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6 or 8 months ago I finally took the hint that the days of cable were over and went from paying .
$200 a month to .$50 a month for one of those meme services that had everything we needed. ('Oh it's on fubo. Check it out on tubi. Just hulu it.' Feels like that bop-it game from 20 years ago). It's worked out fine, but I was reluctant to admit just how much things had changed.Where are you choosing to spend your time discussing things like the Vice Presidential debate earlier tonight? Because I'm (obviously) slow on the uptake but even I'm feeling like the era of having a contentious space to hash things out with other intelligent people has gone the way of cable. Tens of millions of people watched, hundreds of millions saw the highlights, where is anybody bothering to exchange ideas about it? As opposed to just amplifying their collective agreement in group chats
I suppose not so many years ago everybody watched what happened on Dallas in their own living rooms and had to wait to talk about it until they were around the water cooler the next day. Times do change and I'm not meaning to be Miniver Cheevy, just wondering what the options are besides the groupchats.
I got fed up with the enshitification of streaming services that I went back to pirating all the videos and TV shows I watch. I've gotten a google search result for a show I want to watch, only to subscribe and find out it's been removed a few too many times.
Nobody ever really did this. Debates have always just been simultaneous press conferences.
There are none, since it's incredibly rare for people to actively go out and search about things that could change their minds on political issues. Revealed preferences are that people don't give a crap about being persuaded despite exhortations of "having an open mind".
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Small scale debate question: did anyone else feel like Vance got a lot of makeup?
My wife and I agreed that he was showing serious intellectual horsepower, but I felt like he gave off strong evil vizier vibes.
He's always heavy on eyeliner. IDK why none of his people have figured out a more natural look. Maybe he likes it that way.
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Here, group chats. There's no possibility of bringing back contentious spaces that aren't pseudonymous because the risk of saying something that the other side can use to get you fired, turned into a pariah or otherwise cause consequences for your daily life is way too high.
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