1AC Cap Aff 1NC CLS K Infrastructure Politics DA 1AR case 2NR CLS K 2AR case
Damus - Notre Dame
3
Opponent: Aragon ZA | Judge: Tarun Ratnasabapathy
1AC China Aff 1NC CLS K T-A 1AR case 2NR CLS K 2AR case
Presentation - Nano Nagle
2
Opponent: Marlborough AK | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin
1AC COVID Structural Violence Aff 1NC COVID Vaccine Donation CP 1AR case 2NR Donation CP 2AR case
Presentation - Nano Nagle
3
Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Vanessa Nguyen
1AC Evergreening Aff 1NC -AI CP -Infrastructure Politics DA 1AR case 2NR Infrastructure DA 2AR case (adv 1)
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
20 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
20 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
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.