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Culture War Roundup for the week of September 9, 2024

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I don't know if saying this is against the rules, so I'm trying to say this politely: I think this kind of posting needs to be bullied. Low-effort whining about how the minutiae of every debate moment and quip is a depressing state of mind. It's extremely tiresome -- Trump raised himself from private citizen to President of the United States by shitposting and debating, backseat driving is extremely tedious.

I kind of understand where you are coming from, but first of all, my apologies for this at least - I had no idea that there was a separate debate thread! I probably should have bothered to check, but I didn't. If I had realized that there was one, I would probably have just posted all of this over there. Also, I personally would prefer if Trump won the general election. I am whining because I feel that he is shitting the bed. And because I feel that his shitposting has become weak and his debating, outside of the primaries, has always been weak, and this is showing itself yet again. Talking about how backseat driving is tedious because Trump has sometimes succeeded at shitposting and debating would be one thing if this Trump had won in 2020, but he did not. So I think it is fair to say, even though granted COVID did a lot to hurt Trump in 2020, that it is fair to question Trump's skills at shitposting and debating.

I don't have a problem with it spilling into this thread and I think we're actually on the same side here -- I just think it's really a waste to sit around worrying about every element of it. "Bully" here is a shorthand for, something like, I think this kind of thinking is bad for you and should be discouraged and I personally

I have little doubt about that brotha, it probably is bad for me. On the other hand, it may have stimulated some interesting discussion.

Well, we allowed a separate debate thread, but it overflowed here anyway.

I don't know if saying this is against the rules, so I'm trying to say this politely: I think this kind of posting needs to be bullied.

Saying you think that is not against the rules (lots of people have opinions about what threads should and shouldn't be tolerated), but if you actually try to "bully" people because you don't like the thread they started, you're probably going to break the rules in numerous ways (for one thing, the implied effort at consensus building). You are free to criticize the comments (politely), but just because you think a topic is tedious doesn't mean everyone else is equally disinterested.

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