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Mara Wilson@marawilson.bsky.social |
Why the fuck do we even have presidential debates anymore
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Sean
@drsean.bsky.social
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An unforced error
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SigmundFrood
@sigmundfrood.bsky.social
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$$$
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Kenny Riot: Beatdowns & Get Downs
@kennyriot.bsky.social
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Because they don't require the rhythm, vocabulary, and wit that makes a great rap battle.
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Katemiya
@katemiya.bsky.social
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I seriously want a game show format vs debates instead. What do they think basic things cost? Do they know basic things about government? More people would watch and we'd learn a lot more about candidates than we do in traditional debates.
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@smogget.bsky.social
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might be part of that bread and circuses thing
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Schroeder
@disneyschroeder.bsky.social
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I suppose there's still a number of undecided voters and in theory, maybe the media feels a debate may sway the undecideds one way or another *shrugs*
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Sam Lowe
@greenlantern44.bsky.social
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We aren’t well
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The Bureaucracy
@thebureaucracy.bsky.social
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And pennies, $1 bank notes, and imperial measurements, elected judges and dog catchers, capital punishment…
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David Monniaux
@monniauxd.bsky.social
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Why do you have a president anyway?
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Sam Crutsinger 📺 🔊 🎬 💉x5
@samcrut.bsky.social
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I want a courtroom debate. Candidates under oath. Judge for a moderator. Attorneys are partisans for each side that ask them questions and cross-examine. Perjury is enforced with jail time. All televised.
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Jason
@jasongarner.bsky.social
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To trick a lot of people into watching CNN again for the first time in ten years?
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rex 🦖
@rexs1gma.bsky.social
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Good question. They never demonstrated how someone would act if serving in the role.
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Try the Brie, it’s American Cheese Month!
@briansmith.pro
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So America's op-ed columnist class has something to wring their hands about
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Johnny at Home
@johnnysthoughts.bsky.social
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"But think of the ratings!"
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Spare Sidekick (They/Them)
@sparesidekick.bsky.social
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The "circuses" part of "bread and circuses"?
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Chris Moore
@mutualismecology.bsky.social
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We should have them face off on Hot Ones 🥵
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Viktor Winetrout
@viktorwinetrout.bsky.social
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It’s like ads for bread or milk. Yes, we are familiar with them
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Ryan Wilson
@hailseitan.bsky.social
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Not Gene Rayburn
@yourhappyhost.com
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Because dumb people need to see the one-on-one battle at the end of the movie.
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Mary (geographile)
@geographile.bsky.social
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I think they did this one so that they could say they had done it, neither could say they refused the other's demand. It was useless for any information gathering purposes. It might have been useful if the moderators had done their damn jobs, or if they had nearly realtime onscreen fact checking.
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DG
@amideadyet.bsky.social
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How are there still undecided voters who have to hear these cretins out & actually make up their feeble minds & go out & vote, it’s infuriating & they should be deported to a floating plastic bottle patch
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Darren Simmons
@darrensimmons.bsky.social
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Ontological inertia, generally. Nowadays, given the choices, also because some people want to pretend super hard that this is all normal, well, and good.
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Josh "Go Drink The Sea" Brown
@theotherspeakman.bsky.social
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We should rise up and get rid of them.
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🍗
@werechicken.bsky.social
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It’s propoganda meant to make the people buying into it that Their Guy is strong and has their back and is well spoken. It’s showmanship. It’s just a show.
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Joe McConnell
@jfmcluggage.bsky.social
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Why do we have Presidents? There's perfectly good unemployed royalty out there. We should buy some.
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Notorious RBMK
@comraderobot.bsky.social
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because norms. we love the norms dont we folks
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Tempest is doing a Kickstarter! BUY MY BOOK 🏳️⚧️
@probablyacryptid.elikwake.com
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Seriously, though, why? The moderators don't moderate them and the candidates just spew the same propaganda they've spewed the whole damn time and the press spins that the way they want to spin it regardless of the outcome WHY???
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Dr. Jens Foell
@fmriguy.bsky.social
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I tried to tell people, I really did
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EarlJ.WJones.bsky.social
@jordenwalker.bsky.social
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And why can't they just be boring?
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Rachel Esselle
@rachelsl.bsky.social
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I was JUST saying this!! Back in the day, it was the quickest, easiest way to learn about platforms and whatnot. We have the internet now. We can search and see what they stand for. Historically, bad debate performance is used as some measure of governing ability. The two are not equivalent.
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Jill Ingrid
@maximumjill.bsky.social
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It’s an enrichment activity, like bingo night at the old folks’ home.
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Kara Jane Adams
@ghostinexile.bsky.social
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I think they couldn’t go with the original plan of playing Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots because of an injunction by Mattel.
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Jeremy Jackson
@jeremyjackson.bsky.social
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Can we just make them play Street Fighter? If they can't hadouken, they have to move to Hoboken.
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Exatron
@exatron.bsky.social
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Clips for political ads, mostly.
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Hupple’s Cat
@hupplescat.bsky.social
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Because the horse-race won’t run itself.
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@MeltingInMaine
@paschos.bsky.social
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I am desperately avoiding all of them. I know they have a train-wreck fascination appeal for lots of people, but not this pussy cat. I am still shell-shocked from 2016.
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Motown
@motown.bsky.social
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Pointless. There are NO undecided voters.
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@masencup.bsky.social
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If we don’t have debates how will we know how good they are at golf?
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Brosephine Wires
@joparkerbear.bsky.social
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We need publicly funded campaigns. Each candidate gets an hour on PBS to make their case. More campaign regulations in general re: advertising. I’m so over all of this shit.
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Jeremy Rivers
@sunsetbeaver86.bsky.social
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Tradition... >.> but idk i never even watch them. Just two clowns honking.
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Full Mental Jackass
@uncle6.org
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because we never stop to ask whether things still make sense like the electoral college or two and a half months between election and inauguration or not expanding Congress since 1929
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A.J.
@ajwritesscifi.bsky.social
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It was fine when the candidates took their turn speaking and answered issue-based questions. What's your solution to x? How much would your plan cost and how would you pay for it? It's become an anklebiting, fingerpointing, shoutfest. People need graphs to make sense of any of it.
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Glen
@vaguebiscuit.bsky.social
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They're awful. Just the worst show on television. And here in the UK we've actually started replicating them!
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contagonist
@contagonist.bsky.social
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some people want to watch old men yelling at each other but can't afford Cracker Barrel
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Eric
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they should die with the broadcast TV era
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oxwof
@oxwof.com
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They’ve been, at best, joint press conferences for as long as we’ve been aware of them
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f00Ldysklosure
@jradd7.bsky.social
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They did fundamentally change quite a LOT when they were taken from the original group that sponsored and hosted them to being fully controlled by the two major political parties.... 🤔 Are they even the same thing? It's kinda like a very flawed Ship of Theseus situation... 😅
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Jake_Vig
@jakevig.bsky.social
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Just in case the Democratic nominee is going to win, it's a great chance to make sure that doesn't happen
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K The Shy Kat 🇵🇷
@ktheshykat.bsky.social
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Because the presidents love to brag about the size of their bulges for hours on end during debates and see which side screams the loudest in the room
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HuluAndEbay Man
@huluandebayman.bsky.social
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Because democracy demands opposing views. Sadly it's a dated system since it broke the Greeks eventually.
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Rachel
@andgracetoo.bsky.social
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I still think a candidate should have to defend policies & platforms like defending a thesis. Cuts out the bullshittery of non-debate debates.
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Richard Keppler 🦋
@richardkeppler.bsky.social
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Utter waste. It might have been useful in earlier eras, but it's just dumb now.
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