• @[email protected]
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    206 days ago

    I’d love fact checking, but I can’t see that working in real-time. Maybe with a backstage team running a banner across the screen?

    In any case, all I wanted was the moderators to force them to stay on topic. No, once your rebuttal is up, shut up and answer the current question. Can’t stay on topic? Muted.

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      186 days ago

      I’d love fact checking, but I can’t see that working in real-time.

      It works fine. There’s a show on the BBC I watch called Question Time, and the moderator frequently calls out the guests when they’re not being truthful or not telling the whole story.

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        166 days ago

        Yeah when Americans see BBC interviewers checking the guests they’re stunned. “It’s . . . it’s beautiful,” they say. “We didn’t know they could do that” they say, with a tear in their eye.

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            4 days ago

            This was very funny when it happened, and has since become a standard political tactic. Just repeatedly not answering the question with no shame. It’s truly genius.