The judges declare one side the winner, the winners get to advance, and the losing side of the debate is eliminated You don't get to just keep on debating, forever
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That's the whole point The formalized artificial rules of a debate tournament are nonetheless still in the end about "silencing bad opinions" They are a ritualized simulacrum of the real-life process of waiting to see whose opinions are bad then telling them to shut the fuck up
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The obnoxious thing about these chuds on the Internet and in op-ed sections treating everything as a debate is that they want it to be an ENDLESS debate A debate that it is IMPOSSIBLE TO LOSE Unless debating is just pure masturbation for you, what the hell is the point of that
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The thing about those high school debate tournaments is that they’re used to determine the better debater, not the better argument (and even that is a fraught issue)
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This, exactly.
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Isn't the problem now that the winner is the one that gets more clicks and thus asked back?
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Seems like in a lot of contexts "winner" is shorthand for "revenue generator", and while sometimes that means getting clicks, it can also mean getting approval from monied interests.
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Interesting, a feature of the debate game that I usually think of as part of how it's a BS exercise unrelated to anything like actually comparing the merits of ideas.
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Go Norway!
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