You start off noting that real world events reveal the unimportance of debate between fall guys, and I must point out that you're just noticing due to reality imposing itself on your media centric attention. Those debates have never mattered in the real world, and they never will.
The censors, totalitarian collectivist centralizations of power wielded like seal clubs by globalists, and armed thugs about to be very visibly deployed to effect financially agglomerated power are going to bring reality into view for many, very soon.
Presently Steem is being transformed, and the non-geographic voluntarist society it has spawned will migrate to Hive, hopefully to prosper as a result of repairing fatal flaws built into Steem from the outset, such as Stinc's 80% stake that enabled it to simply govern that society instantly at it's sole option - anathema to a voluntarist society.
All the horrors descending on the world today are the result of centralization, and decentralization is the cure for all of them, and particularly collectivization of people by force.
I bid you reorganize your focus on voluntarist and individual provision and consumption of information, and all other goods and services, because only that will enable reality to be functionally relevant in the ongoing deployment of collectivist delusions on the part of the enemedia that intend to profit from farming humans like cattle, which requires the cattle do not see they can leap the fence of disinformation that confines them.
Going forward physical distribution of networks of voluntarist sovereign individuals will be necessary to maintain our ability to remain free and prosperous. Gangs will attempt to enforce compliance with the farmers that will need to cull the herd to keep their cattle inside the fence, because independent voices will leap that fence and show the way.
Show the way, be culled, or join the herd.