S04E06 – Harris Baits Trump and Brazil Censors X

In this episode of Finding Common Battle Grounds, Josh, Tom, and Ryan discuss the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris and the instances of censorship taking place around the world. Amazingly, we have clear agreement on the debate – Harris won by baiting Trump and then letting him lose the debate by looking like a fearmongering crazy old man. The memes that resulted from Trump’s false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets were pretty amazing. We go into more detail about the debate, but that’s the short version. On censorship, we all agree that censoring free speech is generally bad and the situation in Brazil with a single supreme court justice being able to silence his critics and X shutting down operations in opposition to that is both a serious problem but also a response to censorship we support. However, there may be more nuance to this than we realize. We ended with a bit more disagreement when it came to who was censoring and whether censorship was okay when it came to what kids were allowed to encounter.