This exercise here is pretty simple: The first post of each page will be a topic. The post following will be a serious response to it- after that, a "shitpost". (I use quotes because it still has to be an on-topic shitpost.) And the thread will keep flipping like that until the beginning of the next page. The goal is to carry out an actual conversation/debate carrying from one post to the next; i.e. a serious post must reply to the previous shitpost seriously, and vice versa.
Now let's start with some controversy: GUN CONTROL