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ecib  ·  1738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I knew who all these people were, and I knew where they stood. I didn’t NEED this debate. In fact, I was gonna launch into a whole spiel on this very website about how Debates Are Worthless.

I think the author is in the minority in that most of the lazy disengaged American public knows very little about most of the candidates, and that for as information-lite and vacuous the debates are, they NEED the debates because that pittance is an order of magnitude more information about the candidates then they will bother to acquire without them.

kleinbl00  ·  1738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Drew Magary mostly snarks about sports on Twitter, now that Deadspin is dead. His other contributions to culture include snarking about the Williams Sonoma catalog.

He is most decidedly not writing for the general public.

thenewgreen  ·  1738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Entertaining read. It was definitely a fun debate. I was real time texting with mk and ecib while watching. Maybe we should do IRC for the next one?

Quatrarius  ·  1737 days ago  ·  link  ·  

yeah, come to the kids table! we won't bite

kleinbl00  ·  1738 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Could be entertaining. IRC seems to choke out with more than like 4 people though...

OftenBen  ·  1737 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Discord?

mk  ·  1737 days ago  ·  link  ·  

https://discord.gg/ERN3Bk

Perhaps I can make this appear in anyone's userpage that has a hubwheel. Not sure how I feel about discord though. I should consider building an on site chat box.

That'd be a fun exercise.

user-inactivated  ·  1737 days ago  ·  link  ·  

On site chat box sounds more hubski.

Open to IRC or Hubski in the meantime. Is there a P.O. box I can send my pennies to/donate, by the by?

I like this place.