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| Dowling Catholic | 1 | Opponent: Meti Negowo | Judge: Carly Rieger 1ac - lay 1nc - cap k case 1ar - all 2n- k 2ar - case k |
| Dowling Catholic | 3 | Opponent: MIchael Meng | Judge: Azza Elhaj 1ac - asian 1nc - cp k da 1ar - all 2n - da case 2a- all |
| Dowling Catholic | 5 | Opponent: Alyssa Makena | Judge: Sutton Dylan 1ac - jubilee 1nc - tfw case 1ar - new off all 2n - tfw case 2ar - case t |
| Jack Howe | 4 | Opponent: Andrew Kang | Judge: Elmer Yang 1ac - trips 1nc - cap case 1ar - all 2nr - cap case 2ar - case cap |
| Jack Howe | 2 | Opponent: Shreyas Venkatsubramanian | Judge: Jared Burke 1AC - Pandemics 1NC - Cap 1ar - all 2NR - cap 2AR - cap case |
| Jack Howe | 6 | Opponent: Akhilesh Pissay | Judge: Lukas Krause 1ac - whole res 1nc - cap case 1ar - new off all 2n - k 2ar - multiactor fiat bad |
| Jack Howe | Octas | Opponent: Sarah Li | Judge: Panel 1ac - pandemics 1nc- dipcap da india da reconciliation da case 1ar - all 2nr - reconciliation case 2ar - case da |
| Loyola | 5 | Opponent: Dhruv Raghaven | Judge: Ben Cortez 1AC - evergreening 1NC - Cap Case 1AR - Cap good case 2NR - Cap 2AR - Cap good case |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: Nathan Gong | Judge: Derek Hillgoss 1AC - Evergreening 1NC - Theory Cap k 1AR - everything cap good 2NR - Cap k 2AR - cap good |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones 1AC - TRIPS 1NC - Dipcap DA India DA T - reduce case 1AR - Condo bad everything 2NR - Condo Good India DA Case 2AR - Case India DA |
| Nano Nagle | 1 | Opponent: Helena Hudlin | Judge: Joseph Barquin 1AC - vaccine apartheid 1NC - extra tdipcap da tech transfer case 1AR - all 2NR - dipcap case 2AR - all |
| Nano Nagle | 3 | Opponent: Solesbury LN | Judge: David Salazar 1ac - evergreening 1nc - cap case 1ar - all 2nr - cap case 2ar - all |
| Nano Nagle | 5 | Opponent: Kendra Schmidt | Judge: Chris Perez 1ac - covid 1nc - t - subsets cap case 1ar - all 2nr - cap case 2ar - case cap |
| Princeton | 1 | Opponent: Theodore Peebles | Judge: Seung Joh Cho 1ac - prag 1nc - util bizcon food insecurity case 1ar - all 2n - food insecurity case 2ar- case |
| Princeton | 5 | Opponent: Davita Wrone | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1ac - kant 1nc - util cap case 1ar - all 2n - cap case 2a - case cap |
| Princeton | Doubles | Opponent: Ram Pantula | Judge: Panel 1ac - hegel 1nc - t- a util cap case 1n - condo bad t case 2n - k case 2ar - t |
| Princeton | Octas | Opponent: Jeremiah Cohn | Judge: Panel 1ac - agnotism 1nc - util cap case 1ar- cap case 2n -cap 2a- cap |
| Princeton | 4 | Opponent: Lily Guizatoulina | Judge: Ethan Massa 1ac - russia 1nc - cil cp bizcon da foodinsecurity pic 1ar - pics bad condo all 2ar - case |
| Strake | 2 | Opponent: Kyren Khairah | Judge: Alfonso Arreola 1ac - debris 1nc - b3 da space resource fund cp 1ar - all 2n - b3 da case 2a-all |
| Strake | 2 | Opponent: Kyren Khairah | Judge: Alfonso Arreola 1ac - debris 1nc - b3 da space resource fund cp 1ar - all 2n - b3 da case 2a-all |
| Strake | 4 | Opponent: Justin Li | Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger 1ac - astroenvironmentalism 1nc - util mining da 1ar - all 2n - da case 2ar - all |
| Strake | 5 | Opponent: Nathaniel John | Judge: Nelson Okunlola 1ac - ptd 1nc - util b3 da 1ar - afc all 2n - afc da case 2ar - afc |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: Contact Info | Round: 1 | Opponent: me | Judge: me Discord - lydia#7494 Email - lydiawang327@gmail.com Phone number - 4252409655 | 8/29/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: navigation | Round: 1 | Opponent: me | Judge: me | 9/6/21 |
1 - Theory - Solvency AdvocateTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Nathan Gong | Judge: Derek Hillgoss Interpretation: The plan text must represent the solvency advocateViolation: feldman card is specific to FDA drug regulations, which doesn’t apply to other member nations of WTOVote neg:1—limits—the aff can just spec any actor without any relationship to the lit and kills ground since no one’s writing it shown by the fact that their solvency advocate is about an international waiver on IP rights and has no relation whatsoever to the way they’re going to advocate their plan2—predictability—it’s unpredictable to engage the AFF if they’re not rooted in the topic literature – that makes pre-tournament prep uselessDTD to deter future abuseCI bc reasonability is arbitrary and invite interventionNo RVIs – 1 – illogical to win for being fair, 2 – theory baiting – best theory debaters will read abusive affs to bait theory, 3 – chills substance bc any theory means the round becomes an RVI debateNeg theory 1st bc the aff abuse was first so anything we did that was bad was simply to get back in the game. | 9/6/21 |
2 - K - Cap v AsianTournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 3 | Opponent: MIchael Meng | Judge: Azza Elhaj 2 – kDebate is a massive network of scholars, activists, policymakers, all of whom can and should orient their energy toward the production of a better world – the presumption that we should not challenge structures on the level of scope and scale with the resources that debate offers us is an explicit concession to fascism. Additionally, fragmented politics generate disempowerment as survival-based praxis becomes self-employing labor that becomes weaponized under neoliberalism against those who cannot survive or be anarchic well enough.Hester 17 AND be exempted in advance from the enactment of re/visionary processes.11 Capitalism causes war, violence, environmental destruction and extinction.Robinson 18 (William I., Prof. of Sociology, Global and International Studies, and Latin American Studies, @ UC-Santa Barbara, "Accumulation Crisis and Global Police State" Critical Sociology) RE AND the peoples in these spaces must be repressed by the global police state. Thus the alternative is to affirm the model of the Communist Party – only democratic centralist dual power organizing can provide effective accountability mechanisms to correct unproductive tendencies, educate and mobilize marginalized communities, and connect local struggles to a movement for international liberation.Escalante 18 AND debates will be crucial to ensuring that this rapidly growing movement can succeed. No perm – links are disads and their Ty evidence is misrepresented – Asians coming together is different than combine two distinct methods | 12/11/21 |
3 - CP - ChinglishTournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 3 | Opponent: MIchael Meng | Judge: Azza Elhaj | 12/11/21 |
3 - Util framingTournament: Princeton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Theodore Peebles | Judge: Seung Joh Cho 1 – FramingThe meta-ethic is phenomenalism – induction firstSayre-McCord 1 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Mill's "Proof" Of The Principle of Utility: A More Than Half-Hearted Defense", Social Philosophy and Policy, 2001, accessed: 1 April 2020, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/mills-proof-of-the-principle-of-utility-a-more-than-halfhearted-defense/FDBE07CBE08D4E17523930BF8C7BBC32, R.S. AND the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require." The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.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. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. Prefer:1~ Bindingness— I could put my hand on a hot stove and I’d automatically pull it back before a signal is sent to my brain— Anything else fails to be morally binding because one could always ask "why not?"2~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don’t have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations3~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive. That outweighs:A~ Parsimony – metaphysics relies on long chains of questionable claims that make conclusions less likely.B~ Hijacks – intuitions are inevitable since even every framework must take some unjustified assumption as a starting point.4~ Use epistemic modesty for clash – disincentives debaters going all in for framework meaning we get the ideal balance between normative and applied philosophy5~ Reject calc indicts and util triggers permissibility arguments:A~ Theory—they’re functionally NIBs that everyone knows are silly but skew the aff and move the debate away from the topic and actual philosophical debate, killing valuable educationB~ Morally abhorrent – it would say we have no obligation to prevent genocide and that slavery was permissible which is morally abhorrent and makes debate unsafe6~ Lexical pre-requisite: threats to bodily security preclude the ability for moral actors to effectively act upon other moral theories since they are in a constant state of crisis that inhibits the ideal moral conditions which other theories presuppose7~ TJFs:A~ Predictable literature — util ensures that we have a wide breadth of literature about the topic to read because contention level arguments are centered around current events and substantive. Outweighs because of accessibility – it might be difficult for debaters to access paywalled philosophical journals and to make sense of them, but general topic literature like news and op eds are easily accessible.B~ Topic ed — util ensures topical research and debate because we have to analyze the consequences of the plan versus the neg advocacy. Outweighs on reversibility – we can learn about prag anywhere outside the round but topical debate happens these two months.8~ Extinction first under any frameworkA~ Future lives — trillions of future lives are lost. They are just as valuable as current ones – anything else says some lives are worth less than others which is genocidal rhetoricB~ Reversibility — extinction forecloses future improvement; prefer — if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true, we should preserve it to figure things out. | 12/3/21 |
3 - Util framing v2Tournament: Princeton | Round: 5 | Opponent: Davita Wrone | Judge: Claudia Ribera 1—FramingThe meta-ethic is phenomenalism – induction firstSayre-McCord 1 Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, "Mill's "Proof" Of The Principle of Utility: A More Than Half-Hearted Defense", Social Philosophy and Policy, 2001, accessed: 1 April 2020, https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/social-philosophy-and-policy/article/mills-proof-of-the-principle-of-utility-a-more-than-halfhearted-defense/FDBE07CBE08D4E17523930BF8C7BBC32, R.S. AND the case admits of, but all which it is possible to require." The standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.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. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. Prefer:1~ Bindingness— I could put my hand on a hot stove and I’d automatically pull it back before a signal is sent to my brain— Anything else fails to be morally binding because one could always ask "why not?"2~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don’t have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations3~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive. That outweighs:TJFs:A~ Predictable literature — util ensures that we have a wide breadth of literature about the topic to read because contention level arguments are centered around current events and substantive. Outweighs because of accessibility – it might be difficult for debaters to access paywalled philosophical journals and to make sense of them, but general topic literature like news and op eds are easily accessible.B~ Topic ed — util ensures topical research and debate because we have to analyze the consequences of the plan versus the neg advocacy. Outweighs on reversibility – we can learn about Kant anywhere outside the round but topical debate happens these two months.8~ Extinction first under any frameworkA~ Future lives — trillions of future lives are lost. They are just as valuable as current ones – anything else says some lives are worth less than others which is genocidal rhetoricB~ Reversibility — extinction forecloses future improvement; prefer — if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true, we should preserve it to figure things out. | 12/4/21 |
3 - Util framing v3Tournament: Princeton | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Ram Pantula | Judge: Panel 2 – FramingThe standard is maximizing expected wellbeing. Pleasure and pain are intrinsic value and disvalue – everything else regresses – robust neuroscience.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. AND these circuits contribute to diverse pathologies, including obesity and addiction or RDS. Prefer:1~ Bindingness— I could put my hand on a hot stove and I’d automatically pull it back before a signal is sent to my brain— Anything else fails to be morally binding because one could always ask "why not?"2~ Actor spec—governments must use util because they don’t have intentions and are constantly dealing with tradeoffs—outweighs since different agents have different obligations3~ Only consequentialism explains degrees of wrongness—if I break a promise to meet up for lunch, that is not as bad as breaking a promise to take a dying person to the hospital. Only the consequences of breaking the promise explain why the second one is much worse than the first which is the most intuitive. That outweighs:8~ Extinction first under any frameworkA~ Future lives — trillions of future lives are lost. They are just as valuable as current ones – anything else says some lives are worth less than others which is genocidal rhetoricB~ Reversibility — extinction forecloses future improvement; prefer — if we’re unsure about which interpretation of the world is true, we should preserve it to figure things out. | 12/5/21 |
JF - CP - Space Resource FundingTournament: Strake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kyren Khairah | Judge: Alfonso Arreola CPAdvantage CP States should establish an international body that would license resources from outer space for private appropriation with a 20 royalty on all profits that is put into a Space Resource Fund that is used to fund space traffic management including at least active debris removal.The CP competes and solves debris AND African economy.Saletta 16 ~Morgan Saletta, PhD, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne, and Kevin Orrman-Rossiter, Graduate Student, History and Philosophy of Science, The University of Melbourne. April 17, 2016. "All of humanity should share in the space mining boom," https://theconversation.com/all-of-humanity-should-share-in-the-space-mining-boom-57740~~ brett AND are responsible global citizens. And they’d get a citizen’s dividend cheque too. Solves debris.Webb et al. 18 ~Lucas; November 2018; Masters of Astronautical Engineering student at USC; Brittany Wojciechowski,; Wichita State University PhD student in aerospace engineering; Aubrey Koonce, Molly Williams*, Wichita State University; European Space Policy Institute; "The Need for Strict Regulation of Asteroid Mining," https://espi.or.at/publications/voices-from-the-space-community/category/3-voices-from-the-space-community~~ brett AND be required to better ensure that asteroids will not become monopolized or depleted. | 12/18/21 |
JF - DA - B3Tournament: Strake | Round: 2 | Opponent: Kyren Khairah | Judge: Alfonso Arreola DAB3 DA Biden passes Build Back Better using his PC to secure a narrow majority.—-time running out, Christmas deadline to pass it through the Senate AND the tiebreaking vote — they need the support of all 50 Democratic senators. The plan trades off — ratification requires PC and floor time.—-even if popular, even some opposition ensures immense floor time due to Senate procedures. AND , by objecting to a unanimous consent request (Heitshusen 2013:4)). Opposition is guaranteed. NewSpace companies will lobby for their survival against the plan.GC 17 ~GC Magazine; Autumn 2017; Business thinking, In-house management, Published by legal500; "The new space race," https://www.legal500.com/gc-magazine/feature/the-new-space-race/~~ brett AND feasible, then lock in standards that are ultimately irrelevant and unworkable.’ Prevents existential climate disaster.Moncrief ’11-11 ~Aliki; 2021; executive director of Florida Conservation Voters; Orlando Sentinel, "Build Back Better Act would help in climate crisis," https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-climate-change-congress-act-now-20211111-44u6bgyn5fdvnp3eqievkebqpe-story.html~~ AND Floridians, and begins to address the climate crisis at the same time. | 12/18/21 |
JF - DA - B3 v2Tournament: Strake | Round: 5 | Opponent: Nathaniel John | Judge: Nelson Okunlola 2 – B3 DABiden passes Build Back Better using his PC to secure a narrow majority.—-time running out, Christmas deadline to pass it through the Senate AND the tiebreaking vote — they need the support of all 50 Democratic senators. The plan trades off — ratification requires PC and floor time.—-even if popular, even some opposition ensures immense floor time due to Senate procedures. AND , by objecting to a unanimous consent request (Heitshusen 2013:4)). Opposition is guaranteed. NewSpace companies will lobby for their survival against the PTD and smear it as an unworkable doctrine.GC 17 ~GC Magazine; Autumn 2017; Business thinking, In-house management, Published by legal500; "The new space race," https://www.legal500.com/gc-magazine/feature/the-new-space-race/~~ brett AND feasible, then lock in standards that are ultimately irrelevant and unworkable.’ Prevents existential climate disaster.Moncrief ’11-11 ~Aliki; 2021; executive director of Florida Conservation Voters; Orlando Sentinel, "Build Back Better Act would help in climate crisis," https://www.orlandosentinel.com/opinion/guest-commentary/os-op-climate-change-congress-act-now-20211111-44u6bgyn5fdvnp3eqievkebqpe-story.html~~ AND Floridians, and begins to address the climate crisis at the same time. Warming is a much higher risk of war.Dr. Michael T. Klare 20, Five Colleges Professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, Ph.D. from the Graduate School of the Union Institute, BA and MA from Columbia University, Member of the Board of Director at the Arms Control Association, Defense Correspondent for The Nation, "How Rising Temperatures Increase the Likelihood of Nuclear War", The Nation, 1/13/2020, https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/nuclear-defense-climate-change/ AND as might erupt in Europe, South Asia, or the western Pacific. | 12/18/21 |
JF - DA - Space MiningTournament: Strake | Round: 4 | Opponent: Justin Li | Judge: Eric Schwerdtfeger Mining is now – multiple companies are competing in mineral exploitation to obtain rare earth metals.Gilbert 4-26 ~Alex Gilbert is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines. Milken Institute, "Mining in Space Is Coming"; https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming~~ kelvin AND to power bases on the moon, Mars or in orbit one day. Private companies are key to space mining – investors, profitability, and market demand.Krishnan 20 ~C A Krishnan, 8-6-2020, "Space mining: Just around the corner?," Week, https://www.theweek.in/news/sci-tech/2020/08/06/Space-mining-Just-around-the-corner.html ~accessed 12-6-21~ lydia AND likely to retain monopoly and huge economic advantages for a very long time. Commercial mining solves extinction from scarcity, climate, terror, war, and disease.Pelton 17—(Director Emeritus of the Space and Advanced Communications Research Institute at George Washington University, PHD in IR from Georgetown). Pelton, Joseph N. 2017. The New Gold Rush: The Riches of Space Beckon! Springer. Accessed 8/30/19. AND global space agreements, are part of this new pathway to the future. | 12/18/21 |
ND - CP - CILTournament: Princeton | Round: 4 | Opponent: Lily Guizatoulina | Judge: Ethan Massa CP – CILThe Russian federation should hold that ~conditions on the right to strike~ violates customary international law.The CP solves and sets precedent for binding incorporation of customary lawKundmueller ‘2 ~Michelle; May 1; Attorney specializing in constitutional law, candidate for a J.D. and M.A. in Political Theory from the University of Notre Dame, B.A. from Flagler College; Journal of Legislation, "Note: The Application of Customary International Law in US Courts: Custom, Convention, or Pseudolegislation?" vol. 28~ AND virtually limitless possibilities for achieving greater protection of the rights of individuals." 41 Applying customary law to economic paradigms caps a laundry list of global crises—-extinctionNagan ’14 ~Winston; April 20; Professor of Law at the University of Florida, LL.M. from Duke University, J.D. from Yale University, M.A. from Oxford University; Cadmus, "The Crisis of the Existing Global Paradigm of Governance and Political Economy," vol. 2~ AND law, as an indispensable element for a new paradigm of global governance. | 12/6/21 |
ND - DA - BizConTournament: Princeton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Theodore Peebles | Judge: Seung Joh Cho 2 – Biz conBusiness confidence is strong, driving economic recovery.Halloran ’9-14 ~Michael; 2021; M.B.A. from Carnegie Mellon University, former aerospace research engineer, Equity Strategist; Janney, "Despite Potential Headwinds, Key Labor Market Indicators Bode Well for the Economy," https://www.janney.com/latest-articles-commentary/all-insights/insights/2021/09/14/despite-potential-headwinds-key-labor-market-indicators-bode-well-for-the-economy~~ AND supports profit growth and last week’s news from the labor market remains encouraging. The AFF devastates the economy.Mlungisi Tenza 20, LLB LLM LLD Senior Lecturer, University of KwaZulu-Natal. Based on a paper presented at the Nelson Mandela University Labour Law Conference on "Labour Dispute Resolution, Substantive Labour Law and Social Justice Developments in South Africa, Mauritius and Beyond" from 19–21 July 2019 in Mauritius. "THE EFFECTS OF VIOLENT STRIKES ON THE ECONOMY OF A DEVELOPING COUNTRY: A CASE OF SOUTH AFRICA" http://www.scielo.org.za/pdf/obiter/v41n3/04.pdf brett AND reluctant to invest where there is an unstable or fragile labour relations environment. Just short-term disruptions stop economic recovery.Shannon Pettypiece 10-24, senior White House reporter for NBCNews.com. October 24, 2021. "Biden on the sidelines of 'Striketober,' with economy in the balance" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/biden-sidelines-striketober-economy-balance-n1282094 brett AND nurses and other health care workers elsewhere who have been striking for months. Decline cascades—-nuclear warDr. Mathew Maavak 21, PhD in Risk Foresight from the Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, External Researcher (PLATBIDAFO) at the Kazimieras Simonavicius University, Expert and Regular Commentator on Risk-Related Geostrategic Issues at the Russian International Affairs Council, "Horizon 2030: Will Emerging Risks Unravel Our Global Systems?", Salus Journal – The Australian Journal for Law Enforcement, Security and Intelligence Professionals, Volume 9, Number 1, p. 2-8 AND in the Middle East. Soleimani was simply a cog who got replaced. | 12/3/21 |
ND - DA - HongKongTournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 3 | Opponent: MIchael Meng | Judge: Azza Elhaj 3 – DAHong Kong is at the verge of a political revolutionTsui and Chan 3-2 ~Anna Tsui and Chris Chan, 3-2-2021, "Hong Kong’s New Union Movement Faces Big Challenges from Covid, National Security Law," Labor Notes, https://labornotes.org/2021/03/hong-kongs-new-union-movement-faces-big-challenges-covid-national-security-law ~accessed 11-6-21~ Lydia AND force the Chief Executive to resign—constituted an act of "subversion." But China is cracking down on labor strikes in hongkong – that decks organizing — the right to strike is key but the aff ignores thisWang 9-22 ~Maya Wang, China Senior Researcher. 9-22-2021, "China Is Dismantling Hong Kong’s Unions," Human Rights Watch, https://www.hrw.org/news/2021/09/22/china-dismantling-hong-kongs-unions ~accessed 11-4-21~ Lydia AND are still able to promote labor rights in Hong Kong and mainland China. Reunification emboldens Beijing – causes invasion of TaiwanHeydarian 20 AND will be even stronger," the Chinese academic told the New York Times. Cross-strait war goes nuclearLittlefield and Lowther 15 — Alex Littlefield, Assistant Professor in the Department of International Trade at Feng Chia University (Taiwan), holds a Ph.D. In International Politics from National Chung Hsing University (Taiwan), and Adam Lowther, Research Professor at the Air Force Research Institute at Maxwell Air Force Base, Director of the School of Advanced Nuclear Deterrence Studies at the Air Force Global Strike Command, former Assistant Professor of Political Science at Arkansas Tech University and Columbus State University, holds a Ph.D. In International Relations from the University of Alabama, 2015 ("Taiwan and the Prospects for War Between China and America," The Diplomat, August 11th, Available Online at http://thediplomat.com/2015/08/taiwan-and-the-prospects-for-war-between-china-and-america/, Accessed 06-25-2016) AND guard, overwhelmed, and forced to either escalate a crisis or capitulate. | 12/11/21 |
ND - K - CapTournament: Princeton | Round: 5 | Opponent: Davita Wrone | Judge: Claudia Ribera 2 – kCapitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. The affirmation of the right to strike as something to be recognized places the energy that drives class struggle into containment, rendering the right conditional.Marc Crépon and Micol Bez 19; Marc Crépon is a French philosopher and academic who writes on the subject of languages and communities in the French and German philosophies and contemporary political and moral philosophy. Micol Bez @ CPES (Cycle Pluridisciplinaire d’Études Supérieures) at the University of Paris Sciences and Letters. The Right to Strike and Legal War in Walter Benjamin's "Toward the Critique of Violence". Critical Times 1 August 2019; 2 (2): 252–260. https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-times/article/2/2/252/141479/The-Right-to-Strike-and-Legal-War-in-Walter brett AND from this dichotomous alternative that inevitably reproduces and perpetuates the violence of domination. Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman ‘17 AND upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4). Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. | 12/4/21 |
ND - PIC - Food InsecurityTournament: Princeton | Round: 1 | Opponent: Theodore Peebles | Judge: Seung Joh Cho 3 – Food insecurityThe United States ought to:Recognize a right of workers to strike, except for workers who are essential to a country’s food supplyProvide those workers with a right to impartial conciliation followed by arbitration procedures====Workers right to strike can be conditional in the context of food supply—-exceptions are limited to avoid abuses, AND enable alternatives that channel worker demands==== AND both parties and are to be implemented in full and rapid terms.75 ====Strikes are inevitable and cause food insecurity—-empirics==== AND of unprocessed foods sold by a food supply centre in a Brazilian metropolis. Food insecurity goes nuclearHartley et al 12 (Major General John Hartley AO (Retd), CEO and Institute, Director Future Directions International, Roundtable Chairman. Alyson Clarke, FDI Executive Officer Gary Kleyn, Manager, FDI Global Food and Water Crises Research Programme, "International Conflict Triggers and Potential Conflict Points Resulting from Food and Water Insecurity" 25 May 2012 http://futuredirections.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Workshop'Report'-'Intl'Conflict'Triggers'-'May'25.pdf) brett AND identify famine as a potential trigger for conflicts and possibly even nuclear war. | 12/3/21 |
ND - T - FWTournament: Dowling Catholic | Round: 5 | Opponent: Alyssa Makena | Judge: Sutton Dylan TInterpretation: The affirmative must defend topical action by governmental bodies."Resolved" denotes a formal resolution.AWS ’13 ~Army Writing Style; August 24th; Online resource dedicated to all major writing requirements in the Army; Army Writing Style, "Punctuation — The Colon and Semicolon," https://armywritingstyle.com/punctuation-the-colon-and-semicolon/~~ AND resolved:". Resolved: (colon) That this council petition the mayor. A just "government" must be a sovereign law-making body.Merriam-Webster No Date, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/government brett AND a group in a parliamentary system constituted by the cabinet or by the ministry "Guarantee~ing~" the "right to strike" requires the law to be upheld or changed.NLRB No Date, https://www.nlrb.gov/strikes brett AND example, restrictions on strikes in health care institutions (set forth below). Violation: "they don’t defend government actionThat’s necessary for limits and ground — redefining portions of the resolution permits endless reclarification AND creates incentives to focus 1 part of the library for 4 years — only aligning pre-round research with agent and mechanism solves.The impact is fairness — an unlimited, unpredictable topic disparately raises the research burden for the negative — treat this is a sufficient win condition because fairness is the logical structure that undergirds all impacts AND controls any benefit to debate. All responses and turns presume fairness is good in asking to be evaluated fairly which concedes competitive incentives exist behind all arguments.Iverson ’9 ~Joel; 2009; Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Montana, Ph.D in Communication from Arizona State University Relations at the University of Sydney; Debate Central, "Can Cutting Cards Carve into Our Personal Lives: An Analysis of Debate Research on Personal Advocacy," https://debate.uvm.edu/dybvigiverson1000.html~~ brett AND of various policy proposals helps debaters to strengthen their own stance on issues. SSD is good and solves – it forces debaters to consider a controversial issue from multiple perspectives. Non-T affs allow individuals to establish their own metrics for what they want to debate leading to ideological dogmatism –the process of defending and answering proposals is a benefit of engaging the topic and they could just read the K on the negCompeting interps on T – A~ topicality is a yes/no question, you can’t be reasonably topical B~ norm setting – reasonability is arbitrary, invites judge intervention, and causes a race to the bottomDrop the debater a~ dropping the arg is severance which moots 7 minutes of 1nc offense b~ illogical on fwThey can’t weigh the case—lack of preround prep means their truth claims are untested which you should presume false—they’re also only winning case because we couldn’t engage with itDon’t reject T – | 12/11/21 |
ND - T - aTournament: Princeton | Round: Doubles | Opponent: Ram Pantula | Judge: Panel 1 – TInterpretation: The affirmative must not specify a government"A" is an indefinite article that modifies "just government" in the res – means that you have to prove the resolution true in a vacuum, not a particular instanceCCC ("Articles, Determiners, and Quantifiers", http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/determiners/determiners.htm~~#articles, Capital Community College Foundation, a nonprofit 501 c-3 organization that supports scholarships, faculty development, and curriculum innovation) LHSLA JC/SJ AND the former (see beagle sentence) refers to all members of that class Violation: they spec the USStandards:1~ Precision – the counter-interp justifies them arbitrarily doing away with random words in the resolution which decks negative ground and preparation because the aff is no longer bounded by the resolution.2~ Limits – there are infinite governments that could be just – explodes limits since there are tons of independent affs plus functionally infinite combinations, all with different advantages in different political situations. Kills neg prep and debatability since there are no DAs that apply to every aff – i.e. laws about the right to strike in the US are different than in New Zealand – means the aff is always more prepared and wins just for speccing.3~ TVA – just read your aff as an advantage under a whole adv, solves your offense – and gives nc offenseFairness – debate is a competitive activity that requires fairness for objective evaluation. Outweighs – it constrains your ability to evaluate the rest of the flow because they require fair evaluation.Drop the debater – to deter future abuse and set better norms for debate.Competing interps – reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention but we creates a race to the top where we create the best norms for debate.RVI on 1AR theory – 7/6 time skew o/w1nc theory first a~ prior b~ reciprocal 2 speeches c~ self inflicted | 12/5/21 |
SO - DA - Dip CapTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones The United States should publicly renounce its support for any COVID TRIPS waivers.Current US diplomatic efforts solve climate change BUT diplomatic capital is keyYu 20 Alan Yu, a senior fellow and the director of International Climate Policy at the Center for American Progress. Previously, he was a career foreign service officer at the State Department., 12-8-2020, "How U.S. Diplomacy and Diplomats Can Help Get International Climate Action Back on Track," Center for American Progress, https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/green/reports/2020/12/08/493528/u-s-diplomacy-diplomats-can-help-get-international-climate-action-back-track/, accessed 7/27/2021 EH AND These recommendations should go a long way in enabling them to do so. Biden is currently avoiding disagreements with other WTO members over TRIPS. The plan flips that to create consensus, expending critical dip-capDay 7-19, Meagan Day is a staff writer at Jacobin. Jacobin, 7-19-21. "Biden Just Turned Down a Golden Opportunity to End Vaccine Apartheid" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2021/07/biden-administration-covid-19-vaccine-apartheid-global-south-distribution-merkel brett AND still an open question how serious he is about making it a reality. Dip-cap is finite—-the plan distracts US focusAnderson and Grewell 01 Terry L. Anderson is executive director of Political Economy Research Center / J. Bishop Grewell is a research associate with PERC, The Greening of Foreign Policy, Chicago Journal of International Law Fall, 2001 2 Chi. J. Int'l L. 427 (Lexis-Nexis) AND States focus its diplomatic efforts on issues of paramount importance to the nation. Warming encompasses AND outweighs every existential threatTorres 16 (Phil, affiliate scholar @ Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies PhD candidate @ Rice University in tropical conservation biology, Op-ed: Climate Change Is the Most Urgent Existential Risk, http://ieet.org/index.php/IEET/more/Torres20160807) AND the near-term. Let’s make sure we get our priorities straight. | 10/6/21 |
SO - DA - ReconciliationTournament: Jack Howe | Round: Octas | Opponent: Sarah Li | Judge: Panel Reconciliation passes infrastructure now, PC is key.Jennifer Scholtes et al. 9-2-21, Jennifer Scholtes is editor of the Budget and Appropriations Brief. Heather Caygle is a Congress reporter for POLITICO. Caitlin Emma covers the federal budget and congressional spending bills on Capitol Hill for POLITICO Pro. Prior to that, she spent five years as an education policy reporter for Pro. POLITICO "Democrats race to resolve House-Senate disputes on $3.5T megabill" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/09/02/democrats-house-senate-dispute-35t-bill-508654 brett AND earlier this year as well as last month's multitrillion-dollar budget measure. The plan trades offM.K. Bhadrakumar 5-8, Retired Ambassador; Columnist for Hindu and Deccan Herald Indian newspapers, Rediff.com, Asia Times and Strategic Culture Foundation, Moscow. NewsClick, 5-8-21. "Biden’s Decision on TRIPS Waiver is Political Theatre" https://www.newsclick.in/biden-decision-TRIPS-waiver-political-theatre brett AND industry to burnish his image as a good Samaritan on the world stage. The infrastructure bill underfunded climate measures — reconciliation is key to solve extinction from warming.Zack Colman 8-6, holds a master's degree from the University of Illinois and a bachelor's degree from Michigan State University. Politico, 8-6-21. "The world’s top climate scientists have a new warning for Washington" https://www.politico.com/news/2021/08/06/climate-warning-502726 brett AND can" to stop Senate Democrats’ $3.5 trillion spending plan. | 9/20/21 |
SO - DA - Tech TransferTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones India is building it’s relations with the West on the bedrock of new economic ties¬¬¬¬¬—-that’s key to counterbalancing China in the regionMohan 21 C. Raja Mohan ~director of the National University of Singapore’s Institute of South Asian Studies.~,3-19-2021, "India Romances the West," Foreign Policy, https://foreignpolicy.com/2021/03/19/india-modi-west-quad-china-biden-non-aligned/ , accessed 8/8/2021 EH and Brett AND rooted in the simple calculus of national interest rather than any involved reasoning. The TRIPS waiver sets the stage for India to use forced tech transfer to secure vaccines—-that decks relationsYogesh Pai and Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu 21, Dr. Yogesh Pai has a PhD from the Inter-University Centre for IPR Studies, CUSAT, Kochi, in the area of Regulation of Standard-Essential Patents in India. Prashant Reddy Thikkavarapu Assistant Professor, National Academy of Legal Studies and Research (NALSAR) University of Law,. Hyderabad. Scrolli.in, Jun 01, 2021. "Even if WTO waives IP on vaccines, India will face challenge translating this into mass production" https://scroll.in/article/996079/even-if-wto-waives-ip-on-vaccines-india-will-face-challenge-translating-this-into-mass-production brett AND to new firms willing to produce vaccines will lead to actual vaccine production. US-India economic ties are key to strategic co-operationGupta 20, Anubhav Gupta is the associate director of the Asia Society Policy Institute in New York. WPR, March 5, 2020. "Despite the Trump-Modi ‘Love,’ Trade Is Still the Weak Link in U.S.-India Relations" https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/28579/despite-the-trump-modi-love-trade-is-still-the-weak-link-in-us-india-relations brett AND partnership that is "stronger than ever before" ring a little hollow. Indian ocean goes nuclear—-India’s role is key to prevent it.Gamage 17 (Rajni Gamage is a senior analyst with the Maritime Security Programme at the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore., 11/5/17, "Why the Indian Ocean Must Not Become Like the South China Sea", https://nationalinterest.org/feature/why-the-indian-ocean-must-not-become-the-south-china-sea-23028?page=02C2) AND code of conduct (COC) for the Indian Ocean was first proposed. | 10/6/21 |
SO - K - CapTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Nathan Gong | Judge: Derek Hillgoss The aff’s positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.AT: Capitalism is when monopoly AND the law as the primary, necessarily mutable, instrument of such maintenance. The aff is co-opted by an agenda of "health diplomacy" that only further expands capitalist imperialismAndrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett AND ‘America First’, just by somewhat more calculated means than his predecessor. Capitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the fundamental task is developing tools for organization and tactics to bring about revolution.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. | 9/6/21 |
SO - K - Cap v2Tournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dhruv Raghaven | Judge: Ben Cortez The aff’s positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.AT: Capitalism is when monopoly AND the law as the primary, necessarily mutable, instrument of such maintenance. The aff is co-opted by an agenda of "health diplomacy" that only further expands capitalist imperialismAndrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett AND ‘America First’, just by somewhat more calculated means than his predecessor. Capitalism causes war, violence, environmental destruction and extinction -Robinson 14 (William I., Prof. of Sociology, Global and International Studies, and Latin American Studies, @ UC-Santa Barbara, "Global Capitalism: Crisis of Humanity and the Specter of 21st Century Fascism" The World Financial Review) AND indeed, generates a fascination with domination that is portrayed even as heroic. the judge has an intellectual obligation to evaluate the social relations that underpin the plan prior to evaluating the outcome of the policy.Pala Basil Mera 14, Victoria University of Wellington philosophy PhD, Accounting For Apocalypse Re-Thinking Social Accounting Theory And Practice For Our Time Of Social Crises And Ecological Collapse, https://researcharchive.vuw.ac.nz/xmlui/bitstream/handle/10063/3686/thesis.pdf?sequence=2 AND existing social systems might be playing in producing and exacerbating them. Vote neg to join the party – dual power organizing is the only path to revolutionary change.Escalante ‘18 AND to the soviets" will be heard again. Lets make it happen. | 9/5/21 |
SO - K - Cap v3Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 2 | Opponent: Shreyas Venkatsubramanian | Judge: Jared Burke 1NC — KCapitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. The aff’s positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.AT: Capitalism is when monopoly AND the law as the primary, necessarily mutable, instrument of such maintenance. The aff is co-opted by an agenda of "health diplomacy" that only further expands capitalist imperialismAndrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett AND ‘America First’, just by somewhat more calculated means than his predecessor. The TRIPS waiver saves the WTO — the crown jewel of modern capitalism.Meyer 21, David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO’s survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, EH and brett AND what are still daunting structural problems." Those problems are legion. Capitalist trade is central to global warming.Bello 08 Walden, senior analyst at the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South and professor at the University of the Philippines, July 28, "Derail Doha, Save the Climate", http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/07/29/derail-doha-save-climate/ brett AND likely negative ecological consequences of a successful deal, it’s a necessary condition. Capitalist peace is wrong — interdependence multiplies the risk of war.Lucas Hahn 16. Bryant University. April, 2016. Global Economic Expansion and the Prevalence of Militarized Interstate Disputes. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/honors'economics/24/ brett *MIDs = Militarized Interstate Disputes AND often becomes disproportionate between two nations and as a result trade promotes conflict. Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman ’17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP’s International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) AND upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4). Vote negative for proletarian internationalism — only an organized global revolutionary struggle can overcome the destruction of capitalism.Anastasi et al, 18 (editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine, a militant research collective working to dialectically bring theory and practice into dialogue by studying cycles of struggle. Alphabetically, members of the editorial collective are as follows: Andrew Anastasi, graduate student in Sociology at CUNY; Cinzia Arruzza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research; Robert Cavooris, UC Santa Cruz graduate student and union representative, History of Consciousness Department; Maya Andrea Gonzalez, communist and revolutionary feminist in the Bay Area, graduate student in the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz; Asad Haider, Assistant Professor of Philosophy @ The New School, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, PhD in History of Consciousness Department @ UC Santa Cruz; Shuja Haider, widely-published writer and musician based in Brooklyn; Bue Rübner Hansen, writer and activist researcher in the Britain, Barcelona, and in migrant and refugee solidarity movements, PhD from Queen Mary University; Patrick King, graduate student at UC Santa Cruz; Rosa Lee, communist organizer and member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Ben Mabie, managing editor at Viewpoint and editorial assistant at Verso Books, UCSC graduate; Sarah Mason, member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Liz Mason-Deese, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University; Dave Mesing, PhD student in Philosophy @ Villanova University; Magally Miranda-Alcazar, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, PhD student in Chicana/o Studies @ UCLA; B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (magna cum laude) with a double major in Community Studies and Feminist Studies, and has been published in The Nation, Verso and the New Left Review; Salar Mohandesi, Assistant Professor of History @ Bowdoin; Gavin Mueller, Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, former contributing editor @ Jacobin; Evan Calder Williams, writer, translater, and artist, teaches theory at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and film production at Cooper Union, PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his research on cinema, industry, and revolt. "Internationalism against Imperialism," Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 6, February 1, 2018, https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/internationalism-against-imperialism/) AND -term work of thinking and struggling against imperialism in the 21st century. | 9/19/21 |
SO - K - Cap v4Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Andrew Kang | Judge: Elmer Yang 1NC — KCapitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. The aff’s positioning of competition as intrinsic good acts to maintain the stability of capital accumulation.AT: Capitalism is when monopoly AND the law as the primary, necessarily mutable, instrument of such maintenance. The aff is co-opted by an agenda of "health diplomacy" that only further expands capitalist imperialismAndrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett AND ‘America First’, just by somewhat more calculated means than his predecessor. The TRIPS waiver saves the WTO — the crown jewel of modern capitalism.Meyer 21, David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO’s survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, EH and brett AND what are still daunting structural problems." Those problems are legion. Capitalist trade is central to global warming.Bello 08 Walden, senior analyst at the Bangkok-based research and advocacy institute Focus on the Global South and professor at the University of the Philippines, July 28, "Derail Doha, Save the Climate", http://www.commondreams.org/views/2008/07/29/derail-doha-save-climate/ brett AND likely negative ecological consequences of a successful deal, it’s a necessary condition. Capitalist peace is wrong — interdependence multiplies the risk of war.Lucas Hahn 16. Bryant University. April, 2016. Global Economic Expansion and the Prevalence of Militarized Interstate Disputes. https://digitalcommons.bryant.edu/honors'economics/24/ brett *MIDs = Militarized Interstate Disputes AND often becomes disproportionate between two nations and as a result trade promotes conflict. Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman ’17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP’s International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) AND upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4). Vote negative for proletarian internationalism — only an organized global revolutionary struggle can overcome the destruction of capitalism.Anastasi et al, 18 (editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine, a militant research collective working to dialectically bring theory and practice into dialogue by studying cycles of struggle. Alphabetically, members of the editorial collective are as follows: Andrew Anastasi, graduate student in Sociology at CUNY; Cinzia Arruzza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research; Robert Cavooris, UC Santa Cruz graduate student and union representative, History of Consciousness Department; Maya Andrea Gonzalez, communist and revolutionary feminist in the Bay Area, graduate student in the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz; Asad Haider, Assistant Professor of Philosophy @ The New School, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, PhD in History of Consciousness Department @ UC Santa Cruz; Shuja Haider, widely-published writer and musician based in Brooklyn; Bue Rübner Hansen, writer and activist researcher in the Britain, Barcelona, and in migrant and refugee solidarity movements, PhD from Queen Mary University; Patrick King, graduate student at UC Santa Cruz; Rosa Lee, communist organizer and member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Ben Mabie, managing editor at Viewpoint and editorial assistant at Verso Books, UCSC graduate; Sarah Mason, member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Liz Mason-Deese, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University; Dave Mesing, PhD student in Philosophy @ Villanova University; Magally Miranda-Alcazar, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, PhD student in Chicana/o Studies @ UCLA; B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (magna cum laude) with a double major in Community Studies and Feminist Studies, and has been published in The Nation, Verso and the New Left Review; Salar Mohandesi, Assistant Professor of History @ Bowdoin; Gavin Mueller, Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, former contributing editor @ Jacobin; Evan Calder Williams, writer, translater, and artist, teaches theory at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and film production at Cooper Union, PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his research on cinema, industry, and revolt. "Internationalism against Imperialism," Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 6, February 1, 2018, https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/internationalism-against-imperialism/) AND -term work of thinking and struggling against imperialism in the 21st century. | 9/19/21 |
SO - K - Cap v5Tournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 5 | Opponent: Kendra Schmidt | Judge: Chris Perez KCapitalism causes massive violence and inevitable extinction – the role of the ballot is to endorse the best organizational tactics.Escalante 19 ~Alyson Escalante, M.A., Department of Philosophy @ University of Oregon, "Truth and Practice: The Marxist Theory of Knowledge," 09/08/19, tinyurl.com/8jksnexs~ pat AND scientific status of Marxism, and must insist on the possibility of victory. The aff is co-opted by an agenda of "health diplomacy" that only further expands capitalist imperialismAndrea Patanè 21. Marxist, Published: 15 May 2021. "COVID-19 pandemic: patents and profits" https://www.marxist.com/covid-19-pandemic-patents-and-profits.htm brett AND ‘America First’, just by somewhat more calculated means than his predecessor. The TRIPS waiver saves the WTO — the crown jewel of modern capitalism.Meyer 21, David Meyer, 6-18-2021, "The WTO’s survival hinges on the COVID-19 vaccine patent debate, waiver advocates warn – Fortune," Fortune, https://fortune.com/2021/06/18/wto-covid-vaccines-patents-waiver-south-africa-trips/amp/, EH and brett AND to address what are still daunting structural problems." Those problems are legion. Capitalism is unsustainable and causes extinction — multiple intertwined crises make collapse inevitable which means its try-or-die — we got charts.von Weizsäcker and Wijkman ’17 Ernest Ulrich von Weizsäcker, Professor and Director of the United Nation Centre for Science and Technology for Development, Founder and President of the Wuppertal Institute, Member of the German Bundestag, chairing the Committees on Globalization and the Environment, Dean of the graduate School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California, appointed Co-Chair of UNEP’s International Resource Panel, Anders Wijkman, chairman of the Swedish Association of Recycling Industries, member of the Board of the Swedish Development Authority (SIDA), appointed chair of the Swedish Cross-Party Committee on Environmental Objectives, member of the European Parliament, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations and Policy Director of UNDP, Secretary General of the Swedish Red Cross and Director General of the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, Member of the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences, the World Future Council and the International Resource Panel, 2017 ("Come On! Capitalism, Short-termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet – A Report to the Club", November 11th, Available Online via Subscription to Springer, Accessed 03-20-2018) AND upon as high-risk assets (see Sect. 3.4). Vote negative for proletarian internationalism — only an organized global revolutionary struggle can overcome the destruction of capitalism.Anastasi et al, 18 (editorial collective of Viewpoint Magazine, a militant research collective working to dialectically bring theory and practice into dialogue by studying cycles of struggle. Alphabetically, members of the editorial collective are as follows: Andrew Anastasi, graduate student in Sociology at CUNY; Cinzia Arruzza, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the New School for Social Research; Robert Cavooris, UC Santa Cruz graduate student and union representative, History of Consciousness Department; Maya Andrea Gonzalez, communist and revolutionary feminist in the Bay Area, graduate student in the Department of History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz; Asad Haider, Assistant Professor of Philosophy @ The New School, founding editor of Viewpoint Magazine, PhD in History of Consciousness Department @ UC Santa Cruz; Shuja Haider, widely-published writer and musician based in Brooklyn; Bue Rübner Hansen, writer and activist researcher in the Britain, Barcelona, and in migrant and refugee solidarity movements, PhD from Queen Mary University; Patrick King, graduate student at UC Santa Cruz; Rosa Lee, communist organizer and member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Ben Mabie, managing editor at Viewpoint and editorial assistant at Verso Books, UCSC graduate; Sarah Mason, member of the Viewpoint editorial collective; Liz Mason-Deese, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University; Dave Mesing, PhD student in Philosophy @ Villanova University; Magally Miranda-Alcazar, Eugene Cota-Robles Fellow and a Ford Foundation Predoctoral Fellow, PhD student in Chicana/o Studies @ UCLA; B.A. from the University of California, Santa Cruz (magna cum laude) with a double major in Community Studies and Feminist Studies, and has been published in The Nation, Verso and the New Left Review; Salar Mohandesi, Assistant Professor of History @ Bowdoin; Gavin Mueller, Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Amsterdam, former contributing editor @ Jacobin; Evan Calder Williams, writer, translater, and artist, teaches theory at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College and film production at Cooper Union, PhD in Literature from the University of California Santa Cruz and was a Fulbright Fellow in Italy for his research on cinema, industry, and revolt. "Internationalism against Imperialism," Viewpoint Magazine, Issue 6, February 1, 2018, https://www.viewpointmag.com/2018/02/01/internationalism-against-imperialism/) AND -term work of thinking and struggling against imperialism in the 21st century. | 10/9/21 |
SO - T - Extra T vs TRIPsTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 1 | Opponent: Helena Hudlin | Judge: Joseph Barquin 1 – Extra T====Interp: The 1AC must may only defend reduction of IPP on medicines. To clarify—-extra T is a voter.==== Violation—-the TRIPS waiver proposal from India and South Africa differs substantially from a proposal that just targets medicine like vaccines.Their solvency advocate proves – ~we read green~Public Citizen 6/22 - Public Citizen et. al, "Please Speedily Secure Implementation of a COVID-19 Emergency Waiver of WTO TRIPS Rules for Vaccines, Tests and Treatments," Open Letter to President Joe Biden. June 22, 2021. https://www.citizenstrade.org/ctc/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/COVIDTRIPSWaiver'SignOnLtr2'062221.pdf~~#new'tab AT AND term impact on people’s health and the world’s health system would be unprecedented. Vote neg—-~1~ Ground—-extra topicality lets them defend an advocacy and any extra planks to avoid solvency takeouts and beat counterplans. Defending stuff like PPE differs substantially from just defending medicine. Ground outweighs—-it’s the key internal link to debating the aff and determining if it’s true~2~ Fairness — an unlimited topic makes neg engagement impossible because there’d be tons of new AFFs to prep out every tournament.~3~ Research — the neg loses any incentive to do targeted research when the prep burden is so high so debaters would resort to stale generics and lose topic specific education.TVA – defend the US waiver which only includes vaccinesDrop the debater to deter future abuse.Competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention.No RVIs: a~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for being fair, b~ baiting – the best theory debaters would read abusive advocacies to go for the RVINeg theory 1st – 1AC abuse shaped NC construction so if anything we did was bad it was just to get back in the game. | 10/8/21 |
SO - T - ReduceTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Nathan Wei | Judge: Dylan Jones Interpretation: The affirmative must defend a permanent reduction in intellectual property protections for medicines.Allowing the possibility of a future increase violates the core meaning of the term "reduce".US Federal Court of Appeals 1999 "CUNA MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Defendant-Appellee," Lexis AND be interpreted, as CUNA would treat it, to mean "increase." Reductions are different from suspensions. Suspensions are temporary, reductions are not.Montesani v Levitt 59 ~MATTER OF MONTESANI v. Levitt, 9 A.D.2d 51, 189 N.Y.S.2d 695 (App. Div. 1959), 8-13-1959, Accessible Online at https://scholar.google.com/scholar'case?case=1402552157078234696andq=Montesani+v.+Levittandhl=enandas'sdt=2006~~ brett AND and Social Security Law, § 101 ~§ 84 under the 1947 act~.) Violation: ~1AC solvency advocate~Vote neg:1~ Precision—-all neg prep is centered on words in the resolution, the precise definition of our word from a legal source means it’d be the most predictable in the lit.2~ Aff conditionality—-they can de-link core neg ground like innovation by saying they’ll protect IP again after the pandemic, as well as enabling cheaty perms that kill plan vs CP clash. | 10/6/21 |
SO - T - Subsets - MedicinesTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 5 | Opponent: Kendra Schmidt | Judge: Chris Perez TInterpretation: The affirmative must defend that the member nations of the WTO ought to reduce intellectual property protections for all medicine.Violation: The affirmative only defends covid vaccinesVote neg for limits — there are over 20,000 different medicines, which means their interp justifies reducing any IP protection for any medicine, creating thousands of potential AFFs to prep out. This kills negative ground because different medicines can have different usage and situations that affect the debate and we lose all disads to general action. Two impacts:1 — Fairness — an unlimited topic makes neg engagement impossible because there’d be tons of new AFFs to prep out every tournament.2 — Research — the neg loses any incentive to do targeted research when the prep burden is so high so debaters would resort to stale generics and lose topic specific education.Paradigms:Drop the debater to deter future abuse.Competing interps because reasonability is arbitrary and invites judge intervention.No RVIs: a~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for being fair, b~ baiting – the best theory debaters would read abusive advocacies to go for the RVI,Neg theory 1st – 1AC abuse shaped NC construction so if anything we did was bad it was just to get back in the game. | 10/9/21 |
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