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by lawlessone 980 days ago
All debate videos on YouTube are like that now to get views. Declaring X won before you even watch. Usually it's video of Ben Shapiro awkwardly reciting some argument he remembered wrong, while the commenters make disparaging remarks about the other parties hair color.

Debate's have become less about who made good points etc and more like a pokemon battle of debate tactics.

steelmanning, devils advocate, etc