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applegrove

(128,361 posts) Sun Sep 28, 2025, 02:09 AM 12 hrs ago

On Charlie Kirk's debates. [View all]

"Why didn't you ever debate the professors, anyone your age... someone with a developed frontal lobe? ...

"Why didn't you ever debate the professors, anyone your age... someone with a developed frontal lobe? Charlie Kirk debated to win. He did not debate to seek truth."
— MindciteðŸ’¥ (@mindcite.bsky.social) 2025-09-27T17:28:14.026Z

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On Charlie Kirk's debates. [View all] applegrove 12 hrs ago OP

IMO, Kirk didn't "win" the debates so much as he employed a series no_hypocrisy 10 hrs ago #1

Yes, there are those tactics NJCher 10 hrs ago #3

Limbaugh's choice of logical fallacies was argumentum ad hominum (personal insults) no_hypocrisy 10 hrs ago #4

Not to mention NJCher 9 hrs ago #7

Exactly. I've watched too many of his "debates" on YouTube Orrex 5 hrs ago #9

He's dead. Iggo 10 hrs ago #2

So we can't discuss his debating style 2.5 weeks after? applegrove 10 hrs ago #5

LOL. All that from "He's dead"? Iggo 58 min ago #16

This Kirk is no more. mr715 31 min ago #18

He's being pumped up, but not by us. He's being turned into Horst Wessel, and that'll have consequences. Crunchy Frog 4 min ago #21

Why discuss him at all? Conjuay 37 min ago #17

So? niyad 9 hrs ago #8

I saw a booth dedicated to him at a Fall Festival in western PA yesterday Orrex 3 hrs ago #12

He did these bad faith debates just to own lefties & make fun of them for his social media SunImp 9 hrs ago #6

He was a piece of shit then, and a piece of shit now. Orrex 3 hrs ago #14

He got owned often enough by the students Johonny 4 hrs ago #10

Sartre's quote on anti-Semites springs to mind... sir pball 4 hrs ago #11

Damn. Nothing new under the sun. Orrex 3 hrs ago #13

Oscar Wilde had a good response for a time like this. Swede 2 hrs ago #15

Cambridge didn't go well at all. JanMichael 30 min ago #19

Just wrecked him. Totally. mr715 10 min ago #20