UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in office.

Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by hairofadog on Thursday October 20, 2022 @01:43PM (#33278143)

I agree; the video in the comment above yours was edited specifically to focus hate on a couple of high school students.

While I have to admit I'm not a fan of that debate style, if you want to know the context behind it, there's an episode of Radiolab on the topic: https://radiolab.org/episodes/debatable

The short version is that it seems to have been a response and rebellion to what was already an arguably ridiculous style of competitive "debating": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by lamontcg on Thursday October 20, 2022 @01:53PM (#33278268)

Yeah so it was essentially satire.

You'd think that in a community of "hackers" that should value actual skepticism and subversion that people wouldn't fall so easily for obvious propaganda.

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by leereeves on Thursday October 20, 2022 @03:28PM (#33279467)

Whether those particular debaters were rebelling, satirizing, or simply following the rules, it remains true that fast debating (AKA spreading [1]) is a "ridiculous style of competitive 'debating'".

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Re:UK Prime Minister Liz Truss resigns after just 45 days in... by lamontcg on Friday October 21, 2022 @01:47PM (#33290886)

You know that wasn't why it was shared here, and it was deliberately edited to push people towards a completely different conclusion.

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