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| Greenhill | 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Varad Agarwala ac - covid |
| Greenhill | 4 | Opponent: Westlake AG | Judge: Samantha McLoughlin ac - biopiracy |
| Greenhill | 6 | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Truman Le ac - evergreening |
| Loyola | 1 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Joey Georges ac - virtue ethics |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: ModernBrain AK | Judge: Michael Kurian AC - Non T Set Col |
| Loyola | 6 | Opponent: Honor VD | Judge: Zac Clough AC - racial cap |
| Nano Nagle | 2 | Opponent: Sammamish LW | Judge: Nick Fleming ac - covid |
| Nano Nagle | 4 | Opponent: Proof DR | Judge: Felicity Park ac - evergreening |
| Nano Nagle | 6 | Opponent: Sequoia AS | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary ac - jordan |
| Nano Nagle | Doubles | Opponent: Mission San Jose SS | Judge: Vishan Chaudhary, Felicity Park, Emmiee Malyugina ac - covid |
| Valley | 2 | Opponent: Edina JS | Judge: Chetan Hertzig ac - rawls util adv |
| Valley | 3 | Opponent: Basis SK | Judge: Phoenix Pittman ac - prag |
| Valley | 6 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Benjamin Morbeck ac - evergreening |
| Valley RR | 1 | Opponent: Lexington AK | Judge: Nethmin Liyanage, Phoenix Pittman ac - kant |
| Valley RR | 2 | Opponent: Sage MP | Judge: Tajaih Robinson, Jared Burke ac - biopiracy |
| Valley RR | 4 | Opponent: American Heritage EM | Judge: Kyle Kopf, Jalyn Wu ac - virtue |
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0 - Contact InfoTournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: Probably You | Judge: Probably Not You Facebook: Arnav Garg (i dont check message reqs so friend req me first pls) | 8/14/21 |
0 - DebateDrillsTournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: Probably You | Judge: Probably Not You | 8/14/21 |
0 - NavigationTournament: All | Round: Finals | Opponent: Probably You | Judge: Probably Not You | 8/14/21 |
2 - K - ColorblindnessTournament: Valley | Round: 3 | Opponent: Basis SK | Judge: Phoenix Pittman Academic philosophy serves to perpetuate antiblackness. The 1AC’s abstraction from the manifestations of racialized violence absolves white philosophers of their contributions to America’s apathy towards black death. Their race-neutral rhetoric and universal humanistic principles prevents effective mobilization against white supremacy. Vote negative to reject the Western metaphysical tradition and the perennial failure of white philosophy. Curry and Curry 18~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244~ JJ AND and build strategies against the present problems of racism in philosophy before us. Even if they win that their colorblindness is theoretically ideal, it is practically impossible because racialized bodies are marked by their skin color – the psychological construction of Black as inferior makes their impacts inevitable – philosophy’s segregation of black scholarship is not neutral and not normal. Their Glaude evidence is a move to try and fix a larger structure, which isn’t possible.Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 AND or friends who live within their social environment. Academic philosophy operates similarly. The 1AC’s spikes and technical obfuscation are the hoops that black scholarship has to jump through to even get on the playing field —- white psychosis responds to critique with an abstraction to the level of fair play —- this fair play is embedded with a safe fantasy zone in which whiteness has the collective power to set rules and normsWilderson 08 Frank B Wilderson III, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Drama at the UC, Irvine, Former Member of militarized wing of the ANC. "Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid" Originally published by South End Press, 2008. IB AND as to tell us the very terms of our precious debates are specious." Racism deems Black life disposable and demands racialized violence – we’re not an ad-hom that criticizes the positionality or personal views of their authors – their philosophy is actively used as an expression of white supremacy and to rationalize the deaths of Black men and women.Tommy J. Curry and Curry 18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 AND that Black philosophers and graduate students share with whites become more worthwhile topics. This turns the aff – America is organized around the subjugation and death of non-white people – discriminatory applications of their policy are inevitable absent a recognition of racialization in the law – their colorblindness is mutually exclusive with the necessary upheaval of the racial dynamics that necessitate inequality.Tommy J. and Gwenetta Curry and Curry 18 ~Tommy, PhD, Prof. of Philosophy @ TAMU, Gwenetta, PhD, Ass. Prof. of Gender and Race Studies @ Alabama~, "On the Perils of Race Neutrality and Anti-Blackness: Philosophy as an Irreconcilable Obstacle to (Black) Thought," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Vol. 77, Nos. 3-4 (May-September 2018). DOI: 10.1111/ajes.12244 AND rely on institutional racism to produce social structures that reward and elevate whites. The role of debate and the alternative is to surrender to blackness.Brady and Murillo 14 ~Nicholas and John, "Black Imperative: A Forum on Solidarity in the Age of Coalition," January 26, 2014, http://outofnowhereblog.wordpress.com/2014/01/26/black-imperative-a-forum-on-solidarity-in-the-age-of-coalition/, John Murillo III is a PhD student in the English department at Brown University, and a graduate of the University of California, Irvine, with bachelor’s degrees in Cognitive Science and English. His research interests are broad, and include extensive engagements with and within: Black Studies–particularly Afro-Pessimism–Narrative Theory; Theoretical Physics; Astrophysics; Cosmology; and Neuroscience. Nicholas Brady is an activist-scholar from Baltimore, Maryland. He was also a recent graduate of Johns Hopkins with a bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and currently a doctoral student at the University of California-Irvine Culture and Theory program.~ AND imperative. Instead of fetishizing the object, you must surrender to blackness. | 9/25/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Patent PoolTournament: Nano Nagle | Round: 2 | Opponent: Sammamish LW | Judge: Nick Fleming CP Text – the member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to implement a patent pool for COVID-19 vaccinesThat solves access and boosts WTO legitimacy-Burrone et al 19 Esteban Burrone ~Member of Medicine Patent Pool~, corresponding authors Dzintars Gotham, Andy Gray, Kees de Joncheere, Nicola Magrini, Yehoda M Martei, Charles Gore, and Marie Paule Kienya, Jun 11 2019, "Patent pooling to increase access to essential medicines", NCBI, Bull World Health Organ 97(8) pp. 575-577, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6653814/ DD AG AND including a new fixed-dose combination, with the WHO prequalification programme. | 10/9/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - PrizeTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Joey Georges Counterplan text: member nations of the WTO should establish a government-financed Pharmaceutical Innovation Fund, which will financially reward companies for therapeutic drugs, cost-reducing innovations, and reward those who prove patents to be invalid.That incentivizes better therapeutic drugs and boosts innovationHollis 04 AND of the total points allocated under (1) and (2). 21 Drug prices will drop significantlyHollis 04 AND , and gains in terms of saved lives would likely be very large. Perm fails – complete replacement of the patent system is fiscally impossible and drives down Innovation – only the CP’s compromise worksStevens and Ezell 20 AND focus their efforts elsewhere on countries that retained robust standards of IP protection. | 9/4/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - ADMATournament: Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Benjamin Morbeck CP Text – the United States of America shouldpass the Affordable Drug Manufacturing ActDonate all extra drugs to low-income countriesDedicate more money to innovationCreate a Pharma Innovation Fund to reward companies for therapeutic drugs, cost reducing innovations dan reward those who prove patents to be invalidADMA solves high pricesScott 18 Dylan Scott ~grew up in Ohio, lived in Las Vegas for a year and moved to Washington in 2011. I cover health care and other domestic policy.~, 12-20-2018, "Elizabeth Warren’s ambitious new bill to lower generic drug prices, explained," Vox, https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/12/20/18146993/elizabeth-warren-2020-election-drug-prices-bill DD AG AND federal government to contract with private companies to do the actual drug producing. Drug prices will drop significantly bc of prizesHollis 04 AND , and gains in terms of saved lives would likely be very large. | 9/26/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Abolish WTOTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Honor VD | Judge: Zac Clough Text:1. The World Trade Organization ought to be abolished.2. The following 164 countries listed in the speech doc ought to independently and without influence from international government ~opponent’s plan~Afghanistan AND its leading institutions, the World Trade Organization. We should abolish it. The WTO as an institution is unethical and perpetuates colonialismGodrej 20 AND world – were living on less than $5.50 a day. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - AntitrustTournament: Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Benjamin Morbeck Text: The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to enforce antitrust laws against pharmaceutical companies blocking generic competition, ban pharmaceutical lobbying of doctors, and eliminate the suit immunity provided to doctors who use patented products.Solves without hurting innovationHolman 18 (Christopher M., Professor of Law @ University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law) Inside Views: Why Follow-On Pharmaceutical Innovations Should Be Eligible For Patent Protection, 9/21/18, https://www.ip-watch.org/2018/09/21/follow-pharmaceutical-innovations-eligible-patent-protection/ EE AND rather than through what amounts to an attack on the patent system itself. | 9/26/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - DonationsTournament: Valley | Round: 2 | Opponent: Edina JS | Judge: Chetan Hertzig Counterplan text: Member nations of the WTO shoulduse RandD subsidies to encourage pharmaceutical companies to grant confidential discounts to low-income countriesDonate all COVID vaccine doses to low- and middle-income countriesThat makes new drugs affordable and spurs innovationDanzon 07 AND pay in advance and bear the full risk of RandD failure. | 9/25/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - Markush ClaimsTournament: Valley | Round: 6 | Opponent: Ayala AM | Judge: Benjamin Morbeck CP Text - The member nations of the World Trade Organization ought to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines by implementing a one-and-done approach for patent and exclusivity protection except for Markush claims.The PIC avoids the link to the innovation disadHolman 17 (Christopher M.,) In Defense of Secondary Pharmaceutical Patents: A Response to the UN's Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Patent Examination Professor of Law @ University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law 5/12/17 http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/inlawrev/article/view/21522 EE AND totally disregard the valid policy basis behind the allowance of Markush claims. 42 The counterplan competesHolman 17 (Christopher M.,) In Defense of Secondary Pharmaceutical Patents: A Response to the UN's Guidelines for Pharmaceutical Patent Examination Professor of Law @ University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law 5/12/17 http://journals.iupui.edu/index.php/inlawrev/article/view/21522 EE AND 19 Brazil and South Africa are reportedly considering legislation along similar lines. 20 Secondary patents are key to pharmaceutical innovation – they read the impacts for usHolman 18 (Christopher M., Professor of Law @ University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law) Inside Views: Why Follow-On Pharmaceutical Innovations Should Be Eligible For Patent Protection, 9/21/18, https://www.ip-watch.org/2018/09/21/follow-pharmaceutical-innovations-eligible-patent-protection/ EE bracketed for ableism AND poses a grave risk of greatly diminishing the pipeline of future medicinal breakthroughs. Stopping Evergreening kills patent innovationChristensen 20 ~Connor Christensen, "The Evergreen Forests of Insulin Patents", Awakenwfu, The Creative Journal of Contemporary Bioethics, 9-14-2020, https://awakenwfu.com/2020/09/14/the-evergreen-forests-of-insulin-patents/, accessed: 9-7-2021.~ CHSTM and Lex VM AND depriving people of life. | 9/26/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - PIFTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Honor VD | Judge: Zac Clough Counterplan text: ~Countries~ should establish a government-financed Pharmaceutical Innovation Fund, which will financially reward companies for therapeutic drugs, cost-reducing innovations, and reward those who prove patents to be invalid.That incentivizes better therapeutic drugs and boosts innovationHollis 04 AND of the total points allocated under (1) and (2). 21 Drug prices will drop significantlyHollis 04 AND , and gains in terms of saved lives would likely be very large. Perm fails – complete replacement of the patent system is fiscally impossible and drives down innovationStevens and Ezell 20 AND focus their efforts elsewhere on countries that retained robust standards of IP protection. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - WTOTournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Varad Agarwala CPThe TRIPs Council should vote to reduce intellectual property protections for ~PLAN~, amending TRIPs to mandate the ~PLAN~The United States should:—Publicly rescind support for the WTO waiver— Veto this motion and refuse to complyThe remaining member nations should initiate proceedings against the United States through the World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body which ought to find against the United States. The United States ought to comply with this ruling.Counterplan competes —-1~ The plan has the "member nations" act individually, while the counterplan is the WTO through the Council and eventually the DSB.Collins Dictionary n.d. "member nations" RJP, DebateDrills https://www.collinsdictionary.com/us/dictionary/english/member-nations AND nation is an individual country considered together with its social and political structures. 2~ ImmediacyOught and should are used interchangeably.Anastasia Koltai 18. CEO of MyEnglishTeacher, "Difference Between Ought to and Should," MyEnglishTeacher, September 25, 2018, https://www.myenglishteacher.eu/blog/difference-between-ought-to-and-should/, RJP, DebateDrills. "Should" is immediateSummers 94 (Justice – Oklahoma Supreme Court, "Kelsey v. Dollarsaver Food Warehouse of Durant", 1994 OK 123, 11-8, http://www.oscn.net/applications/oscn/DeliverDocument.asp?CiteID=20287~~#marker3fn13) AND . 336, 337, 27 L.Ed. 201 (1882). The plan would require US companies to disclose information and waive IP protections—-the counterplan has the US resist to avoid political backlash, but that violates WTO disclosure requirements.Jorge Contreras 21. Presidential Scholar and Professor of Law at the University of Utah with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Human Genetics, JD @ Harvard, "US Support for a WTO Waiver of COVID-19 Intellectual Property – What Does it Mean?" Bill of Health Harvard Law, May 7, 2021, https://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2021/05/07/wto-waiver-intellectual-property-covid/**, RJP, DebateDrills AND of trade secrets, where it would be met with significant internal opposition. DSB is underutilized currently but using it for major dispute settlement shores it up—-that’s key to combat Chinese IP violations.James Bacchus 18. Member of the Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies, the Distinguished University Professor of Global Affairs and director of the Center for Global Economic and Environmental Opportunity at the University of Central Florida. He was a founding judge and was twice the chairman—the chief judge—of the highest court of world trade, the Appellate Body of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland. "How the World Trade Organization Can Curb China’s Intellectual Property Transgressions," CATO, March 22, 2018, https://www.cato.org/blog/how-world-trade-organization-can-curb-chinas-intellectual-property-transgressions, RJP, DebateDrills. AND and reduce a significant obstacle to mutually beneficial US-China relations. Stopping tech stealing is key to avoid warTimothy R. Heath 18. RAND Senior Defense and International Analyst, "Avoiding "Avoiding U.S.-China Competition Is Futile: Why the Best Option Is to Manage Strategic Rivalry"; Asia Policy; Vol 13 No 2; April 2018, RJP, DebateDrills AND is for the people of Asia to uphold the security of Asia."38 | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - CP - mRNATournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Varad Agarwala CP Text: The member nations of the WTO should grant a TRIPS waiver for all COVID vaccines except those that use mRNA technology and declare support for a direct support model for future pandemicsThe WHO guarantees the plan mostly increases mRNA vaccine productionWHO 4/21—WHO, 4-21-2021, "Establishment of a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine technology transfer hub to scale up global manufacturing," https://www.who.int/news-room/articles-detail/establishment-of-a-covid-19-mrna-vaccine-technology-transfer-hub-to-scale-up-global-manufacturing. (AG DebateDrills) AND such clinical data will contribute to accelerated approval of the vaccines in LMICs. First logistics, mRNA requirements make them far harder to distribute in countries with inadequate infrastructureMahase 20— Mahase, Elisabeth. "Covid-19: What do we know about the late stage vaccine candidates?." British Medical Journal. (2020). (AG DebateDrills) AND , Moderna’s candidate is much more expensive at approximately £25 per dose. Second, 2 doses means vaccination campaigns take longerThird, developing countries already have production capacity for traditional vaccines, mRNA development takes too longIacobucci 21— Iacobucci, Gareth. "Covid-19: How will a waiver on vaccine patents affect global supply?," BMJ : British Medical Journal (Online); London Vol. 373, (May 10, 2021). DOI:10.1136/bmj.n1182. (AG DebateDrills) AND or contribute with the fill-and-finish stage of the process." | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - InnovationTournament: Loyola | Round: 1 | Opponent: Prospect ST | Judge: Joey Georges Current WTO legislation on IP rights promotes innovationEzell et al 4/29 Jaci McDole, Stephen Ezell ~Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He focuses on science and technology policy, international competitiveness, trade, manufacturing, and services issues.~ 4/29/21, "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic" Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through DD AG AND top two filing growths of 73 percent and 26 percent, respectively.30 Reductions in protections kill medical innovation, economic growth, and knowledge building for the futureMcDole and Ezell 04/29 – Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at ITIF. She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. Her work includes ITIF’s Innovate4Health Initiatives (2017–2019) and A Covid-19 TRIPS Waiver Makes No More Sense for Copyrights Than It Does for Patents (2021). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she cofounded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen J. Ezell is ITIF vice president for Global Innovation Policy. He focuses on science, technology, and innovation policy as well as international competitiveness and trade policy issues. He is the coauthor of Innovating in a Service Driven Economy: Insights Application, and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) and Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale 2012). The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized by its peers in the think tank community as the global center of excellence for science and technology policy, ITIF’s mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress; April 29, 2021; "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic"; https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through advay AND generations of biomedical innovation and thus perpetuate the enterprises into the future.13 Future pandemics are more likely and more deadly which makes innovation key to stop extinctionCeballos 5/27 Gerardo Ceballos ~PhD, Dr Gerardo Ceballos is an ecologist and conservationist at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is particularly recognized for his influential work on global patterns of distribution of diversity, endemism, and extinction risk in vertebrates. He is also well-known for his contribution to understanding the magnitude and impacts of the sixth mass extinction.~, 5/27/21, "THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY", Population Matters, https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/05/sixth-mass-extinction-and-future-humanity DD AG AND and civilization. What it is at stake is the future of mankind. | 9/4/21 |
SEPTOCT - DA - MidtermsTournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Varad Agarwala Dems win the Senate now, but it’s close—-it determines the Biden presidency.Shane Goldmacher 7/17. Reporter, New York Times, "Democrats See Edge in Early Senate Map as Trump Casts Big Shadow," The New York Times, July 17, 2021, https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/17/us/politics/midterm-elections.html, RJP, DebateDrills. AND through President Biden’s expansive agenda on the economy, the pandemic and infrastructure. The plan is unpopular—-it’s seen as soft on China.Cynthia Hicks 21. Director of Public Affairs at PhRMA focusing on polling and opinion research that supports advocacy communications and strategy. "New polling shows Americans are sounding the alarm on the TRIPS IP waiver," PhRMA, May 14, 2021, https://catalyst.phrma.org/new-polling-shows-americans-are-sounding-the-alarm-on-the-trips-ip-waiver, RJP, DebateDrills AND – expressed by more than six in ten voters – include the following: China is the key for the midterms—-Senate control hinges on it.Sarah Mucha 21. Politics reporter at Axios, covering the Biden administration and Congress. "Parties pounce on China as midterm issue," Axios, June 23, 2021, https://www.axios.com/democrat-republicans-china-2022-midterms-6c242c54-b51b-444e-b9b2-65ff0afb906a.html, RJP, DebateDrills AND by (President) Xi (Jinping) and the Chinese Communist Party. GOP control of the Senate will be used to usher in a new wave of Trumpism, crushing democracy.Morton Kondracke 21. Retired executive editor of Roll Call, a former "McLaughlin Group" and Fox News commentator and co-author, with Fred Barnes, of Jack Kemp: The Bleeding Heart Conservative Who Changed America. "Why Democrats Must Retain Control of Congress in 2022," RealClearPolitics, August 4, 2021, https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2021/08/04/why'democrats'must'retain'control'of'congress'in'2022'146189.html, RJP, DebateDrills AND for election results and the rule of law would again be in peril. ExtinctionKasparov 17 AND having the exceptional courage to always try to be better. Thank you. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - K - CapTournament: Greenhill | Round: 6 | Opponent: Carnegie Vanguard SR | Judge: Truman Le Our thesis is that the collapse of capitalism is inevitable, it is a question of now or later: you should frame your decision through an anti-capitalist lens by centering the valorization of productivity that aff’s logic is founded upon.Kuang 20 ~Da Kuang and Changyi Huang are professors at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology, College of Marxism in Wuhan 430074, China. A Study of Marx’s Thought on the Speed of Capital Accumulation, Presented at the 2020 International Conference on Social Science, Economics and Education Research (SSEER 2020), Atlantic Press: Advances in Social Science, Education and Humanities Research Volume 455, 8-22-21, amrita~ AND accumulation. The ultimate fate of capitalism is to be replaced by socialism. The affirmative resets the cycle and rejuvenates short-term capitalist accumulation in two ways.First, is false liberalism. The plan is representative of the idea that capitalism can be saved- eliminating "intellectual property protections" is a scheme that aims to boost falling rates of profit and improve capital accumulation.Gilbert 19 ~Geoff Gilbert is a Professor of Law in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He was Head of Department between 2000-2003 and 2011-13. In 2012, he was appointed a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law from 2002-15 and is co-Editor-in-Chief as of September 2019; he also sits on the Advisory Board., "Free trade" is today’s imperialism by the 1 percent, 1-13-2019,No Publication,https://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-is-today-s-imperialism, 8-21-2021 amrita~ AND control a disproportionate amount of the most profitable industries in the global economy. Second is WTO legitimacy. The plan is a colonialist revision that re-packages the WTO as a legitimate organization that can overcome its insidious past towards a future of equal free trade—that decks class consciousness.Gilbert 19 ~Geoff Gilbert is a Professor of Law in the School of Law and Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex. He was Head of Department between 2000-2003 and 2011-13. In 2012, he was appointed a Professorial Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales in Sydney. He was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Refugee Law from 2002-15 and is co-Editor-in-Chief as of September 2019; he also sits on the Advisory Board., "Free trade" is today’s imperialism by the 1 percent, 1-13-2019,No Publication,https://www.bilaterals.org/?free-trade-is-today-s-imperialism, 8-21-2021 amrita~ AND profits from today’s advanced industries which they can invest in research and development. But capitalism can’t be saved. The short-term rejuvenation simply pushes back the long-term inevitable collapse which dooms us to death by climate change—this card preempts all their "cap solves climate change" answers.Foster 18 ~John Bellamy Foster, John Bellamy Foster is a professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and also editor of Monthly Review. He writes about political economy of capitalism and economic crisis, ecology and ecological crisis, and Marxist theory. "Making War on the Planet." Monthly Review. September 1, 2018. https://monthlyreview.org/2018/09/01/making-war-on-the-planet/ recut 8-22-2021 amrita~ AND beings as both natural and social beings: what is now called ecosocialism. Endorse a dictatorship of the proletariat. Global capitalism’s inequities can only be fully purged once its intrinsic contradictions expose themselves. A dictatorship is required to solidify our transition to communism and is why you should reject any perm that attempts to preserve the state apparatus.Revolution 73 Proletarian Dictatorship Vs. Bourgeois "Democracy"; Encyclopedia of Anti-Revisionism On-Line; Revolution; May 1973; Edited by Paul Saba; https://www.marxists.org/history/erol/ncm-1/pd-v-bd.htm; CE recut amrita AND the transition to the abolition of classes and to a classless society. " | 9/19/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - FwkTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: ModernBrain AK | Judge: Michael Kurian 1Interpretation: The affirmative should defend the hypothetical implementation of the resolutionViolation – they don’t have a plan text. lack of a plan text means that there’s no stable locust of competition so they should be stuck to having no plan text Resolved means a legislative policyWords and Phrases 64 Words and Phrases Permanent Edition. "Resolved". 1964. ED AND ," which is defined by Bouvier as meaning "to establish by law". WTO member nations are the following countries:WTO no date – see the list in the doc https://www.wto.org/english/thewto'e/whatis'e/tif'e/org6'e.htm~~#collapseI AND Uruguay Vanuatu Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of Viet Nam Yemen Zambia Zimbabwe reduce means to diminishIdaho State Court of Appeals 03 AND a "reduction" under Colorado Cr. R. 35(b)). Standards:1~ Competitive equity – 2 warrants:A~ 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.B~ Fairness is an impact – ~1~ it’s an intrinsic good – some level of competitive equity is necessary to sustain the ~2~ probability – your ballot can’t solve their impacts but it can solve mine – debate can’t alter subjectivity, but can rectify ~3~ comes before substance – deciding any other argument in this debate cannot be disentangled from our inability to prepare for it – any argument you think they’re winning is a link, not a reason to vote for them,2~ Switch-side debate –A~ the reason debate is a unique process is because it demands rigorous testing of advocacy skills through not getting to pick and choose what to defend. solves their offense.Poscher 16 Ralf Poscher, Diat the Institute for Staatswissenschaft and Philosophy of Law at the University of Freiburg "Why We Argue About the Law: An Agonistic Account of Legal Disagreement", Metaphilosophy of Law, Tomasz Gizbert-Studnicki/Adam Dyrda/Pawel Banas (eds.), Hart Publishing. 2016. AND concept of justice to art such as to engage in an intelligible controversy. B~ topical version of the aff solves – they can still have all their advantages under TVA – their Chidi card and everything about IP bad is literally a TVA for them to use that they actively chose not to use.C~ Vote negative – A~ this procedurally evaluates whether their model is good, which is a prior question B~ they can’t get offense: we don’t exclude them, only persuade you that our methodology is best. Every debate requires a winner and loser, so voting negative doesn’t reject them from debate, it just says they should make a better argument next time.3~ Skills – multiple warrantsA~ Argument Refinement and research – forcing them to defend the resolution makes them have to cut new positions every two months and forces them to explore the depths of the literature as opposed to just recycling the same set of non T affs over and over that lead repetitive and stale debates – they reject argument innovation and force every non t debate into either k vs t or k v k.2Current WTO legislation on IP rights promotes innovationEzell et al 4/29 Jaci McDole, Stephen Ezell ~Stephen Ezell is vice president, global innovation policy, at the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF). He focuses on science and technology policy, international competitiveness, trade, manufacturing, and services issues.~ 4/29/21, "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic" Information Technology and Innovation Foundation, https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through DD AG AND top two filing growths of 73 percent and 26 percent, respectively.30 Reductions in protections kill medical innovation, economic growth, and knowledge building for the futureMcDole and Ezell 04/29 – Jaci McDole is a senior policy analyst covering intellectual property (IP) and innovation policy at ITIF. She focuses on IP and its correlations to global innovation and trade. Her work includes ITIF’s Innovate4Health Initiatives (2017–2019) and A Covid-19 TRIPS Waiver Makes No More Sense for Copyrights Than It Does for Patents (2021). McDole comes to ITIF from the Institute for Intellectual Property Research, an organization she cofounded to study and further robust global IP policies. Stephen J. Ezell is ITIF vice president for Global Innovation Policy. He focuses on science, technology, and innovation policy as well as international competitiveness and trade policy issues. He is the coauthor of Innovating in a Service Driven Economy: Insights Application, and Practice (Palgrave McMillan, 2015) and Innovation Economics: The Race for Global Advantage (Yale 2012). The Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) is an independent, nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational institute focusing on the intersection of technological innovation and public policy. Recognized by its peers in the think tank community as the global center of excellence for science and technology policy, ITIF’s mission is to formulate and promote policy solutions that accelerate innovation and boost productivity to spur growth, opportunity, and progress; April 29, 2021; "Ten Ways IP Has Enabled Innovations That Have Helped Sustain the World Through the Pandemic"; https://itif.org/publications/2021/04/29/ten-ways-ip-has-enabled-innovations-have-helped-sustain-world-through advay AND generations of biomedical innovation and thus perpetuate the enterprises into the future.13 Future pandemics are more likely and more deadly which makes innovation key to stop extinctionCeballos 5/27 Gerardo Ceballos ~PhD, Dr Gerardo Ceballos is an ecologist and conservationist at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He is particularly recognized for his influential work on global patterns of distribution of diversity, endemism, and extinction risk in vertebrates. He is also well-known for his contribution to understanding the magnitude and impacts of the sixth mass extinction.~, 5/27/21, "THE SIXTH MASS EXTINCTION AND THE FUTURE OF HUMANITY", Population Matters, https://populationmatters.org/news/2021/05/sixth-mass-extinction-and-future-humanity DD AG AND and civilization. What it is at stake is the future of mankind. | 9/5/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - FxTournament: Loyola | Round: 6 | Opponent: Honor VD | Judge: Zac Clough Interp- The 1AC must advocate for the immediate reduction intellectual property protectionsViolation:"I affirm rhetorical decolonization to reduce intellectual property protections for medicines in the member nations of the World Trade Organization."Proves the aff requires rhetorical decol before the plan can happen – at best, they’re effects-t and at worst it’s a solvency deficit to case.Standards:1~ Limits—They can push the actual elimination of LAWs into the future indefinitely and allows for thousands of new affs that gradually change when the ban happens and kill neg ground since we can’t access things like delay CPs which kills education.2~ Inherency—Neg DAs are based on squo defense. Affs that codify the squo have zero ground as there can be no UQ for the claims.Fairness is an impact – ~1~ it’s an intrinsic good – some level of competitive equity is necessary to sustain the ~2~ probability – your ballot can’t solve their impacts but it can solve mine – debate can’t alter subjectivity, but can rectify abuse in round ~3~ comes before substance – deciding any other argument in this debate cannot be disentangled from our inability to prepare for it – any argument you think they’re winning is a link, not a reason to vote for them, | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - Medicine SpecTournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Varad Agarwala Interpretation – the Aff may not specify a specific medicineMedicines is a generic bare pluralLeslie and Lerner 16 ~Sarah-Jane Leslie (Ph.D., Princeton, 2007) is the dean of the Graduate School and Class of 1943 Professor of Philosophy. She has previously served as the vice dean for faculty development in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, director of the Program in Linguistics, and founding director of the Program in Cognitive Science at Princeton University. She is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Psychology, the University Center for Human Values, the Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies, and the Kahneman-Treisman Center for Behavioral Science and Public Policy~, and Adam Lerner, Ph.D, Postgraduate Research Associate in the Department of Philosophy at Princeton University, 4-24-2016, accessed 9-4-2021, "Generic Generalizations (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)," https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/generics/~~ HWIC AND perhaps better used than "usually" to mark off the generic reading.) It applies to this topic – "Member nations ought to reduce IP for covid – therefore, member nations ought to reduce IP for all" is illogical1~ Limits: There’s inf medicines they could specify, coupled with various types of countries2~ TVA Solves – just read your aff as an advantage to a whole rez aff. | 9/18/21 |
SEPTOCT - T - VaccineTournament: Greenhill | Round: 2 | Opponent: Northland Christian LB | Judge: Varad Agarwala AND you bulletproof, they dramatically increase the odds of surviving an adverse event. Violation – they specify COVID vaccines. Their card in the aff isn’t responsive bc that refers to medicine as a practice, not medicines like pharmaceutical drugsNegate –1~ Limits – expanding the topic to preventative treatment or medical interventions allows anything from surgery to medical devices to education strategies or mosquito repellent to prevent malariaVoters:Topicality is a voting issue that should be evaluated through competing interpretations – it tells the negative what they do and do not have to prepare for—reasonability is arbitrary and causes a race to the bottomNo RVIs—it’s your burden to be topical.Evaluate T before 1AR theory we only have a couple months to set T norms | 9/18/21 |
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