1AC Queer theory whole-res aff 1NC T-Framework 1AR case 2NR T 2AR case
Stanford - Palm Classic
4
Opponent: Marlborough JH | Judge: David Dosch
1AC Global Commons -Orbital debris adv -Neoliberalism adv 1NC International Space Cooperation K 1AR Neolib adv 2NR K 2AR Neolib adv
Valley - Mid America Cup
1
Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: James Stuckert
1AC Whole Res -Semiocap Adv -India Democracy Adv -Assorted spikes 1NC Cap Good 1AR -Both advantages -One theory shell from spikes 2NR Cap Good 2AR India Democracy Adv
Valley - Mid America Cup
3
Opponent: Scarsdale JT | Judge: TJ Maher
1AC -Kant -Assorted spikes 1NC Colorblindness K 1AR -Kant -spikes 2NR Colorblindness K 2AR spikes -AFC
Valley - Mid America Cup
5
Opponent: Mountain House ES | Judge: Arianna Nelson
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9/25/21
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Tournament: - | Round: 1 | Opponent: - | Judge: - The number before each cites entry: -First digit: Topic (0: Procedural notes, 1: Sept-Oct, 2: Nov-Dec, 3: Jan-Feb) -Second digit: Entry type (0: Straight turns, 1: DAs, 2: CPs, 3: Ks, 4: T/Theory) For instance, 32 would be for a CP on the Jan-Feb topic.
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9/25/21
10 Sept-Oct Cap Good vs Lexington JB Semiocap
Tournament: Valley - Mid America Cup | Round: 1 | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: James Stuckert Capitalism is key to achieving net-zero-~--otherwise the alt fails-~--profit motives, market competition, and trade all ensure green tech. Adair Turner 19. a British businessman and academic and was Chairman of the Financial Services Authority until its abolition in March 2013. “Is capitalism incompatible with effective climate change action?.” World Economic Forum. 9-3-2019. https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/09/is-capitalism-incompatible-with-effective-climate-change-action/ Believers in a...contain climate change.
Past the tipping point and the alt is dictatorship and genocide-~--only tech can solve and renewables are good. Eric Levitz 5/17/21. Senior Writer at New York Magazine. MA Johns Hopkins. "We’ll Innovate Our Way Out of the Climate Crisis or Die Trying". Intelligencer. 5-17-2021. https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/05/climate-biden-green-tech-innovation.html Today’s best-case ecological...like nuclear fusion.
Warming leads to extinction Kareiva 18, Ph.D. in ecology and applied mathematics from Cornell University, director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, et al. (Peter, “Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back,” Futures, 102) In summary, six...and climate change.’
Cap is sustainable and solves poverty and every quality of life metric. Radelet ’16 (Steven; February 2016; Ph.D. and M.P.P. from Harvard University, B.A. from Central Michigan University, Distinguished Professor of the Practice of Development, and is Director of the Global Human Development Program at Georgetown University, former Professor of Government and Economics at Harvard University, former economic advisor to President Sirleaf of Liberia; Foreign Affairs, “Prosperity Rising,” https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/2015-12-14/prosperity-rising) Since the early 1990s...and clean energy.
Cap’s sustainable thanks to dematerialization—their transition fails McAfee, 20—cofounder and codirector of the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, former professor at Harvard Business School and fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Andrew, “Why Degrowth Is the Worst Idea on the Planet,” https://www.wired.com/story/opinion-why-degrowth-is-the-worst-idea-on-the-planet/, dml) Over that same span...path to prosperity.
9/25/21
11 Sept-Oct Debt Ceiling DA
Tournament: Valley - Mid America Cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: Mountain House ES | Judge: Arianna Nelson Debt limit and government funding will pass now—everything else is delayed BRESNAHAN 9/15 JOHN BRESNAHAN, ANNA PALMER AND JAKE SHERMAN, Punchbowl News Legislataive Outlook 9/15, https://email.punchbowl.news/t/ViewEmailArchive/t/E48C6AF0C3714E452540EF23F30FEDED/C67FD2F38AC4859C/ As we’ve been...in the Capitol.
Medical IP takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU allies Bhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. On the other hand...opposed the idea.
Debt default is the easiest way to wreck the US economy—ruins the US dollar and financial reputation Egan 9/8 Matt Egan is an award-winning reporter at CNN, covering business, the economy and financial markets across CNN's television and digital platforms, "'Financial Armageddon.' What's at stake if the debt limit isn't raised", 9/8/21, https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/08/business/debt-ceiling-default-explained/index.html The easiest way...spends on defense.
Extinction Joshua Zoffer 20, Investor at Cove Hill Partners, Fellow at New America, JD Candidate at Yale University Law School, AB from Harvard University, “To End Forever War, Keep the Dollar Globally Dominant”, The New Republic, 2/3/2020, https://newrepublic.com/article/156417/end-forever-war-keep-dollar-globally-dominant In early 2016...climate change mitigation.
9/26/21
11 Sept-Oct Infrastructure Politics DA
Tournament: Presentation - Nano Nagle | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen The Debt Ceiling expansion gives Democrats two months to finalize and pass Biden’s spending package – every moment is necessary to resolve intraparty disputes Cochrane 10/7 Cochrane, Emily. Emily Cochrane is a correspondent based in Washington. She has covered Congress since late 2018, focusing on the annual debate over government funding and economic legislation, ranging from emergency pandemic relief to infrastructure. "Senate Leaders Agree to Vote on Short-Term Debt Ceiling Increase." N.Y. Times, 7 Oct. 2021, www.nytimes.com/2021/10/07/us/politics/debt-ceiling-senate.html. Senator Chuck Schumer...long-term increase.
Pushing a WTO takes time, energy, and political capital away from domestic legislation – big pharma and EU allies Bhadrakumar 5/9 M K Bhadrakumar is a former Indian diplomat. "Biden’s talk of vaccine IP waiver is political theater." Asia Times, May 9, 2021, asiatimes.com/2021/05/bidens-talk-of-vaccine-ip-waiver-is-political-theater. On the other...opposed the idea.
Infrastructure package is sufficient, necessary, and the last opportunity to solve climate change – extinction Leber 10/7 Leber, Rebecca. Rebecca Leber covers climate change for Vox. Before joining Vox, she was an environmental reporter at Mother Jones, where her investigations exposed government corruption and fossil fuel industry disinformation. She has worked as a staff writer at Grist, The New Republic, and ThinkProgress. A dozen more outlets have published her work over her decade as a climate journalist. "A last chance for US climate action: Democrats’ Build Back Better and infrastructure bills." Vox, 7 Oct. 2021, www.vox.com/22685920/democrats-infrastructure-build-back-better-climate-change. The United States...countries,” Cleetus said.
10/9/21
12 Sept-Oct AI CP
Tournament: Presentation - Nano Nagle | Round: 3 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen The member nations of the World Trade Organization should integrate centralized medical records and genetic information with machine learning technology and make data commercially available for biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies. Combining centralized records with genetic info shifts research to a genotype first approach---both are key for synching gene variants with their medical effects. Excluding people from coverage ensures bottlenecks that undermine research. Broad 14. (The Eli and Edythe L. Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, often referred to as the Broad Institute, is a biomedical and genomic research center located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Innovative “genotype first” approach uncovers protective factor for heart disease. June 31, 2014.https://www.broadinstitute.org/news/innovative-“genotype-first”-approach-uncovers-protective-factor-heart-disease) Extensive sequencing of...University of Helsinki).
Tournament: Presentation - Nano Nagle | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough AK | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin CP: France, Germany, Sweden, Italy, and the United States should: -substantially increase COVID vaccine production to meet the global demand -sign bilateral intellectual property licensing contracts and engage in necessary knowledge sharing with low and middle-income countries to share vaccines -donate all necessary vaccines at no cost to low and middle-income nations unable to license intellectual property rights
Global donations and increased domestic production solve Yamey 21 Gavin, Directs the Center for Policy Impact in Global Health at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina. “Rich Countries Should Tithe Their Vaccines” https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-00470-9 As I write...to act otherwise.
EU can ramp up production Sam Fleming 21, Brussels Bureau Chief, “EU to back expansion of vaccine production capacity in Africa,” Financial Times, 5-17-2021, https://www.ft.com/content/d2a47c7e-0b00-4e31-92ab-cd3ff0b9070b The EU plans...as yellow fever.
Eliminating IPR for vaccines gives China a massive competitive edge on innovation broadly – tanks pharma, undermines pandemic response, and tech leadership – BUT domestic production and distribution solves Okutsu and Sharma 21 Akane, staff writer for Nikkei International, and Kiran, LPC, The College of Law, Guildford, 1997 BA (Hons), Law, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge University, 1996. “Vaccine Patent Waiver: COVID Stopper or Innovation Killer?” https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Coronavirus/COVID-vaccines/Vaccine-patent-waiver-COVID-stopper-or-innovation-killer Western pharmaceutical companies...to developing countries."
Biopharma innovation is key to overall competitiveness – US still has a razor thin lead but IP is uniquely key Ezell 20 Stephen Ezell, Director of Global Innovation Policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). "Ensuring U.S. Biopharmaceutical Competitiveness." 7/16/20. https://itif.org/publications/2020/07/16/ensuring-us-biopharmaceutical-competitiveness Nations are competing..biopharmaceutical competitiveness strategy.
Chinese tech leadership causes nuke war Kroenig and Gopalaswamy 18, *Associate Professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Deputy Director for Strategy in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council. Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council. He holds a PhD in mechanical engineering with a specialization in numerical acoustics from Trinity College, Dublin. (Matthew and Bharath, 11-12-2018, "Will disruptive technology cause nuclear war?", Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, https://thebulletin.org/2018/11/will-disruptive-technology-cause-nuclear-war/) Rather, we should...balances more broadly.
10/9/21
12 Sept-Oct Patent Pools CP
Tournament: Valley - Mid America Cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: Mountain House ES | Judge: Arianna Nelson CP: The member nations of the World Trade Organization should create patent pools.
Solves the aff—eliminates exclusive rights to produce a drug and boosts cooperation between companies. DeCamp 7 (Matthew Wayne DeCamp -- Department of Philosophy @ Duke University, “GLOBAL HEALTH: A NORMATIVE ANALYSIS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE”, https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/193/D_DeCamp_Matthew_Wayne_a_052007.pdf?sequence=1, Pgs. 333-335, 25 April 2007, EmmieeM) Patent Pools (Merges, 1999). A...costs of medicines.
Patent pools settle IP ownership disputes, reduce transaction costs, facilitate cooperation, and leads to FDCs without having to change existing patent law DeCamp 7 (Matthew Wayne DeCamp -- Department of Philosophy @ Duke University, “GLOBAL HEALTH: A NORMATIVE ANALYSIS OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS AND GLOBAL DISTRIBUTIVE JUSTICE”, https://dukespace.lib.duke.edu/dspace/bitstream/handle/10161/193/D_DeCamp_Matthew_Wayne_a_052007.pdf?sequence=1, Pgs. 356-358, 25 April 2007, EmmieeM) Certain of the...global IPR reform.
9/26/21
14 Sept-Oct Colorblindness K
Tournament: Valley - Mid America Cup | Round: 3 | Opponent: Scarsdale JT | Judge: TJ Maher Academic philosophy is anti-Black – the 1AC’s abstraction from the material consequences of racialized violence absolves white philosophers of their contributions to America’s apathy towards Black death – their race-neutral rhetoric and assertion of universal humanistic principles reduces systemic racism to a problem of recognition that prevents effective mobilization against white supremacy – vote negative to reject the Western metaphysical tradition and recognize the permanent failure of white philosophy. Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama, “On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 We begin with...philosophy before us.
Even if they win that their colorblindness is theoretically ideal, it is practically impossible because racialized bodies are marked by their skin color – the psychological construction of Black as inferior makes their impacts inevitable – philosophy’s segregation of black scholarship is not neutral and not normal. Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama, “On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva (2010: 15) explains...philosophy operates similarly.
Racism deems Black life disposable and demands racialized violence – we’re not an ad-hom that criticizes the positionality or personal views of their authors – their philosophy is actively used as an expression of white supremacy and to rationalize the deaths of Black men and women. Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama, “On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 Far too often...more worthwhile topics.
This turns the aff – America is organized around the subjugation and death of non-white people – discriminatory applications of their policy are inevitable absent a recognition of racialization in the law – their colorblindness is mutually exclusive with the necessary upheaval of the racial dynamics that necessitate inequality. Tommy J. and Gwenetta Curry and Curry 18 Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama, “On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 It is now...and elevate whites.
Instead you should affirm Black philosophy as a site to engage in radical theorizations that are a genuine reflection of Black experience – attempts at integration commodifies Black philosophers as extensions of white thinkers which waters down Black philosophy to a form for white philosophers to deem respectable scholarship – a fundamental reorientation of the discipline away from universal reason is key. Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama, “On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought,” American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 The debate about...Black philosophical project.
9/25/21
21 Nov-Dec Infrastructure Politics DA
Tournament: Damus - Notre Dame | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Dylan Liu Both bills pass now and solve the climate – full-court PC press ensures Manchinema get on board, but new fights complicate the process Mascaro 11/4 Lisa, Congressional reporter for the Los Angeles Times “Biden's big bill on brink of House votes, but fighting drags”https:www.startribune.com/bidens-big-bill-on-brink-of-house-votes-but-fighting-drags/600112896/ WASHINGTON — Democrats in the...stalled amid deliberations.
It causes extinction. Dunlop 17. (Ian Dunlop chaired the Australian Coal Association in 1987-88, chaired the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading from 1998-2000 and was CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors from 1997-2001. He has a particular interest in the interaction of corporate governance, corporate responsibility and sustainability. An engineer by qualification, he holds an MA (Mechanical Sciences) degree from the University of Cambridge, he is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Energy Institute (UK), and a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME (USA). He also chairs the Australian National Wildlife Collection Foundation. David Spratt is a Research Director for Breakthrough and co-author of Climate Code Red: The case for emergency action (Scribe 2008). His recent reports include Recount: It’s time to “Do the math” again; Climate Reality Check and Antarctic Tipping Points for a Multi-metre Sea-level Rise. A Failure of Imagination on Climate Risks. July 26, 2017. www.resilience.org/stories/2017-07-26/a-failure-of-imagination-on-climate-risks/) Climate change is...words: “Human civilisation”.
11/6/21
21 Nov-Dec Infrastructure Politics DA v2
Tournament: Damus - Notre Dame | Round: 6 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart RR | Judge: Anish Ramireddy Both bills pass now and solve the climate – full-court PC press ensures Manchin and Sinema get on board, but new fights complicate the process Mascaro 11/4 Lisa, Congressional reporter for the Los Angeles Times “Biden's big bill on brink of House votes, but fighting drags”https:www.startribune.com/bidens-big-bill-on-brink-of-house-votes-but-fighting-drags/600112896/ WASHINGTON — Democrats in the House appear on the verge of securing President Joe Biden's now-$1.85 trillion-and-growing domestic policy package alongside a companion $1 trillion infrastructure bill in what would be a dramatic political accomplishment — if they can push it to passage. The House prepared...stalled amid deliberations.
Manchin’s broadly opposed to strike activity – plan causes a fight Furman and Winant 10/17/21 Jonah Furman is a labor movement organizer and writer for Labor Notes based in Maryland. Gabriel Winant is an assistant professor of history at the University of Chicago. He is the author of “The Next Shift: The Fall of Industry and the Rise of Health Care in Rust Belt America.” "The John Deere Strike Shows the Tight Labor Market Is Ready to Pop." https://theintercept.com/2021/10/17/john-deere-strike-labor-market/ In terms of...measures help secure.
Normal means is a congressional amendment of existing labor law to remove exceptions – that draws tons of fire from moderate democrats TLA 21 This Legal Alert provides an overview of a specific federal bill. It is not intended to be, and should not be construed as, legal advice for any particular fact situation. "A Resurrected PRO Act Could Pay Dividends For Big Labor This Time Around." https://www.fisherphillips.com/news-insights/a-resurrected-pro-act-could-pay-dividends-for-big-labor-this-time-around.html As we recently...current political climate.
Passage allows an unprecedented investment in combatting climate change Morton 10/28 Joseph Morton, "Democrats tout climate spending in reconciliation", 10/28/21, https://www.rollcall.com/2021/10/28/framework-includes-clean-energy-tax-credits-omits-methane-fee/ “At the same time, substantial investments in electric vehicle charging stations and clean heavy-duty vehicles, like school buses, will serve the dual purpose of slashing our carbon emissions while helping American manufacturing stay globally competitive,” Pallone said. Rep. Cindy Axne...overall policy puzzle.”
Warming causes extinction. Dunlop 17. (Ian Dunlop chaired the Australian Coal Association in 1987-88, chaired the Australian Greenhouse Office Experts Group on Emissions Trading from 1998-2000 and was CEO of the Australian Institute of Company Directors from 1997-2001. He has a particular interest in the interaction of corporate governance, corporate responsibility and sustainability. An engineer by qualification, he holds an MA (Mechanical Sciences) degree from the University of Cambridge, he is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, and the Energy Institute (UK), and a Member of the Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME (USA). He also chairs the Australian National Wildlife Collection Foundation. David Spratt is a Research Director for Breakthrough and co-author of Climate Code Red: The case for emergency action (Scribe 2008). His recent reports include Recount: It’s time to “Do the math” again; Climate Reality Check and Antarctic Tipping Points for a Multi-metre Sea-level Rise. A Failure of Imagination on Climate Risks. July 26, 2017. www.resilience.org/stories/2017-07-26/a-failure-of-imagination-on-climate-risks/) Climate change is...words: “Human civilisation”.
11/7/21
23 Nov-Dec CLS K
Tournament: Damus - Notre Dame | Round: 2 | Opponent: Mountain View EN | Judge: Dylan Liu The right to strike is a dangerous distraction that prevents the labor movement from challenging systems at the root cause of class inequality and that make it structurally impossible for legal institutions to protect workers. Empirically “right to strike” legislation hamstrings actual strikes via circumventive policies that jail strikers for engaging in theft, violence, etc while allowing for a façade of acceptance and forcing union representation, wages, and economic equality to plummet. The AFF results in scattered, ineffective, and “respectable” strikes and labor disputes re-routed towards legal arbitration while increased legal incorporation results in more tools for the elite to constrain the labor movement -- turns case and kills workers’ movement writ large. Vote NEG for a “direct endorsement of militancy and a turn away from the law and instead towards a political program that might advance the interests of the working class regardless of what the law might hold” White 18 (Ahmed White – Nicholaus Rosenbaum Professor of Law @ University of Colorado Law School, “Its Own Dubious Battle: The Impossible Defense of an Effective Right to Strike”, https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2369andcontext=articles , 2018, pgs. 1065-1073, EmmieeM) One of the...of this argument.
There is no strike wave, just media smoke tricks. Empirics on current strike trends and outcomes of “Right to Strike” legislation go heavily NEG – you cannot legalize revolution and all legislation is merely a ruse to constrain the workers’ movement through the guise of “legal management” White 18 (Ahmed White – Nicholaus Rosenbaum Professor of Law @ University of Colorado Law School, “Its Own Dubious Battle: The Impossible Defense of an Effective Right to Strike”, https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2369andcontext=articles , 2018, pgs. 1124-1131, EmmieeM) In fact, at...the same thing.
11/6/21
24 Nov-Dec T-A
Tournament: Damus - Notre Dame | Round: 3 | Opponent: Aragon ZA | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy Interpretation—the aff may not specify a just government A is an 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...room is¶ square?
Rules readings are always generalized – specific instances are not consistent. 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,...avoid hitting something. That outweighs—only our evidence speaks to how indefinite singulars are interpreted in the context of normative statements like the resolution. This means throw out aff counter-interpretations that are purely descriptive Violation—they specified China. 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 just government offers huge explosion in the topic since they get permutations of hundreds of governments in the world depending on their definition of “just government”. Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for No RVIs—it’s your burden to be topical.
11/6/21
31 Jan-Feb Innovation DA
Tournament: Harvard-Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: David Dosch Strong commercial space catalyzes tech innovation – progress at the margins and spinoff tech change global information networks Joshua Hampson 2017, Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center, 1-25-2017, “The Future of Space Commercialization”, Niskanen Center, https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf Innovation is generally...wider economic growth.
Tournament: Harvard-Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: David Dosch Russia’s international ambitions are low now due to space sector failures. AFP 19 AFP 5/28/19 (Agence France-Presse - international news agency headquartered in Paris, “Moscow, we have a problem: theft plagues Russia’s space sector,” https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3012088/moscow-we-have-problem-theft-plagues-russias-space) With millions of...the United States.
Space cooperation with the U.S. boosts Russia’s diplomatic leverage and international prestige Juul 19 (Peter - senior policy analyst at the Center for American Progress, “Trump’s Space Force Gets the Final Frontier All Wrong,” 3/20/19, https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/20/trumps-space-force-gets-the-final-frontier-all-wrong/) But funding isn’t...standing by association.
Increased international prestige lays the foundation for Russian territorial expansion and foreign policy aggression Gurganus 19 (Julia - nonresident scholar with the Russia and Eurasia Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Eugene Rumer - senior fellow and the director of Carnegie’s Russia and Eurasia Program, “Russia’s Global Ambitions in Perspective,” 2/20/19, https://carnegieendowment.org/2019/02/20/russia-s-global-ambitions-in-perspective-pub-78067) Elsewhere, long-term...and foreign policy.
Russian territorial expansion causes nuclear war with the U.S. and NATO O’Hanlon 19 (Michael – PhD from Princeton in Public and International Affairs and currently a senior fellow at the Brookings Institute, “The Senkaku Paradox: Risking Great Power War Over Small Stakes,” p. 34-37, 4/30/19, Dartmouth Libraries) As such, the...conflict would end.
1/16/22
31 Jan-Feb T-Whole Res Short
Tournament: Harvard-Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SP | Judge: Gordon Krauss Interpretation: The aff may not specify unjust types of private space appropriation. Violation – They specified Chinese private space appropriation. Standards: 1 Limits and ground – their model allows affs to defend any combination of appropriation in any geopolitical context which explodes negative burden and causes random affs every tournament Drop the debater: we can’t restart the round from the 1AC and I’m skewed for the rest of the debate.
1/15/22
31 Jan-Feb Xi DA
Tournament: Harvard-Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SP | Judge: Gordon Krauss Xi’s regime is stable now, but its success depends on strong growth and private sector development. Mitter and Johnson 21 Rana Mitter and Elsbeth Johnson, Rana Mitter is a professor of the history and politics of modern China at Oxford. Elsbeth Johnson, formerly the strategy director for Prudential PLC’s Asian business, is a senior lecturer at MIT’s Sloan School of Management and the founder of SystemShift, a consulting firm. May-June 2021, "What the West Gets Wrong About China," Harvard Business Review, https://hbr.org/2021/05/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-china accessed 12/14/21 Adam In China, however...in scientific research.
Xi pursuit of unilateral space domination key to CCP legitimacy Loftus 19 (1st Lt Peter Loftus, USAF, “Counter and Cooperate: How Space Can Be Used to Advance US–China Cooperation While Curbing Beijing’s Terrestrial Excesses,” AIR and SPACE POWER JOURNAL, Vol. 33, No. 1, Spring 2019, https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/Portals/10/ASPJ/journals/Volume-33_Issue-1/SEA-Loftus.pdf) Since People’s Republic...the Chinese masses.
Chinese pursuit of unilateral space dominance is key to nationalism Hines 19 (Lincoln Hines, PhD candidate in the Government Department at Cornell University, “US-China Engagement in Space,” Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, March 29, 2019, https://swfound.org/media/206424/us-china-engagement-in-space-transcript.pdf) Lincoln Hines: 02:25 Hello...Chinese foreign policy.
Shifts in regime perception threatens CCP’s legitimacy from nationalist hardliners Weiss 19 Jessica Weiss 1-29-2019 “Authoritarian Audiences, Rhetoric, and Propaganda in International Crises: Evidence from China” http://www.jessicachenweiss.com/uploads/3/0/6/3/30636001/19-01-24-elite-statements-isq-ca.pdf (Associate Professor of Government at Cornell University)Elmer Public support—or...the U.S. government.”11
Xi will launch diversionary war to domestic backlash – escalates in multiple hotspots and causes nuclear war Norris 17, William J. Geostrategic Implications of China’s Twin Economic Challenges. CFR Discussion Paper, 2017. (Associate professor of Chinese foreign and security policy at Texas AandM University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service)Elmer Populist pressures might...toward domestic consumption.
1/15/22
32 Jan-Feb Deterrence CP
Tournament: Harvard-Westlake | Round: 1 | Opponent: Immaculate Heart SP | Judge: Gordon Krauss Text: The United States federal government should implement and publicly articulate a cross-domain deterrence doctrine that threatens, in response to attacks on U.S. space assets: -- retaliation against land- air- and sea-based C3ISR and RSTA* assets -- retaliation designed to undermine the protected national information spaces of adversaries. The United States federal government should publicly support an international norm against any use of force in space.
*C3ISR = command, control, communication, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance; RSTA = reconnaissance, surveillance, targeting, and attack
The CP’s doctrine eliminates adversary incentives to strike U.S. space assets---framing retaliation as automatic means it’s not perceived as escalatory. Solves the case. King Mallory 18, Senior Researcher at the RAND Corporation, 2018, “New Challenges in Cross-Domain Deterrence,” https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/perspectives/PE200/PE259/RAND_PE259.pdf Enablers: Of all...times of crisis.52
1/15/22
32 Jan-Feb Space Fund CP
Tournament: Harvard-Westlake | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough WR | Judge: David Dosch CP text: space faring nations should establish an international governing body that:
Regulates commercial operations in outer space and 2. Establishes a Space Resource Fund
CP solves - Creating a legal regime ensures everyone benefits from mining creates sustainable mining while avoiding conflict and promoting competition Morgan Saletta 16, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne, “All of humanity should share in the space mining boom,” Conversation, 4-17-2016, https://theconversation.com/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom-57740 One solitary asteroid...dividend cheque too.
1/16/22
34 Jan-Feb T-FW
Tournament: Stanford - Palm Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Vestavia Hills DS | Judge: Shahina Chatur Interpretation - the aff may not claim offense from anything other than the instrumental implementation of a policy stating that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust. “Resolved” means enactment of a law. Words and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition (Multi-volume set of judicial definitions). “Resolved”. 1964. Definition of the...establish by law”.
“Appropriation” refers to the taking of property for exclusive and permanent use Gorove 69 Stephen, Chairman of the Graduate Program of the School of Law and Professor of Law, Ole Miss “Interpreting Article II of the Outer Space Treaty”, Fordham Law Review, Vol. 37 Issue 3, https://ir.lawnet.fordham.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1966andcontext=flr, 1969 RE With respect to...amount to appropriation.
“Is unjust” requires positive action to rectify the injustice Pomerleau Wayne, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Gonzaga “Western Theories of Justice”, IEP, https://iep.utm.edu/justwest/, last date cited is 2010, RE Nozick (a departmental...(State, pp. 149, 183, 230, 150-153, 230-231, 149).
“Outer space” is defined as: Vereshchetin 06 Vladlen, former Member of the ICJ, Chairman of the International Law Commission, and Professor of International Law “Outer Space,” Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, https://spacelaw.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_spacelaw/EPIL_Outer_Space.pdf, 2006 RE A. Definition of...(‘Outer Space Treaty’).
Violation: The aff doesn't defend the implementation of the res as a policy action.
Topical version of the aff: defend the res as a policy action. Disads to the TVA just prove there is neg ground and that it’s a contestable stasis Vote Neg – The resolution is the only common stasis point that anchors negative preparation. Allowing any aff deviation from the resolution is a moral hazard which justifies an infinite number of unpredictable arguments with thin ties to the resolution. Because debate is a competitive game, their interpretation incentivizes affirmatives to run further towards fringes and revert to truisms which are exceedingly difficult to negate—this asymmetry is compounded by their monopoly on preparation
That outweighs – The competitive incentive from debate creates pressures for research and focused clash which generates important skills and makes debate a training ground for future work. The impact is movements -- activism is not automatic, but requires learning to defend a proposal against rigorous negation to develop skills for strategy, organizing, problem-solving, using resources, and creating coalitions---their impact turns aren’t unique because the government will inevitably try to capture public worry, the only question is creating alternative incentives for people to organize. Lakey 13. (George Lakey co-founded Earth Quaker Action Group which just won its five-year campaign to force a major U.S. bank to give up financing mountaintop removal coal mining. Along with college teaching he has led 1,500 workshops on five continents and led activist projects on local, national, and international levels. Among many other books and articles, he is author of “Strategizing for a Living Revolution” in David Solnit’s book Globalize Liberation. 8 skills of a well-trained activist. June 11, 2013. https://wagingnonviolence.org/feature/8-skills-of-a-well-trained-activist/) Why more training...glad we did.
Debate doesn’t have any effect on the political and the individual arguments we read have no effect on our subjectivity, even if they spur immediate reflection, those insights aren’t integrated into deep-stored memory—this means you can vote negative on presumption. Encouraging focused, nuanced research and clash is the only chance to change attitudes long term—which means they can’t solve their impact turns but our model can. Filter their impacts through predictable testability ---debate inherently judges relative truth value by whether or not it gets answered---a combination of a less predictable case neg, the burden of rejoinder, and them starting a speech ahead will always inflate the value of their impacts, which makes non-arbitrarily weighing whether they should have read the 1ac in the first place impossible within the structure of a debate round so even if we lose framework, vote neg on presumption. They also create a moral hazard that leads to affs only about individual self-care so even if you think this aff is answerable, the ones they incentivize are not, so assume the worst possible affirmative when weighing our impacts.