• TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    The debate actually infuriated me. There was no real content. Just two people screaming at each other thet the other one sucks.

    Harris did better than trump because she didn’t lie, but she still didn’t say anything usefull. Mostly she didn’t even respond to his “arguments”, wich is sad, because they were that easy to respond to. Instead she continued to say what she learned by heart before the debate and what her team tokd her to say.

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      2 months ago

      You miss that part about:

      Working to make housing more affordable

      $50k tax break for small businesses just starting out

      Expanding the ACA to more people

      Making pharmaceutical companies negotiate with the government to make more drugs more affordable

      Making tax cuts permanent for the work class

      BTW: continuing to say what you learned by heart before the debate and what your team told you to say is extremely important in a debate.

      It’s called “staying on point”

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      What we have learned from 10 years of Trump is that you lose when you respond to his arguments. His entire jig is to constantly shift the focus of the debate. He wants you to talk about Biden’s age and buttery males, instead of the economy. The best thing Harris could do (and she did) was to stay on topic.

      • BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world
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        Agreed. Respond to his policy points when he actually makes them. “Never would’ve happened if I was still President,” is not a policy point and it’s barely even a selling point. What question would that not work for? Inflation, illegal immigration, housing, school shootings, Ukraine, energy prices, climate change, and Israel: never would’ve happened. All because the Supreme Ruler Trump said… “Don’t do it!”

    • Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      Saying stuff off-the-cuff is not the purpose of a debate. It’s to tell people positions that you already hold. Harris did this on several occasions here. She stated actual policy goals as well as personal positions on different topics. Trump just yelled about all the typical things and never once stated an actual reason he should be president. The best we got from him was “I have concepts of a plan.”

      I agree it was infuriating, but Harris did some some things of substance, even if anyone paying attention would have already known it.

      Will this actually matter though? I somewhat doubt it, but I’ll wait to see. I’m hoping it does, but we may be well beyond reason as a society.