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	17481	July 29, 2022
About the Great Debates category	1	4165	April 2, 2021
Thread and Topic Bans for Great Debates	1	12080	November 29, 2020
The UK (and Europe's) free speech problem trump	158	1164	August 3, 2025
Left Of Liberal Dopers: How could America have done civil rights right?	14	95	August 3, 2025
Voicing limited and qualified agreement with a bigoted stereotype	120	875	August 3, 2025
What is the most important record of our culture that no longer exists physically?	39	646	August 2, 2025
Would you give up free will for world peace?	437	4972	August 1, 2025
Will Jeffrey Epstein's "friends" face justice?	344	14065	July 31, 2025
Cancel Culture and Canceling versus consequences for actions movies	655	3183	July 29, 2025
The draft IS coming. You heard it hear first.	100	4429	July 27, 2025
Did prohibition officials poison drinkers?	61	669	July 27, 2025
New book: Osama's inevitable nuke holocaust in the U.S.?	23	1585	July 27, 2025
Law in the state of India-na	16	665	July 23, 2025
Does intelligence stop mattering for problem solving beyond a certain point	77	822	July 20, 2025
What attitudes in a philosophy/meme ensure it will spread widely	50	435	July 18, 2025
Future of General Questions in the AI age ai	96	775	July 16, 2025
In what ways will blue collar work possibly not be safe in the age of AI and robotics ai	18	407	July 15, 2025
Scientific qualia	80	686	July 10, 2025
There cannot possibly be an "edge of the Universe."	16	375	July 9, 2025
Intersectionality and the Oppression Pyramid	308	2964	July 6, 2025
Military not following illegal orders-How reliable is that?	40	906	July 5, 2025
Should there be age restrictions on electric bikes/scooters?	54	1593	July 3, 2025
How is Israel's military so competent with such a low budget	118	1377	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	490	July 1, 2025
How much money should you be getting monthly in retirement?	45	922	July 1, 2025
Is the President calling out the National Guard constitutional?	32	597	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	1816	June 30, 2025
Civvies gifted with real (not honorary) military ranks? WTF?	67	771	June 29, 2025
Limits to technological collapse?	155	1305	June 27, 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…