or not it’s correct and they do so on the basis of a theory. If someone rejects the theory, they reject the ethic.

That’s why debates are pointless. Liberals imagined debates, like they imagined science, could result in objective truths about ethics via the marketplace of ideas. In reality, debates are only useful for aesthetic displays. Watching a good debate is like watching a good fight, only neither “wins” in an objective sense. The victory lies exclusively in aesthetic impressions. You make your opponent look silly and you win, whether you’re objectively right or not. Napoleon was a genius for declaring that his way to debate with an intellectual was simply to shoot them. There’s much wisdom about the cold hard facts of life in that declaration.

>>508098462 (OP)
The medium is the message, anon. You should know that. It doesn't matter what's being said, they control you with print and TV and digital media.

>>508098918
>This is why showing someone's own internal logic as faulty is better than "outsmarting" them
what is the actual difference?

>>508098462 (OP)
Yeah no shit, even with the shills and schizos here the needle can at least kove on occasion.

>>508099000
Checked witnessed, the triple singularity

>>508099349
>Napoleon was a genius for declaring that his way to debate with an intellectual was simply to shoot them
maybe if he bothered listening to the "intellectual" guys more he wouldn't have been such a destructive wasteful influence on his country
>inb4 muh tactical genius
His leadership led to Paris being under foreign occupations. Multiple times.

ben shapiro is the typical rich kid that can't comprehend how it is to be in a bad situation and when mom and dad are fucked and don't hardcarry your whole life. this combined with believing that he achieved everything by himself, completely disregarding his luck.

>>508098986
Because Jehovah doesn't save, we're dust in his eyes until proven to be sparks

>>508098462 (OP)
>cyberbully the government
bit of a cringe t shirt. a bit neutered and pacified too. this amounts to making edgeposts on twitter to trumps account or something. a very reddit tier and leftists approach. gay.
>trump on twitter: bla bla bla politics, politics, politics. sad, many such cases
>leftist twitter user: shut up orange cheeto!
>???
>profit

>>508099000
Checked
Me too
Luv u bro
TKD

>>508099798

>>508098462 (OP)
i get my news from /pol/ and then just decide what side of the argument i want to take about good/bad and real/fake and worth it/wrong.
i wouldn't debate anyone because idc about their opinions.

>>508098462 (OP)
just simply disregard any argument by anyone who gets their information form anywhere but the BBC

problem solved

>>508098544
this

>>508098462 (OP)
Actually I get my news from what I see happening in the world around me which you fact check and tell me is fake and that im being brainwashed by some media network so im put through a re-education program for four years now while my ancestors founded the city I live in and I know exactly what happened to it