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| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | 3 | Marlborough SK | Gordon Krauss |
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| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | 2 | Marlborough SG | Jacob Nails |
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| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | 6 | Marlborough VA | Samantha McLoughlin |
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| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Octas | Sharon RG | Roberts - Krauss - Kuffour |
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| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Quarters | Harvard Westlake AW | Roberts - Christiansen - Burke |
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| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Semis | Mission San Jose SS | none |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Lexington AG | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 2 | Iowa City West NW | Joseph Georges |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 6 | Walt Whitman EY | Leo Matthes |
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| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Doubles | Saratoga AG | Castillo - Wu - Ying |
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| Lexington Winter Invitational | 2 | Acton-Boxborough ALi | Nathan Frenkel |
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| Lexington Winter Invitational | 5 | Ridge MS | Muhammad Khattak |
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| Lexington Winter Invitational | 4 | Proof DR | Neda Bahrani |
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| Mid America Cup | 1 | Edina NK | Ian Matsuzeski |
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| Mid America Cup | 4 | American Heritage Broward PG | Tajaih Robinson |
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| Mid America Cup | 5 | American Heritage Broward MC | Aryan Jasani |
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| Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | 2 | Cardinal Gibbons RS | Kopf - Jasani |
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| Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | 5 | Saratoga AG | Mukherjee - He |
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| Nano Nagle Classic | 2 | Harker RM | David Dosch |
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| Nano Nagle Classic | 3 | Archbishop Mitty SB | Felicity Park |
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| Nano Nagle Classic | 6 | Archbishop Mitty AB | Nick Fleming |
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| Nano Nagle Classic | Doubles | Bergen County Academies AK | Malyugina - Dosch - Park |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 1 | Albuquerque LN | Joseph Georges |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | King AT | Jeong-Wan Choi |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 5 | West Des Moines Valley CK | Andrew Shaw |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Doubles | Hunter AI | Wu - Hatfield - Rivera |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Octas | Lexington JB | Georges - Harris - Davenport |
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| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Quarters | BASIS Peoria PY | Thomas-Mcginnis - Montague - Khattak |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Millburn WW | Fabrice Etienne |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 3 | Claudia Taylor AP | Mariana Colicchio |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 5 | Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Luke Gastelu |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Doubles | Milton Academy AT | Gastelu - Dumas - Herrera |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Octas | Princeton CB | Morris - Waldman - Herrera |
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| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Semis | Strake Jesuit JW | Morris - Lakshman - Scopa |
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| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SK | Judge: Gordon Krauss 1AC - Prisoners |
| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Marlborough SG | Judge: Jacob Nails 1AC - Prisoners |
| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | 6 | Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin 1AC - Prisoners |
| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Octas | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Roberts - Krauss - Kuffour 1AC - Daoism |
| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Quarters | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Roberts - Christiansen - Burke 1AC - Cap |
| 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Semis | Opponent: Mission San Jose SS | Judge: none MSJ SS walks over MSJ SR |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 3 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - Heg |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 2 | Opponent: Iowa City West NW | Judge: Joseph Georges 1AC - Agonism |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | 6 | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Leo Matthes 1AC - Butler |
| Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Doubles | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Castillo - Wu - Ying 1AC - China |
| Lexington Winter Invitational | 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough ALi | Judge: Nathan Frenkel 1AC - Cap |
| Lexington Winter Invitational | 5 | Opponent: Ridge MS | Judge: Muhammad Khattak 1AC - Cap |
| Lexington Winter Invitational | 4 | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Neda Bahrani 1AC - PTD |
| Mid America Cup | 1 | Opponent: Edina NK | Judge: Ian Matsuzeski 1AC - Rawls |
| Mid America Cup | 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward PG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson 1AC - Ethical Reciprocity |
| Mid America Cup | 5 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward MC | Judge: Aryan Jasani 1AC - Kant New |
| Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | 2 | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: Kopf - Jasani 1AC - Cybernetics |
| Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | 5 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Mukherjee - He 1AC - Insulin |
| Nano Nagle Classic | 2 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: David Dosch 1AC - EU Trade Secrets |
| Nano Nagle Classic | 3 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty SB | Judge: Felicity Park 1AC - Data Exclusivity |
| Nano Nagle Classic | 6 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Nick Fleming 1AC - Data Exclusivity |
| Nano Nagle Classic | Doubles | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Malyugina - Dosch - Park 1AC - Covid Waiver |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 1 | Opponent: Albuquerque LN | Judge: Joseph Georges 1AC - Performance |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 3 | Opponent: King AT | Judge: Jeong-Wan Choi 1AC - Kant Tricks |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | 5 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley CK | Judge: Andrew Shaw 1AC - Hegel |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Doubles | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Wu - Hatfield - Rivera 1AC - Baudrillard |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Octas | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Georges - Harris - Davenport 1AC - Bifo |
| New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Quarters | Opponent: BASIS Peoria PY | Judge: Thomas-Mcginnis - Montague - Khattak 1AC - Gillespie |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 1 | Opponent: Millburn WW | Judge: Fabrice Etienne 1AC - communities |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 3 | Opponent: Claudia Taylor AP | Judge: Mariana Colicchio 1AC - Mollow Non-T |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | 5 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: Luke Gastelu 1AC - Capitalism TRIPs |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Doubles | Opponent: Milton Academy AT | Judge: Gastelu - Dumas - Herrera 1AC - Cap |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Octas | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: Morris - Waldman - Herrera 1AC - Evergreening |
| Yale University Invitational 2021 | Semis | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JW | Judge: Morris - Lakshman - Scopa 1AC - Covid Tricks |
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0 - GeneralTournament: All | Round: Quads | Opponent: - | Judge: - You can contact me on: I prefer email but if you want to contact me on facebook, please make sure I'm friend requested first or I won't see the message. Please put content warnings for anything graphic Lmk if you need me to meet any disclosure interps - if I don't do cites, os, rr's, or anything of that sorts, it is because they are not working but I will happily send them to you externally Note: Some cites aren't working so I'll list them here--
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G - CP - Radical LossTournament: Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: Kopf - Jasani CP Text: Vote negative to inject the affirmative advocacy with a radical lossGenosko 16 - Gary Genosko, University of Ontario, Lo Sguardo, 8/29/16 “How to Lose to a Chess Playing Computer According to Jean Baudrillard” http://www.losguardo.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/2017-23-Genosko.pdf Accessed 9/14/20 SAO The Affirmative critique is assimilated to justify the moral superstructure they criticize. It’s try or die for the CP under their role of the ballot.Robinson 12 - Andrew Robinson, Ceasefire, August 24th, 2012 “An A to Z of Theory | Jean Baudrillard: From Revolution to Implosion” https://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-10/ Accessed 3/9/20 SAO | 9/24/21 |
G - K - Butler RepsTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Leo Matthes CW: Discussions of sexual violenceButler is a defender of a predator--reading her scholarship creates an unsafe spaceGreenberg 18 Zoe Greenberg, 8-13-2018, "What Happens to #MeToo When a Feminist Is the Accused?," No Publication, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/13/nyregion/sexual-harassment-nyu-female-professor.html | 11/6/21 |
G - NC - LogConTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Castillo - Wu - Ying Now negate: | 11/6/21 |
G - NC - UtilTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Roberts - Krauss - Kuffour Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses.Blum et al. 18 Kenneth Blum, 1Department of Psychiatry, Boonshoft School of Medicine, Dayton VA Medical Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH, USA 2Department of Psychiatry, McKnight Brain Institute, University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL, USA 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA 5Department of Precision Medicine, Geneus Health LLC, San Antonio, TX, USA 6Department of Addiction Research and Therapy, Nupathways Inc., Innsbrook, MO, USA 7Department of Clinical Neurology, Path Foundation, New York, NY, USA 8Division of Neuroscience-Based Addiction Therapy, The Shores Treatment and Recovery Center, Port Saint Lucie, FL, USA 9Institute of Psychology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 10Division of Addiction Research, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC. North Kingston, RI, USA 11Victory Nutrition International, Lederach, PA., USA 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA, Marjorie Gondré-Lewis, 12National Human Genome Center at Howard University, Washington, DC., USA 13Departments of Anatomy and Psychiatry, Howard University College of Medicine, Washington, DC US, Bruce Steinberg, 4Division of Applied Clinical Research and Education, Dominion Diagnostics, LLC, North Kingstown, RI, USA, Igor Elman, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, David Baron, 3Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Keck Medicine University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA, Edward J Modestino, 14Department of Psychology, Curry College, Milton, MA, USA, Rajendra D Badgaiyan, 15Department Psychiatry, Cooper University School of Medicine, Camden, NJ, USA, Mark S Gold 16Department of Psychiatry, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA, “Our evolved unique pleasure circuit makes humans different from apes: Reconsideration of data derived from animal studies”, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, 28 February 2018, accessed: 19 August 2020, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6446569/ R.S. The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. To clarify, hedonistic act util1 Actor Spec - Governments must aggregate since every policy benefits some and harms others, which also means side constraints freeze action and states don’t have intents2 Extinction outweighsMacAskill 14 William, Oxford Philosopher and youngest tenured philosopher in the world, Normative Uncertainty, 2014 3 Epistemic modesty--45 minutes isn’t enough to reach a conclusion about thousands of years of debate--EM is most realistic and gives each theory the credence it deserves | 12/12/21 |
G - Th - CX Checks BadTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: King AT | Judge: Jeong-Wan Choi The standard is Theory recourse – CX checks
Cx doesn’t check, each of these function as independent DAs to their argument
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G - Th - Combo ShellTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 5 | Opponent: West Des Moines Valley CK | Judge: Andrew Shaw | 10/16/21 |
G - Th - Combo Shell v2Tournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Georges - Harris - Davenport | 10/17/21 |
G - Th - Combo Shell v3Tournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Iowa City West NW | Judge: Joseph Georges | 11/6/21 |
G - Th - Contact InfoTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Millburn WW | Judge: Fabrice Etienne | 9/17/21 |
G - Th - Dictionary DefinitionsTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Millburn WW | Judge: Fabrice Etienne | 9/17/21 |
G - Th - DisclosureTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Albuquerque LN | Judge: Joseph Georges
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G - Th - Doc Definitions BadTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 6 | Opponent: Walt Whitman EY | Judge: Leo Matthes
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G - Th - Fairness SpecTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Octas | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: Morris - Waldman - Herrera extemped | 9/19/21 |
G - Th - Misdating BadTournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Neda Bahrani Violation: They said their first card is from 2021–it’s from 2020–it the card talks about the coming up START ratification in Feb 2021 which proves it was from before Vote neg for evidence ethics–recency makes or breaks larp debates with constantly changing politics–getting to change the evidence by a whole YEAR not only goes against the rules of LD which means you don’t have the jurisdiction to vote on anything else but also means they’ll just demolish us by recency weighing–decks education since we don’t learn REAL evidence comparison and creates a toxic norm where we always lie which ruins the academic integrity of debate. Uniquely drop the debater for real world–you would get expelled for academic dishonesty at school and reasonability makes no sense since there are strict guidelines in the rules–whether it was accidental is non verifiable | 1/16/22 |
G - Th - MisdisclosureTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson V: they said shorter adv--it’s 95 advantage lol strat skew - impacts to toxicity and ableism | 11/6/21 |
G - Th - Must Disclose AnalyticsTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward MC | Judge: Aryan Jasani Standards:
Asking them doesn't solve – a can always fake not seeing it or wifi issues b you shouldn’t have to tell people not to be ableist--incentivizes you to hope you don’t get called out so its no risk for you and hurts novices who may forget to ask c i literally asked you info about the aff and you didn’t respond | 9/26/21 |
G - Th - Must Spec AdvocacyTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Iowa City West NW | Judge: Joseph Georges
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G - Th - New Affs BadTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Castillo - Wu - Ying The standard is neg prep—4 minutes of prep is not enough to put together a coherent 1nc or update generics—30 minutes is necessary to learn a little about the affirmative and piece together a coherent strategy and do research. If their aff isn’t beaten in 30 minutes when they had infinite pre round prep, they should lose rather than be upvoted on a cheapshot, incoherent aff that negs can’t check against the broader literature. They can still get strategic flexibility by not disclosing the ENTIRE new aff, but knowing what the aff defends and what impacts matter is necessary to know which generics to update. | 11/6/21 |
G - Th - Round Reports DisclosureTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Hunter AI | Judge: Wu - Hatfield - Rivera | 10/17/21 |
G - Th - Solvency AdvocateTournament: Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: Kopf - Jasani
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G - Th - Spec FrameworkTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Roberts - Christiansen - Burke Violation: they don’t. The standard is minimizing death--causes masses of suffering and if you’re unsure, stay alive to find out. Vote neg for clash--if we don’t know the standard we don’t know how to turn the aff or how to evaluate it and the 1ar can re-clarify to delink everything forcing a 2nr restart giving you a 7-6 time advantage–new frameworks don’t check since the re-shift the entire round mid way and skew previous speeches Cx doesn’t check - a prep skew - we were forced to prep a 1NC that hedges around the potential of you not speccing and had to prep multiple case negs b incentivizes infinite abuse and hope you don’t get called out since its no risk if we ask you and you can strategically not meet then get extra time in cx to prep the shell since we asked | 12/13/21 |
G - Th - Spec ROBTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward PG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson
Cx doesn’t check
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G - Th - TJFs BadTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Semis | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JW | Judge: Morris - Lakshman - Scopa
On requires good frameworks for debate
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G - Th - Tournament Name DisclosureTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 3 | Opponent: Claudia Taylor AP | Judge: Mariana Colicchio The standard is inclusion - they make debate inaccessible to novices or small schools who compete on the circuit but don’t have access to resources or have knowledge of debate lingo to know the shorthand nicknames for tournaments. Two internal links to accessibility - 1) lets debaters see if you won or lost on tab going for specific strategies or hitting specific strategies, letting debaters adapt around that and b) lets debaters see what speaks judges gave to help them see how good you were at going for x argument. Independently links into reciprocity since if I disclosed one way and you didnt’ you had the advantage in this round. Outweighs - none of their standards matter if debaters can’t access them and means reasonability is uniquely wrong since even a 1 risk of exclusion is bad, you obviously don’t say some level of exclusion is justified | 9/18/21 |
JanFeb - DA - InnovationTournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough ALi | Judge: Nathan Frenkel Space commercialization drives tech innovation in the squo – it provides a unique impetus.Hampson 17 Joshua Hampson 1-25-2017 “The Future of Space Commercialization” https://republicans-science.house.gov/sites/republicans.science.house.gov/files/documents/TheFutureofSpaceCommercializationFinal.pdf (Security Studies Fellow at the Niskanen Center)Elmer Extinction–outweighs because it causes masses suffering to everyone and prevents any future improvement–if you’re unsure, stay alive to find outMatthews 18 Dylan Matthews 10-26-2018 “How to help people millions of years from now” https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2018/10/26/18023366/far-future-effective-altruism-existential-risk-doing-good (Co-founder of Vox, citing Nick Beckstead @ Rutgers University)Re-cut by Elmer | 1/15/22 |
JanFeb - K - AfrofuturismTournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough ALi | Judge: Nathan Frenkel Defining space as “mass exploitation” substitutes the colonizer’s vision of space for the Black vision-~--instead, Blackness should validate space on its own terms, an act of reclamationMorgan, 18 – Professor, Santa Clara Department of English, specializes in African-American literature in the 20th and 21st centuries Dr. Danielle Fuentes Morgan, “Looking Forward, Looking Back: Afrofuturism and Black Histories in Neo-Slave Narration,” Journal of Science Fiction. Volume 2, Issue 3, July 2018 Outright refusal of space forecloses alternative, non antiblack futures-~--the alternative refuses the 1AC’s refusal as a gesture towards afrofuturist uses of space are an act of reclamation that creates alternate spaces for Black life within antiblack structuresHamilton, 17 - An assistant professor at Fort Valley State University. Her research interests include Afrofuturism and feminism as they relate to art history | 1/15/22 |
JanFeb - T - FrameworkTournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Acton-Boxborough ALi | Judge: Nathan Frenkel Resolved means a policyFind Law Legal Dictionary https://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/resolve.html SR AppropriatioTimothy Justin Trapp, JD Candidate @ UIUC Law, ’13, TAKING UP SPACE BY ANY OTHER MEANS: COMING TO TERMS WITH THE NONAPPROPRIATION ARTICLE OF THE OUTER SPACE TREATY UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LAW REVIEW Vol. 2013 No. 4 Private entitiesUSLegal Private Entity Law and Legal Definition https://definitions.uslegal.com/p/private-entity/ SR Violation–no “i affirm the res” in the aff–their advocacy is “refusing to participate in capitalism” – it’s extra T at worst which still explodes limits Vote negative for limits-~--the resolution is the most predictable stasis point for debates, anything outside of that ruins prep and clash by allowing the affirmative to pick any grounds for debate. That greenlights a race away from the core topic controversies that allow for robust contestation, which favors the aff by making neg ground inapplicable, susceptible to the perm, or concessionary. The impact is iterative content mastery-~--getting to the third and fourth level of tactical engagement is only possible with refined and well-researched positions connected to the resolutional mechanism. Repeated debates over core issues incentivize innovative argument production and improved advocacy based on feedback and nuanced responses from opponents. Independently, fairness outweighs because 1. All arguments including the aff presume that they are evaluated fairly conceding it’s authority 2. We can’t verify their thesis if we can’t engage in the aff and 3. The win is what motivates people to listen - if you don’t understand how they create change by the end of this round but you do understand why iterative testing and fair clash is good for debate - vote negative. TVA solves–don’t defend method offense Drop the debater for deterrence and competing interps since reasonability is arbitrary, causes a race to the bottom, always flips aff since they can re-spin the round in the 2ar to sound reasonable with ethos, and collapses to competing interpretations of a reasonable brightline. No rvis or impact turns - if they were abusive they forced us to go for T and impact turns force the 2nr to go for T and defend a violent practice rather than learning from our mistakes - they’re incentivized to bait T to call us out which chills negs from checking any abuse. No 1ar theory or voting issues–you get 2ar ethos to blow up a 20 second arg and the 2n is forced to overcover and the round becomes irresolvable since the judge has to decide if new 2ar arguments are sufficient to beat back new 2n ones | 1/15/22 |
JanFeb - T - UnjustTournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Neda Bahrani Interp – Unjust refers to a negative action – it means contrary.Black Laws No Date "What is Unjust?" https://thelawdictionary.org/unjust/ Elmer Violation – The Aff is a positive action – it actively creates a new property rights management for space rather than just banning appropriation–we read yellow. 1AC Babcock:This Article explores ... entitlements to them I meets are defensive at best so risk of offense under competing interpsStandards1 Limits – making the topic bi-directional explodes predictability – it means that Aff’s can both increase non-exist property regimes in space AND decrease appropriation by private actors – makes the topic untenable.2 Ground – wrecks Neg Generics – we can’t say appropriation good since the 1AC can create new views on Outer Space Property Rights that circumvent our Links since they can say “Global Commons” approach solves.Independently - the Plan is both Extra-T - since it establishes a new property rights regime AND Effects-T - since the PTD ISNT INTRINSICALLY a reduction on Private Property in Space, it involves actions like creating a governance system AND redistribution/cooperation - both of which are voters for Limits and Predictability3 TVA – just defend that space appropriation is bad. | 1/15/22 |
JanFeb - T - UnjustTournament: Lexington Winter Invitational | Round: 4 | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Neda Bahrani Violation – The Aff is a positive action – it actively creates a new property rights management for space rather than just banning appropriation–we read yellow. 1AC Babcock: I meets are defensive at best so risk of offense under competing interps Standards – | 1/16/22 |
NovDec - CP - Federal Jobs GuaranteeTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin CP: The United States ought to pass a federal jobs guarantee for incarcerated workers at $12/hourSolves the aff–that’s 1AC BeeBee, 18 - (Vanessa A., a lawyer, writer, and associate editor at Current Affairs, "How a Federal Job Guarantee Could Lower Crime and Help the Formerly Incarcerated," Intelligencer, 9-9-2018, https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2018/08/former-prisoners-should-be-included-in-a-job-guarantee.html)//marlborough-wr/ | 12/12/21 |
NovDec - CP - Hate CrimesTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 6 | Opponent: Marlborough VA | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin CW: Graphic Descriptions of violenceCP: The United States ought to recognize a right of incarcerated workers to strike except for those convicted of committing a hate crime.Wellman 06 Christopher Heath Wellman, Spring 2006, "A Defense Of Stiffer Penalties For Hate Crimes," Wiley, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3810992, accessed 12-11-2021 BCortez Deters future hate crimesWellman 06 Christopher Heath Wellman, Spring 2006, "A Defense Of Stiffer Penalties For Hate Crimes," Wiley, https://www.jstor.org/stable/3810992, accessed 12-11-2021 BCortez | 12/12/21 |
NovDec - CP - ICJTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Roberts - Christiansen - Burke CP: The United States ought to engage in a prior and binding consultation with the International Court of Justice on whether to establish an unconditional right of workers to strikeThey’ll say yesSeifert ’18 (Achim; Professor of Law at the University of Jena, and adjunct professor at the University of Luxembourg; December 2018; “The protection of the right to strike in the ILO: some introductory remarks”; CIELO Laboral; http://www.cielolaboral.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/seifert_noticias_cielo_n11_2018.pdf; Accessed: 11-3-2021; AU) Prior submission is key to ICJ credibility-~--solves global cooperation.Scott Henson 06. Associate Professor of Political Science @ Maryville College. B.A., Gardner-Webb University; M.F.A., Queens University; M.B.A., The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University; M.A., M.L.A.S., Ph.D., Vanderbilt University. “Power in the Judicial Balance: United States Hegemony, Judicial Independence, and the International Court of Justice.” Accessed Through: https://convention2.allacademic.com/one/apsa/apsa06/index.php Extinction-~--solves every impactYuval Noah Harari 18, Professor of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 9/26/18, “We need a post-liberal order now,” The Economist, https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/26/we-need-a-post-liberal-order-now | 12/13/21 |
NovDec - CP - Medical WorkersTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Roberts - Christiansen - Burke CP: The United States ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike except in the instance of medical workers during a public health emergency.Mfutso-Bengu, Joseph, and Adamson S Muula. “Is it ethical for health workers to strike? Issues from the 2001 QECH general hospital strike.” Malawi medical journal : the journal of Medical Association of Malawi vol. 14,2 (2002): 29-31. doi:10.4314/mmj.v14i2.10766 SR The counterplan is key to pandemic containmentS Damery et. al., H Draper, S Wilson, S Greenfield, J Ives, J Parry, J Petts and T Sorell. Healthcare workers' perceptions of the duty to work during an influenza pandemic. Source: Journal of Medical Ethics, Vol. 36, No. 1 (January 2010), pp. 12-18 Published by: BMJ Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20696709 SR *HCW = health care worker* Disease causes extinction - defense is wrongPiers Millett 17, Consultant for the World Health Organization, PhD in International Relations and Affairs, University of Bradford, Andrew Snyder-Beattie, “Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity”, Health Security, Vol 15(4), http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/hs.2017.0028 Solves the aff--medical workers aren’t key or a huge part of the movement--solvency deficits will be minimal at best | 12/13/21 |
NovDec - CP - Racist RiotsTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Iowa City West NW | Judge: Joseph Georges Counterplan: A just government ought to recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike except in the instance that strikes directly demand discrimination towards certain groups of individualsBPSC Unfair Labor Practices by Union, http://bpscllc.com/unfair-labor-practices-by-unions.html, N.D., Business and People Strategy Consulting Group, California's trusted source for workplace human resources and employment law SS Racist union strikes have happened before and treat others as adversaries, excluding them from accessing your theoryAllison Keyes, JUNE 30, 2017, "The East St. Louis Race Riot Left Dozens Dead, Devastating a Community on the Rise," Smithsonian Magazine, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/east-st-louis-race-riot-left-dozens-dead-devastating-community-on-the-rise-180963885/ SR | 11/6/21 |
NovDec - CP - Secret BallotTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough SG | Judge: Jacob Nails Counterplan Text: The United States ought to recognize a right of incarcerated workers to strike when authorized by a majority of striking workers through a secret balloting processTenza 19 -- Mlungisi Tenza (LLB, LLM, LLD @ University of KwaZulu-Natal), Investigating the need to reintroduce a ballot requirement for a protected strike in South Africa, August 1 2019, Obiter Volume 40, Issue 2, https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC-1936af7594 WJ Key to truly ensuring equality and having voices heardTenza 19 -- Mlungisi Tenza (LLB, LLM, LLD @ University of KwaZulu-Natal), Investigating the need to reintroduce a ballot requirement for a protected strike in South Africa, August 1 2019, Obiter Volume 40, Issue 2, https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC-1936af7594 WJ | 12/12/21 |
NovDec - CP - Tribal LawTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson To clarify, we use TLROs instead of federal law Normal means is federal law, but tribal law is key to respect indigenous sovereignty and solves the aff better. The perm is severance and creates an overlap that undermines tribal jurisdiction | 11/6/21 |
NovDec - DA - Transit StrikesTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Roberts - Krauss - Kuffour We endorse the 1ac minus their defense of the topicTransportation Strikes are low now due to Federal Strike Bans.Bauernschuster et Al 17, Stefan, Timo Hener, and Helmut Rainer. "When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill: The impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9.1 (2017): 1-37. (Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Passau, Innstra)Elmer Transit Strikes cause mass damage that far outweighs any benefits – specifically causes high Air Pollution by causing shifts to Personal Traffic.Bauernschuster et Al 17, Stefan, Timo Hener, and Helmut Rainer. "When labor disputes bring cities to a standstill: The impact of public transit strikes on traffic, accidents, air pollution, and health." American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 9.1 (2017): 1-37. (Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, University of Passau, Innstra)Elmer Stable Mass Transit solves Transport Emissions which cause Warming.Ionescu 21 Diana Ionescu 11-5-2021 "To Fight Climate Change, Support Public Transit" https://www.planetizen.com/news/2021/11/115186-fight-climate-change-support-public-transit (Diana is a contributing editor to Planetizen.)Elmer ExtinctionSchultz 16 (Robert Schultz Retired Professor and Chair of Computer Information Systems at Woodbury University “Modern Technology and Human Extinction,” http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2016/InSITE16p131-145Schultz2307.pdf) RW | 12/12/21 |
NovDec - DA - InfrastructureTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Infrastructure passes now, but maintaining pc is keyChristina Zhao, 10-30-2021, "House could pass infrastructure bill and social spending plan as soon as Tuesday," Newsweek, https://www.newsweek.com/house-could-pass-infrastructure-bill-social-spending-plan-soon-tuesday-1644254 SR Plan drastically saps PC from Biden and competes with the billWayne State University, 2-22-2021, "Detroit News: Marick Masters on PRO Act," Mike Ilitch School of Business, https://ilitchbusiness.wayne.edu/news/detroit-news-marick-masters-on-pro-act-42130 RCTSR PC is finiteStanage, 1/24/2021 (Niall, “The Memo: Biden gambles that he can do it all,” The Hill, https://thehill.com/homenews/the-memo/535502-the-memo-biden-gambles-that-he-can-do-it-all, YY) RCTSR Bill solves warmingUSA Today 7-20 7-20-2021 "Climate change is at 'code red' status for the planet, and inaction is no longer an option". Editorial Board @ USA Today. Accessed 8/30/21. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2021/07/20/climate-change-biden-infrastructure-bill-good-start/7877118002/ Recut Xu from Elmer ExtinctionSchultz 16 (Robert Schultz Retired Professor and Chair of Computer Information Systems at Woodbury University “Modern Technology and Human Extinction,” http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2016/InSITE16p131-145Schultz2307.pdf) RW | 11/6/21 |
NovDec - DA - Oil SpillsTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough SG | Judge: Jacob Nails Disaster response is fine now but only because incarcerated workers can pick up the mess of things like oil spills--increases communal wellbeing in a cost efficient manner but new reforms like NAACP policy allows us to meet prisoner demandsKutz 21 (Jessica Kutz – Assistant Editor for High Country News who is interviewing Carlee Purdum who researches incarcerated labor conditions and trends, “The essential — and dangerous — work prisoners do: Incarcerated people respond to pandemics, wildfires, avian flu outbreaks, mudslides and more”, https://www.hcn.org/articles/south-labor-the-essential-and-dangerous-work-prisoners-do, 23 April 2021, EmmieeM) Oil spills cause extinction and worsen environmental justice--we have an empirical meta studyLittle et al 21 (David I. Little (Environmental Consultancy @ Cambridgeshire), Stephen R.J. Sheppard (Collaboration for Advanced Landscape Planning and Department of Forest Resource Management @ Faculty of Foresty @ University of British Columbia), David Hulme (Global Development Institute @ University of Manchester), “A perspective on oil spills: What we should have learned about global warming”, https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0964569120304166, Ocean and Coastal Management, Volume 202, 1 March 2021, EmmieeM) | 12/12/21 |
NovDec - DA - PQDTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Roberts - Christiansen - Burke Plan breaks the PQD—it’s an entirely unprecedented act of court policymaking that justifies unrestrained Judicial interventionHall, 10 (Associate-Riggs, Abney, Neal, Turpen, Orbison and Lewis, Denver, CO and JD-Loyola Law School, 13 Chap. L. Rev. 265, Lexis) Legislature is where the right to strike should be changed, not the courtsWashington University Law Review 86 Washington University Law Review, January 1986, " California Public Employees Granted Right t anted Right to Strik o Strike Without e Without Legislative Authorization—County Sanitation District No. 2 of Los Angeles County v. Los Angeles County Employees Association, Local 660, 699 P.2d 835 (Cal.)," Washington University Law Review, https://openscholarship.wustl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2130andcontext=law_lawreview, accessed 11-12-2021 BCortez Collapse of US PQD triggers Japanese kick out of US forcesChen 17 Po Liang Chen, PhD-Washington Law, Jordan Wada JD-Wash Law, in conjunction with Tatsuhiki Yamamoto, Professor, CAN THE JAPANESE SUPREME COURT OVERCOME THE POLITICAL QUESTION HURDLE?, 26 Pac. Rim L. and Pol'y J. 349, April 2017 That collapses deterrenceNewsham 15 Grant Newsham, senior research fellow – Japan Forum for Strategic Studies, J.D. – UC Berkeley, Executive Director – Corporate Security @ Morgan Stanley Japan, US military bases on Okinawa — still an essential deterrent, Asia Times, October 2015 US-China war is likely and goes nuclearKulacki 16 Gregory Kulacki, China Project Manager in the UCS Global Security Program, The Risk of Nuclear War with China, 2016, http://www.ucsusa.org/nuclear-weapons/us-china-relations/risk-nuclear-war-china#.Wc8tb8iGMh4 ExtinctionStarr 15 Steven, Senior Scientist for Physicians for Social Responsibility (www.psr.org) and Director of the Clinical Laboratory Science Program at the University of Missouri. Starr has published in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Strategic Arms Reduction (STAR) website of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology “Nuclear War: An Unrecognized Mass Extinction Event Waiting To Happen.” Ratical. March 2015. https://ratical.org/radiation/NuclearExtinction/StevenStarr022815.html TG | 12/13/21 |
NovDec - Hijack - ContractsTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 2 | Opponent: Iowa City West NW | Judge: Joseph Georges That negates: | 11/6/21 |
NovDec - K - PsychoanalysisTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Marlborough SK | Judge: Gordon Krauss The fractured nature of the subject leaves one oriented around the mastery of a lost object--recognizing the right to strike is an attempt to satisfy this loss with an investment into the notion of dignified work--one that creates an image of a deracialized, patriotic worker that society is left to mimicBarchiesi ‘9 Franco, THE Ohio State University. 2009. “That Melancholic Object of Desire: Work and Official Discourse before and after Polokwane,” https://www.academia.edu/421295/THAT_MELANCHOLlC_OBJECT_OF_DESlRE_WORK_AND_OFFlClAL_DlSCOURSE_BEFORE_AND_AFTER_POLOKWANE sosa This cultivates in a politics of melodrama wherein threats to the state’s biopolitical ordering are registered as affective wounds that necessitate violent redemption – their commitment to regain mastery morphs their advocacy into a blank check for imperial expansions and eliminates ideological resistance to state control.Anker ‘14 Elizabeth, American Studies at George Washington University. 2014. “Orgies of Feeling: Melodrama and the Politics of Freedom.” KB/spaldwin rc/pat Vote negative as a refusal to play hide and seek with the lost object in favor of embracing its death--accepting the fact mastery can never be achieved is the first step toward ending a cycle of repetitious destructionAnker ‘12 Elizabeth, American Studies at George Washington University. 2012. “Heroic Identifications: Or, ‘You Can Love Me Too – I am so Like the State,’” https://muse.jhu.edu/article/469324/summary spaldwin rc/pat | 12/11/21 |
NovDec - NC - HobbesTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Ethics are not a universal truth but rather mere categories of languages created by us To escape the state of nature, people unite to imbue a sovereign with absolute authority to define ethics and enforce them at will. The sovereign is the only binding ethical force - absent it, ethics fail since everyone has competing conceptions of the good Implications:
Thus, the standard is consistency with the Hobbesian Social Contract. Not consequentialist but concerned on if an action procedurally violates the rules of a contract I’ll defend the lack of a universal obligation to the aff. Negate – the aff obligates the state to act – this is incoherent because it implies an authority higher than the state to constrain the sovereign. The term “unconditional” means they force the sovereign to ALWAYS allow strikes, even when not doing so might increase state power. Specifically true for strikes, since they just let people demand whatever they want against the state to undermine its legitimacy | 11/6/21 |
NovDec - NC - KantTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough SG | Judge: Jacob Nails Ethics must begin a priori and the meta-ethic is bindingness. That means we must universally will maxims—no a priori distinction between us since we’re all reasoners, so any non-universalizable norm justifies someone’s ability to impede on your ends and creates a contradiction Thus, the standard is consistency with the categorical imperative. Now negate: 2 Means to an end: incarcerated workers ignore their duty to help the community as per their service obligation in favor of higher wages which treats them as a means to an end 3 Free-riding: strikes are a form of free-riding since those who don’t participate still reap the benefits. | 12/12/21 |
NovDec - T - FrameworkTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: Octas | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: Roberts - Krauss - Kuffour Resolved means a policy A worker is an employee that works under a contract for employment. Strike
Vote neg for limits: their model has no resolutional bound and creates the possibility for literally an infinite number of 1ACs. Not debating the topic allows someone to specialize in one area of the library for 4 years giving them a huge edge over people who switch research focus ever 2 months. Cutting negs to every possible aff wrecks small schools, which has a disparate impact on under-resourced and minority debaters. Counter-interpretations are arbitrary, unpredictable, and don’t solve the world of neg prep because there’s no grounding in the resolution Terminal defense to their model – Drop the debater for deterrence since the round has already been skewed. Competing interps--reasonability is arbitrary and causes a race to the bottom. Even if their aff is answerable, the ones they incentivize are not which means you presume the worst possible affs because people inevitably want to be as abusive as possible for the win and they create a model of self care. No rvi’s or impact turns - | 12/12/21 |
NovDec - T - JustTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Castillo - Wu - Ying Interpretation: Just governments must be a democracy. The affirmative must only defend a just government as an actor.Prefer our definition because its from a legal dictionaryThe Free Dictionary, "Declaration of Independence," TheFreeDictionary, https://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Declaration+of+Independence SR China violates - check screenshots its an authoritarian regime Wikipedia cites Economist Intelligence Unit, 2020, Democracy Index, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index SR Vote neg for limits and ground - they can literally pick any government not grounded in the resolution making it impossible for us to predict and arbitrarily prepare specific political scenarios that we can never possibly expect. Especially true for authoritarian governments who have a lot worse conditions than democracies which means uniqueness will ALWAYS flip aff and their affs are objectively more likely to be true and unturnable. Our interp solves - just pick a full or flawed democracy which is still 75 different affs. C/a the ! to limits and precision | 11/6/21 |
NovDec - T - NebelTournament: Apple Valley MinneApple Debate Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington AG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Standards
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NovDec - T - Nebel v2Tournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough SG | Judge: Jacob Nails Interpretation: The affirmative must defend a just government as a general principle, not specify a subsetCCC Capital Community College a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation, “Articles, Determiners, and Quantifiers”, http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm#articles AG Standards1 Precision outweighs - anything outside the res is arbitrary and unpredictable because the topic determines prep, not being bound by it lets them jettison any word.2 Limits and Ground - decimates clash by exploding limits to infinite governments with infinite possible interps of what constitutes a just one, each with different political climates, economies, and human rights problems which makes contesting the aff with unifying neg ground impossible and means they can always pick the most aff skewed country.3 TVA – read your aff as an advantage under whole res – we still get your content education and sufficient aff ground by switching up aff advantages, frameworks, implementation, etc. But, 1ar theory checks pics and they incentivize more of them because nothing but cheaty generics link | 12/12/21 |
NovDec - T - UnconditionalTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Harvard Westlake AW | Judge: Roberts - Christiansen - Burke Interp: Unconditional rights must apply to every workerMagnell 11 Thomas Magnell, Quals: Philosopher, Department of Philosophy, Drew University, Madison, NJ, The Correlativity of Rights and Duties, J Value Inquiry (2011) 45:1–12BA PB Violation: NLRA says it doesn’t apply to public employeesVote neg for precision--their definition just says in the squo NLRA doesn’t apply to some employees not that normal means is the NLRA or that an unconditional right to strike would therefore not apply to themThe standard is shiftiness--they can be infinitely shifty and redefine the plan in the 1AR--NLRA is vague and constantly reinterpreted in court which means they can just destroy all ground--no firefighters, police, or military DA | 12/13/21 |
NovDec - T - WorkerTournament: 2021 USC Trojan Invitational | Round: 2 | Opponent: Marlborough SG | Judge: Jacob Nails Interpretation: A worker is an employee that works under a contract for employment.Quest n.d. (Quest, based in Leicestershire, but covering the whole of the UK, is a specialist and training solutions, delivering bespoke professional services with resounding results. With over two decades of experience, Quest make it their responsibility to fully understand your specific needs before personalising a tailored solution to ensure that your HR, Health and Safety and training solution complements your business plan and achieves your goals.) “Employees and Workers: The Difference Between a Worker and an Employee” Quest. N.d. AW Violation: Prisoners don’t have employment contracts—they’re working as a form of punishment. Voter for precisionZatz 13 (Noah, Professor of Law at UCLA) “Employment Without Contract? Prison Laborers as Statutory Employees” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the The Law and Society Association 2013-12-16 AT Standards:1 Limits— their interp allows for any instance of forced labor in any country--tons of different groups, scenarios, etc infinitely inflates the prep burden and makes negating impossible–also decks accessibility by expanding the small school prep burden2 Ground— all the neg can say against the aff is exploitation good— their interp skirts links to the Workforce DA, Business Confidence DA, Cap K because the workers Affs under their interp are about do not participate in the formal economy. We even lose access to the Contracts NC which all assume an injury to be legally recognized agreements.Reject “discussion” arguments--a regressive since there’s always issues that people think are more important to talk about, causing oppression olympics b discussions don’t do anything--fairness is the only thing intrinsic to the ballot c alt forums solve | 12/12/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Abolish WTOTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Milton Academy AT | Judge: Gastelu - Dumas - Herrera CP:
Agreements under the WTO are self serving and inherently neoliberal - doing the plan independently is necessaryFukuda 10 Fukuda, Yasuo. "WTO regime as a new stage of imperialism: Decaying capitalism and its alternative." World Review of Political Economy 1.3 (2010): 485. MSJ SB | 9/19/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Consult WHOTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: Luke Gastelu CP: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to enter into a prior and binding consultation with the World Health Organization over waiving the TRIPS agreement.Rimmer 4, Matthew. "The race to patent the SARS virus: the TRIPS agreement and access to essential medicines." Melbourne Journal of International Law 5.2 (2004): 335-374. https://law.unimelb.edu.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/1681117/Rimmer.pdf (BA (Hons), LLB (Hons) (Australian National University), PhD (New South Wales); Lecturer at ACIPA, the Faculty of Law, The Australian National University)SidK + Elmer WHO says yesSpencer Kimball and Rich Mendez, 7-3-2020, "WHO chief urges world to follow U.S. lead and support waiving Covid vaccine patent protections," CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/05/07/who-chief-urges-world-to-follow-us-waive-covid-vaccine-patent-protections.html SR Consultation displays strong leadership, authority, and cohesion among member states which are key to WHO legitimacyGostin et al 15 (Lawrence O., Linda D. and Timothy J. O’Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University, Faculty Director of the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights, JD from Duke University) “The Normative Authority of the World Health Organization,” Georgetown University Law Center, 5/2/2015 JL WHO legitimacy is uniquely necessary to resist pandemics, populism, and conflict through solidarity - flips their accessibility offenseFriedman 17 Eric Friedman March 2017 “New WHO Leader Will Need Human Rights to Counter Nationalistic Populism” https://www.hhrjournal.org/2017/03/new-who-leader-will-need-human-rights-to-counter-populism/ (JD, Project Leader of the Platform for a Framework Convention on Global Health at the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, DC)Elmer | 9/18/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Consult WIPOTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Millburn WW | Judge: Fabrice Etienne CP: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to engage in a prior and binding consultation with the World Intellectual Property Organization to reduce intellectual property protections for medicinesJohn Zarocostas, freelance journalist December 2017, "Perspectives on access to medicines and IP rights," No Publication, https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2017/06/article_0002.html SR WIPO says yesJames Pooley, 5-25-2021, "The Big Secret Behind the Proposed TRIPS Waiver," IPWatchdog, https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/25/big-secret-behind-proposed-trips-waiver/id=133905/ SR | 9/17/21 |
SeptOct - CP - FederalismTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Malyugina - Dosch - Park The National Governors’ Association should inform the White House that state cooperation with all federal initiatives will be contingent upon the United States of America reducing intellectual property protections for the COVID-19 vaccine.The overwhelming fiscal and political cost of saying ‘no’ forces the GOP to caveHeather Gerken 17, J. Skelly Wright Professor of Law at Yale Law School, JD from the University of Michigan Law School, AB from Princeton University, “We’re About To See States’ Rights Used Defensively Against Trump”, Vox, 1/20/2017, https://www.vox.com/the-big-idea/2016/12/12/13915990/federalism-trump-progressive-uncooperative Federalism is key to fighting terrorismMayer 12 Matt Mayer, Mayer is a Visiting Fellow at The Heritage Foundation and author of Homeland Security and Federalism: Protecting America from Outside the Beltway., 3-26-2012, "Federalism Allows Law Enforcement to Determine Counterterrorism Policies That Work Best," Heritage Foundation, https://www.heritage.org/terrorism/report/federalism-allows-law-enforcement-determine-counterterrorism-policies-work-best, accessed 7-25-2018 BC Nuclear Terrorism is highly probable. It causes Nuclear war, fallout, economic decline, and mass poverty.Arguello and Buis 18 (Irma and Emiliano J., “The global impacts of a terrorist nuclear attack: What would happen? What should we do?”, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Vol 74, Issue 2) ALH | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - CP - ICJTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: David Dosch The ICJ has jurisdiction over IPR – international treaties proveVenkatachalam 21 Manasa, B.A. LL.B. (law degree) at Gujarat National Law University in India “No Rocket Science!: Outer Space, Intellectual Property Rights, and the International Court of Justice,” Volkerrechtsblog, April 15, 2021, https://voelkerrechtsblog.org/no-rocket-science/ TG It’s key to harmonizing international IPR – solves the affAskew 2k Lee Ann, JD May 2000 “ECJ, the ICJ and Intellectual Property: Is Harmonization the Key,” Tulsa Journal of Comparative and International Law, Vol 7 Iss 2, 3-1-2000, https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/232678481.pdf TG Extinction-~--cooperation key to solve existential risk.Yuval Noah Harari 18. Professor of History at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. “We need a post-liberal order now.” The Economist. 9/26/2018. https://www.economist.com/open-future/2018/09/26/we-need-a-post-liberal-order-now | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Indigenous MedicinesTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Millburn WW | Judge: Fabrice Etienne CP: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for all medicines except for medicines created by indigenous folks, for which all ownership ought to be transferred to the indigenous communities that originally developed the medicine.Ngoc Tang, 3-24-2020, Finance Major, CSULB 2021, "The Importance of Native American Intellectual Property," California State University, Long Beach, https://www.csulb.edu/college-of-business/legal-resource-center/article/the-importance-of-native-american-intellectual SR *brackets in text* The CP gives indigenous nations resources for self sovereignty and centers discussions around native demands, which better allows for the accessibility of those medicinesSimon Brascoupé and Karin Endemann, Fall 1999, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AND ABORIGINAL PEOPLE: A WORKING PAPER https://www.wipo.int/export/sites/www/tk/en/databases/creative_heritage/docs/ip_aboriginal_people.pdf SR | 9/17/21 |
SeptOct - CP - ScientistsTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Nick Fleming CP: A nation appointed international panel of scientists including National Academies and corresponding organizations should reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by significantly reducing data exclusivity and manage similar conflicts of interest as per Hajjar and Greenbaum
International panel of science diplomats can rule over IP-~--that’s key to science diplomacy.Hajjar and Greenbaum 18 David; Dean Emeritus and University Distinguished Professor, and Professor of Biochemistry and Pathology at Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences, a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State, and a recent Senior Fellow in Science Policy at the Brookings Institute; Steven; Professor and Chair of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Hunter College of the City University of New York and a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was a Jefferson Science Fellow of the National Academies at the U.S. Department of State; “Leveraging Diplomacy for Managing Scientific Challenges,” American Diplomacy; September 18; https://americandiplomacy.web.unc.edu/2018/09/leveraging-diplomacy-for-managing-scientific-challenges-an-opportunity-to-navigate-the-future-of-science/ Justin Solves every existential threat.Haynes 18—research associate in the Neurobiology Department at Harvard Medical School (Trevor, “Science Diplomacy: Collaboration in a rapidly changing world,” http://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2018/science-diplomacy-collaboration-rapidly-changing-world/, dml) Re-Cut Justin | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - CP - Universal HealthcareTournament: Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | Round: 5 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Mukherjee - He CP: The United States ought to implement a universal healthcare system including free insulin
IP isn’t the problem stopping insulin access or the bad innovation, it’s long-standing corruption that forces any entering companies to have extremely long and expensive trialsGoozner PhD 20 Merril Goozner (PhD and literally wrote the book on overpriced drugs, called “The 800$ pill), Winter 2020, "Insulin Should Be Free. Yes, Free.," Democracy Journal, https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/55/insulin-should-be-free-yes-free/ AW Implementing a UHC system gets insulin to the uninsuredGoozner PhD 20 Merril Goozner (PhD and literally wrote the book on overpriced drugs, called “The 800$ pill), Winter 2020, "Insulin Should Be Free. Yes, Free.," Democracy Journal, https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/55/insulin-should-be-free-yes-free/ AW Insulin needs to made free DIRECTLY – even after IP removal, likely new laws + industry subsidies to keep big pharma in powerGoozner PhD 20 Merril Goozner (PhD and literally wrote the book on overpriced drugs, called “The 800$ pill), Winter 2020, "Insulin Should Be Free. Yes, Free.," Democracy Journal, https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/55/insulin-should-be-free-yes-free/ AW | 9/25/21 |
SeptOct - DA - BiotechTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Nick Fleming US dominance is secured in biotech now, but China’s closing the gap fastScott Moore 2020 (Director of the Penn Global China Program at the University of Pennsylvania. Previously, Moore was a Young Professional and Water Resources Management Specialist at the World Bank Group, and Environment, Science, Technology, and Health Officer for China at the U.S.) “China’s Role In The Global Biotechnology Sector And Implications For U.S. Policy” https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/FP_20200427_china_biotechnology_moore.pdfTDI The plan away sensitive national security information that allows China to lead ahead in biotechJosh Rogin 4-8. (Washington Post Columnist covering National Security Issues.) “Opinion: The wrong way to fight vaccine nationalism” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-wrong-way-to-fight-vaccine-nationalism/2021/04/08/9a65e15e-98a8-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819_story.html TDI China will convert biotech gains to military advantages, undermining US primacyMercy A. Kuo 2017 (Executive Vice President at Pamir Consulting.) “The Great US-China Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence Race” https://thediplomat.com/2017/08/the-great-us-china-biotechnology-and-artificial-intelligence-race/ TDI Primacy solves every impact - even if its imperfect, alternatives are worseZachary Keck 14, Assistant Editor at The Diplomat, M.A. candidate in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, “America’s Relative Decline: Should We Panic?”, 1-24, http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/americas-relative-decline-should-we-panic/ | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Biotech v2Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Malyugina - Dosch - Park U.S dominance over biotech now BUT Misguided policy cedes control to China.Gupta 6/11 “As Washington Ties Pharma's Hands, China Is Leaping Ahead.”, Gaurav Gupta, Opinion | America Risks Ceding Its Biotech Dominance to China | Barron's, Barrons, 11 June 2021, www.barrons.com/articles/as-washington-ties-pharmas-hands-china-is-leaping-ahead-51623438808., Gaurav Gupta, a physician, is the founder of the biotechnology investment firm Ascendant BioCapital.Lex AKu The plan away sensitive national security information that allows China to lead ahead in biotechJosh Rogin 4-8. (Washington Post Columnist covering National Security Issues.) “Opinion: The wrong way to fight vaccine nationalism” https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-wrong-way-to-fight-vaccine-nationalism/2021/04/08/9a65e15e-98a8-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819_story.html TDI China will convert biotech gains to military advantages, undermining US primacyMercy A. Kuo 2017 (Executive Vice President at Pamir Consulting.) “The Great US-China Biotechnology and Artificial Intelligence Race” https://thediplomat.com/2017/08/the-great-us-china-biotechnology-and-artificial-intelligence-race/ TDI Primacy solves every impact - even if its imperfect, alternatives are worseZachary Keck 14, Assistant Editor at The Diplomat, M.A. candidate in the Department of Public and International Affairs at George Mason University, “America’s Relative Decline: Should We Panic?”, 1-24, http://thediplomat.com/2014/01/americas-relative-decline-should-we-panic/ | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Climate PatentsTournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 4 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward PG | Judge: Tajaih Robinson Climate Patents and Innovation high now and solving Warming but patent waivers set a dangerous precedent for appropriations - the mere threat is sufficient is enough to kill investment.Brand 5-26, Melissa. “Trips Ip Waiver Could Establish Dangerous Precedent for Climate Change and Other Biotech Sectors.” IPWatchdog.com | Patents and Patent Law, 26 May 2021, www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/05/26/trips-ip-waiver-establish-dangerous-precedent-climate-change-biotech-sectors/id=133964/. sid ExtinctionSchultz 16 (Robert Schultz Retired Professor and Chair of Computer Information Systems at Woodbury University “Modern Technology and Human Extinction,” http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2016/InSITE16p131-145Schultz2307.pdf) RW Extinction outweighs - a scope - affects every single person while they affect a subset b turns structural violence - those with less resources are disproportionately unable to adapt c reversibility - can solve their impact later but once we’re dead there’s no coming back d can’t solve violence if dead e magnitude - extinction kills not just current but also future generations and prevents them from experiencing pleasure which has infinite magnitude f if you’re unsure, prioritize life to keep debating about it. Don’t allow for a consequentialism fails push - a hard ethics aren’t impossible b repugnant since it justifies people saying “i didn’t know my action would hurt marginalized groups oops” and c if extinction outweighs, consequences is the best way to resolve it. Not defending implementation doesn’t take this out - if the WTO did something, we have won that it is bad - anything else excludes ground and the core of the topic | 9/26/21 |
SeptOct - DA - InfrastructureTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 3 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty SB | Judge: Felicity Park Infrastructure bill passes now but maintaining PC, support, and trust is keyEmily Cochrane et. al., Luke Broadwater and Jonathan Weisman, 10/1/21, "Biden puts the infrastructure bill on hold, saying Democrats need to unite on social spending.," No Publication, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/us/politics/house-infrastructure-delay-vote.html SR Plan requires negotiations that sap PC and pharma opposition removes trustEdward Alden, Edward Alden is a columnist at Foreign Policy, the Ross distinguished visiting professor at Western Washington University, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy. 5-10-2021, "Big Pharma’s Patent Defeat Shows Corporate America Losing Power," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/10/big-pharma-patents-biden-vaccines-covid-intellectual-property-protection-global-trips-waiver-wto/ SR Bill solves warmingUSA Today 7-20 7-20-2021 "Climate change is at 'code red' status for the planet, and inaction is no longer an option". Editorial Board @ USA Today. Accessed 8/30/21. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2021/07/20/climate-change-biden-infrastructure-bill-good-start/7877118002/ Recut Xu from Elmer ExtinctionSchultz 16 (Robert Schultz Retired Professor and Chair of Computer Information Systems at Woodbury University “Modern Technology and Human Extinction,” http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2016/InSITE16p131-145Schultz2307.pdf) RW | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - DA - Infrastructure v2Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Nick Fleming Debt ceiling extension means infrastructure bill passes now but it’s closeCochrane 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. Plan requires negotiations that sap PC and pharma opposition removes trustEdward Alden, Edward Alden is a columnist at Foreign Policy, the Ross distinguished visiting professor at Western Washington University, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and the author of Failure to Adjust: How Americans Got Left Behind in the Global Economy. 5-10-2021, "Big Pharma’s Patent Defeat Shows Corporate America Losing Power," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/05/10/big-pharma-patents-biden-vaccines-covid-intellectual-property-protection-global-trips-waiver-wto/ SR Bill solves warmingUSA Today 7-20 7-20-2021 "Climate change is at 'code red' status for the planet, and inaction is no longer an option". Editorial Board @ USA Today. Accessed 8/30/21. https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/todaysdebate/2021/07/20/climate-change-biden-infrastructure-bill-good-start/7877118002/ Recut Xu from Elmer ExtinctionSchultz 16 (Robert Schultz Retired Professor and Chair of Computer Information Systems at Woodbury University “Modern Technology and Human Extinction,” http://proceedings.informingscience.org/InSITE2016/InSITE16p131-145Schultz2307.pdf) RW | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - Hijack - ContractsTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 1 | Opponent: Millburn WW | Judge: Fabrice Etienne That negates: 1 Aff breaks existing contracts. Weighs under their fw directly since breaking promises violates trust in a communitySauer 21 Hans; Deputy General Counsel and Vice President for Intellectual Property for the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), a major trade association representing more than 1,000 biotechnology companies from the medical, agricultural, environmental, and industrial sectors. At BIO, he advises the organization’s board of directors, amicus committee, and various staff committees on patent and other intellectual-property-related matters. Before taking his current position at BIO in 2006, he was chief patent counsel for MGI Pharma Inc. in Bloomington, MN, and senior patent counsel for Guilford Pharmaceuticals Inc. in Baltimore, MD. Mr. Sauer holds a M.S. degree in biology from the University of Ulm in his native Germany, a Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Lund, Sweden, and a J.D. degree from Georgetown University Law Center, where he serves as adjunct professor; “Waiving IP Rights During Times of COVID: A ‘False Good Idea’,” IP Watch Dog; 4/19/21; https://www.ipwatchdog.com/2021/04/19/waiving-ip-rights-during-times-of-covid-a-false-good-idea/id=132399/ Justin 2 Aff forecloses future contractsHilty et al 21 Reto Hilty Director at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition and a professor at the University of Zurich Pedro Henrique D. Batista Doctoral student and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Suelen Carls Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Daria Kim Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Matthias Lamping Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition Peter R. Slowinski Doctoral student and Junior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition; “10 Arguments against a Waiver of Intellectual Property Rights,” Oxford Law; 6/29/21; https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/business-law-blog/blog/2021/06/10-arguments-against-waiver-intellectual-property-rights Justin | 9/17/21 |
SeptOct - Hijack - Contracts v2Tournament: Mid America Cup | Round: 5 | Opponent: American Heritage Broward MC | Judge: Aryan Jasani That negates: 2 Aff forecloses future contracts | 9/26/21 |
SeptOct - K - CapitalismTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Semis | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JW | Judge: Morris - Lakshman - Scopa The WTO and neoliberalism are inherently intertwined – trade agreements are written and passed by large capitalist power players who serve their own interestsFukuda 10 Fukuda, Yasuo. "WTO regime as a new stage of imperialism: Decaying capitalism and its alternative." World Review of Political Economy 1.3 (2010): 485. MSJ SB Their rhetoric of helping developing economies is the Trojan Horse for neoliberal privatization which destroys healthcare and is a vehicle for imperialism.Gatwiri et al 19 (Kathomi Gatwiri, lecturer based at Southern Cross University where she teaches Social Work and Social Policy; Julians Amboko, finance and economics correspondent with the Nation Media Group; and Darius Okolla, Bachelor of Commerce - Finance degree, from Kenyatta University) “The implications of Neoliberalism on African economies, health outcomes and wellbeing: a conceptual argument” Soc Theory Health. 18(1): 86–101. 6-26-19, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7223727/ TDI Neoliberal exploitation causes extinction but responses are biasedGuerin 19 (Fred – philosophy professor at Vancouver Island University, “We Must End Neoliberalism, or Neoliberalism Will End Us,” 11 August 2019, https://truthout.org/articles/we-must-end-neoliberalism-or-neoliberalism-will-end-us/) The alt is to decentralize global trade. A pluralistic global system allows for flexible industrial development while avoiding the pitfalls of centralized neoliberalism.Bello 99 (Walden, Filipino academic, environmentalist, and social worker who served as a member of the House of Representatives of the Philippines.) “Why Reform of the WTO is the Wrong Agenda” Focus on Trade, No. 43, December 1999, https://www.tni.org/my/node/6851 TDI Try-or-die—collapse of neolib is inevitable but alternative leftist visions are necessary to counter reactionary right populismGalant 19 (Michael, coordinator of the Wire Pillar of the Progressive International) “The Battle of Seattle: 20 years later, it's time for a revival” Open Democracy, 11-30-19, https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/battle-seattle-20-years-later-its-time-revival/ TDI | 9/19/21 |
SeptOct - K - PsychoanalysisTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Malyugina - Dosch - Park The subject emerges through loss, constitutively unable to express it’s desires through language. That traps the subject in the symbolic, creating a constant desire towards the lost-object.McGowan 13 Todd; Associate Professor of Film Studies at the UVermont; “Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis,” Pg. 26-29; 2013; University of Nebraska Press / Lincoln and London Justin The 1AC’s development discourse is the projection of repetitive desires that scapegoat their problems onto third-world countriesKapoor 14 Ilan; 10/2/14; Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada; “Psychoanalysis and development: contributions, examples, limits,” Third World Quarterly, 35:7, 1120-1143, DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2014.926101 Justin recut SJKS Their push for an “information commons” to find the true potentiality of the market inevitably idealizes it, which leads to a loss when we never quite get enough of that enlightenmentKapczynski 14 (Amy, a Professor of Law at Yale Law School, Faculty Co-Director of the Global Health Justice Partnership, and Faculty Co-Director of the Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency. She is also Faculty Co-Director of the Law and Political Economy Project and cofounder of the Law and Political Economy blog. Her areas of research include information policy, intellectual property law, international law, and global health.) “INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY’S LEVIATHAN” Duke Law, Law and Contemporary problems, 2014. https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4710andcontext=lcp BC That form of politics sustains a bad relationship to the death drive, ensuring extinction.Themi 8 Tim; Professor in Philosophy Camp; Psychoanalysis from the School of Humanities andamp; Social Sciences at Deakin University, “HOW LACAN’S ETHICS MIGHT IMPROVE OUR UNDERSTANDING OF NIETZSCHE’S CRITIQUE OF PLATONISM: THE NEUROSIS andamp; NIHILSM OF A ‘LIFE’ AGAINST LIFE,” Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, Vol 4, No 1-2; 2008; http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/96/192 EG Re-Cut Justin Vote negative to embrace the lack – this requires being open to the anxiety that occurs from an encounter with the real of the other and breaks down fantasy and drives.McGowan 13 Todd; Associate Professor of Film Studies at the UVermont; “Enjoying What We Don't Have: The Political Project of Psychoanalysis,” Pg. 26-29; 2013; University of Nebraska Press / Lincoln and London SJBE Re-Highlighted Justin | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - NC - DeterminismTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 3 | Opponent: King AT | Judge: Jeong-Wan Choi Determinism is true 3 Identity: Being responsibility for your actions requires being responsible for the way you are as your nature guides actions. To be responsible for the way you are you must have intentionally been the cause of that nature. However, to be the cause of that nature requires a nature to be able to will action. Thus will becomes infinitely regressive and therefore impossible That negates | 10/16/21 |
SeptOct - NC - HobbesTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Octas | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: Morris - Waldman - Herrera Permissibility and presumption negate—the aff has the burden of proof to show the normative claim of the resolution is true, so the neg gets anything that denies that. Ought implies a moral obligation to do something but permissibility denies the existence of said obligationEthics are not a universal truth but rather mere categories of languages created by usParrish 1 (Rick Parrish. "Derrida's Economy of Violence in Hobbes' Social Contract." Theory and Event 7, no. 4 (2005) https://muse.jhu.edu/) To escape the state of nature, people unite to imbue a sovereign with absolute authority to define ethics and enforce them at will. The sovereign is the only binding ethical force - absent it, ethics fail since everyone has competing conceptions of the goodParrish 2 (Rick Parrish. "Derrida's Economy of Violence in Hobbes' Social Contract." Theory and Event 7, no. 4 (2005) https://muse.jhu.edu/) Implications: Thus, the standard is consistency with the Hobbesian Social Contract. Not consequentialist but concerned on if an action procedurally violates the rules of a contract I’ll defend the lack of a universal obligation to the aff. Negate – 2 IP is implicit in the creation of a sovereign in expressing creativityGhosh 04 Shubha Ghosh (B.A., Amherst College; Ph.D., University of Michigan; J.D., Stanford Law School; Professor of Law, University at Buffalo, SUNY, Law School; Visiting Professor, SMU Dedman School of Law). “PATENTS AND THE REGULATORY STATE: RETHINKING THE PATENT BARGAIN METAPHOR AFTER ELDRED”. BERKELEY TECHNOLOGY LAW JOURNAL. 2004. Accessed 9/3/21. https://lawcat.berkeley.edu/record/1119327/files/fulltext.pdf Xu | 9/19/21 |
SeptOct - NC - Hobbes v2Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: David Dosch To escape the state of nature, people unite to imbue a sovereign with absolute authority to define ethics and enforce them at will. The sovereign is the only binding ethical force - absent it, ethics fail since everyone has competing conceptions of the good Turns the aff fw at the highest layer - absent a sovereign we live in a state of nature where individuals can just force their own moral vision onto another which destroys any chance of productive ethics since no one can guarantee they achieve their ends in a chaotic state justifying infinite violations of their fw Thus, the standard is consistency with the Hobbesian Social Contract. Not consequentialist but concerned on if an action procedurally violates the rules of a contract I’ll defend the lack of a universal obligation to the aff. Negate – 2 IP is implicit in the creation of a sovereign in expressing creativity | 11/5/21 |
SeptOct - NC - JaeggiTournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: Octas | Opponent: Lexington JB | Judge: Georges - Harris - Davenport The starting point of ethics is volition, the structure of the will - it defines who the subject is which is a prior question to whether they can partake in any theory and generates the primary source for all of our desires and beliefs since it generates what counts as motivational to the subjectHowever, theories to face the will have a dilemma - either they’re paternally objectivist to the extent they restrict the will by impeding agents from leading their own lives, or are weakened by subjectivism to the extent that it’s impossible to make true moral claims.The solution is a theory concerned with how we will, not what we will to ensure self determination and the ability to view yourself as a practical agent able to take on a project and create new identitiesJaeggi 14 Rahel Jaeggi (August 2014). “Alienation.” Columbia University Press. Pg. 33-36. Translated by Frederick Neuhouser and Alan E. Smith. Edited by Frederick Neuhouser. Rahel Jaeggi is professor of social and political philosophy at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Her research focuses on ethics, social philosophy, political philosophy, philosophical anthropology, social ontology, and critical theory. SHS KS Thus, the standard is consistency with non-alienated relations. Prefer additionally - all theories require the ability to engage in them through the ability to act on your own purposes - otherways their fw regresses since one wouldn’t treat themselves as an agent and be held culpable for actionsI’ll defend the lack of an obligation to affirm. Negate:1 Objectification - Absent IP, agents aren’t recognized for their exercise of agency and freeriden off of for benefits by people who didn’t contribute - prevents further appropriation by undermining economic freedom and detaching innovators from their goods2 IP is key to self-expression - it’s alienating when it doesn’t reflect framer’s intentJustin Hughes 98, "The Philosophy of Intellectual Property," 77 Georgetown L.J. 287, 330-350 (1988) https://cyber.harvard.edu/IPCoop/88hugh2.html AHSMAK recut emi Accessed 8/10/21 | 10/17/21 |
SeptOct - NC - LibertarianismTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: Luke Gastelu Objective morality is epistemically inaccessible – The solution is the libertarian utopia – a political philosophy to preserve freedom and people’s conceptions of truth, insofar as it doesn’t violate someone else’s freedom to do the same Thus, the standard is consistency with libertarianism. Prefer additionally - all theories presume the freedom to follow them. I’ll defend a lack of an obligation to the aff. Negate: IP protections define agents as autonomous beings who are able to create their own ideas and boost the free exchange of ideas in the free market by NPEs | 9/18/21 |
SeptOct - T - AspecTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Milton Academy AT | Judge: Gastelu - Dumas - Herrera
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SeptOct - T - FrameworkTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 3 | Opponent: Claudia Taylor AP | Judge: Mariana Colicchio Resolved means a policyWords and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition. “Resolved”. 1964. Vote neg for limits: their model has no resolutional bound and creates the possibility for literally an infinite number of 1ACs. Not debating the topic allows someone to specialize in one area of the library for 4 years giving them a huge edge over people who switch research focus ever 2 months. Cutting negs to every possible aff wrecks small schools, which has a disparate impact on under-resourced and minority debaters. Counter-interpretations are arbitrary, unpredictable, and don’t solve the world of neg prep because there’s no grounding in the resolution Terminal defense to their model – Drop the debater - severance kills 1NC strat construction—1AR restart favors aff since it’s 7-6 time skew and they get 2 speeches to my one. Competing interps - a) reasonability’s arbitrary and forces judge intervention especially with 2ar recontextualizations to always sound like the more reasonable debater b) norm setting - we find the best possible norms c) reasonability collapses - you use offense/defense paradigm to evaluate brightlines. This means Even if their aff is answerable, the ones they incentivize are not which means you presume the worst possible affs because people inevitably want to be as abusive as possible for the win and they create a model of self care No rvi’s or impact turns - No 1ar theory or independent voters: you get 2ar ethos to blow up a 20 second shell we overcover and responses to my counter interp will be new causing intervention. | 9/18/21 |
SeptOct - T - Framework v2Tournament: Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | Round: 2 | Opponent: Cardinal Gibbons RS | Judge: Kopf - Jasani Resolved means a policyFind Law Legal Dictionary https://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/resolve.html SR WTO:WTO n/d, https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm SR Vote negative for limits---the resolution is the most predictable stasis point for debates, anything outside of that ruins prep and clash by allowing the affirmative to pick any grounds for debate. That greenlights a race away from the core topic controversies that allow for robust contestation, which favors the aff by making neg ground inapplicable, susceptible to the perm, or concessionary.The impact is iterative content mastery---getting to the third and fourth level of tactical engagement is only possible with refined and well-researched positions connected to the resolutional mechanism. Repeated debates over core issues incentivize innovative argument production and improved advocacy based on feedback and nuanced responses from opponents. Independently, fairness outweighs because the aff presumes its evaluated fairly, controls our ability to test the truth value of the aff which also means they don’t get to weigh case, and the win is what motivates people to listen - if you don’t understand how they create change by the end of this round but you do understand why iterative testing and fair clash is good for debate - vote negative. TVA solves - read your aff under a whole res plan text - still get discussions of cybernetics and SSD solves - read cybernetics on neg or out of round which solves | 9/24/21 |
SeptOct - T - Framework v3Tournament: New York City Invitational Debate and Speech Tournament | Round: 1 | Opponent: Albuquerque LN | Judge: Joseph Georges Resolved means a policyFind Law Legal Dictionary https://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/resolve.html SR WTO:WTO n/d, https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/whatis_e.htm SR Intellectual Property:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/intellectual20property SR
Medicine:https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicine SR
Vote negative for limits-~--the resolution is the most predictable stasis point for debates, anything outside of that ruins prep and clash by allowing the affirmative to pick any grounds for debate. That greenlights a race away from the core topic controversies that allow for robust contestation, which favors the aff by making neg ground inapplicable, susceptible to the perm, or concessionary. The impact is iterative content mastery-~--getting to the third and fourth level of tactical engagement is only possible with refined and well-researched positions connected to the resolutional mechanism. Repeated debates over core issues incentivize innovative argument production and improved advocacy based on feedback and nuanced responses from opponents. Also flips accessibility since small school debaters are expected to prep infinite affs beyond their reasonable burden Independently, fairness outweighs because But, their offense is nuq--we can get their discussions in other ways | 10/15/21 |
SeptOct - T - Intellectual PropertyTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: David Dosch Interpretation: The aff must only defend reducing intellectual property protections for medicines.Three types of IP specific to medicinesWilbur 19 Tom Wilbur is Director of Public Affairs at PhRMA focusing on message development and opinion research. Prior to joining PhRMA in 2019, Tom worked on Capitol Hill and on political campaigns for nearly a decade, most recently responsible for communications, campaigns and strategy for U.S. Rep. Fred Upton and the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Masters in Communications from Mich State U. “IP Explained: Three forms of IP protections for medicines,” PhRMA, August 27, 2019, https://catalyst.phrma.org/ip-explained-three-forms-of-ip-protections-for-medicines TG Trade secrets are not intellectual property protections--legalities and semanticsGutfleisch 18 Georg Gutfleisch (attorney-at-law in the Corporate Transactions/MandA Department. He advises national and international clients in all areas of corporate and company law, private equity transactions as well as national and international restructurings, reorganizations and MandA transactions. He also has extensive expertise in the areas of intellectual property and IT law) "Employment issues under the European Trade Secrets Directive: Promising opportunity or burden for European companies." European Company Law Journal 15 (2018): 175-181 The violation is obvious and the counter interp explodes limits to literally any small thing related to the medicine.Farkas ND Brian Farkas associate attorney at Goetz Fitzpatrick LLP in New York, focusing his practice on commercial litigation, arbitration and intellectual property. Brian earned his B.A. from Vassar College and J.D. from Cardozo School of Law “Trade Secret Basics FAQ” No Date https://www.nolo.com/legal-encyclopedia/trade-secret-basics-faq.html#1743223 SM Standards:
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SeptOct - T - Intellectual Property v2Tournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 6 | Opponent: Archbishop Mitty AB | Judge: Nick Fleming Medicines are physical substancesAmerican Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 18 The American Heritage Dictionary of Medicine 2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company https://www.yourdictionary.com/medicine Elmer Data exclusivity protects clinical trial data, NOT MEDICINE. The plan doesn’t affect the actual production of medical substances, just the structural factors that influence it.Thrasher 5-25 Rachel Thrasher 5-25-2021 "Chart of the Week: How Data Exclusivity Laws Impact Drug Prices" https://www.bu.edu/gdp/2021/05/25/chart-of-the-week-how-data-exclusivity-laws-impact-drug-prices/ sid Data exclusivity isn’t IPWilkinson 21 (Margaret Ann, Professor of Law at Western University, Canada, Director of the Area of Concentration in Intellectual Property, Information and Technology Law) TPM = Technological Property Management RMI = Rights Management Information Wilkinson, Margaret Ann. "Is protection of data through data exclusivity, technological protection measures or rights management information actually intellectual property?". In The Future of Intellectual Property, (Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021)doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781800885349.00015 EE Standards:
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SeptOct - T - MedicineTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Malyugina - Dosch - Park Violation: Vaccines preventVecchio 7/22 (Christopher Vecchio, CFA, Senior Strategist, , 7-22-2021, “Delta Variant Concerns Won't Cripple Markets, US Economy“, DailyFX, accessed: 8-9-2021, https://www.dailyfx.com/forex/video/daily_news_report/2021/07/22/market-minutes-delta-variant-concerns-wont-cripple-markets-us-economy.html) ajs Vaccines are medical interventions not medicinesElbe 10 (Stefan Elbe, director of the Centre for Global Health Policy and a professor of international relations at the University of Sussex. He is the author of Strategic Implications of HIV/AIDS, Security and Global Health, and Virus Alert: Security, Governmentality, and the AIDS Pandemic., 5-3-2010, “Security and Global Health” Polity Press, accessed: 8-9-2021, https://books.google.com/books?id=PKMoMJrSsksC) ajs Prefer our definition - its an international and official definition by WHO which is key in debates about a health - new 1ar definitions are too unpredictable and late breaking since our strat was premised on them not defining it in the 1AC Standards:
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SeptOct - T - Must Not Spec MedicineTournament: Mid America Cup Valley Round Robin | Round: 5 | Opponent: Saratoga AG | Judge: Mukherjee - He Interp: The affirmative must defend medicines as a general principle, not a subsetLeslie 12 Leslie, Sarah-Jane. “Generics.” In Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Language, edited by Gillian Russell and Delia Fara, 355–366. Routledge, 2012. https://www.princeton.edu/~sjleslie/RoutledgeHandbookEntryGenerics.pdf SM Applies to medicines - a upward entailment test - nations should reduce protections for medicines doesn’t entail they should reduce protections for chemicals b adverb test - nations ought to usually reduce protections for medicines doesn’t substantially change the meaning. Err neg - if the topic committee wanted you to spec, they would’ve done it for you. Standards
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SeptOct - T - Must Not Spec Member NationTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Bergen County Academies AK | Judge: Malyugina - Dosch - Park “Member nations” is a definite plural - nations is plural and has the article “the” that precedes it, makin†g it generic.Francis Corblin. (2012). Professor at l'Université Paris-Sorbonne. They research about semantics and the human mind. The Roots of Genericity: Indefinite Singulars vs Definite Plurals. 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199691807.003.0014. SR DPs = definite plurals Standards
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SeptOct - T - Must not Spec State and IPTournament: Nano Nagle Classic | Round: 2 | Opponent: Harker RM | Judge: David Dosch
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SeptOct - T - ReduceTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: Luke Gastelu Prefer - its a legal definition from the Supreme Court which is the only legally applicable and predictable one - new 1ar definitions are unpredictable and late breaking Violation: the aff defends a temporary waiver. Standards: | 9/18/21 |
SeptOct - T - Reduce v2Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Octas | Opponent: Princeton CB | Judge: Morris - Waldman - Herrera Interpretation: The affirmative must only defend a permanent reduction of intellectual property protections for medicinesReynolds 59 – Judge (In the Matter of Doris A. Montesani, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Third Department 9 A.D.2d 51; 189 N.Y.S.2d 695; 1959 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7391 August 13, 1959, lexis) Prefer - its a legal definition from the Supreme Court which is the only legally applicable and predictable one - new 1ar definitions are unpredictable and late breaking Violation: One and done does not permanently decrease IP, because one patent term still exists Standards: | 9/19/21 |
SeptOct - T - Reduce v3Tournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Semis | Opponent: Strake Jesuit JW | Judge: Morris - Lakshman - Scopa Interpretation: The affirmative must only defend a permanent reduction of intellectual property protections for medicinesReynolds 59 – Judge (In the Matter of Doris A. Montesani, Petitioner, v. Arthur Levitt, as Comptroller of the State of New York, et al., Respondents NO NUMBER IN ORIGINAL Supreme Court of New York, Appellate Division, Third Department 9 A.D.2d 51; 189 N.Y.S.2d 695; 1959 N.Y. App. Div. LEXIS 7391 August 13, 1959, lexis) Prefer - its a legal definition from the Supreme Court which is the only legally applicable and predictable one - new 1ar definitions are unpredictable and late breaking Violation: the aff defends a temporary waiver. No leveraging “normal means” since the aff defends the text of the resolution, not a common policy - normal means just the aff process is in the lit, not that its topical Standards: | 9/19/21 |
SeptOct - Th - Spec IPTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: 5 | Opponent: Loveless Academic Magnet Program RR | Judge: Luke Gastelu Its a vague and ambiguous term with no meaningRichard M. Stallman, 2018/12/15, Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.en.html SR Standards: Cx doesn’t check - a prep skew - we were forced to prep a 1NC that hedges around the potential of you not speccing and had to prep multiple case negs b incentivizes infinite abuse and hope you don’t get called out since its no risk if we ask you and you can strategically not meet then get extra time in cx to prep the shell since we asked c non verifiable since judges don’t flow it d no brightline to what constitutes a check | 9/18/21 |
SeptOct - Th - Spec MedicineTournament: Yale University Invitational 2021 | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Milton Academy AT | Judge: Gastelu - Dumas - Herrera Medicines is a vague and broad term - no normal means Standards:
Cx doesn’t check - a prep skew - we were forced to prep a 1NC that hedges around the potential of you not speccing and had to prep multiple case negs b incentivizes infinite abuse and hope you don’t get called out since its no risk if we ask you and you can strategically not meet then get extra time in cx to prep the shell since we asked c non verifiable since judges don’t flow it d no brightline to what constitutes a check | 9/19/21 |
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