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Small-Scale Question Sunday for September 14, 2025

Do you have a dumb question that you're kind of embarrassed to ask in the main thread? Is there something you're just not sure about?

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We have a benchmark - Charlie Kirk himself. Compare to what he's been doing. If you need more, I'd be fine with any reasonably argued definition, but I'd define "open" as accessible to everyone, within reason (you can come to open mike, subject to physical availability, ask a question and get an answer from the debater, and be able to challenge the answer and at least briefly engage in discussion), and is explicitly advertised as such. And "debate" as a discussion of a topic where the sides perform a public two-directional dialogue where both sides are equally engaged. For the purposes of this question, this dialogue has to be synchronous.

I don't think you can really equate the two things.

Which two things? I'm not sure what is the second thing.