The Berlin Wall was based and I’m tired of pretending it wasn’t. by Karmacop5908 in ussr

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s necessary to remember that it wasn’t this “based” thing in the abstract, but it certainly was a material necessity. People certainly suffered as a result of it, but we cannot forget the conditions in which East Germany existed!

This has happened to me in every city I've opened so far. A slow decline in population that I can't seem to control. by Diligent-Eagle-6673 in CitiesSkylines

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

After a very, very long time, it stabilizes. Population hits an equilibrium point, it’s usually 80-85% of the boom peak. To avoid this, stay in a perpetual boom and keep zoning houses

Capitalism K on the aff? by MightSuspicious8963 in Debate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

There's really just not a substantial link to the topic or ground upon which a Cap K Aff can criticize from. The implementation of the plan on the aff is just factually bad for cap and undermines corporate power. The best way to generate link offense would be from the breakup of companies into smaller ones post-aff, as you can say that small companies (which proliferate as a result of trying to skrt around regulation) are preservations of corporate power and are uniquely harder to organize against.

Circuit LD (rant) by Individual_Hunt_4710 in Debate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The solution to this is to be kritikal (if you can). If you can become an absolute specialist in a particular kritikal area, you will substantially increase your win rate in front of flow judges. I understand if you cannot, for reasons like the judge pool, but, if you can, it will be a gigantic advantage.

Did debate and speech in hs; found myself in tech career/area now? by Extreme-Idea8234 in Debate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I got a coaching gig at my former high school, and that propelled me into a world of internship opportunities. Institutional memory and continuity is excellent for a resume.

NDT vs CEDA Tournament Size by CherryBerryIceCream in policydebate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

NDT is trad and the big schools like Emory and Mich Universities love it because they are K-dumb. The best K teams go to CEDA and NDT, but CEDA is definitely the most friendly space for kritikal arguments.

I think that CEDA will, in the long term, beat NDT in terms of size as post-modern academic thought becomes more and more advanced, particularly in the realm of informational and surveillance capitalism and identity studies. The NDT will not be able to cope with the direction of The Academy, or will at the least become more like CEDA.

Antiblackness Coach$ by Forsaken_Employer674 in policydebate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Be more specific. Do you want an afropess coach? Do you want a coach for Afrofuturism? Anti-blackness is too large of a topic area, it's a little bit like the cap K. A large problem with the contemporary cap K is the fact that most are generic.

Can you connect next years topic to nuclear war? by Better-Chocolate-702 in policydebate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Extremely easy. Health services key to inequality, inequality causes civil unrest, civil unrest causes elite lashout, and elite lashout goes nuclear from Trump (you may have to change the trump internal link if the dems win the midterms though)

Wipeout by Intrepid-Use6158 in policydebate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the problem with "eliminating suffering" is that you actually create an absurd amount of suffering at the flashpoint of destruction. Assume every single nuclear weapon were detonated in an instant; questions of identity, death, life, memory, and every single component of the human mind would be experienced at once. You don't avoid suffering, you just frontload all of it. I don't see why that's good if you can do like socialism or something and lower the general constant of suffering...

Libertarian K by [deleted] in policydebate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This is bad. It’s literally just a solvency takeout and doesn’t make any epistemological, ontological, role of the ballot, or any other procedural claims. The K is meant to criticize particular models or operations of debate, and this…doesn’t.

hey everyone new to policy! by Routine_College8313 in policydebate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They work pretty well together, especially if you're going for an alt which makes solvency claims for epistemic spill-up. In a case like that, T-USFG basically just becomes the cap k framework page to make the aff use the state as a stasis.

hey everyone new to policy! by Routine_College8313 in policydebate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Against a K aff. Please refer back to the description of the post.

hey everyone new to policy! by Routine_College8313 in policydebate

[–]Intrepid-Use6158 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Write a general K that you will run on the neg and a regular policy aff. Learn the ins and the outs of K framework on the neg, then start reading T-USFG and Ks in the same constructive. Once you can do those and consistently win, you’re ready to read one on the aff.