• RION [she/her]@hexbear.net
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    6 months ago

    They’re unprecedented because presidential debates have never been held this early in modern history as is stated in paragraph six of this article and many others

    Driving through hexbear.net begging for the location of media literacy (thru text)

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      “She got me,” AOCapitulator said of RION’s dunk over them. “That f***ing RION boomed me.”
      AOCapitulator added, “She’s so good,” repeating it four times.
      AOCapitulator then said they wanted to add RION to the list of posters they type with this summer.

    • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netOP
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      This hasn’t happened since the 70s isn’t really unprecedented though? I’m not sure I understand, are you saying this is a meaningful distinction? Is this actually a big deal? Cause it sure seems like fluff

      If not, I’m owned and wrong, sorry

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        Televised presidential debates have only been a thing since 1960 with JFK and Nixon, and then a 16 year gap until the Carter/Ford debates in 1976 after which every election has had them. I chose to qualify with “modern history” in case someone came in with " ☝️🤓 um akshually Benjamin Whosifuck debated Andrew Jackson a full year before the general in 18XX." Apparently there is one like that (Lincoln/Douglas 1858 on a technicality) so that was shrewd in hindsight, although a better approach might have been to qualify with “televised debate”.

        The real issue is that this is happening before either party’s primary. While it’s all but assured Donny and Brandon will win their primaries, it’s kind of skeevy to go ahead and declare yourself as winner before you’ve actually crossed the finish line. One would think civil religion libs would be aghast at this blatant disrespect of political norms, but bloo gonna bloo shrug-outta-hecks