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1. IMO, Kirk didn't "win" the debates so much as he employed a series

Sun Sep 28, 2025, 03:49 AM

15 hrs ago

of logical fallacies which veered away from the original premises of the arguments, creating chaos and impossibility to respond.

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On Charlie Kirk's debates. [View all] applegrove 17 hrs ago OP

IMO, Kirk didn't "win" the debates so much as he employed a series no_hypocrisy 15 hrs ago #1

Yes, there are those tactics NJCher 15 hrs ago #3

Not to mention NJCher 14 hrs ago #7

Exactly. I've watched too many of his "debates" on YouTube Orrex 10 hrs ago #9

He's dead. Iggo 15 hrs ago #2

So we can't discuss his debating style 2.5 weeks after? applegrove 15 hrs ago #5

LOL. All that from "He's dead"? Iggo 6 hrs ago #16

This Kirk is no more. mr715 5 hrs ago #18

Why discuss him at all? Conjuay 5 hrs ago #17

So? niyad 14 hrs ago #8

He was a piece of shit then, and a piece of shit now. Orrex 8 hrs ago #14

He got owned often enough by the students Johonny 9 hrs ago #10

Sartre's quote on anti-Semites springs to mind... sir pball 9 hrs ago #11

Damn. Nothing new under the sun. Orrex 8 hrs ago #13

Oscar Wilde had a good response for a time like this. Swede 8 hrs ago #15

Cambridge didn't go well at all. JanMichael 5 hrs ago #19

Just wrecked him. Totally. mr715 5 hrs ago #20