Midlothian Christ Aff
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| Berkner TFA | 1 | Coppell SK | Madeleine Houck |
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| Berkner TFA | 3 | Southlake Carroll ASa | Aisha Bawany |
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| Berkner TFA | Octas | Westwood EV | Isa Barrera |
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| Grapevine Classic | 2 | Lake Highland Prep IK | Javier Hernandez |
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| Grapevine Classic | 5 | Westwood VL | Nicky Smith |
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| Grapevine Classic | 4 | Southlake Carroll AS | Jack Quisenberry |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | 2 | Harvard-Westlake EJ | Mohul Aggarwal |
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| Heart of Texas Invitational | 3 | Harvard-Westlake AW | Lindsey Williams |
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| House of Balloons | Finals | Abel Tesafayes Streams | My Spotify Wrapped |
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| Loyola Invitational | 1 | San Mateo YR | Tej Gedela |
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| Loyola Invitational | 4 | Harvard-Westlake MT | Joshua StPeter |
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| Nano Nagle Classic | 2 | Bergen County Academies AK | Dylan Jones |
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| Nano Nagle Classic | 3 | Archbishop Mitty AS | Carlos Astacio |
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| Nano Nagle Classic | 5 | Marlborough LF | Amy Nyberg |
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| Plano West Classic | 1 | Southlake Carroll DP | Devin Hernandez |
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| Plano West Classic | 4 | Strake Jesuit BL | Sreyaash Das |
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| Plano West Classic | Semis | Greenhill KM | Erick Berdugo, Allison Aldridge, Ayrton Harried |
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| The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | 2 | Strake Jesuit VJ | Patrick Fox |
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| Berkner TFA | 1 | Opponent: Coppell SK | Judge: Madeleine Houck 1ac - econ ineq trad |
| Berkner TFA | 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll ASa | Judge: Aisha Bawany 1ac - FreeLarryHoover v1 |
| Berkner TFA | Octas | Opponent: Westwood EV | Judge: Isa Barrera 1ac - trad |
| Grapevine Classic | 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep IK | Judge: Javier Hernandez 1ac - ipr aff |
| Grapevine Classic | 5 | Opponent: Westwood VL | Judge: Nicky Smith 1ac - ipr v3 |
| Grapevine Classic | 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Jack Quisenberry 1ac - ipr aff v2 disclosure |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake EJ | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal 1ac - drug prices covid variants-econ bioterror |
| Heart of Texas Invitational | 3 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AW | Judge: Lindsey Williams 1ac - ipr v7 |
| House of Balloons | Finals | Opponent: Abel Tesafayes Streams | Judge: My Spotify Wrapped I is for Information |
| Loyola Invitational | 1 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Tej Gedela 1ac - covid vaccines |
| Loyola Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake MT | Judge: Joshua StPeter 1ac - Covid Vaccines |
| Nano Nagle Classic | 2 | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Dylan Jones 1ac - ipr v4 |
| Nano Nagle Classic | 3 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AS | Judge: Carlos Astacio 1ac - ipr v5 |
| Nano Nagle Classic | 5 | Opponent: Marlborough LF | Judge: Amy Nyberg 1ac - ipr v6 |
| Plano West Classic | 1 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll DP | Judge: Devin Hernandez 1ac - ipr v7 |
| Plano West Classic | 4 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit BL | Judge: Sreyaash Das 1ac - ipr v7 |
| Plano West Classic | Semis | Opponent: Greenhill KM | Judge: Erick Berdugo, Allison Aldridge, Ayrton Harried 1ac - ipr v7 |
| The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VJ | Judge: Patrick Fox 1ac - beller |
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Cites
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I - Contact InfoTournament: House of Balloons | Round: Finals | Opponent: Abel Tesafayes Streams | Judge: My Spotify Wrapped Messenger - https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100069585136647 (preferred) | 12/26/21 |
I - Novices and other non-wiki Midlothian competitorsTournament: House of Balloons | Round: Finals | Opponent: Abel Tesafayes Streams | Judge: My Spotify Wrapped | 12/26/21 |
I - Safety, accommodations, and other miscellaneous notesTournament: House of Balloons | Round: Finals | Opponent: Abel Tesafayes Streams | Judge: My Spotify Wrapped Please contact me at any point before round so I can accommodate accordingly. With that being declared, I do have some request(s) below for accommodations to address personal/structural inequalities: - I have a hard time reading text that is clustered together that makes it even harder with stigmatism, so having all analytics/cards/tags spaced out and delineated is necessary (if analytics aren't in the doc, I ask that you go 60 percent slower than if it were in the doc) Here's an example of what not to do: Here's what I mean by delineating: As long as any spikes and/or subpoints are delineated with an enter break that is sufficient Sometimes my response time may be slow, so if I do not respond within 5-10 mins, please make sure you make an attempt to contact me on multiple platforms (Messenger is best place for contact) otherwise I automeet all disclosure interps based on contact. | 12/26/21 |
I - SitemapTournament: House of Balloons | Round: Finals | Opponent: Abel Tesafayes Streams | Judge: My Spotify Wrapped | 12/26/21 |
I - SpotifyTournament: House of Balloons | Round: Finals | Opponent: Abel Tesafayes Streams | Judge: My Spotify Wrapped | 12/26/21 |
JF - the mega computer or whateverTournament: The 47th Churchill Classic TOC and NIETOC Qualifier | Round: 2 | Opponent: Strake Jesuit VJ | Judge: Patrick Fox 1ACWelcome to the age of the World Computer where society codifies life through abstractions which racial capitalism uses to reify difference. Information is not a real product of the world but is rather a byproduct of this new system that arises from value management. The World Computer uses our every move to repair itself through the punishment of difference. The role of the ballot should be to resist informatics – resisting further automation of our thought processes is keyFor spec purposes: Capital has taken its project of computation to extend outwards of the cosmos – the world computer as such has colonized space as part of its larger effort to continue its expansion via methods of intelligibility, colonization, and explorationBeller 21-2 (Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 12/10/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 71-74) HB From this closed system arises a feeback between the epistemological and the ontological which gives rise to reactionary measures of geopolitics. This creates the notion of the terrestrial and the alien – one of which is securitized – the other is eliminated. The logic of data syncs with the World Computer to create endless global disastersParisi 19 (Luciana Parisi; 5/22/19; ŠUM Journal of Contemporary Art, Criticism and Theory, Special Issue Number 11; "Surrational Fugitives" from Hypersonics Hyperstitions; http://sumrevija.si/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/SUM-11_FINAL_pages.pdf**; Luciana Parisi is Reader in Cultural Theory, Chair of the PhD programme at the Centre for Cultural Studies, and co-director of the Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths University of London. She published Abstract Sex: Philosophy, Biotechnology and the Mutations of Desire (2004) and Contagious Architecture. Computation, Aesthetics and Space (2013). She is currently researching the history of automation and the philosophical consequences of logical thinking in machines.; pages 1460-1463) HB *Note – the evidence uses "Man" as a description of dominating structures, not as a general reference to the human* Debate also operates through this project of disappearance – visualizing the appropriation of space only through their truncation as information for recursion and iteration. Even as the noises of the crisis outside restructures our activity into zoom calls and chat boxes, we are told to stubbornly return to run the same code year after year in a ressentiment-driven will to abstraction. COVID along with thousands of other holocausts of racial capitalism's derivative system: from debt to municipal plunder to resource extraction to Palantir's military tech.Against the demand to input a binary 1 or 0 into the operating system of the world computer, our affirmation of the resolution refuses the presumed instrumentality of the question, in favor of the proliferation of the beautiful, cacophonous noise of the otherwise and outside. Only this rethinking of thinking can reveal the geopolitical alternatives that are excluded from the episteme of the world computer.Thus, I affirm that the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust.Rather than let automation continue to control our thoughts, the affirmative acts as an example of the embrace of the potential of a new communist horizon. It is a strike within debate against algorithmic logics. In our experiment, we refuse the technological image that has abstracted itself onto reality and create new ways to know that cannot be cataloged into the code. This new method of communism is one that devises a plan of revolution, radicalizing the semiotic, libidinal, and politicalBeller 21-3 (Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 4/11/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 184-195) HB Capitalism is unsustainable – it generates several intertwined crises that make it try or die for the affirmative – we've got charts!von Weizsäcker and Wijkman 17 (Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker and Anders Wijkman; 2018; Springer Publishing; "Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet A Report to the Club of Rome"; accessed 12/12/21; Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP's International Resource Panel; Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel; pages 1-9; ask me for the pdf) RC/HB The aff acts as a means of politicizing thought – in the face of the world computer, our strategy seeks to decolonize thought itself. The abstraction of information seeks to reify lines of death in the scheme of racial capitalismBeller, 21-4 (Jonathan Beller; 2021; Duke University Press; "The World Computer: Derivative Conditions of Racial Capitalism"; accessed 4/11/21; ask me for the pdf; Jonathan Beller is a film theorist, culture critic and mediologist. He currently holds the position of Professor of Humanities and Media Studies and Critical and Visual Studies, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY. He is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Mellon, J.P. Getty and Fulbright Foundation grants and honours.; pages 58-59) RC/HB The drive to space exploration is just an attachment of the same unsustainability of capital that renders life calculable and controllableDunker and Hui 20 (Anders Dunker and Yuk Hui; 6/9/20; LA Review of Books; "On Technodiversity: A Conversation with Yuk Hui"; accessed 12/11/21; https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-technodiversity-a-conversation-with-yuk-hui/**; Anders Dunker is a Norwegian writer and journalist, currently living in Los Angeles; Yuk Hui currently teaches at the City University of Hong Kong. He did his Ph.D. thesis at Goldsmiths College in London, postdoctoral studies in France, and Habilitation thesis in Germany, and since 2012 he has taught at the Leuphana University and Bauhaus University in Germany) RC/HB | 1/10/22 |
ND - FreeLarryHoover v1Tournament: Berkner TFA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll ASa | Judge: Aisha Bawany Why I named this aff Free Larry Hoover: Larry Hoover, "'a 70-year-old man in the twilight of his years who has serious medical complications and is seeking release to finally be with his wife, children, and grandchildren after nearly 50 years of separation,' he added. 'To have his name continuously thrown into the affairs of others and to be used as a scapegoat for criminal activity he has no connection to needs to cease.'” (More information: https://newsone.com/4249501/who-is-larry-hoover-why-kanye-drake-want-him-free/). A 200 year sentencing for alleged gang activities as well as nonviolent charges has failed to get retroactive ruling from new laws such as First Step. Free everyone in prisons, sentenced to life, and put on death row for nonviolent drug offenses. Free everyone that has been racially profiled under the guise of the United States. Free the innocent. #FreeLarryHoover | 12/11/21 |
ND - TraditionalTournament: Berkner TFA | Round: 1 | Opponent: Coppell SK | Judge: Madeleine Houck | 12/11/21 |
SO - Covid VaccinesTournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 1 | Opponent: San Mateo YR | Judge: Tej Gedela Adv. 1 is the pandemic which only gaslights variants through creation of vaccine inequality reinforces structural violence with thousands of savable deaths Solvency the current covid variants can only be combatted in the squo by vaccines Other 2 Extinction first – UV
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SO - IPRTournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Lake Highland Prep IK | Judge: Javier Hernandez | 9/11/21 |
SO - IPR v2Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 4 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll AS | Judge: Jack Quisenberry | 10/20/21 |
SO - IPR v3Tournament: Grapevine Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Westwood VL | Judge: Nicky Smith | 9/11/21 |
SO - IPR v4Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Dylan Jones | 10/9/21 |
SO - IPR v5Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AS | Judge: Carlos Astacio | 10/9/21 |
SO - IPR v6Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Marlborough LF | Judge: Amy Nyberg | 10/11/21 |
SO - IPR v7Tournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake EJ | Judge: Mohul Aggarwal 1ac1AC – FWThe standard is maximizing expected well-being – Prefer~1~ Actor specificity – state actors can only use util – outweighs since different actors have different obligations.A – Aggregation – all policies benefit some and hurts others – only util can resolve these cuz it gives a clear weighing mechanismB – Collectivism – States are composed of many actors who inevitably disagree about intent means they can only use consequentialism because they don't have to agree~2~ Extinction first –a. Wager – if there is any chance of goodness existing, we ought to preserve our existence to maximize it.b. Sequencing – if their framework is true, people dying is bad because it means those people can't use their framework1AC – TextPlantext: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines.1AC – Bioterror AdvCOVID-19 has heightened and exposed vulnerabilities for bioterrorTrushar and D'Souza 7/21 IPR gives patent holders complete control of solutions and forces responses to go through a deep, slow bureaucratic process creating a near-impossible obstacle course for any bioterror solutionsOriola 7 ====Biotech advancements allow for bioweapons to wipe out all of humanity by combining traits – the brink is now before the weapons are too powerful ==== 1AC – Drug Prices AdvDrug prices are higher than everBunis 6/21 IPR skyrockets prices by stifling competition and granting exclusivityHickey et. al 3/21 High prices kill accessibilityBhatt '8 Inaccessibility creates variants – the unvaccinated are petri dishes for mutationsPlater 8/21 And COVID is an impact magnifier for the laundry list – climate change, overheating, and pandemic variants pull the trigger on extinctionMcPherson 20 1AC – Variants – EconThe pandemic is raging across the globe – vaccines are our only safeguardSteenhuysen 7/21 TRIPS creates unchecked variants and a deep inequality – waiver is neededGupta and Namboodiri 2021 The brink is now to prevent lasting effects - Vaccine inequity kills economic recovery – developing countries can't recover without protection against COVIDWHO 7/21 Econ collapse is the most probable scenario for war.Elhefnawy 11 Nader Elhefnawy (professor of English at the University of Miami, writer on IR published in peer-reviewed journals including International Security, Astropolitics, and Survival). "Twenty Years After the Cold War: A Strategic Survey," Parameters, The U.S. Army War College Quarterly. Spring 2011. http://strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pubs/parameters/Articles/2011spring/Ehlefnawy.pdf Great power war goes nuclearTalmadge 18 ~Caitlin Talmadge is Associate Professor of Security Studies at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. This essay is adapted from "Would China Go Nuclear? Assessing the Risk of Chinese Nuclear Escalation in a Conventional War With the United States," International Security, Spring 2017. Beijing's Nuclear Option: Why a U.S.-Chinese War Could Spiral Out of Control. 2018. https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2018-10-15/beijings-nuclear-option~~ Nuke war causes extinctionEdwards 17 ~Paul N. Edwards, CISAC's William J. Perry Fellow in International Security at Stanford's Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies. Being interviewed by EarthSky. How nuclear war would affect Earth's climate. September 8, 2017. earthsky.org/human-world/how-nuclear-war-would-affect-earths-climate~ Note, we are only reading parts of the interview that are directly from Paul Edwards — MMG 1AC — SolvencyThe plan allows for mass production – solving bioterror crisesOriola 7 Competition causes a skydive in prices – empirics proveBoustany '18 Critics of the IP waiver are wrong- it's the most effective way to combat covid inequality, alternatives failErfani et al, 21 | 10/16/21 |
T - Agent CPs BadTournament: Berkner TFA | Round: 3 | Opponent: Southlake Carroll ASa | Judge: Aisha Bawany | 12/11/21 |
T - PICs BadTournament: Berkner TFA | Round: Octas | Opponent: Westwood EV | Judge: Isa Barrera | 12/12/21 |
T - Process CPs BadTournament: Heart of Texas Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake AW | Judge: Lindsey Williams | 10/17/21 |
T - Utopian CPs BadTournament: Loyola Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake MT | Judge: Joshua StPeter | 9/8/21 |
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