Great Debates

Topic	Replies	Views	Activity
New Rules for Great Debates and Elections – January 2020 Moderation in Great Debates and Politics and Elections In general, Great Debates and Politics and Elections are the most contentious fora on the SDMB. Because of that, you’ll find that moderation is more active and pro…	2	17472	July 29, 2022
About the Great Debates category	1	4156	April 2, 2021
Thread and Topic Bans for Great Debates	1	12069	November 29, 2020
The UK (and Europe's) free speech problem trump	43	418	July 23, 2025
Law in the state of India-na	16	576	July 23, 2025
Will Jeffrey Epstein's "friends" face justice?	308	13475	July 23, 2025
Cancel Culture and Canceling versus consequences for actions movies	592	2407	July 23, 2025
Did prohibition officials poison drinkers?	58	576	July 21, 2025
Does intelligence stop mattering for problem solving beyond a certain point	77	733	July 20, 2025
What attitudes in a philosophy/meme ensure it will spread widely	50	392	July 18, 2025
Future of General Questions in the AI age ai	96	750	July 16, 2025
In what ways will blue collar work possibly not be safe in the age of AI and robotics ai	18	381	July 15, 2025
Scientific qualia	80	681	July 10, 2025
There cannot possibly be an "edge of the Universe."	16	340	July 9, 2025
Intersectionality and the Oppression Pyramid	308	2928	July 6, 2025
Military not following illegal orders-How reliable is that?	40	888	July 5, 2025
Should there be age restrictions on electric bikes/scooters?	54	1581	July 3, 2025
How is Israel's military so competent with such a low budget	118	1352	July 3, 2025
If there is an intelligence explosion in the next few decades due to AI, what real world bottlenecks will still exist	44	448	July 1, 2025
How much money should you be getting monthly in retirement?	45	894	July 1, 2025
Is the President calling out the National Guard constitutional?	32	587	June 30, 2025
What problems could we solve in America, that could actually save money by solving the problem, but we still don't solve them	109	1763	June 30, 2025
Civvies gifted with real (not honorary) military ranks? WTF?	67	758	June 29, 2025
Limits to technological collapse?	155	1285	June 27, 2025
When complete and total jerk-asses happen to be right	76	1741	June 24, 2025
In the US, could states implement UBI in a post scarcity society {Universal Basic Income}	21	223	June 21, 2025
Why does Israel conduct airstrikes in the middle east rather than using rockets and missiles	13	539	June 13, 2025
The Trade Deficit	9	303	June 13, 2025
What do you feel are the most brilliant, creative, effective military operations in human history	80	757	June 10, 2025
Bringing back manufacturing jobs -- why would this not work?	128	13863	June 8, 2025

New Rules for Great Debates and Elections – January 2020

Moderation in Great Debates and Politics and Elections In general, Great Debates and Politics and Elections are the most contentious fora on the SDMB. Because of that, you’ll find that moderation is more active and pro…