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12/4/21
0 - Content Warning
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Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Stuckert, James
Theory
Interpretation: The affirmative must specify what their favorite car movie is. If they haven't watched it then they should lose. Mine is Cars 3
Watching Cars fosters prosocial behavior – that solves friendship, happiness, and education which solves the aff Leeuw and der Laan 17:
Rebecca N. H. de Leeuw, ~(PhD cum laude, 2011) is an Assistant Professor of Communication Science, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University. She devotes her research to the role of parenting and media in relation to character strengths and well-being in children and adolescents. Her research belongs to the field of positive media psychology.~ and Christa A. van der Laan, ~(MsC, 2016) is an Alumna of Communication Science, Behavioural Science Institute, Radboud University. She did her Master thesis on Disney and helping behavior in children, and after graduating she collaborated on the present study.~ December 1, 2017, "Helping behavior in Disney animated movies and children's helping behavior in the Netherlands" https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17482798.2017.1409245LHP AV This study is the first to examine whether Disney animated characters can inspire children to AND or for children with a high exposure to the movie Cars in particular.
10/30/21
1 - New Affs Bad
Tournament: Apple Valley Minneapple Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Palmer, Jacob cites broken check os
11/6/21
1 - ROTB spec
Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Stuckert, James
Interpretation: The affirmative debater must articulate a distinct ROB in the form of a delineated text in the first affirmative speech.
Violation:
Prefer-
1~ Strat Skew – They can read multiple pieces of offense under different ROBs and then read a new one in the 1AR so they never lose under the ROB. it just becomes a 2NR debate about whether the ROB is better than the 1NC's which moots engagement. That means infinite abuse – All you have to do is dump on the 1N ROB and marginally extend your warrants in the 2AR and the neg can't do anything about it since there is no 3NR to answer the 2AR weighing or extrapolations
2~ Reciprocity – (a) restarting the ROB debate in the 1ar puts you at a 7-6 advantage– putting it in the aff makes it 13-13 (b) you have one more speech to contest my ROB and weigh (c) I can only read a ROB in the 1N so you should read it in your first speech– that's definitionally an equal burden.
10/30/21
1 - Round Reports
Tournament: Virtual Scarsdale Invitational Scarvite | Round: 3 | Opponent: SouCar AS | Judge: Broussard, Austin cites broken check os
11/13/21
1 - Spikes On Top
Tournament: Apple Valley Minneapple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley RT | Judge: Norwood, Robert cites broken check os
The telos of the 1ac's politics is the strike – that naturalizes capital's control and is parasitic on political organizing.
Eidlin 20 Barry Eidlin (assistant professor of sociology at McGill University and the author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada), 1-6-2020, "Why Unions Are Good – But Not Good Enough," Jacobin, https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/marxism-trade-unions-socialism-revolutionary-organizing Labor unions have long occupied a paradoxical position within Marxist theory. They are an AND formation of "a political organization of the working class as a whole."
Recognizing a right to strike reduces revolutionary potential and fractures class organizing – turns the perm.
Crépon 19 Mark Crépon (French philosopher), translated by Micol Bez "The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's 'Toward the Critique of Violence,'" Critical Times, 2:2, August 2019, DOI 10.1215/26410478-7708331 If we wish to understand how the question of the right to strike arises for AND and to take responsibility for it that the left regularly loses workers' support.
Capitalism's successes necessitate human extinction and destroy the value to life – it's try or die for alternative organizing
Duzgun 20 Eren Duzgun (teaches Historical Sociology and International Relations at Leiden University, Netherlands), 4-5-2020, "Capitalism, Coronavirus and the Road to Extinction," Socialist Project, https://socialistproject.ca/2020/04/capitalism-coronavirus-and-road-to-extinction/ Covid-19, by contrast, has begun its journey and taken its biggest AND market. The beast is not tameable; it needs to be killed.
Vote neg for dual power organizing – only by refusing the 1ac's opportunistic politics can we produce actual change.
Escalante 18 Alyson Escalante (Marxist-Leninist, Materialist Feminist and Anti-Imperialist activist), 8-24-2018, "Against Electoralism, For Dual Power!," Forge News, https://theforgenews.org/2018/08/24/against-electoralism-for-dual-power/ If we, as socialists, truly fight for a classless world, we must AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen.
Framing – neoliberalism infects policy education – you should prioritize epistemologically challenging it
Ball 17 Stephen J. Ball (Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology of Education at the University College London, Institute of Education. He was elected Fellow of the British Academy in 2006; and is also Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences; and Society of Educational Studies, and a Laureate of Kappa Delta Phi; he has honorary doctorates from the Universities of Turku (Finland), and Leicester. He is co-founder and Managing Editor of the Journal of Education Policy), 2017, "Laboring to Relate: Neoliberalism, Embodied Policy, and Network Dynamics," Peabody Journal of Education, 92:1, 29-41, DOI: 10.1080/0161956X.2016.1264802, this part is pgs. 37-39 Within Ramya Venkataraman's writing and presentations, there is the deployment and reiteration of a AND mobilities are forged within the processes of reform and the work of networks.
11/13/21
3 - Truth Testing
Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 4 | Opponent: Brookfield East DJ | Judge: Stuckert, James
Truth Testing
The role of the ballot is to determine whether the resolution is a true or false statement –
anything else moots 7 minutes of the nc – their framing collapses since you must say it is true that a world is better than another before you adopt it.
They justify substantive skews since there will always be a more correct side of the issue but we compensate for flaws in the lit.
Scalar methods like comparison increases intervention – the persuasion of certain DA or advantages sway decisions – T/F binary is descriptive and technical.
Negate because either the aff is true meaning its bad for us to clash w/ it because it turns us into Fake News people OR it's not and it's a lie that you can't vote on for ethics
no 1ar arguments bc they require intervention to evaluate them against the nc
The ballot says vote aff or neg based on a topic – five dictionaries define to negate as to deny the truth of and affirm as to prove true so it's constitutive and jurisdictional. I denied the truth of the resolution by disagreeing with the aff which means I've met my burden.
8~ Good Samaritan Paradox — affirming negates because in order to say you want to fix x problem, that assumes x problem exists in the first place, thus eliminating nukes presupposes nukes exist which means negation is a prior question
9~ Zeno's Paradox – motion is impossible, because moving half way causes half more and half more which is infinitely regressive and means elimination of arsenals is logically impossible
====10~ The holographic principle is the most reasonable conclusion ==== Stromberg 15~Joseph Stromberg- "Some physicists believe we're living in a giant hologram — and it's not that far-fetched" https://www.vox.com/2015/6/29/8847863/holographic-principle-universe-theory-physics Vox. June 29th 2015~ War Room Debate AI Some physicists actually believe that the universe we live in might be a hologram. AND all physicists believe we have a good way of testing the idea experimentally.
11~ Paradox of tolerance- to be completely open to the aff we must exclude perspectives that wouldn't be open to the aff which means it's impossible to have complete tolerance for an idea since that tolerance relies on excluding a perspective.
12~ Decision Making Paradox- in order to decide to do the affirmative we need a decision-making procedure to enact it, vote for it, and to determine it is a good decision. But to chose a decision-making procedure requires another meta level decision making procedure leading to infinite regress since every decision requires another decision to chose how to make a decision.
10/30/21
ND - 1NC - Kant
Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Park City NL | Judge: Plat, Breigh cites are broken. see os
I negate the resolution Resolved: A just government ought to guarantee an unconditional right to strike
The value is morality since ought indicates a moral obligation
The value criterion is maximizing expected well-being which means causing the greatest amount of good for the greatest amount of people.
There are two main reasons for this:
Everyone does not like painful or emotionally harmful experiences, so naturally we should try to replace these things with good experiences.
Things like death and oppression are intuitively bad, and affect everyone, so we should try to prevent them.
In summary, if I can prove to you that striking would have an bad impact on the world, then you should vote for the negative in today's debate.
Observation: as the resolution indicates, the affirmative must defend an unconditional right to strike. This means that the Affirmative must defend that anyone regardless of job or occupation has a fundamental right to strike.
This means that the negative may agree that some strikes are good BUT that an unconditional right to strike would be bad. For example, the right to strike through protests would be fine but shooting up neighborhoods to bring attention to something would not be fine by the negative.
Contention 1 is innovation
Global tech innovation high now.
Mercury News et al 6/4 ~Mercury News and East Bay Times Editorial Boards, June 4, 2021, "Editorial: How America can Win the Global Tech War" https://www.mercurynews.com/2021/06/04/editorial-why-silicon-valley-needs-endless-frontier-bill/gord0~ The nation that wins the global tech race will dominate the 21st century. This AND investments in research and development that will spark the next wave of innovation.
Violent strike efforts are increasing – they slow innovation, specifically in the tech sector.
Hanasoge 16 ~Chaithra; Senior Research Analyst, Market Researcher, Consumer Insights, Strategy Consulting; "The Union Strikes: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly," Supply Wisdom; April/June 2016 (Doesn't specifically say but this is the most recent event is cites); https://www.supplywisdom.com/resources/the-union-strikes-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/~~//SJWen The result: Verizon conceded to several of the workers' demands including hiring union workers AND in a city like Kolkata, which carries a strong trade union culture.
Victories like the aff mobilizes unions in the IT sector.
Vynck et al 21 ~Gerrit De; Carleton University, BA in Journalism and Global Politics, tech reporter for The Washington Post. He writes about Google and the algorithms that increasingly shape society. He previously covered tech for seven years at Bloomberg News; Nitashu Tiku; Columbia University, BA in English, New York University, MA in Journalism, Washington Post's tech culture reporter based in San Francisco; Macalester College, BA in English, Columbia University, MS in Journalism, reporter for The Washington Post who is focused on technology coverage in the Pacific Northwest; "Six things to know about the latest efforts to bring unions to Big Tech," The Washington Post; https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/01/26/tech-unions-explainer/~~//SJWen In response to tech company crackdowns and lobbying, gig workers have shifted their strategy AND as the PRO Act, to recognize gig worker collectives as real unions.
Technological innovation solves every existential threat – which outweighs.
Hospital Strikes are devastating to public health infrastructure and patient care and sky-rocket costs – hospital strikes are relatively low now but the Plan green-lights more aggressive Strike actions.
Hospitals are the critical internal link for pandemic preparedness.
Al Thobaity 20, Abdullelah, and Farhan Alshammari. "Nurses on the frontline against the COVID-19 pandemic: an Integrative review." Dubai Medical Journal 3.3 (2020): 87-92. (Associate Professor of Nursing at Taif University)SJDH The majority of infected or symptomatic people seek medical treatment in medical facilities, particularly AND disaster, responsible people will do all but the impossible to save lives.
CP Text: A just government ought to recognize the right to strike however not unconditionally, intermittent strikes should be illegal, all other types of strikes the AC recognizes should be.
Takes out general principle bc it means general principle still defends all stirkes since exceptions are conditions.
That negates under the AC framework –
1~ Promise breaking – the original NLRA act that explains the right to strike made them illegal bc they violated the purpose of genuine strikes. ow on perfect duties. SPECIFICALLY not arbitrary.
2~ Solves aff offense none of it is specific to an unconditional right
3~ contradiction in conception – if everyone always striked for no reason strikes would have no purpose
Yes CPs negate - Good and bad are attributive adjectives which don't make sense in a vacuum i.e. you can't say this burger is really good without comparing it to alternative burgers.
11/13/21
ND - CP - Racist Strikes
Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Charlotte Latin AP | Judge: Etienne, Fabrice cites broken check os
12/4/21
ND - Econ DA
Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Gentleman, Jonah cites broken check os
12/3/21
ND - T - A
Tournament: Apple Valley Minneapple Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strath Haven AM | Judge: Palmer, Jacob cites broken see os
11/6/21
ND - T - Espec
Tournament: Apple Valley Minneapple Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Lincoln Southwest BT | Judge: Harris, Michael cites broken check os
11/6/21
ND - T - India Unjust
Tournament: Princeton Classic | Round: 1 | Opponent: Durham SA | Judge: Gentleman, Jonah cites broken check os
12/3/21
ND - T - Nebel Workers
Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Forrest, Jayanne
Interpretation: "workers" is a generic bare plural. The aff may not specify a subset of workers.
Nebel 19. ~Jake Nebel is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Southern California and executive director of Victory Briefs. He writes a lot of this stuff lol – duh.~ "Genericity on the Standardized Tests Resolution." Vbriefly. August 12, 2019. https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/08/12/genericity-on-the-standardized-tests-resolution/?fbclid=IwAR0hUkKdDzHWrNeqEVI7m59pwsnmqLl490n4uRLQTe7bWmWDO_avWCNzi14 TG Both distinctions are important. Generic resolutions can't be affirmed by specifying particular instances. AND "colleges and universities" is generic rather than existential in the resolution.
It applies to "workers" - 1~ upward entailment test - "recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike" doesn't entail "recognize the unconditional right of people to strike" because it doesn't warrant why people who aren't workers (i.e. students) get a right to strike, 2~ adverb test - adding "usually" to the res (i.e. "usually recognize the unconditional right of workers to strike" doesn't substantially change its meaning because the right is already unconditional.
Precision is an independent voter and outweighs – a) jurisdiction – the judge is contractually obligated to vote affirmative if the rez is proven true they can't vote aff if you aren't defending it, b) outweighs – anything else 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.
1~ Limits – they can specify anything from healthcare workers to teachers to government workers to workers at a specific company that they say is bad like amazon – there's no unifying generics since each worker does a different job under different conditions and has different reasons to strike. That explodes neg prep and leads to random workers of the week affs, which makes cutting stable links for disads or counterplan competition impossible.
2~ TVA – read the aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff.
10/30/21
ND - T - US not just
Tournament: Florida Blue Key Speech and Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Pine View EL | Judge: Forrest, Jayanne
Interpretation: the affirmative must defend that only just governments ought to recognize the right to strike
Amnesty International, 4-14-2021, "Everything you need to know about human rights in United States of America," No Publication, https://www.amnesty.org/en/countries/americas/united-states-of-america/report-united-states-of-america/ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 2020 The Trump administration's broadly dismal human rights record, both AND carrying of firearms is permitted engaged protesters, causing at least four deaths.
Prefer –
1~ Precision — anything else 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 – there are 200 governments in the world – letting them pick an unjust ones explodes limits via infinite permutations of governments
3~ Phil ed – 1AR will claim no government is just but that just means that we defend ideal theory. That's good –
A~ forces philosophical contestation which can uniquely happen in LD debate whereas you can util debate on any topic
B~ outweighs – framework debate allows to identify injustice which is a prereq to any other theory voter because they're all philosophically grounded
10/30/21
SO - 1NC - Lay Util
Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dowling Catholic JT | Judge: Saeed, Nida
NC-Util
NC – Framework ~Policy~
The standard is maximizing expected well-being.
1~ Only pleasure and pain are intrinsically valuable – all other frameworks collapse.
Moen 16 ~Ole Martin Moen, Research Fellow in Philosophy at University of Oslo "An Argument for Hedonism" Journal of Value Inquiry (Springer), 50 (2) 2016: 267–281~ TDI Let us start by observing, empirically, that a widely shared judgment about intrinsic AND places where we reach the end of the line in matters of value.
2~ Extinction first —- moral uncertainty.
Bostrom 12 ~(Nick Bostrom, Faculty of Philosophy and Oxford Martin School University of Oxford) "Existential Risk Prevention as Global Priority." Global Policy, 2012~ TDI These reflections on moral uncertainty suggest an alternative, complementary way of looking at existential AND of value. To do this, we must prevent any existential catastrophe.
3~ Actor specificity: A~ Governments must aggregate since every policy benefit some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action. B~ States lack wills or intentions since policies are collective actions. C~ Actor-specificity comes first since different agents have different ethical standings.
Offense
Thus, I negate the resolution Resolved: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.
Definitions:
WTO — the only global international organization dealing with the rules of trade between nations https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm Intellectual property protections — protection for inventions, literary and artistic works, symbols, AND value is morality because of the word "ought" in the resolution.
Contention 1: Innovation
IP protection is critical to innovation – it incentivizes risk-taking by boosting investments
Ezell and Cory 19 ~(Stephen, vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, B.S. from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, and Nigel, associate director covering trade policy at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, former researcher in the Southeast Asia Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, MA in public policy from Georgetown University) "The Way Forward for Intellectual Property Internationally," Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, 4/25/2019~ TDI IPR reforms also introduce strong incentives for domestic innovation. Sherwood, using case studies AND for foreign direct investment which in turn also leads to economic growth."56
Medical innovations key to future
Remes et al 20 (https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare-systems-and-services/our-insights/ten-innovations-that-can-improve-global-health, McKinsey Global Institute Ten innovations that can improve global health July 15, 2020 | Article, Jaana Remes is a partner of the McKinsey Global Institute, where Jonathan Woetzel is a director and Sven Smit is co-chair and a director. Katherine Linzer is a partner in McKinsey's Chicago office. Shubham Singhal is a senior partner in the Detroit office. Martin Dewhurst and Penelope Dash are senior partners in the London office, where Kristin-Anne Rutter is a partner. Matthias Evers is a senior partner in the Hamburg office. Matt Wilson is a senior partner in the New York office. Aditi Ramdorai is a consultant in the Berlin office.lex AL) By 2040, new technologies could reduce the total burden of disease by 6 to AND investments by pharmaceutical companies, medical and other technology companies, and academia.
Counterplan
CP Text – The member nations of the WTO ought to reduce IPP for medicines during public health emergencies and employ direct health support through the methods in the Lindsey evidence. In all other cases IPP ought to remain the same.
The CP incentivizes pharma medicine development during future pandemics – the aff fails.
Lindsey 21 Brink Lindsey is Vice President and Director of the Open Society Project at the Niskanen Center. Previously he was the Cato Institute's vice president for research ~Brink Lindsey, 6-3-2021, "Why intellectual property and pandemics don't mix," Brookings, https://www.brookings.edu/blog/up-front/2021/06/03/why-intellectual-property-and-pandemics-dont-mix/~~Lex AKo On May 5 the Biden administration announced that it would support waiving intellectual property protections AND eager to come to the rescue again the next time there's a crisis.