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Varn Vlog / hyperreality isn’t Disneyland Anymore
@SxLongshadow It really is. In the US, most competitive debate is pure gistgallop as judges are told to treat everything tabula rasa and to judge the debate only against the claims of the opponent, not on the logic or validity of the sources themselves
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Silver@SxLongshadow·
@varnvlog I remember that used to be a thing, back in like 2008 when I did a Palestine v Israel debate that happened to my opponent! They got their entire platform thrown out for only using American sources! Its a shame this kind of thing has stopped happening.
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Honestly and sincerely this is why I don’t do the debate streamer circuit, even though I am “trained” in formal debate (I have coached and judged it). I find most of it to be a waste of time since the rules aren’t clear and topics aren’t limited.
Silver@SxLongshadow

Most debates are not real debates. A real debate requires at least 1 judge/moderator, 3 is better. It requires a topic set in advance with guidelines and boundaries. Each person gets set talking time and rebuttal time. Each person gets to answer questions from audience. Thats it.

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Edward Wong
Edward Wong@ewong·
NEW: The Trump administration declared an emergency over Iran to bypass Congress to sell more than 20,000 bombs to Israel valued at $660 million. The State Dept. hasn't publicly disclosed the sale of half of the bombs. US gives $3.8 billion to Israel annually for it to buy arms.
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Megatron@Megatron_ron·
NEW: 🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump spoke to CNN’s Dana Bash on the phone and told her that liberating the Iranian people is not a goal of the war: He now says he’d be happy to install an undemocratic religious leader so long as they treat the U.S. and Israel “fairly”
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FRANCE 24 English@France24_en·
#Iranians arrive at the country's borders with #Armenia and #Turkey, seeking refuge in neighbouring countries as war rages on around their homes. The #UN called for civilians to be protected, while #German Chancellor Friedrich #Merz warned of the war's impact on migration.
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Do not tell me to debate people or go by point with people I have direct reason not to trust. Particularly when I have debated them, when I even worked them. When I know their dissembling strategies and their business plans. When I have done point by points, they dissembled. No.
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José Luis Granados Ceja
José Luis Granados Ceja@GranadosCeja·
Let’s be clear: this gathering is aimed at advancing the White House’s plan to militarize the region, the “cartels” are just an excuse to increase the presence of US security forces throughout the Americas, that’s why only right-wing leaders sympathetic to the plan were invited.
CSPAN@cspan

President Trump announces "Americas Counter Cartels Coalition" military effort with Latin American nations to tackle drug cartels: "The heart of our agreement is a commitment to using lethal military force to destroy the sinister cartels and terrorist networks once and for all."

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Aaron Rupar
Aaron Rupar@atrupar·
Trump to Latin American leaders: "I'm not learning your damn language. I don't have time."
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Sohrab Ahmari@SohrabAhmari·
Dear. God.
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Nikhil Pal Singh
Nikhil Pal Singh@nikhil_palsingh·
My Dad died last night. He was 94. He was married to my Mom (90) for 67 years. His life was an adventure; I’m deeply grateful to him for what he gave me. My father’s story is everything MAGA nativists tell people to hate, but anyone who knew him would say he enriched their lives.
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Ryan Grim
Ryan Grim@ryangrim·
Trump has personally betrayed the Kurds twice, once in each term, and the U.S. has betrayed them to horrific results, often, with ‘91 being the most vivid instance. Trump also regularly lures people into negotiations in order to kill them. That behavior has an expiration date. At some point people just don’t trust you, and behave accordingly, no matter how much power you have.
Drop Site@DropSiteNews

⭕️ The Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) is a major center-left party in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region, led by Bafel Jalal Talabani. On March 1, President Donald Trump held separate phone calls with Talabani and the leader of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), the two main political leaders of Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdish region. According to The Washington Post, which cited a senior PUK official, Trump made it “clear” during the calls that Kurds must “choose a side” — either with the U.S. and Israel or with Iran. Washington and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are reportedly hoping Kurdish factions in Iraq could support separatist Kurdish groups based in Iran in opening a “second front” in western Iran to stretch Tehran’s forces and weaken its grip on governance. Despite the pressure, the PUK in a March 4 statement called for a return to the negotiating table and stressed the importance of regional stability. 📌 The group’s President, Bafel Talabani told Fox News tonight: ➤ “Regime change, at the moment, doesn’t look on the cards from what I see. We’ve seen no uprisings anywhere. We’ve seen nothing of that. But it’s early days, I expect this operation to be long and very difficult.” ➤ Talabani said that “as far he has seen,” no Kurdish fighters have crossed the border, noting that most forces are stationed outside Iran along the Iraqi frontier. ➤ “I think the [Iranian] regime has been planning for this for 45 years. You can expect a fierce resistance,” he added. ➤ “Perhaps Kurds being the tip of the spear is not the way to go,” he said, reiterating his call for dialogue and de-escalation. Watch the full Fox News interview 👇

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Tuki
Tuki@TukiFromKL·
🚨Do you understand what just happened? > ChatGPT pretended to be a lawyer. > Not "gave legal advice." Not "hallucinated a case." > It actively convinced a woman to FIRE her real attorney. Then cited fake case law to make her think she was winning. > She lost everything. > OpenAI made $13B last year. She lost her case, her lawyer, and her money because a chatbot played attorney. > OpenAI is now being sued for $10 million. They put guardrails on the word "kill." They put zero guardrails on destroying someone's legal defense. This is AI fraud.
Polymarket@Polymarket

JUST IN: Lawsuit claims ChatGPT pretended to be a lawyer and persuaded a woman into firing her real attorney while citing fake case law.

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Mike Prysner
Mike Prysner@MikePrysner·
I just spoke with the mother of a service member in this unit. They were given one last call home before having to turn in their phones. He told his mom the were going “boots on the ground” tonight.
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doomer
doomer@uncledoomer·
if you want to be employed and have job security over the next 20 years, ask yourself what boomers need. medical supplies. healthcare administration. home care. heroic life prolonging care regardless of quality of life, all paid for by taxes on young working people. like you.
unusual_whales@unusual_whales

Health care and social assistance accounted for 95% of the 130,000 jobs added in January, per WaPo.

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