Playing To Win: Debate in the Modern Age - It's about sending a message.

[Kosher Dill]

Here are american debate winners.

The best and brightest

Let's not get into school debate, which is a totally separate issue. To a much larger degree than real-life political debate, it's a product of the ruleset it operates under. This clownery is just the mathematically optimal way of gaming the current ruleset and judging practices.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

Besides the no-objectivity angle, another problem today is that there's a mindset that not acquiescing to insane politics is considered violent in itself. So any attempt of debate would be made from you already being depicted as an aggressor.

 

[A Pox]

Debating has always been hyperfocusing your autism into a succinct argument and hoping that the other guy makes himself look like an asshole in response.