Maybe I'm too black pilled, but even most of the people who have certain political beliefs do nothing...

and most "debate" in any format is just utter faggotry... even when "academics" are engaging in it

they make the kinds of claims they'd never even try to publish because they can get away with it.

Reinhart and Rogoff come to mind immediately

they were very reserved about what their findings meant in their actual published paper

Hey, I like flinging shit at people

Burn it all down!

but on TV they acted like their research was indellible proof that austerity improved economic outcomes

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Then it turned out they had been using microsoft excel to do all their calculations and their outcome was a mistake because these old boomers didn't understand VB and were just copying and pasting forumlas for Excel

OOF HOW EMBARASSING

Debates are just sports for people who think they're too smart for sports

So?

What's wrong with sports?

What's wrong with shoving 24 boiled eggs up your ass?

You can do whatever you like fam

Hawt

It's not 25 that's what

The comparison to sports wasn't for a value judgement other than just like sports people pick a team

Why people care about some random people they give millions of dollars out of their own pocket to watch them run around is not something I understand, but you do you. I don't get why you'd shove hard boiled eggs up your ass but some people do that too...

I really care about _MY_ sports team that I have nothing to do with other than giving them money!

Should we pay out of our own pockets to build a stadium for billionaires?

YES!

@Catboi because athletes compete at levels that are so high it seems beyond human ability so people revere the skill on display

Pay the operational costs for these billionaire businesses!

you should understand why people enjoy the collective identity of being part of the fan base and wearing the right colors

you dont need that explained

I guess you could say it's a sign of social collapse

people get more identity out of their sportsball than their actual community

and no, I don't get it

oh i figured you were going Rome with that

I think the green bay packers are technically a publicly owned team

They have to show their expenditures every year

I've never understood why people cared about pro athletes.

College and Highschool sports sure

I actually knew the players on my Highschool and college teams

I wanted them to do well

I literally had personal relationships with them

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They weren't people wearing a jersery that represented _my team_

ok? you can still want pros to do well