Tournament: UNLV | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Harker RT | Judge: panel Interpretation—the aff may not defend a subset of appropriation. Appropriation is a generic indefinite singular. Cohen 01 Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), “On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars,” Journal of Semantics 18:3, 2001 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188590876.pdf *IS generic = Indefinite Singulars French, then, expresses the two types AND know a room is¶ square? Their plan violates. Rules readings are always generalized – specific instances are not consistent. They spec mining. Cohen 01 Ariel Cohen (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev), “On the Generic Use of Indefinite Singulars,” Journal of Semantics 18:3, 2001 https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/188590876.pdf In general, as, again, AND are purely descriptive Vote neg: 1 Precision –any deviation justifies the aff arbitrarily jettisoning words in the resolution at their whim which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution. 2 Limits—specifying a type of appropriation offers huge explosion in the topic since space is, quite literally, infinite. Drop the debater to preserve fairness and education – use competing interps –reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation Hypothetical neg abuse doesn’t justify aff abuse, and theory checks cheaty CPs No RVIs—it’s their burden to be topical.
2/18/22
JF- T Fwk
Tournament: jean ward | Round: 4 | Opponent: Independent WW | Judge: Eden Kenney cites broken open sourced
Tournament: isidore newman | Round: 1 | Opponent: Little Rock MG | Judge: David Coates cites broken check OS
12/10/21
ND- T Implement
Tournament: isidore newman | Round: 1 | Opponent: Little Rock MG | Judge: David Coates cites broken check OS
12/10/21
SO- Abolish CP
Tournament: jack howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough FL | Judge: Jan Wimmer
1NC — Abolish CP
Text: The World Trade Organization ought to be abolished. The following 164 countries listed in the speech doc ought to independently and without influence from international government reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by implementing a one-and-done approach.
Afghanistan Albania Angola Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Australia Austria Bahrain
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its leading institutions, the World Trade Organization. We should abolish it.
the pace of technological and industrial development in the rest of the world.
Primacy causes endless war, terror, authoritarianism, prolif, and Russia-China aggression.
Ashford, PhD, 19 (Emma, PoliSci@UVA, Fellow@CATO, Power and Pragmatism: Reforming American Foreign Policy for the 21st Century, in New Voices in Grand Strategy, 4, CNAS) Humility is a virtue. Yet in the last quarter century, American policymakers have
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War–era strategies better suited to an era of bipolar superpower competition.
9/19/21
SO- Cap K
Tournament: jack howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough FL | Judge: Jan Wimmer
K
Aff is an example of slash and burn capitalism which discloses socialist goals, and promotes unregulated capitalism
Williams 20 ~Joan C. Williams and Ro Khanna, Harvard Buisness Review, "It’s Time to End Slash-and-Burn Capitalism", October 28, 2020. https://hbr.org/2020/10/its-time-to-end-slash-and-burn-capitalism~~ The conversation about stakeholder capitalism is heartening evidence that the business community recognizes that capitalism
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a stable government, a thriving economy, and a healthy middle class.
The aff’s belief in the ability of a singular legal act to create a just and stable society is a fantasy that serves to cover up the unsustainable violence at the heart of capitalist ideology
Wardle in 2016 Benjamin James; PhD; The Four Axes of Legal Ideology; Griffith Law School; PhD thesis; http://hdl.handle.net/10072/367046 Žižek draws on and extends Marx’s understanding of ideology to posit a multifaceted conceptualisation.
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information or practices that expose the inaccuracy or oppressive nature of ideological beliefs.
The impact is racial capitalism: the global system that is recognized by war, colonialism, slavery, genocide, fascism, and dispossession – it deploys liberalist ideals of individualism that corrupts movements and undermines any and all social change.
Jodi Melamed, 2015, is associate professor of English and Africana Studies at Marquette University. She is the author of Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing Violence in the New Racial Capitalism (University of Minnesota Press, 2011) and has published many articles and chapters in a wide array of journals and editions "Racial Capitalism" published in Critical Ethnic Studies , Vol. 1, No. 1 (Spring 2015), pp. 76-85. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/jcritethnstud.1.1.0076 This contribution to the inaugural volume of the Critical Ethnic Studies seeks to strengthen the
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by producing and moving through relations of severe inequality among human groups—c
The alternative is to affirm the model of the Communist Party – only the vertical dual power organizing can provide effective accountability mechanisms to correct unproductive tendencies, educate and mobilize marginalized communities, and connect local struggles to a movement for international liberation.
Escalante 18 (Alyson Escalante, you should totally read her work for non-debate reasons, Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist. "PARTY ORGANIZING IN THE 21ST CENTURY" September 21st, 2018 https://theforgenews.org/2018/09/21/party-organizing-in-the-21st-century/ rvs) I would argue that within the base building movement, there is a move towards
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making. The party model creates internal methods for holding party members accountable,
9/19/21
SO- Infrastructure DA
Tournament: nano nagle | Round: 1 | Opponent: Monta Vista JY | Judge: David Dosch
Infrastructure passes now due to Biden and Pelosi involvement – Biden PC and tight timetables makes the margin for error literally ZERO
Elliott 9-16 (Philip Elliott is a Washington Correspondent for TIME. Before joining TIME in early 2015, he spent almost a decade at The Associated Press, where he covered politics, campaign finance, education and the White House. He is a graduate of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism at Ohio University, September 16, 2021, accessed on 9-17-2021, Time, "Democrats Face a Grueling Two Weeks as Infighting Erupts Over Infrastructure", https://time.com/6098810/house-democrats-reconciliation/)//babcii House Democrats yesterday finished penning a 2,600-page bill that finally outlines
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rivals the spending the United States unleashed to close out World War II.
Attacks on pharmaceutical profits triggers Mod Dem Backlash – it disrupts unity.
drug pricing reform encounter challenges which may prevent impactful modifications from taking place.
Sinema specifically jumps ship.
Hancock and Lucas 20 Jay Hancock and Elizabeth Lucas 5-29-2020 "A Senator From Arizona Emerges As A Pharma Favorite" https://khn.org/news/a-senator-from-arizona-emerges-as-a-pharma-favorite/ (Senior Correspondent, joined KHN in 2012 from The Baltimore Sun, where he wrote a column on business and finance. Previously he covered the State Department and the economics beat for The Sun and health care for The Virginian-Pilot of Norfolk and the Daily Press of Newport News. He has a bachelor’s degree from Colgate University and a master’s in journalism from Northwestern University.)Elmer Sen. Kyrsten Sinema formed a congressional caucus to raise "awareness of the benefits
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lawmakers harshly critical of high drug prices and the companies that set them.
Pharma backlash turns case
Huetteman 19 ~Emmarie Huetteman, former NYT Congressional correspondent with an MA in public affairs reporting from Northwestern University’s Medill School, 2-26-2019, "Senators Who Led Pharma-Friendly Patent Reform Also Prime Targets For Pharma Cash," Kaiser Health News, https://khn.org/news/senators-who-led-pharma-friendly-patent-reform-also-prime-targets-for-pharma-cash/~~ Early last year, as lawmakers vowed to curb rising drug prices, Sen.
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controls on drug prices. The Senate has not voted on the bill.
Infrastructure reform solves Existential Climate Change – it results in spill-over.
Specktor 19 ~Brandon Specktor~ "Human Civilization Will Crumble by 2050 If We Don't Stop Climate Change Now, New Paper Claims." Live Science. June 4, 2019. https://www.livescience.com/65633-climate-change-dooms-humans-by-2050.html TG It seems every week there's a scary new report about how man-made climate
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saying US should vaccinate everyone so doesn’t matter if US companies are mad.
10/8/21
SO- Innovation DA
Tournament: jack howe | Round: 1 | Opponent: canyon crest SZ | Judge: dylan liu Biotech industry strong now – new innovation and RandD coming Cancherini et al. 4/30 Laura, Engagement Manager @ McKinsey and Company, Joseph Lydon, Associate Partner @ McKinsey and Company, Jorge Santos Da Silva, Senior Partner at McKinsey and Company, and Alexandra Zemp, Partner at McKinsey and Company “What’s ahead for biotech: Another wave or low tide?“, McKinsey and Company, 4-30-2021, https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/pharmaceuticals-and-medical-products/our-insights/whats-ahead-for-biotech-another-wave-or-low-tideajs
Undermines RandD and innovation Mercurio 2/12 (Bryan Mercurio, Simon F.S. Li Professor of Law at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK), having served as Associate Dean (Research) from 2010-14 and again from 2017-19. Professor Mercurio specialises in international economic law (IEL), with particular expertise in the intersection between trade law and intellectual property rights, free trade agreements, trade in services, dispute settlement and increasingly international investment law., 2-12-2021, “WTO Waiver from Intellectual Property Protection for COVID-19 Vaccines and Treatments: A Critical Review“, No Publication, accessed: 8-8-2021, https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3789820) ajs
Biopharmaceutical innovation is key to prevent future pandemics and bioterror – turns case Marjanovic and Feijao 20 (Sonja Marjanovic, Ph.D., Judge Business School, University of Cambridge. Carolina Feijao, Ph.D. in biochemistry, University of Cambridge; M.Sc. in quantitative biology, Imperial College London; B.Sc. in biology, University of Lisbon.) "How to Best Enable Pharma Innovation Beyond the COVID-19 Crisis," RAND Corporation, 05-2020, https://www.rand.org/pubs/perspectives/PEA407-1.html TDI
9/18/21
SO- T spec
Tournament: jack howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Marlborough FL | Judge: Jan Wimmer
Interpretation: Topical affirmatives must specify which medicines they defend.
Violation: They don’t
Standards:
~a~ Ground - Not specifying destroys neg ground because they can shift and clarify which medicines they defend in the 1AR to no link DAs and perm CP
~b~ Topic education – vague terms like medicine prevent us from having in-depth discussion about the topic
Topicality is a voter for fairness and education – drop the debater
No RVIs – it’s illogical – you should be punished for not being a T but shouldn’t get a cookie for being T