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0 - Note for TFA
Tournament: TFA | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any cite aren't working check os Thanks!
3/11/22
0 - contact info
Tournament: any | Round: 1 | Opponent: any | Judge: any Hi, I'm Marco! marma00419@gmail.com Best way to contact me is through messenger https://www.messenger.com/t/100041602684531
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0 - contact 1 - Generics/Broken Interps
9/11/21
2 - Habeas Viscus v1
Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley MM | Judge: megan wu
The aff’s incorporation within the political feeds into the state’s rejection of deviancy from the ideal Man. The ability of the state to rescind ownership of deviant bodies separates humans and non-humans in their inability to attain the personhood that the state inscribes. We refuse this logic of inclusion and function within liminal spaces to act from the epistemology of the flesh.
Weheliye ~Alexander Weheliye, Professor of African American Studies at Northwestern University, 2014, "Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human"~ chsMM Paradoxically, the particular biological material in question remains the property, at least nominally
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movements to abolish the grounds upon which all forms of subjugation are administered.
Liberal philosophy and ideal theory’s attempt to establish a single normative account of the world is bound by Western power structures. Under the guise of objectivity, whiteness inserts itself as the norm; the ideal model of a purely rational subject is always creates a "color line" where the phenotype of blackness is always marked deviant—thus we criticize the structural foundations your theory finds coherence that means (a) your framing is another link and (b) even if your theory is true our criticism is a perquisite to accessing its truth.
Kincheloe 99 ~{Joe L; Research chair at Faculty of Education at McGill University; "The Struggle to Define and Reinvent Whiteness: A Pedagogical Analysis"; College Literature 26 (Fall 1999): 162-; 1999; http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/courses/aas10220(spring2001)/articles/kincheloe.html; accessed 9/22/16~} MK While no one knows exactly what constitutes whiteness, we can historicize the concept and
Society constructs a master narrative color is sub-human and deviant from the ideal Man. The color line is the way whiteness redefines the biological norm and establishes a hierarchy undergirding all forms of oppression. The role of the ballot is to deconstruct the figure of western man, only this is able to open up the world to new lines of flight.
Wynter ~Wynter, Sylvia. "Unsettling the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom: Towards the Human, After Man, Its Overrepresentation—An Argument." CR: The New Centennial Review, Michigan State University Press, 3 Feb. 2004, muse.jhu.edu/article/51630. ~chsMM The Argument proposes that the new master code of the bourgeoisie and of its ethnoclass
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fact of their having all been selected by Evolution in terms of race.
The alternative is habeas viscus. We must reconstruct what it means to be human through the hieroglyphics of the flesh and diverge from focus on legal personhood and the Human body. The alternative functions as an assemblage of humanity that dismantles oppression through collective action that embraces deviance away from the Western Man.
Weheliye 2 ~Alexander Weheliye; Professor of African American Studies and English at Northwestern University; 2014; "Habeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the Human"~ chsMM The poetics and politics that I have been discussing under the heading of habeas viscus
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time disavowing this tendency via recourse to the abnormal and/ or inhuman.
9/10/21
JF - Lay NC
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 3 | Opponent: Acton Boxborough AL | Judge: Kyle Hietala check os
2/19/22
JF - T - Outer Space
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 6 | Opponent: Appleton MU | Judge: Andrew Shaw
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Interp: The affirmative must define "outer space" in a delimited text in the 1AC.
"Outer Space" is flexible and has too many interps – normal means shows no consensus
Leepuengtham 17 ~Tosaporn Leepuengtham (Research Judge, Intellectual Property and International Trade Division, Supreme Court of Thailand). "International space law and its implications for outer space activities." 01-27-2017, Accessed 12-9-2021. https://www.elgaronline.com/view/9781785369612/06'chapter1.xhtml duongie Those states which favor the precise demarcation of outer space support the spatial approach,
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of space technology, this problem is worth considering now rather than later.
Violation – you don’t.
Prefer –
1~ Stable Advocacy – they can redefine in the 1AR to wriggle out of DA’s which kills high-quality engagement and becomes two ships passing in the night –our ground is decked bc we lose access to Tech Race DA’s, Asteroid DA’s, basic case turns, and core process counter plans that have different definitions and 1NC pre-round prep.
2~ Real World – Policy makers will always define the space that they are regulating. It also means zero solvency, absent spec, private entities can circumvent since there is no delineated way to enforce the aff and means their solvency can’t actualize.
2/20/22
JF - T - Policy
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Princeton AS | Judge: Dylan Jones cites down
2/19/22
JF - T - Unjust
Tournament: Harvard | Round: 2 | Opponent: Princeton AS | Judge: Dylan Jones cites down
2/19/22
JF--TFW v1
Tournament: Strake | Round: 1 | Opponent: King CP | Judge: holden bukowsky cites down check os
12/18/21
JF--TFW v2
Tournament: Strake | Round: 3 | Opponent: Sebastian Cho | Judge: Ben Erdmann cites down check os
12/18/21
MA - T - Define Free Press
Tournament: TFA | Round: 4 | Opponent: Leon Sakata | Judge: Jay Conklin cites not working check os/note
3/11/22
MA -T - must spec democracy
Tournament: TFA | Round: 1 | Opponent: William walker | Judge: Jacob Lugo cites not working check os/note
3/11/22
SO - DA - Cannabis v1
Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Garland AA | Judge: truman le
The weed industry is growing, but needs investors to stay afloat – patents draw in investors and help companies expand
Roberts 20 ~Chris Roberts, An award-winning investigative reporter and covered the legalization movement and the cannabis industry with a political economy lens for more than a decade. He launched northern California’s first cannabis-centric print vertical and founded San Francisco’s first dedicated drug-policy column. His work’s been featured in VICE, The Daily Beast, The Guardian, Deadspin, Observer, Curbed, Leafly News, High Times, SF Weekly, and many other places. He hold a master’s degree in politics from Columbia Journalism School, 5-28-2020, "Why Patent Cannabis? For Markets, Mostly.," Forbes, https://www.forbes.com/sites/chrisroberts/2020/05/28/why-patent-cannabis-for-markets-mostly/, 8-21-2021~ WHS MR On May 20, Charlotte’s Web, the Colorado-based CBD giant and arguably
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." How valuable? That’s all up to the logic of the market.
Cannabis is key to tech innovations in agriculture – only long-term solution for sustainability and security
Yamazaki 17 Kevin Yamazaki (founder and CEO of Sidebench, a leading digital product and venture studio that creates custom software and apps), 3-27-2017, "High Tech: How Marijuana Legalization Breeds Innovation," Observer, https://observer.com/2017/03/high-tech-how-marijuana-legalization-breeds-innovation/, SJBE With the competition blazing and increased legalization on the horizon, we can expect to
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into a mainstream commodity, and the tech world stands to benefit enormously.
Extinction – food insecurity causes conflict and goes nuclear
identify famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even nuclear war.
9/11/21
SO - PIC - Cannabis v1
Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Garland AA | Judge: truman le
Counterplan text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines except for cannabis, medical marijuana, and medicines containing chemicals from cannabis by implementing a one-and-done approach for patent protection.
It competes – weed is a medicine and is used in medicine
WebMD 20 ~WebMD Medical Reference, WebMD is an American corporation known primarily as an online publisher of news and information pertaining to human health and well-being. The site includes information pertaining to drugs. It is one of the top healthcare websites by unique visitors. It was founded in 1998 by internet entrepreneur Jeff Arnold., August 20, 2020, "Medical Marijuana FAQ,", WebMD LLC, https://www.webmd.com/a-to-z-guides/medical-marijuana-faq, 8-21-2021~ WHS MR What is medical marijuana? Medical marijuana uses the marijuana plant or chemicals in it
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can take 1 to 2 hours to experience the effects from edible products."
9/11/21
SO - Theory - Define Medicine
Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 1 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley MM | Judge: megan wu
Interpretation and Violation: The affirmative debater must specify the type of medicine they defend in a delineated text in the 1AC – they didn’t
Medicine is the core question of the topic and there’s no consensus on normal means so you must spec.
Hofmann 21: Hofmann, Bjorn ~Institute for the Health Sciences at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) at Gjøvik, PO Box 1, 2802, Gjøvik, Norway~ "Vagueness in Medicine: On Disciplinary Indistinctness, Fuzzy Phenomena, Vague Concepts, Uncertain Knowledge, and Fact-Value-Interaction" Springer Link, July 05, 2021 AA https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10516-021-09573-4 This article investigates five kinds of vagueness in medicine: disciplinary, ontological, conceptual
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improve clinical decision-making, informing individuals, and health policy making.
Vote neg
1~ Stable Advocacy: 1AR clarification delinks neg positions that prove why specific medicines are bad by saying it isn’t a medicine they defend– wrecks neg ballot access and kills in depth clash about speicifc medicine. IE, If I read marijuana or opioids they can just delink and say they aren’t medicine.
2~ Prep Skew: I don’t know what they will be willing to clarify until CX which means I could go 6 minutes planning to read a disad and then get screwed over in CX when they spec a different definition of medicine. This means that CX can’t check because the time in between is when I should be formulating my strat and waiting until then is the abuse. Key fairness because I won’t be able to use the strat I formulated if you skewed my prep and will have a time disadvantage.
Paradigms
1~ Fairness and education are voters – its how judges adjudicate rounds and why schools fund debate, also comes before the aff becuase if the round is unfair I can’t engage
2~ DTD – Dropping detere future abuse by punishing heavily, which helps set better norms. Also, there is no argument to drop.
3~ Competing interps – Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation – it also collapses since reasonability operates on an offense-defense paradigm
4~ No RVIs – A - Forcing me to go all in on the shell kills substance education which outweighs on timeframe, B - discourages checking real abuse since I have to go 1 off theory and you can dump on it which outweighs on norm-setting C - Encourages theory baiting – outweighs because if the shell is frivolous, they can beat it quickly D – its illogical for you to win for proving you were fair – outweighs since logic is a litmus test for other arguments
9/10/21
SO - Theory - Espec
Tournament: Grapevine | Round: 3 | Opponent: Garland AA | Judge: truman le
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Interpretation: The affirmative must specify which intellectual property rights they reduce and to what degree they reduce them.
Intellectual Property is a vague, meaningless term – there’s no normal means.
Chopra 18, Samir. "The Idea of Intellectual Property Is Nonsensical and Pernicious: Aeon Essays." Aeon, Aeon Magazine, 12 Nov. 2018, aeon.co/essays/the-idea-of-intellectual-property-is-nonsensical-and-pernicious. Samir Choprais professor of philosophy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. He is the author of several books, including A Legal Theory for Autonomous Artificial Agents (2011), co-authored with Laurence White.sid In the United States, media and technology have been shaped by these laws,
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a legally resolvable technicality; the latter sounds like an unambiguously sinful act.
Reduce requires quantification.
Passarello 13 – J.D. Candidate, Duke University School of Law, 2013. (Nicholas, NOTE: THE ITEM VETO AND THE THREAT OF APPROPRIATIONS BUNDLING IN ALASKA, 30 Alaska L. Rev. 125, Lexis)BB With respect to the item veto power, the question in the case was whether
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the amount of an appropriations item, not the descriptive language accompanying it.
Violation: they don’t – even if they outline a definition for an IP, reduction is more important
Standards
1~ Shiftiness- They can redefine the 1AC’s reductions in the 1AR which allows them to recontextualize their enforcement mechanism to wriggle out of DA’s since all DA links are predicated on type of enforcement i.e. sanctions bad das, domestic politics das off of backlash, information research sharing da if they put monetary punishments, or trade das.
2~ Real World - Policy makers will always specify how the mandates of the plan should be endorsed. It also means zero solvency, absent spec, states can circumvent the Aff’s policy since there is no delineated way to enforce the affirmative which means there’s no way to actualize any of their solvency arguments.
CX doesn’t check – my preround prep was skewed which
is when people construct the 1NC. Pre-round doesn’t solve – you should be held
to the aff you chose or it incentivizes shiftiness. Also outweighs on nomring, since it would just be easier if its in the aff
ESpec isn’t regressive or arbitrary- it’s an active part of the WTO is central to any advocacy about international IP law since the only uniqueness of a reduction of IP protections is how effective its enforcement is.
1~ Fairness and education are voters – its how judges adjudicate rounds and why schools fund debate, also comes before the aff becuase if the round is unfair I can’t engage
2~ DTD – Dropping detere future abuse by punishing heavily, which helps set better norms. Also, there is no argument to drop.
3~ Competing interps – Reasonability invites arbitrary judge intervention and a race to the bottom of questionable argumentation – it also collapses since reasonability operates on an offense-defense paradigm
4~ No RVIs – A - Forcing me to go all in on the shell kills substance education which outweighs on timeframe, B - discourages checking real abuse since I have to go 1 off theory and you can dump on it which outweighs on norm-setting C - Encourages theory baiting – outweighs because if the shell is frivolous, they can beat it quickly D – its illogical for you to win for proving you were fair – outweighs since logic is a litmus test for other arguments