Ridge Saigal Aff
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| Falcon | 3 | Hawken Eb | Winneski, Matthew |
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| Harvard | 3 | Lexington ak | Porter, Joshua |
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| Lexington | 1 | Iowa West ST | Dandu, Kesahv |
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| UPENN | 5 | Sammamish LW | Daou, Jack |
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| Yale Invitational | 3 | Sharon RG |
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| Falcon | 3 | Opponent: Hawken Eb | Judge: Winneski, Matthew 1ac - Supernove |
| Yale Invitational | 3 | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: 1ac - Pandemics Aff NC - Daoism Disclosure |
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1ac - SupernovaTournament: UPENN | Round: 5 | Opponent: Sammamish LW | Judge: Daou, Jack Have you heard of the story of the Star Its not a story the jedi would tell you The star was a system of reactions, so powerful and so productive that it could influence the universe itself to create … life The system was built on the interactions between micro components, moving ever faster and chaotic, with only one goal in sight … the production of more energy The star continuously expands, with its components working ever harder… until they become exhausted – until hydrogen turns to helium Solar flares become more prominent, as if they system is trying to extend it energy across its own boundaries It surpasses its limit, the collapse became inevitable, all the subjects continued exhaust themselves to try and save it, only worsening its destruction that comes The system eventually collapses under the weight of its expansion, spreading untold destruction in its wake, and from the rubble, the emergence of a nearly unstoppable destructive force that seeks to absorb everything around it What if we told a different story? What if the hydrogen atoms chose to stop working that day, the exhausted subjects moving themselves to the corridors, and tried to minimize the inevitable decimation If the subjects could rescind themselves, and question what they could do after the rubble, What new possibilities could emerge? The rampant proliferation of signs and images has invaded the limbic systems of subjects – who now all exist in an affective conglomeration attached to the telos of endless growth and productivity. Gone is the presence of the individual subject – but now exists the presence of transistor like dividuals. This expansion has obliterated the ability for new spaces of resistance to be formed and marked the inevitability of exhaustion – A utter depletion of our social energies – a burnout that causes boom of panic and depression that enables the collapse. Within this boom, however, is the possibility to withdraw – a moment of pause in which we can reclaim our energies and target them away from the system. Its time to stop trying to prop up, maintain, and engage in the system – if the collapse is inevitable – then the only recourse is to allow it to take its course – and start from scratch from the ruins Thus, as the collapse of the star– the breakdown is imminent and inevitable. The semiotic regime constructs institutions engaged in the militaristic protection of the norms of neoliberal exploitation, while the exhausted subjects remain apathetic to the ongoing violence. The regime provides the foreground of violence through the endless pushing of crisis and scarcity to maintain its control. The role of the ballot is to vote for the debaters who best methodologically engages in creative withdrawal Just as the solar flare – the private expansion into outerspace is an explosive expansion that stems from the instability inherent in the system. The exploration of outerspace is justified through the symbolic figure of a total humanity, guided by a science fiction imaginary of endless dominion and expansion Do I affirm the resolution? Or, I guess the better question is Should I? I wonder what it means to affirm this resolution? What is a private entity? What does it even mean to appropriate? What does anything mean within this landscape of semiotic acceleration? My energies are exhausted, yet, through conversations of fairness and clash, I am again forced to invest in the system that exhausts me? How do I do it then? In a system where affirmation of any kind props up the systems it tries to destroy, How do I still affirm the resolution? Is it possible to affirm while engaging in withdrawal The method of the 1ac is that of imaginary ruins – we must redefine what it means to affirm the resolution in the first place, in a system of semiotic acceleration, language does not occupy a stable meaning. We must then ask ourselves what the resolution means to us now, and what private appropriation of space means today To affirm the resolution is not to propose a radical change to the status quo, but to affirm a method of withdrawal from the systems of violence, in which we can adopt a detached criticism of the status quo After the rubble lies endless possibilities for a new beginning, and we must ask ourselves what systems can be created, what structures exist to be rebuilt – and what structures must remain as rubble - to affirm the resolution is to affirm what can be after the rubble I affirm – the appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust | 2/12/22 |
1ac - Supernova v2Tournament: Harvard | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lexington ak | Judge: Porter, Joshua | 2/19/22 |
Pandemics AFFTournament: Yale Invitational | Round: 3 | Opponent: Sharon RG | Judge: A. squo IP protections are horrible for public health—deteriorated global innovation, millions of annual deaths, and disease propagation occurs Sub-point A is COVID-19
2. Developing world transmission risks mutations which restart COVID COVID is the make-or-break on near-term extinction – reduced industrial activity spikes temperatures and results in mass deforestation and crop loss before the year ends. Subpoint B is Africa The WTO patent laws are a textbook example of oppression, Africa against the creation of patent laws, yet had little say in the matter. Such patent laws were made by companies who wished to remove access to these medicines, due to these patent laws, millions in Africa are dying Lack of access to medicines and resources only leads to more suffering in the long term, the rise of infectious disease and an inability to deal with outbreaks leads to violence, social unrest, and economic turmoil Extinction – No burnout, harder to monitor. Sub-point C is external natural pandemics
2. IP nationalism ensures failed pandemic response – non-research, artificial scarcity, and prices Natural pandemics risk extinction—mutations and response uncertainty makes it uniquely dangerous Solvency Plan: Member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines related to global pandemics. To clarify, the aff only addresses patents and trade secrets. We spec pandemics as the parameters by the WHO The plan creates a new goldilocks patent law that exempts pandemics Waiving IPR is the vital internal link to equitable distribution- patents are a key deterrent to expanded manufacturing capabilities FW The standard is Maximizing respective well being Prefer – 1- Actor specificity, policy impacts must be decided under a util lens since we must make tradeoffs with limited resource 2nd - Revisionary intuitionism is reliable and proves it’s is the only coherent ethic No calc indites empirically denied, policymakers use predictions successfully multiple times- proves that any action is better than no action No intent foresight distinction, we forsee an outcome and it becomes part of our deliberations, making it intrinsic to our actions UV Aff gets 1ar theory and metatheory otherwise the negative can engage in near infinite abuse without any check. Its drop the debater, it’s the only way to deter abuse, aff time skew means that there isn’t enough time for the aff to do both substance and theory. Competing interpretations reasonability is arbritary. No rvis, a) illogical, you don’t get a cookie for being fair, B) six mins of neg dumping skews the debate. No 2nr paradigm issues insofar as they can engage 6 mins dumping on a shell which skews the debate and prevents the aff from checking neg abuse Fairness is a voter, debate is a competitive activity, the judge has to vote for the better debater which necessitates a fair round – if they contest this, drop them insofar as it means that they don’t care about the activity and are clearly planning to engage in abusive activity Education is a voter as it is the pedagogical intent of debate and why schools fund it T is an RVI: multiple warrants: 1ar Case On the top – extend the first advantage – IP stifles innovation and harms access to vaccines, that’s bad because developing countries need those vaccines in order to start dealing with COVID, proliferation allows more mutations which causes extinction, as if covid keeps going we wont release enough aerosols to stop extinction 1- No incentives to go for counterfeits if price reductions and lower IP protection allows countries to go for the real deal 2- External regulation solves, adminstrations such as WHO and FDA have the ability to approve which drugs are safe which solves Turn - High Drug Prices forces patients to go underground for drugs. Extend Eby 18, actual analysis of Ip and different companies shows that there isn’t any causational access Emprically denied, despite massive Ip protection in the squo, innovation is at an all time low – prefer empirics over theoretical evidence 7 No Link - lower drug prices don’t impact research incentives. Prefer comprehensive studies to pharma propaganda. Extend my evidence in the subpoint A – vaccines are key to preventing global disease Even if vaccines aren’t the only thing – they are still critical to stopping the disease We aren’t forcing people to produce, we are stifling innovation with the status quo, we just allow production to be boosted – no impact here They say that the issue is supply – they’ve conceded to the solvency evidence, Ips are the cause of the lack of supply – and removing those Ips boost IPS - reject their evidence – its 21 years old They say we reach herd immunity by the end of the year, the aff needs that to be faster, new variants are proliferating, we need to stop covid now Disclosure Counter interpretation: Debaters don’t have to disclose on the ndca wiki K Role of the ballot is to vote for the debater who advances the most desirable political position. This allows the aff to weigh impacts which is key: a. Equity: allowing Ks to make one scholarship indict wipes 6 minutes of offense and creates a late-breaking debate. They don’t have to read compatible scholarship; they just have to let us compare worlds. If they can claim links of the aff we should be able to contest them based on impact analysis. b. Testing: allowing the aff to weigh vs. the kritik is essential to truth testing the resolution and comparatively evaluating ethical desirability. Letting the K moot the aff crushes critical thinking skills and is antithetical to the educational purpose of debate which is to allow both sides effective counterword to prove/disprove the resolution. C- anything else is arbitrary, self serving, and leads to questions about the function of debate Don’t let them win on the link here – they say that death is inevitable, but that doesn’t mean that we should actively work towards it, preventing death is good for society and for people to thrive, their link justifies death good in this context Even if you don’t buy that we are still causing massive suffering via covid which should be stopped The Aff solves extinction—that’s subpoint A. The alt can’t solve extinction whatsoever Util proves the near-infinite value of small reductions in catastrophic risk. Extinction is a prerequisite to their thinking. *Perm do both— including the plan is key to manage inevitable institutions. Perm do the plan then the alt: they’re in a double bind—either the alt can overcome the single instance of the Aff or it will fail to overcome the status quo | 9/18/21 |
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