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Politics speaking topics

33 real topics. Every one is sourced and deep enough to talk about for 10-15 minutes. Click one to see its detail page, or practice in the app.

• Should business leaders share their political opinions publicly?
• Whether meaningful protest is still possible in an age where every march becomes content within the hour.
• The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish daydream.
• When a YouTuber's sponsored video looks identical to their journalism, the ethics of disclosure in creator-made news.
• The greatest enemy of authority, therefore, is contempt, and the surest way to undermine it is laughter.
• Borders do not just regulate movement, they quietly decide moral worth. Should the accident of where you were born determine the quality of your life?
• When a country renames itself, like Turkey asking to be called Turkiye, is the rest of the world obligated to follow?
• The practice of violence, like all action, changes the world, but the most probable change is to a more violent world.
• A life without speech and without action is literally dead to the world; it has ceased to be a human life because it is no longer lived among men.
• Should AI companies be taxed to fund a universal basic income for the people whose work AI replaces?
• Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.
• Big Brother is watching you.
• Capitalism and socialism were both born in the industrial age. Does either of them still fit the world we actually live in?
• If I had a good enough memory to really retain everything that I think, I doubt very much that I would have written anything.
• What I propose, therefore, is very simple: it is nothing more than to think what we are doing.
• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four.
• Telling stories about the Global South without including its voices, the white savior problem in explainer content.
• The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
• Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent.
• Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.
• The apocalyptic chess game between the superpowers is being played according to the rule: if either 'wins' it is the end of both.
• Governments can now buy spyware that reads anything on a citizen's phone, including encrypted apps. Are we sleepwalking into a total surveillance future?
• All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
• The head of a major intelligence agency said tech giants are closer to running the world than politicians are. Is that already true?
• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.
• Should governments set age restrictions for social media?
• Where all are guilty, no one is.
• Where violence rules absolutely, everything and everybody must fall silent.
• Men are unable to forgive what they cannot punish.
• Is democracy in self-destruct mode? There is a global trend of voters freely electing leaders who then erode democratic institutions.
• Does communism deserve another try, or has history already given its verdict?
• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
• Unthinking men are like sleepwalkers.