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| Churchill | 1 | westwood PM | Arun Mehra |
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| Churchill | 6 | Strake RC | Harley Hensley |
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| Churchill | 3 | Strake JK | Ben Brody |
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| Jack Howe | 2 | Dougherty Valley TM | Valorie Lam |
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| Jack Howe | 5 | Marlborough MS | Asher Towner |
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| Jack Howe | 4 | Christopher Columbus AM | Matt Contreras |
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| Jean Ward | 1 | OES GK | Kellen Rice |
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| Jean Ward | 3 | Lake Ridge MT | Phillip Geiser |
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| La Vernia | 2 | Priyanka Nagalla | Woody Bratcher |
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| La Vernia | Quarters | Michelle Antony | Justin Goosman |
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| Loyola | 5 | Princton Independent JG | Chris Castillo |
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| Loyola | 2 | Presentation NR | Ronak Ahuja |
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| Loyola | 4 | Harvard-Westlake NL | Ishan Rereddy |
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| Macarthur | 1 | Brandeis GR | Obinna Dennar |
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| Macarthur | 3 | Johnson AA | Gaby Valdez |
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| Macarthur | Quarters | Churchill CC | Jenn Camacho Taylor |
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| NSDA Districts | 2 | St Marys Hall RS | Elizabeth Khalilian |
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| NSDA Districts | 4 | Basis AK | Chase Jacobson |
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| Reagan | 3 | Anderson Sharma | John Anderson |
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| Reagan | Octas | Anderson Meachum | Arizechukwu Okolo |
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| TFA State | 2 | Westwood EV | Christopher Stearns |
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| TFA State | 3 | McNeil SC | Alexis Antonakakis |
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| TFA State | 5 | Dulles JI | Michael Rutledge |
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| Churchill | 1 | Opponent: westwood PM | Judge: Arun Mehra 1AC - set col |
| Churchill | 6 | Opponent: Strake RC | Judge: Harley Hensley 1AC - Debris |
| Churchill | 3 | Opponent: Strake JK | Judge: Ben Brody 1AC - debris |
| Jack Howe | 2 | Opponent: Dougherty Valley TM | Judge: Valorie Lam 1AC - Evergreening |
| Jack Howe | 5 | Opponent: Marlborough MS | Judge: Asher Towner 1AC - Covid Waivers |
| Jack Howe | 4 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Matt Contreras 1AC - Rawls |
| Jean Ward | 1 | Opponent: OES GK | Judge: Kellen Rice 1AC - Science Development |
| Jean Ward | 3 | Opponent: Lake Ridge MT | Judge: Phillip Geiser 1AC - Environmental justice |
| La Vernia | 2 | Opponent: Priyanka Nagalla | Judge: Woody Bratcher 1AC - Lay AC |
| La Vernia | Quarters | Opponent: Michelle Antony | Judge: Justin Goosman 1AC - Util Waivers access innovation |
| Loyola | 5 | Opponent: Princton Independent JG | Judge: Chris Castillo 1AC - Mollow |
| Loyola | 2 | Opponent: Presentation NR | Judge: Ronak Ahuja 1ac - Colonial Capitalism |
| Loyola | 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake NL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1AC - COVID Waivers |
| Macarthur | 1 | Opponent: Brandeis GR | Judge: Obinna Dennar 1AC - Trad |
| Macarthur | 3 | Opponent: Johnson AA | Judge: Gaby Valdez 1AC - Whole Res |
| Macarthur | Quarters | Opponent: Churchill CC | Judge: Jenn Camacho Taylor 1AC - Cap |
| NSDA Districts | 2 | Opponent: St Marys Hall RS | Judge: Elizabeth Khalilian 1AC - Debris |
| NSDA Districts | 4 | Opponent: Basis AK | Judge: Chase Jacobson 1AC - OST collapse |
| NSDA Districts | Semis | Opponent: Basis KS | Judge: Panel 1AC - OST collapse |
| Reagan | 3 | Opponent: Anderson Sharma | Judge: John Anderson 1AC - Covid and ILO adv |
| Reagan | Octas | Opponent: Anderson Meachum | Judge: Arizechukwu Okolo 1AC - Covid |
| TFA State | 2 | Opponent: Westwood EV | Judge: Christopher Stearns 1AC - India |
| TFA State | 3 | Opponent: McNeil SC | Judge: Alexis Antonakakis 1AC - Rawls |
| TFA State | 5 | Opponent: Dulles JI | Judge: Michael Rutledge 1AC - Democracy |
| TFA State | Doubles | Opponent: Dulles TY | Judge: Panel 1AC - Semiocap with trix |
| The Proletariat open | Quads | Opponent: The bourgeoisie | Judge: Marx 1AC - 6 Mins of Heg good 1NC - The Cap K 1AR - 4 mins of fascism 2NR - 6 mins of glorious revolutionary pedagogy 2AR - 3 More mins of Fascism |
| Warren Winter Fourm | 1 | Opponent: Johnson EC | Judge: Forgor 1AC - Trad |
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1 T - DisclosureTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Princton Independent JG | Judge: Chris Castillo 1NC – DisclosureInterpretation: Debaters must disclose the 1AC with cites and open source on the 2021-2022 NDCA wiki, or tell the negative what the 1AC will be and if there are any changes to said 1AC 30 minutes prior to the round.Violations: They didn't — SC in the doc prove Standards:1~ Research - disclosure allows debaters to pursue more information on an opponent's case and exposes us to more literature. More reading means we get the most holistic education from the preparation process, rather than having the shallow process of reading tag lines and hearing only what is high lighted2~ Strategy – I'm able to prepare a much better neg strategy which allows the aff to be tested to a much greater depth which in turn leads to the best rounds and most education.3~ Ethics – its ethical to disclose for a few reasons. 1. Online it lets us still debate with poor internet connection which is key to retain accessibility. 2. It allows us to make sure that the evidence that is being read is not being misrepresented and is legit.4~ Reciprocity – I've open sourced all of my positions on the neg and they haven't told me what aff they are reading this round which makes it impossible for me to prepare before the round but they can prepare against me.Voter:1~ Education and fairness – not disclosing kills our ability to engage with the aff which kills education and fairness which must be prioritized.2~ Inclusivity is a voter - the ballot is supposed to test the argumentative capacity of the debater. We should strive to eliminate external influence over this decision.DTD –A~ Deters future abuseB~ Drop the arg cant solve – the abuse has already happenedCompeting interps –A~ Reasonability is Arbitrary and invites judge intervention – impossible to determine what is reasonable, which means debating over specific interps is best and we don't know you're bs meter or what you think is reasonableB~ Intervention – judges have to intervene and determine what is reasonable which is bad bc it forces judges to make decisions along preferred biases, which causes biased and possibly discriminatory decisions.C~ Collapses – we would just debate over the bright line which is functionally competing interpsNo RVI'sA~ Baiting – that invites maximally abusive praxis bc people will just prep out the shellB~ Chilling – if we drop by trying to enforce a norm that we think is good then we wont do it again – this means were never able to create norms which ows on magnitudeC~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for meeting your burden if that was the case, affs could just win by saying they affirm the topic. | 9/6/21 |
1 T - Reduce means permanentTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake NL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1NC – TInterp: Reductions must be permanent, that's distinct from a suspensionReynolds 59 ~J. Reynolds "Matter of Montesani v. Levitt" From: Appellate Division of the Supreme Court in the Third Judicial Department, August 13, 1959~ ~https://casetext.com/case/matter-of-montesani-v-levitt~~ || SM Violation – waivers arent permanent – their ev ill read yellowCommunication from India and South Africa to the WTO 20(WAIVER FROM CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE TRIPS AGREEMENT FOR THE PREVENTION, Standards:1~ Limits and ground – allowing non-permanent affs deck neg ground by letting them shift out of any DAs we read via timeframe. We lose core generics like the RandD DA and any base DAs. K2 fairness cuz it controls access to the ballot. K2 education cuz we lose clash.Voters:1~ Fairness is a voter – debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluation2~ Education is a voter – it's the terminal impact of debate and the reason schools fund itDrop the debater:1~ The abuse already occurred and shifted my time allocation2~ It's the same as DTA since we indict your whole affUse Competing Interps for T:1~ There's no way to be "reasonably" topical, it's a yes/no binary2~ Reasonability collapses since we use offense defense to determine what's reasonableNo RVI's:1~ It's your burden to be topical means it's a prereq to engaging in substance2~ Encourages people to bait theory then win the RVI | 9/5/21 |
2 - Cap V MollowTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Princton Independent JG | Judge: Chris Castillo 1NC – KCapitalism is the best explanation of the production of disability on a daily basis. The aff's method cannot address the material consequences of trans-national capitalism.Nirmala EREVELLES 14. Professor of Social and Cultural Studies in Education, University of Alabama. "Thinking with Disability Studies." Disability Studies Quarterly 34(2). http://dsq-sds.org/article/view/4248/3587. Capitalism causes every impact—poverty, inequality, democratic decline, disease, climate change, women and worker exploitation, and nuclear warFoster 19 (John, PhD from York University, Professor at the University of Oregon Department of Sociology, "Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?," Monthly Review, 2/1/19, https://monthlyreview.org/2019/02/01/capitalism-has-failed-what-next/, JLin) The alternative is to affirm the model of the Communist Party – only the Party can provide effective accountability mechanisms to correct chauvinist tendencies, educate and mobilize marginalized communities, and connect local struggles to a movement for international liberation
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2 - Hostage Taking KTournament: Loyola | Round: 5 | Opponent: Princton Independent JG | Judge: Chris Castillo 1NC – KEpistemic appeals to the validity of the real are a farce – The media represents a world more real than real; information has fallen into the void of illusion – we are gorged with meaning to the point that trump can spew nonsense and it becomes real – The affirmatives form of communication is just a new expansion of the hyper real – we must reject the appeal to information as a method of actualizing progress.Shapiro, 20 ~Alan Shapiro, specialist in Applied Baudrillard, "Is Trump a Fascist or is He the Parody of Fascism?" 10/31/2020, http://www.alan-shapiro.com/is-trump-a-fascist-or-is-he-the-parody-of-fascism/~~//Townes And Thus, I have taken the 1AC hostage.My demand: the ballot, and 30 speaker pointsThe 1AC has NO ABILITY to respond because I took it, it's mine, stolen away to defeat the system on its own terms, turning signs against signs and over-accelerating all symbolic distinctions between self and other as the distinction between terrorist and hostage becomes murkier and murkier. Only the negative is so radically other as to collapse the fundamental metastasis of affirmative and negative.Baudrillard'76 |Jean, dead French philosopher, Symbolic Exchange and Death, pp. 36-38|KZaidi | 9/6/21 |
3 - Midterms DATournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake NL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1NC –DAMidterms are super close but Dems are using Republican abortion bills to rally voters to the polls and tip them in their favorGodfrey 9-3 ~Elaine Godfrey "Is This How Democrats Break Their Midterm Curse?" Published: The Atlantic, September 3, 2021~ ~https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2021/09/texas-abortion-law-means-midterms/619966/~~ ~Godfrey: Staff writer at the Atlantic, covering politics. Iowa State University B.S. in Journalism and Mass Communication, Minor in Political Science.~ || SM The aff is massively unpopular – majority of voters oppose the aff – regardless of political affiliationSchulte 5-4 ~Gabriela Schulte, 5-4-2021, "Poll: Majority oppose proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines" The Hill, Accessed 8-11-2021, https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/551797-poll-majority-oppose-proposal-to-temporarily-waive-intellectual ww Midterm success k2 long term climate initiativesPiotrowski et al 20 ~Matt Piotrowski and Emma McMahon and Joshua McBee and Kyle Saukas, 12-14-2020, "Biden's Climate Path Through the 2022 Midterms" Climate Advisers, https://climateadvisers.org/blogs/bidens-climate-path-up-to-the-2022-midterms/ ww Extinction.Kareiva 18 ~Peter,Ph.D. in ecology and applied mathematics from Cornell University, director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, et al., September 2018, "Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back," Futures, Vol. 102, p. 39-50 | 9/5/21 |
General InfoPLEASE READTournament: The Proletariat open | Round: Quads | Opponent: The bourgeoisie | Judge: Marx I'm William Walker(He/Him)! Here is how you can contact me! Email: Will.walker2022@gmail.com Text: (210) 379-3827 Please let me know if there are any accommodations you would like me to make for our round! I'm happy to make any reasonable accommodations! Guide: 1 - Theory 2 - K 3 - DA 4 - CP 5 - NC 6 - Anything else (Will label) | 8/28/21 |
JF - 1 - T - OuterspaceTournament: NSDA Districts | Round: Semis | Opponent: Basis KS | Judge: Panel T —- OSInterp —- Outer space is the space between the atmospheres of celestial bodiesNew World Encyclopedia ND ~New World Encyclopedia, No Date, "Outer space" New World Encyclopedia, accessed 12-14-2021, https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/outer'space ww AND electromagnetic radiation. Hypothetically, it also contains dark matter and dark energy. Violation: in crosss the concede that they defend the coloniztoin of planets as being bad —- which means it includes planetsStandards —-~1~ Limits —- limiting the aff to be outside the atmosphere of celestial bodies and above 100km above the earth creates a stable definition of what is and isn’t topical, telescopes, asteroids, and satellites are T but preventing limits out colonization affs which reduces the topic by thousands of affs which allows for in-depth and nuanced debates~2~ Extra T is a voter – means the res is no longer a stable basis stasis point and they can defend whatever extra T offense they want. Also means you don’t have jurisdiction to vote for them cuz they haven’t affirmed the res.Voters:~1~ Fairness is a voter – debate is a competitive activity that requires objective evaluation~2~ Education is a voter – it’s the terminal impact of debate and the reason schools fund itDrop the debater:~1~ The abuse already occurred and shifted my time allocation~2~ It’s the same as DTA since we indict your whole affUse Competing Interps for T:~1~ There’s no way to be "reasonably" topical, it’s a yes/no binary~2~ Reasonability collapses since we use offense defense to determine what’s reasonableNo RVI’s:~1~ It’s your burden to be topical means it’s a prereq to engaging in substance~2~ Encourages people to bait theory then win the RVI | 2/28/22 |
JF - 2 - Settler ColonialismTournament: Churchill | Round: 3 | Opponent: Strake JK | Judge: Ben Brody | 1/13/22 |
JF - 2 - Settler Colonialism v2Tournament: Jean Ward | Round: 1 | Opponent: OES GK | Judge: Kellen Rice | 1/16/22 |
JF - 2 - Settler Colonialism v3Tournament: Jean Ward | Round: 3 | Opponent: Lake Ridge MT | Judge: Phillip Geiser | 1/16/22 |
JF - 3 - Heg DATournament: NSDA Districts | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marys Hall RS | Judge: Elizabeth Khalilian 1NC —- DAHegemony is on the brink now —- Covid has created momentum for Beijing to cement US heg through increasing regional control in the Middle eastHamovitz 21 ~Lior Hamovitz, Hebrew University of Jerusalem Department of Political Science, Master of Arts, 1-7-2021, "Shifting Hegemony: China’s Challenge to U.S. Hegemony During COVID-19" E-International Relations Accessed on 12-25-2021(yes I was cutting cards on Christmas what of it), https://www.e-ir.info/2021/09/07/shifting-hegemony-chinas-challenge-to-u-s-hegemony-during-covid-19/ ww AND become fertile grounds for great-power rivalry and a possible hegemonic shift. Privatization of space has been in the interest of maintaining US heg —- Privatization of outer space maintains US leadership in the globe and solar systemHenry 18 ~Edward C. Henry, California State University, Sacramento M.A., University of Massachusetts Boston, 8-31-2018, "The United States of Sol: Privatization as a Tool of American Hegemony in the Solar System" University of Massachusetts Boston(Scholar Works), Accessed 12-25-2021, https://scholarworks.umb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1511andcontext=masters'theses ww AND states and containing conflict (particularly in light of the global nuclear threat). Top military officials agreeMacias and Sheetz 2-3 ~Amanda Macias, Amanda Macias covers global trade and foreign policy for CNBC, studied Broadcast Journalism and Finance at the University of Missouri. She is a Knight-Bagehot Fellow in Economics and Business Journalism at Columbia University in New York, Michael Sheetz, space reporter graduated as a Founder’s Scholar from The King’s College with a bachelor of the arts in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, double-minoring in Journalism and Theology, 2-3-2021, "Space Force general says success of private companies like SpaceX helps U.S. secure the space domain", CNBC, accessed 12-14-2021, https://www.cnbc.com/2021/02/03/space-force-general-america-owns-space-with-help-from-elon-musks-spacex.html ww AND with venture capital and angel investors continuing to pour funds into space businesses. Primacy prevents great-power conflict — multipolar revisionism fragments the global order and causes nuclear war.Brands and Edel, 19 — Hal Brands; PhD, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Charles Edel; PhD, Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. ("The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order;" Ch. 6: Darkening Horizon; Published by Yale University Press; GrRv) AND with an eye to preserving and perhaps even selectively advancing its remarkable achievements. Receding US deterrent is a catalyst for great-power conflict — decline causes transition wars and miscalculation.Brands and Edel, 19 — Hal Brands; PhD, Henry A. Kissinger Distinguished Professor of Global Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Charles Edel; PhD, Senior Fellow and Visiting Scholar at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. ("The Lessons of Tragedy: Statecraft and World Order;" Ch. 7: Rediscovering Tragedy; Published by Yale University Press; GrRv) AND attacking it, and America undoubtedly has the power for this essential undertaking. | 2/26/22 |
JF - 3 - India DATournament: NSDA Districts | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marys Hall RS | Judge: Elizabeth Khalilian 1NC —- DABeijing wants to challenge New Delhi now —- border disputes create flash points for conflicts —- absent Indian modernization china would get access to influence south AsiaHaqqani and Pande 21 ~HUSAIN HAQQANI, director for South and Central Asia at the Hudson Institute in Washington D.C., APARNA PANDE, is director of the Initiative on the Future of India and South Asia at the Hudson Institute, 7-10-2021, "India has a long way to go in confronting China" The Hill, Accessed 1-6-2021, https://thehill.com/opinion/international/562397-india-has-a-long-way-to-go-in-confronting-china ww AND followed up with specific steps to counter Chinese hard power with Indian muscle. Space privatization is key to modernizing India’s military —- communications, weapons, and innovation —- top military officials agreeThe Economic Times 21 ~The Economic Times, 11-11-2021, "Indian private industry must step in to provide cutting-edge space technologies to armed forces: Bipin Rawat" The Economic Times, Accessed 1-5-2022, https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/defence/indian-private-industry-must-step-in-to-provide-cutting-edge-space-technologies-to-armed-forces-bipin-rawat/articleshow/86931188.cms ww AND of our space based assets have become important domains," the CDS said. Border conflicts cause miscalc —- goes nuclearDalton et al 20 ~Toby Dalton, co-director and a senior fellow of the Nuclear Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment. An expert on nonproliferation and nuclear energy, his work addresses regional security challenges and the evolution of the global nuclear order. Tong Zhao, senior fellow in Carnegie’s Nuclear Policy Program. Rukmani Gupta, New Delhi–based defense analyst whose work focuses on geopolitics, defense strategy, and military capabilities in Asia. 10-29-2020 "After the Border Clash, Will China-India Competition Go Nuclear?" Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Accessed 1-6-2021, https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/10/29/after-border-clash-will-china-india-competition-go-nuclear-pub-83072 ww AND conflict is simmering. The prospect of accidental nuclear escalation remains quite remote. Triggers nuclear winter and extinction —- worse than Indo-pak warJain 19 ~Akshita Jain, Reporter for The Independent Formally Huff po india and the First post(they are citing Alan Robock, who is the co-author of a study on the impact of a potential India-Pakistan nuclear war), 10-11-2019, "An India-China Nuclear War Would Be More Devastating For Environment Than India-Pak: Expert" Huffington Post, Accessed 2-8-2022, https://www.huffpost.com/archive/in/entry/india-china-pakistan-nuclear-war-expert-explains'in'5d9ada26e4b03b475f9bee92 ww AND it failed to take into account the interests of all stakeholders—Ed) | 2/26/22 |
JF - 4 - Asteroids PICTournament: Churchill | Round: 1 | Opponent: westwood PM | Judge: Arun Mehra 1NC – CPCounterplan Text: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust, sans mining expeditions.Private space companies are the leading drivers of mining resources off celestial bodies – that’s key to stop resource, water, and rare earth mineral shortagesGilbert 21 (Alex Gilbert; 4/26/21;The Milken Institute Review; "Mining in Space Is Coming"; accessed 12/15/21; https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming**; alex gilbert, is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines.) HB AND technologies that could eventually extract oxygen for astronauts to breath and refuel spacecraft. ====Increasing the supply of rare earth metals is crucial to the transition to green tech which is key to resolve climate chnage==== AND disappear in an electrified, renewables-rich energy system," it said. Climate change causes extinction – ocean acidification, water and resource wars, econ collapse, and regional conflicts.Pachauri and Meyer 15 (Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman of the IPCC, Leo Meyer Head, Technical Support Unit IPCC were the editors for this IPCC report, "Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report" http://epic.awi.de/37530/1/IPCC'AR5'SYR'Final.pdf IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ~Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)~. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp) AND shocks (medium confidence). ~{2.3.2~} 2010 ) Private space companies are the leading drivers of mining resources off celestial bodies – that’s key to stop resource, water, and rare earth mineral shortagesGilbert 21 (Alex Gilbert; 4/26/21;The Milken Institute Review; "Mining in Space Is Coming"; accessed 12/15/21; https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming**; alex gilbert, is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines.) HB AND technologies that could eventually extract oxygen for astronauts to breath and refuel spacecraft. ====Water shortages are an impact-multiplier – it causes food shortages, disease and the scale of conflicts==== AND " that might dam the river and so restrict its flow into India. Independently, resilient food supply is vital to prevent widespread famine—-extinction – we’ve got charts!Richards et al. 21, C.E. Richards is with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge; R.C. Lupton is with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Bath; J.M. Allwood is with the Department of Engineering, University of Cambridge, "Re-Framing the Threat of Global Warming: An Empirical Causal Loop Diagram of Climate Change, Food Insecurity and Societal Collapse," Climatic Change, vol. 164, no. 3, 02/19/2021, p. 49 AND may help us attain this desired future (Hinkel et al. 2020). | 1/8/22 |
JF - 4 - Asteroids Pic v2Tournament: NSDA Districts | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marys Hall RS | Judge: Elizabeth Khalilian 1NC – CPCounterplan Text: The appropriation of outer space by private entities is unjust, sans mining expeditions.Private space companies are the leading drivers of mining resources off celestial bodies – that’s key to stop resource, water, and rare earth mineral shortagesGilbert 21 (Alex Gilbert; 4/26/21;The Milken Institute Review; "Mining in Space Is Coming"; accessed 12/15/21; https://www.milkenreview.org/articles/mining-in-space-is-coming**; alex gilbert, is a complex systems researcher and a PhD student in space resources at the Colorado School of Mines.) HB AND technologies that could eventually extract oxygen for astronauts to breath and refuel spacecraft. ====Increasing the supply of rare earth metals is crucial to the transition to green tech which is key to resolve climate chnage==== AND disappear in an electrified, renewables-rich energy system," it said. Climate change causes extinction – ocean acidification, water and resource wars, econ collapse, and regional conflicts.Pachauri and Meyer 15 (Rajendra K. Pachauri Chairman of the IPCC, Leo Meyer Head, Technical Support Unit IPCC were the editors for this IPCC report, "Climate Change 2014 Synthesis Report" http://epic.awi.de/37530/1/IPCC'AR5'SYR'Final.pdf IPCC, 2014: Climate Change 2014: Synthesis Report. Contribution of Working Groups I, II and III to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ~Core Writing Team, R.K. Pachauri and L.A. Meyer (eds.)~. IPCC, Geneva, Switzerland, 151 pp) AND shocks (medium confidence). ~{2.3.2~} 2010 ) | 2/26/22 |
JF - 5 - Util v set colTournament: Churchill | Round: 1 | Opponent: westwood PM | Judge: Arun Mehra 1NC —- UtilThe standard is maximizing expected well being —-~1~ Pain and pleasure are the only things with intrinsic value —- all their impacts are predicated on it being an impact2~ occams razor – historical moral disagrmeen ver internal conpcetions of morality pro no fallibility – meas you default to the most simple conception of intrinsic values and decision call – proves phenomenal introspecation and instituitionsm which ows soce theire the foudatiosal basis for any argument3~ actor specA~ goves must aggregateB~ states lack wills or intention —- actor spec first since diff agents ahave diff ethical standings~4~ Moral uncertainty means extinction first | 1/8/22 |
JF - Util V2Tournament: NSDA Districts | Round: 2 | Opponent: St Marys Hall RS | Judge: Elizabeth Khalilian 1NC - UtilThe standard is Maximizing expected well-being –Conceded in cross this is true —- no new answersMoral uncertainty means extinction first | 2/26/22 |
MA - 1 - T - aTournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood EV | Judge: Christopher Stearns T —- AInterpretation: Affirmatives may not specify a democracy"A Democracy" is genericA~ It doesn’t pass the contradiction testNebel 1~Jake Nebel- Jake Nebel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Jake works mainly in moral philosophy but has also published work in the philosophy of language in The Philosophical Review. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from New York University, an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University, and a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. As a coach, Jake’s students have won the Tournament of Champions, the NDCA National Championship, the Dukes and Bailey Cup, the Glenbrooks, the Harvard Round Robin, the New York City Invitational, the Barkley Forum at Emory, the TFA State Tournament, and other national, regional, and local championships. As a debater, he won the Glenbrooks (twice), Greenhill (twice), Harvard, Emory, Bronx, the Bronx Round Robin, the MBA Round Robin, the VBT Round Robin, and the Florida State Tournament, was in finals of NSDA Nationals, and was top speaker at the Tournament of Champions, Greenhill, Harvard, Bronx (twice), the Bronx Round Robin (twice), Yale (twice), the Vassar Round Robin, the Crestian Classic, and the Florida State Tournament. He attended VBI three times as a student and has worked at 35 sessions. "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" VBI Briefs. 2020~ UT AI* Note: These were from a brief. Text me or any of my kids and they’ll send it to you. AND So "a democracy" in the resolution cannot be existential after all. B~ it fails the upper entailment test- replacing "democracy" with a general noun changes the meaning.Nebel 2~Jake Nebel- Jake Nebel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Jake works mainly in moral philosophy but has also published work in the philosophy of language in The Philosophical Review. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from New York University, an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University, and a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. As a coach, Jake’s students have won the Tournament of Champions, the NDCA National Championship, the Dukes and Bailey Cup, the Glenbrooks, the Harvard Round Robin, the New York City Invitational, the Barkley Forum at Emory, the TFA State Tournament, and other national, regional, and local championships. As a debater, he won the Glenbrooks (twice), Greenhill (twice), Harvard, Emory, Bronx, the Bronx Round Robin, the MBA Round Robin, the VBT Round Robin, and the Florida State Tournament, was in finals of NSDA Nationals, and was top speaker at the Tournament of Champions, Greenhill, Harvard, Bronx (twice), the Bronx Round Robin (twice), Yale (twice), the Vassar Round Robin, the Crestian Classic, and the Florida State Tournament. He attended VBI three times as a student and has worked at 35 sessions. "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" VBI Briefs. 2020~ UT AI* Note: These were from a brief. Text me or any of my kids and they’ll send it to you. AND This suggests that "a democracy" in the resolution is not existential. C~ The resolution has counterfactual implications so it’s generic.Nebel 3~Jake Nebel- Jake Nebel is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southern California. Jake works mainly in moral philosophy but has also published work in the philosophy of language in The Philosophical Review. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from New York University, an AB in Philosophy from Princeton University, and a BPhil in Philosophy from Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. As a coach, Jake’s students have won the Tournament of Champions, the NDCA National Championship, the Dukes and Bailey Cup, the Glenbrooks, the Harvard Round Robin, the New York City Invitational, the Barkley Forum at Emory, the TFA State Tournament, and other national, regional, and local championships. As a debater, he won the Glenbrooks (twice), Greenhill (twice), Harvard, Emory, Bronx, the Bronx Round Robin, the MBA Round Robin, the VBT Round Robin, and the Florida State Tournament, was in finals of NSDA Nationals, and was top speaker at the Tournament of Champions, Greenhill, Harvard, Bronx (twice), the Bronx Round Robin (twice), Yale (twice), the Vassar Round Robin, the Crestian Classic, and the Florida State Tournament. He attended VBI three times as a student and has worked at 35 sessions. "Indefinite Singular Generics in Debate" VBI Briefs. 2020~ UT AI* Note: These were from a brief. Text me or any of my kids and they’ll send it to you. AND on the hypothesis that "a democracy" in the resolution is existential. Semantics outweigh and are an independent voterA~ Stasis – it’s the only stasis for predictability and pragmatics – sequencing negatesB~ Inherency – It’s the only thing inherent to the topic – pragmatics are just reasons to change the topic not reasons why our interp is wrongViolation: They only do the aff in indiaNow Negate-1~ Limits-There are over 150 democracies around the world. In each of these democracies there are several possible further subsets like specific groups or states that ought to vote. Leads to millions of possible affirmatives which makes negative preparation impossible – Limits outweighs because we need equal prep burdens to have an equal debate.2~ Ground- I lose access to core negative ground like elections DA’s, voter Turnout DA’s, core topic pics and cps, etc. We also lose core generics since the aff will always have more specific evidence on the question and have more time to prep the them out.DTD –A~ Deters future abuseB~ Drop the arg cant solve – the abuse has already happenedCompeting interps –A~ Reasonability is Arbitrary and invites judge intervention – impossible to determine what is reasonable, which means debating over specific interps is best and we don’t know you’re bs meter or what you think is reasonableB~ Intervention – judges have to intervene and determine what is reasonable which is bad bc it forces judges to make decisions along preferred biases, which causes biased and possibly discriminatory decisions.C~ Collapses – we would just debate over the bright line which is functionally competing interps
No RVI’sA~ Baiting – that invites maximally abusive praxis bc people will just prep out the shellB~ Chilling – if we drop by trying to enforce a norm that we think is good then we wont do it again – this means were never able to create norms which ows on magnitudeC~ Illogical – you shouldn’t win for meeting your burden if that was the case, affs could just win by saying they affirm the topic. | 3/10/22 |
MA - 2 - Settler ColonialismTournament: TFA State | Round: 2 | Opponent: Westwood EV | Judge: Christopher Stearns | 3/10/22 |
MA - 2 - Settler Colonialism v2Tournament: TFA State | Round: 3 | Opponent: McNeil SC | Judge: Alexis Antonakakis | 3/11/22 |
MA - 3 - Climate DATournament: TFA State | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dulles JI | Judge: Michael Rutledge | 3/12/22 |
MA - 5 - UtilTournament: TFA State | Round: 5 | Opponent: Dulles JI | Judge: Michael Rutledge | 3/12/22 |
ND - 4 - Police PICTournament: Warren Winter Fourm | Round: 1 | Opponent: Johnson EC | Judge: Forgor 1NC —- CPCounterplan Text: Just governments should recognize an unconditional right of workers to strike, with the exception of police officers.Legitimizing their right to strike creates power grabs and has historically proven to be rooted in racismGrim 20 (Andrew Grim; 7/1/20; The Washington Post; "What is the 'blue flu' and how has it increased police power?"; accessed 10/20/21; https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/07/01/what-is-blue-flu-how-has-it-increased-police-power/**; Andrew Grim, a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, is at work on a dissertation on anti-police brutality activism in post-WWII Newark.) HB Combatting racism in every way possible is a pre-requisite to ethical policy making, means that the counterplan is a prior questionMemmi 2k (Albert, Professor Emeritus of Sociology @ U of Paris, Naiteire, Racism, Translated by Steve Martinot, p. 163-165) | 12/20/21 |
ND - 5 - HobbesTournament: Warren Winter Fourm | Round: 1 | Opponent: Johnson EC | Judge: Forgor 1NC – HobbesPresumption and permissibility negate –1~ Probability – there are an infinite number of ways for something to be false and only one way for it to be true bc If one part of a statement is false the whole statement is2~ intuition – That's why we don't immediately believe conspiracy theories or flat earth.3~ logic –A~ You can't assume that P and ~P are both true.B~ Ought means to prove a moral obligation – if there is no offense the aff hasn't met their burden so you negate4~ Negating is harder –A~ Judge psychology – the 2ar gets a persuasive spin on the 2nr which makes judges more likely to affirm bc they can shift the focus away from the 2nr which ows bc I can't change judge psychology, so the only recourse Is to give pandp to the negB~ Time skew – the aff gets a 7-6 rebuttal time skew and I don't have a 3nr which means a 2ar dump on 1 2nr mistake makes it impossible for the neg to winC~ Aff gets Infinite prep for the AC means they can always frontline whatever negs put together.D~ 1ARs can be abusive and most judges don't vote on 2N theory.Humans act within in their own interests and to maximize their own pleasures, because there are finite resources in the world, and a biological drive to survive. Without a government to unify all meanings of ethics, individuals would fall into a violent state of nature where individuals would force meaning upon one anotherParrish 05 (Rick Parrish; 2005; John Hopkins University Press; "Derrida's Economy of Violence in Hobbes' Social Contract"; accessed 7/15/19; Theory and Event, Volume 7, Issue 4; http://citation.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/6/3/6/1/pages63614/p63614-11.php**; Rick Parrish professor of political science at Loyola University New Orleans and West Texas AandM University) RC/HB *Bracketed for clarity* This leads to the creation of the sovereign, the creation of the sovereign is when subjects limit their own freedom and give it to a single subject to have absolute control over the population. Creation of the sovereign is good for three reasons –Necessity – if we don't have an absolute power – then productivity, innovation, and well-being is destroyed, because there is no incentive to create, because someone else will destroy your work for their own benefit.Impacts – if we don't have a power to allow for creation, innovation, and protection of well-being, then we would never be able to improve quality of life, develop medicine, create agriculture, or have any positive thing come, because we would be too preoccupied with fighting amongst ourselves without any order.This requires giving legitimate and ultimate moral power to the governmentParrish 05 (Rick Parrish; 2005; John Hopkins University Press; "Derrida's Economy of Violence in Hobbes' Social Contract"; accessed 7/15/19; Theory and Event, Volume 7, Issue 4; http://citation.allacademic.com//meta/p_mla_apa_research_citation/0/6/3/6/1/pages63614/p63614-11.php**; Rick Parrish professor of political science at Loyola University New Orleans and West Texas AandM University) RC/HB *Bracketed for clarity* Thus, the Standard is Consistency with the will of the sovereign —-It's a Pre-requisite- Ethics can't be achieved without avoiding the state of nature because differing interpretations of ethics requires unity which is only founded within the sovereign.This doesn't mean absolute subjugation – this model of government maximized individual liberty, and provides protection for the commonwealthLi 19 ~Chenyang Li, July 2019, "Liberty in Leviathan" The University Of British Coloumbia, Accessed 5-1-2021 https://artsone.arts.ubc.ca/2019/08/02/liberty-in-leviathan/ ww Now negate – Unconditional strikes allow for the state of nature bc workers can overrule the sovereigns will and stop working for any reason which means people will do it for selfish reasons and have no regulation on why or when they strike | 12/20/21 |
SO - 1 - T - FWTournament: Macarthur | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Churchill CC | Judge: Jenn Camacho Taylor 1NC – FW shortInterpretation – The affirmative must only get offense from the fiated implementation fo the resolutionTo clarify – you don't have to defend the state, you just have to defend the action of the res how ever you want too.There are 164 member nations in the WTO as of 2016 – here's a screen shot and the link in the cite takes you to a list of all the member nationsWTO ND ~World trade Organization, No date, but at least after, 29 July 2016, The World Trade Organization (WTO) deals with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably and freely as possible. "UNDERSTANDING THE WTO: THE ORGANIZATION Members and Observers" World Trade Organization accessed 6-26-2021 https://www.wto.org/english/thewto_e/whatis_e/tif_e/org6_e.htm ww Ought means to prove the resolution is desirableLexico No Date~Lexico Dictionaries | English No Date OUGHT Accessed on 4-2-2021 https://www.lexico.com/en/definition/ought ww Reduce means to diminish in sizeMichigan District Court 11 "SAGINAW OFFICE SERVICE, INC., Plaintiff, v. BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., Defendant. Civil Action No. 09-CV-13889 UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF MICHIGAN, SOUTHERN DIVISION," Lexis Intellectual property protections of medicines refer to Patents, copy rights, and trademarks over substances used in treating disease.Intellectual property Protections refers to patents, copy rights, and trademarksWIPO ND~World Intelectual Property Organization, ND, "What is Intellectual Property?" Accessed 6-26-2021, https://www.wipo.int/about-ip/en/ ww Medicine refers to a substance used in the treatment of diseaseMerriam Webster ND ~"Medicine." Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, Accessed 27 Jun. 2021 https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/medicine. Ww Violation –They don't have a plan text and only specify affirming the model of the communist partyVote neg –1~ Fairness – Their interp explodes limits and allows affs to monopolize the moral high ground. The lack of a stable mechanism lets them radically re-contextualize their aff and erase neg ground via perms. Fairness is good and prior – debate's a game that requires effective competition and negation, which makes their offense inevitable.2~ Clash –A~ Limits – Unlimited topics that decimate a predictable stasis point makes argument refinement impossible AND cause concessionary ground which creates incentives for avoidance. This fosters group polarization while disavowing the ability to refine an exportable praxis which turns the aff.B~ Critical education – If I'm not able to read prep that I had ready before the tournament, ie topic links, and prepared topic specific arguments – I'm not able to properly engage with the aff bc I wasn't ready to debate it – this turns their offense bc if I'm not able to engage with the aff then I'm not able to get any pedagogical benefits of the aff.3~ No case cross apps –A~ Illogical – it would be the same as a policy aff saying extinction ows theoryB~ Presumptively false – I didn't have the same amount of preround prep as if I was debating a topical aff – they should not get to leverage arguments that are impossible for me to respond too bc other wise I would never be able to win which makes debate impossibleThere is a TVA: ~insert~1~ Disads to the TVA prove that it's a contestable stasis with ground on each side – even if its less strategic then your aff – allowing the neg a chance to engage ows and sets the best norms for debateThe aff should be presumed false –1~ Not debating on the agreed upon topic means its impossible for us to have an in-depth discussion and test the validity of the aff – this means you should be skeptical of if the aff is right, because it can't be tested as well as if they defended a predictable advocacy based on the resolution.2~ The resolution is a question of if it is desirable or not – the aff not defending it means there is no offense to why the resolution is desirable – that means you should presume that its not because they have given you no reason to think that it is.3~ Debate is a game and we're both here to win – this means procedural questions like T come first. – this does not mean that debate cant have any pedagogical benefits – the contrary is true – but that can only happen when we can both engageDTD –A~ Deters future abuseB~ Drop the arg cant solve – the abuse has already happenedCompeting interps –A~ Reasonability is Arbitrary and invites judge intervention – impossible to determine what is reasonable, which means debating over specific interps is best and we don't know you're bs meter or what you think is reasonableB~ Intervention – judges have to intervene and determine what is reasonable which is bad bc it forces judges to make decisions along preferred biases, which causes biased and possibly discriminatory decisions.C~ Collapses – we would just debate over the bright line which is functionally competing interps
No RVI'sA~ Baiting – that invites maximally abusive praxis bc people will just prep out the shellB~ Chilling – if we drop by trying to enforce a norm that we think is good then we wont do it again – this means were never able to create norms which ows on magnitudeC~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for meeting your burden if that was the case, affs could just win by saying they affirm the topic. | 9/26/21 |
SO - 1 - T - ReduceTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Matt Contreras T – Extra TInterp: Reductions exclude changing termsSupreme Court of Missouri 73 – (State ex rel. Cason v. Bond, 495 S.W.2d 385, Lexis)BB Violation – they just change the terms of when trips waivers are usedTrips waivers are already a thingWTO 7-21 ~World Trade Organization "TRIPS Council agrees to continue discussions on IP response to COVID-19" Published: July 20, 2021; Accessed: September 5, 2021~ ~https://www.wto.org/english/news_e/news21_e/trip_20jul21_e.htm~~ || SM Standards:1~ Limits and ground – changing terms explodes the topic to functionally *infinite* extra-T affs since they'll just claim "change terms". Makes it impossible to negate since the aff can do whatever they want. K2 fairness cuz it controls access to the ballot. K2 education cuz we lose clash.DTD –A~ Deters future abuseB~ Drop the arg cant solve – the abuse has already happenedCompeting interps –A~ Reasonability is Arbitrary and invites judge intervention – impossible to determine what is reasonable, which means debating over specific interps is best and we don't know you're bs meter or what you think is reasonableB~ Intervention – judges have to intervene and determine what is reasonable which is bad bc it forces judges to make decisions along preferred biases, which causes biased and possibly discriminatory decisions.C~ Collapses – we would just debate over the bright line which is functionally competing interpsNo RVI'sA~ Baiting – that invites maximally abusive praxis bc people will just prep out the shellB~ Chilling – if we drop by trying to enforce a norm that we think is good then we wont do it again – this means were never able to create norms which ows on magnitudeC~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for meeting your burden if that was the case, affs could just win by saying they affirm the topic. | 9/19/21 |
SO - 1 - T - must have a plan textTournament: La Vernia | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Michelle Antony | Judge: Justin Goosman T – Must have plan textInterpretation: The affirmative must have a clearly stated topical plan text that specifies all major actions of the aff.Violation: they didn'tVote neg – They kill fairness – the aff can no link out of literally any argument we make because they don't have a plan text to bind them to any one action – this means there is no stasis point for the debate to center around and gives the aff a huge advantage — Either you drop them to set an example, or you don't and we get guaranteed link to every argument we makeDTD –A~ Deters future abuseB~ Drop the arg cant solve – the abuse has already happenedCompeting interps –A~ Reasonability is Arbitrary and invites judge intervention – impossible to determine what is reasonable, which means debating over specific interps is best and we don't know you're bs meter or what you think is reasonableB~ Intervention – judges have to intervene and determine what is reasonable which is bad bc it forces judges to make decisions along preferred biases, which causes biased and possibly discriminatory decisions.C~ Collapses – we would just debate over the bright line which is functionally competing interpsNo RVI'sA~ Baiting – that invites maximally abusive praxis bc people will just prep out the shellB~ Chilling – if we drop by trying to enforce a norm that we think is good then we wont do it again – this means were never able to create norms which ows on magnitudeC~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for meeting your burden if that was the case, affs could just win by saying they affirm the topic. | 9/13/21 |
SO - 2 - Death KTournament: Macarthur | Round: 3 | Opponent: Johnson AA | Judge: Gaby Valdez 1NC – death?The 1AC was 6 mins Necrotic black mail – The aff views death as something to be avoided at all costs renders life valueless – our drive to repress death results in incasing the body in the protective sarcophagus amounting the body to a corpseBaudrillard 93 (Jean, "Symbolic Exchange and Death", pg. 177-178) The notion of the irreversibility of death reduces our existence to merely an object or machine, which either functions or doesn't. This binary opposition between life and death objectifies the body, which always takes revenge on the subject by dying—and thus the quest for life has killed us all.Baudrillard 93. Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist and cultural theorist, former professor at European Graduate School, Symbolic Exchange and Death: Theory, Culture and Society Baudrillard Jean. Sage Publications, Inc. 1993, pg. 158-160 Death occurs through indecipherable complicity. In our fleeing from death by endlessly resolving constructed threats, we inevitably run towards it – wherever we go, we will always find Samarkand. – turns the affBaudrillard 03. Jean Baudrillard, French sociologist and cultural theorist, former professor at European Graduate School, Death in Samarkand Translated by Brian Singer 2003 http://insomnia.ac/essays/death_in_samarkand/ You propagate life and reason like any fascist. Prefer not life, not reason, affirm your own death, for their propagation of life and reason is much more violent than material dispossession, erecting a violent binary between life and death. The will to die preserves the possibility of singularity.Robinson '12 |Andrew, Political Theorist, Activist Based in the UK and research fellow affiliated to the Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice (CSSGJ), University of Nottingham, "Jean Baudrillard: The Rise of Capitalism and the Exclusion of Death", March 30, http://ceasefiremagazine.co.uk/in-theory-baudrillard-2/~|KZaidi | 9/26/21 |
SO - 3 - Saudi DATournament: Reagan | Round: 3 | Opponent: Anderson Sharma | Judge: John Anderson 1NC – DAThe US is concerned about Saudi IPR but trade relations are fine nowUS Gov 21 ~United States Government, Office of the US Trade Representative "2021 Special 301 Report" Published: 2021~ ~https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/reports/2021/202120Special2030120Report20(final).pdf~~ || SM Wavering Saudi IPR sends investors scrambling and guts US-Saudi coop. Recent missteps in pharma IPR prove it's uniquely key to perception.Stevens 17 ~Philip Stevens "Saudi missteps on intellectual property will hold back its economy" Published: The Hill, September 17, 2017~ ~https://thehill.com/opinion/international/351074-saudis-missteps-on-intellectual-property-will-hold-back-its-economy~~ ~Stevens: Director of Geneva Network, a UK-based research organization focusing on trade and innovation issues.~ || SM US Saudi Coop key to prevent nuclear proliferationEmily B. Landau and Shimon Stein 18 ~Landau is senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies, where she is also director of the Arms Control and Regional Security Project. Stein was Israel's ambassador to Germany from 2001 to 2007. Previously, he participated in the Arms Control and Regional Security working group, as well as negotiations of the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, and served as head of the Regional Security, Arms Control, and Nonproliferation Department at the Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs.~, 12-4-2018, "Can the United States Prevent Saudi Arabia from Getting Nuclear Weapons?," National Interest, https://nationalinterest.org/feature/can-united-states-prevent-saudi-arabia-getting-nuclear-weapons-37812 ~{OS~} Saudi prolif draws in India and Pakistan – goes nuclearEdelman 11—Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments. Former Undersecretary for Defense—AND—Andrew Krepinevich—President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments—AND—Evan Montgomery—Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (Eric, The dangers of a nuclear Iran, FA 90;1, http://www.csbaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/2010.12.27-The-Dangers-of-a-Nuclear-Iran.pdf) | 10/11/21 |
SO - 4 - Price Controls CP V2Tournament: Reagan | Round: Octas | Opponent: Anderson Meachum | Judge: Arizechukwu Okolo 1NC – CPText: The member nations of the world trade organization should reform their price control polices for Covid-19 VaccinesThe counterplan solves COVID vaccine access, countries are trying now but WTO solidarity is keyKarim 20 ~Safura Abdool Karim "COVID-19 vaccine affordability and accessibility" Published: The Lancet, Volume 396, Issue 10246, p 238, July 25, 2020~ ~https://doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(20)31540-3~~ ~Karim: SAMRC Centre for Health Economics and Decision Science, Wits School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg 2050, South Africa~ || SM | 10/11/21 |
SO - 4 - Reunite CPTournament: Reagan | Round: Octas | Opponent: Anderson Meachum | Judge: Arizechukwu Okolo 1NC – CPThe Islamic Republic of Pakistan should:Eliminate its nuclear arsenal The Republic of India should:Accept Pakistan's request to rejoin the nation. Reunite solvesKatju 17 – Justice Markandey Katju is former Judge, Supreme Court of India and former Chairman, Press Council of India. (Markandey, "India And Pakistan Must Reunite For Their Mutual Good," 11/04/17, https://www.huffingtonpost.in/markandey-katju/india-and-pakistan-must-reunite-for-their-mutual-good_a_22033158/, HuffPostal) | 10/11/21 |
SO - 4 Consult WHO CPTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Matt Contreras 1NC – Consult WHO CPText: the member nations of the World Trade Organization should engage in binding prior consultation with the World Health Organization for an evidence-based analysis of ~plan~ impact on pharmaceutical innovationThe WHO has authority and solvesWTO et al 20 ~World Trade Organization, World Health Organization and World Intellectual Property Organization, 2020 "Promoting Access to Medical Technologies and Innovation Intersections between public health, intellectual property and trade 2nd Edition" WTO, WIPO, WHO, Accessed 8-8-2021, https://www.wto.org/english/res_e/booksp_e/who-wipo-wto_2020_e.pdf ww
WHO says yes – it supports increasing the availability of generics and limiting TRIPSHoen 03 ~(Ellen T., researcher at the University Medical Centre at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands who has been listed as one of the 50 most influential people in intellectual property by the journal Managing Intellectual Property, PhD from the University of Groningen) "TRIPS, Pharmaceutical Patents and Access to Essential Medicines: Seattle, Doha and Beyond," Chicago Journal of International Law, 2003~ JL Consultation displays strong leadership, authority, and cohesion among member states which are key to WHO legitimacyGostin et al 15 ~(Lawrence O., Linda D. and Timothy J. O'Neill Professor of Global Health Law at Georgetown University, Faculty Director of the O'Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law, Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center on Public Health Law and Human Rights, JD from Duke University) "The Normative Authority of the World Health Organization," Georgetown University Law Center, 5/2/2015~ JL The WHO plays a key role in responses to pandemics and disease outbreaksKuznetsova 20 ~Lidia Kuznetsova "COVID-19: The World Community Expects the World Health Organization to Play a Stronger Leadership and Coordination Role in Pandemics Control" Published: Public Health, September 8, 2020~ ~https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00470~~ ~Kuznetsova: Faculty of Medicine, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.~ || SM Specifically, WHO credibility key to compliance with recommendationsKuznetsova 20 ~Lidia Kuznetsova "COVID-19: The World Community Expects the World Health Organization to Play a Stronger Leadership and Coordination Role in Pandemics Control" Published: Public Health, September 8, 2020~ ~https://doi.org/10.3389/fpubh.2020.00470~~ ~Kuznetsova: Faculty of Medicine, Barcelona Institute for Global Health, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.~ || SM Causes ExtinctionPiers Millett 17, Consultant for the World Health Organization, PhD in International Relations and Affairs, University of Bradford, Andrew Snyder-Beattie, "Existential Risk and Cost-Effective Biosecurity", Health Security, Vol 15(4), http://online.liebertpub.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1089/hs.2017.0028 | 9/19/21 |
SO 1 - Disclosure v2Tournament: Jack Howe | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dougherty Valley TM | Judge: Valorie Lam T – DisclosureInterpretation: Debaters must disclose the 1AC with cites and open source on the 2021-2022 NDCA wiki or tell the negative what the 1AC will be and if there are any changes to said 1AC 30 minutes prior to the round, and must disclose a reasonable method of contact.Violations: They didn't — SC in the doc prove – they literally only have one round open sourced with no cites or any method of contact
Standards:1~ Research - disclosure allows debaters to pursue more information on an opponent's case and exposes us to more literature. More reading means we get the most holistic education from the preparation process, rather than having the shallow process of reactionary guessing of what the affirmative would be.2~ Strategy – I'm able to prepare a much better neg strategy which allows the aff to be tested to a much greater depth which in turn leads to the best rounds and most education.3~ Ethics – its ethical to disclose for a few reasons. 1. Online it lets us still debate with poor internet connection which is key to retain accessibility. Ie I can see the aff before the round and prepare a strat incase my internet goes down during the round 2. It allows us to make sure that the evidence that is being read is not being misrepresented and is legit which is almost impossible in round.4~ Reciprocity – I've open sourced all of my positions on the neg and they haven't told me what aff they are reading this round which makes it impossible for me to prepare before the round but they can prepare against me.5~ It's a question of norms – even if there isn't in round abuse you can still vote negative that we are the best norms for debateVoter:1~ Education and fairness – not disclosing kills our ability to engage with the aff which kills education and fairness which must be prioritized.2~ Inclusivity is a voter - the ballot is supposed to test the argumentative capacity of the debater. We should strive to eliminate external influence over this decision.DTD –A~ Deters future abuseB~ Drop the arg cant solve – the abuse has already happenedCompeting interps –A~ Reasonability is Arbitrary and invites judge intervention – impossible to determine what is reasonable, which means debating over specific interps is best and we don't know you're bs meter or what you think is reasonableB~ Intervention – judges have to intervene and determine what is reasonable which is bad bc it forces judges to make decisions along preferred biases, which causes biased and possibly discriminatory decisions.C~ Collapses – we would just debate over the bright line which is functionally competing interps
No RVI'sA~ Baiting – that invites maximally abusive praxis bc people will just prep out the shellB~ Chilling – if we drop by trying to enforce a norm that we think is good then we wont do it again – this means were never able to create norms which ows on magnitudeC~ Illogical – you shouldn't win for meeting your burden if that was the case, affs could just win by saying they affirm the topic. | 9/18/21 |
SO 2 - Cap v layTournament: La Vernia | Round: 2 | Opponent: Priyanka Nagalla | Judge: Woody Bratcher 1NC – EscalanteFailure to understand how IPR are situated within the capitalist frameworks overlooks the root cause and problematizes the symptoms, a Marxist analysis of TRIPS and WTO are desperately needed to understand the topic which comes before the aff.Rikowski 06 ~(Ruth Rikowski is the author of Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements, Chandos publishers, 2005.)|A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights~ Comrade PW The aff is essentially an appeal to ethical capitalism – as if regulating the markets, controlling the prices can ensure capitalism becomes more moralRoberts 19 ~(Inquiry Lead @ Volans. Fascinated by the future of business, sustainability and politics.) "Making Markets Moral - Volans - Medium." Medium, Volans, 28 Nov. 2019, medium.com/volans/making-markets-moral-8b45c953936e. Accessed 18 Aug. 2021.~ PW The WTO is rooted in corporate capitalism – it is established to ensure that corporate-lead globalization will not be interruptedJohns et al 10 ~(Fleur Johns is Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney, working in the areas of public international law, legal theory, and law and technology.)( Sundhya Pahuja is the Director of Melbourne Law School's Institute for International Law and the Humanities.)( Dr Richard Joyce is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, PhD practised as a solicitor in the intellectual property group of a leading Australian law firm.)Events: The Force of International Law | "The Emergence of the World Trade Organization"~ PW Capitalism causes every impact—poverty, inequality, democratic decline, disease, climate change, women and worker exploitation, and nuclear warFoster 19 (John, PhD from York University, Professor at the University of Oregon Department of Sociology, "Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?," Monthly Review, 2/1/19, https://monthlyreview.org/2019/02/01/capitalism-has-failed-what-next/, JLin) The alternative is to affirm the model of the Communist Party – only the Party can provide effective accountability mechanisms to correct chauvinist tendencies, educate and mobilize marginalized communities, and connect local struggles to a movement for international liberation
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SO 2 - Cap K v Colonial CapitalismTournament: Loyola | Round: 2 | Opponent: Presentation NR | Judge: Ronak Ahuja 1NC – KThe aff's refusal of coalitional politics reproduces settler violence by making solidarity against neoliberal colonial violence impossible – our choice to forefront challenges to neoliberal structures prevents destruction of native lands and creates effective challenges to settlerismSalma Monani 16, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies @ Gettysburg College, Ecocriticism and Indigenous Studies: Conversations from Earth to Cosmos, p.ebook Class is a key starting point—not to obscure intersecting inequalities, but to historicize them and address the engines of mass oppressionTaylor 11 ~Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, on the editorial board of the International Socialist Review and a doctoral student in African American Studies at Northwestern University; "Race, class and Marxism," SocialistWorker.org, http://socialistworker.org/2011/01/04/race-class-and-marxism~~ Class focus is absolutely necessary to combat exclusion—the affirmatives politics aims towards reconciliation and cultural inclusion—class antagonism strives for annihilation. Examining isolated aspects of identity at the expense of class obscures the way class structures other antagonisms into chains of meaning.Zizek 12, senior researcher at the Institute for Sociology and Philosophy, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, international director of the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities and a professor of philosophy and psychoanalysis at the European Graduate School Failure to understand how IPR are situated within the capitalist frameworks overlooks the root cause and problematizes the symptoms, a Marxist analysis of TRIPS and WTO are desperately needed to understand the topic which comes before the aff.Rikowski 06 ~(Ruth Rikowski is the author of Globalisation, Information and Libraries: the implications of the World Trade Organisation's GATS and TRIPS Agreements, Chandos publishers, 2005.)|A Marxist Analysis of the World Trade Organisation's Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights~ Comrade PW The WTO is rooted in corporate capitalism – it is established to ensure that corporate-lead globalization will not be interruptedJohns et al 10 ~(Fleur Johns is Professor in the Faculty of Law and Justice at UNSW Sydney, working in the areas of public international law, legal theory, and law and technology.)( Sundhya Pahuja is the Director of Melbourne Law School's Institute for International Law and the Humanities.)( Dr Richard Joyce is a Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Law at Monash University, PhD practised as a solicitor in the intellectual property group of a leading Australian law firm.)Events: The Force of International Law | "The Emergence of the World Trade Organization"~ PW Capitalism causes every impact—poverty, inequality, democratic decline, disease, climate change, women and worker exploitation, and nuclear warFoster 19 (John, PhD from York University, Professor at the University of Oregon Department of Sociology, "Capitalism Has Failed—What Next?," Monthly Review, 2/1/19, https://monthlyreview.org/2019/02/01/capitalism-has-failed-what-next/, JLin) The alternative is to affirm the model of the Communist Party – only the Party can provide effective accountability mechanisms to correct chauvinist tendencies, educate and mobilize marginalized communities, and connect local struggles to a movement for international liberation
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SO 2 - Psychoanalysis KTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 2 | Opponent: Dougherty Valley TM | Judge: Valorie Lam 1NC – KThe subject emerges from a communicative gap from the symbolic to the real. The 1ac is refuses to recognize the impossibility of the real. IPR and FTA's are purely symbolic, but the 1ac claims that they are real constructs. Their refusal to recognize the ontology of FTA and IPR sustains hope that the real can be returned too – the K controls the root cause of identity formationOwen PhD 16 ~Thomas Owen "Lacan, Laclau, and the Impossibility of Free Trade" Published: Medianz, Vol 16, No 2, 2016~ ~https://doi.org/10.11157/medianz-vol17iss2id207~~ ~Owen: PhD Massey University. Auckland University of Technology School of Communication. Lectured for Victoria University of Wellington's Media Studies Program and Massey University School of Communication, Journalism, and Marketing.~ MNHS NL cut || SM ====Wanting to win is another link – They desire to fulfill the lack through getting the ballot – but that would only serve to fuel resentment – they won't succeed in fulfilling their desires which is the root of why violence happens in the first place – we are the lesser of the 2 evils ==== ====We want things in life – that doesn't mean we will get it – but we act like we will – this creates immense violence, as those who see the other as an object of hatred lash out – turns case bc we control the root cause for why violence happens==== The alternative is to embrace the lack – that doesn't mediate anxiety but rather confronts its relationship to desire and the other through the process of enjoyment, thus the ROB is the Traverse the FantasyMcgowan 13 ( Todd Mcgowan., Associate Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Vermont (Todd, Enjoying What We Don't Have: A Psychoanalytic Politics, University of Nebraska, 2013) | 9/18/21 |
SO 3 - Midterms DATournament: La Vernia | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Michelle Antony | Judge: Justin Goosman 1NC – Midterms DADems win now – but the margins are razor thing – Texas abortion ban is going to rally dems to the polls – answers all thumpersBehrmann and Bailey ~2 days ago~ 9-9 ~Savannah Behrmann, Congressional Reporter at USA TODAY. Previously, she was a News Associate at CNN. Savannah hails originally from Utah, and attended George Mason University., Phillip M. Bailey, National political correspondent, 9-9-2021, "Texas abortion law could hurt Republicans in 2022 midterm elections, experts say" USA Today, Accessed 9-11-2021, https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2021/09/09/texas-abortion-law-may-hurt-republicans-2022-midterms-experts-say/570180001/ ww The aff is massively unpopular – majority of voters oppose the aff – regardless of political affiliationSchulte 5-4 ~Gabriela Schulte, 5-4-2021, "Poll: Majority oppose proposal to temporarily waive intellectual property rights on COVID-19 vaccines" The Hill, Accessed 8-11-2021, https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/551797-poll-majority-oppose-proposal-to-temporarily-waive-intellectual ww Midterm success k2 long term climate initiativesPiotrowski et al 20 ~Matt Piotrowski and Emma McMahon and Joshua McBee and Kyle Saukas, 12-14-2020, "Biden's Climate Path Through the 2022 Midterms" Climate Advisers, https://climateadvisers.org/blogs/bidens-climate-path-up-to-the-2022-midterms/ ww Extinction.Kareiva 18 ~Peter,Ph.D. in ecology and applied mathematics from Cornell University, director of the Institute of the Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, Pritzker Distinguished Professor in Environment and Sustainability at UCLA, et al., September 2018, "Existential risk due to ecosystem collapse: Nature strikes back," Futures, Vol. 102, p. 39-50 | 9/13/21 |
SO 4 - Price Controls CPTournament: La Vernia | Round: Quarters | Opponent: Michelle Antony | Judge: Justin Goosman 1NC – Price Controls CPText: The member nations of the world trade organization should reform their price control polices for PharmaceuticalsThat solvesLee Et Al 5-6 ~Kah Seng Lee, Yaman, Nur Akmar Taha, Zainol Akbar Zainal, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Cyberjaya, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia. Walid Kassab, Faculty of Pharmacy, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Puncak Alam, Selangor, Malaysia. "A systematic review of pharmaceutical price mark-up practice and its implementation" Exploratory Research in Clinical and Social Pharmacy, Volume 2, available online 5-6-2021, Accessed 6-27-2021, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rcsop.2021.100020. Ww | 9/13/21 |
SO 4 - Volentary Licence CPTournament: Loyola | Round: 4 | Opponent: Harvard-Westlake NL | Judge: Ishan Rereddy 1NC – CPText: The Member nations of the World Trade Organization should incentivize COVID-19 Vaccine manufactures to enter voluntary license agreements.The counterplan solves – Waiving IP proper would not solve due to generic manufactures not having the know how to create the vaccine – voluntary licenses bypass this.Silverman 3-15 ~Rachel Silverman, Policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, 3-15-2021,"Waiving vaccine patents won't help inoculate poorer nations" The Washington Post, Accessed 8-15-2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/03/15/vaccine-coronavirus-patents-waive-global-equity/ ww | 9/13/21 |
SO 5 - UtilTournament: Jack Howe | Round: 4 | Opponent: Christopher Columbus AM | Judge: Matt Contreras 1NC – UtilThe standard is Maximizing expected well-being –1~ Binding – pain and pleasure are the only things with intrinsic value and disvalue – if I put my hand on a hot stove I will pull away – ethics must be binding bc if they arent then its impossible to generate obligations2~ Death is bad – it's impossible to pursue pleasure if you are dead, that means that we should always try to prevent death to give subjects the ability to pursue pleasure.3~ Actor specificity – Governments have the obligation to maximize the pleasure of their citizens – proven through laws that are desiged to stop pain towards other subjects – Drunk driving laws, murder, robbery ect.4~ Moral uncertainty means extinction first | 9/19/21 |
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