r/politics • u/Murky-Site7468 • 4d ago

'Chill The F**k Out': John Fetterman Urges Democrats To Stick With Joe Biden | The Pennsylvania senator reminded panicked Democrats on Friday that he too had a bad debate once, yet he went on to win his Senate seat.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/joe-biden-debate-john-fetterman_n_667ea850e4b0415858d6a2f1
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u/MuteCook 4d ago

It’s not even a debate. It’s just a spectacle

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u/SolaVitae 4d ago

It really shouldn't be but for some reason CNN forgot this was a presidential debate they were supposed to moderate and not an episode of the Kardashians

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u/MatrixTek 4d ago

You see, it's nearly impossible for a multibillion-dollar media company to fact-check all of Trump's numerous falsehoods in real-time. Even using GPT wouldn't help; it would be too complex to explain each lie back to Trump and then address his response. The result would be a moderator trying to fact-check him while he continues to lie, leading to a tedious back-and-forth. Eventually, it would devolve into a simplistic true-or-false exercise with diminishing returns.

I'm not even sure /s is appropriate because it seems to reflect their actual stance.

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u/Nefari0uss I voted 3d ago

Have the feed be delayed by 5-10 minutes. Show an area on the bottom of side of the screen statung where the current remark is a fact or falsehood. Maybe put the correct numbers / values / 1 sentence summary of the facts.