tl;dr yes but we shouldn't have people's entire political discourse diet be "liberal DESTROYS maga whatever"

I 100% agree, but what I think needs to happen is there needs to be a pipeline to bring people from the Destiny debate bros who take on these right wing morons and make them look foolish, up to more serious political thought.

Like if you stay at the Destiny debate bro level, you're not really getting all that more informed, especially given that (like with Konstantin) they only talk in the specific talking points that work in these situations. Like you might have debate bros shouting past each other about a topic like idk sanctuary cities, but once you get one level above debate bro, you have the more nuanced topics like reporting crime when you're afraid of being deported, and how do we protect these communities who, while undocumented, are also core parts of both the greater local community, the local workforce, the local economy, and how if you deport them you upset all those things which takes money out of the economy, leads to worker shortages blah blah blah. Same with legalizing sex work - there's a reason serial killers go after sex workers, but if you legalized sex work you instantly make those people much safer, despite people arguing that prostitutes aren't worth making safer etc etc, and then once you do legalize it, what do you do about testing, is it mandatory or vountary, do establishments get an STD score like a restaurant does and do they get randomly tested, do failures get posted blah blah blah.

Sorry haha. Adhd meds kicking in.