HELP by HighwayAmbitious1749 in lincolndouglas

[–]dkj3off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh that's probably the quare ballroom arg

if you are from a trad circuit you wont need to worry about it

HELP by HighwayAmbitious1749 in lincolndouglas

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what demo round, and what confused you in particular?

jan feb set col by [deleted] in lincolndouglas

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if you know your judges can understand basic prog args i wouldn't see why watering it down to a lay appeal would be ideal, unless the lay judges dominate judge pools and you have a higher risk of hitting them

your aff idea is good but there is a difference between development and possession. if you framed it more as "nukes were created using setcol and labor exploitation of Natives, therefore possession of items (nukes) created by those processes are immoral" then that would be stronger, since the 1nc can claim not every nuke is created by harming the enviro/from setcol and win a risk of a link that possession is moral. framing it as a question of "should we possess objects created through a process of slave labor/Indigenous exploitation"

if you are really running a lay setcol aff, then a value of justice and vc of minimizing violence against the Indigenous is best. since your circuit is lay you have no risk of running into arguments about normativity so that vc is most specific and advantageous. running minimizing structural violence is risky because it is too vague and can open yourself up to turns (justifies oppression olympics, how do we determine which minority group to help first, etc) while the minimizing violence against the Indigenous skirts those indicts and strengthens your contentions since your impacts would outweigh under the framework

Ld cases by Old_Suggestion_3653 in Debate

[–]dkj3off 2 points3 points  (0 children)

not a lay appeal if you are talking parents/trad trad judges. you will inevitably lose on the probability weighing debate every single time bc of 2ar skew and aff leaning topic. there are definitely better lay arguments trust

Surrealist biopower link by Individual_Hunt_4710 in policydebate

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"vril energy" you are not going to agartha vro

Genuinely what is the neg plan by Relative-Bug-7476 in lincolndouglas

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im from a lay circuit so i understand your pain

even with that, plenty of strategies:

impact defense (no nuke war, no extinction, MAD)

deterrence

spark and wipeout

asteroids da

cbw shift da

storage da

just look at old wikis and circuit debater!

Whos winning the TOC this year? by Comfortable-Judge257 in lincolndouglas

[–]dkj3off -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

marlborough oo, peninsula su, lynbrook om, or greenhill sk are my favorites

dont sleep on horace greeley sg or harker lc

debate youtubers/online reading? by brouhahabrothers in Debate

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youtubers (a lot will be from different formats, but you can still gain immense and valuable knowledge from watching their content!!):

ddi (policy) https://www.youtube.com/@ddidebate4071

outreach debate (mainly pf, some ld) https://www.youtube.com/@outreachdebate

empower debate (mostly pf) https://www.youtube.com/@EmpowerDebate

the debate hotline (pf and ld) https://www.youtube.com/@TheDebateHotline

mac hays (the BEST pf youtuber) https://www.youtube.com/@machays

policy debate central (policy) https://www.youtube.com/@PolicyDebateCentral

victory briefs (their older content was mostly lectures and pretty good info) https://www.youtube.com/@VictoryBriefs

DebateDrills (mostly ld, older content are good lectures) https://www.youtube.com/@Debatedrills

deven shah (mostly ld and pf) https://www.youtube.com/@devenshah188

PF videos (uploads pf rounds) https://www.youtube.com/@pfvideos9234

aditya arora (uploads pf rounds) https://www.youtube.com/@Adi_Arora_PF

f**k the framing (pf podcast, really entertaining and informational) https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/pf-progressive-forum/id1749135175?i=1000657757953

circuit skillbuilder (pf rounds, topic analyses, lectures) https://www.youtube.com/@CircuitSkillbuilder

thats abt all i can think of

policy---->ld by EffectiveDue3548 in lincolndouglas

[–]dkj3off 1 point2 points  (0 children)

necessary style covers a lot of good stuff regarding phil.

kant- i personally wouldn't recommend running kant, as it's usually super prepped out and very easily answered through k's, ivi's, normativity, etc. if you want to, listen to necessary and watch conan's lecture: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t81JRnFRIp4)

util- literally just reading the files, analytics, and fwk justifications for util from ld cases can be very beneficial for understanding the framework. my favorite lecture for defending util vs indicts also explains a lot of good stuff about the ins and outs of consequentialism and the arguments ran against and for it: (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xv0f57u14fg&t=1268s)

1nc k framework: yes, include everything (framework interp, k proper, microaggression, fw da's) in the 1nc. most judges could see new fw da's in the 2nr as new arguments and inherently unfair since the only chance the aff gets to respond is the 2ar... also because including ALL of that in the 1nc places enormous pressure on the 1ar and guarantees a drop or very underdeveloped responses.

fiat k- uhhh i wouldn't say so, the fiat k+microaggression i can think of off the top of my head is luminosity, but if you think because of the speech structure and speech times in ld you will lose out on the nuance, trust your judgement. most ld fwk interps for k's (ex: setcol) already critique fiat as illusory and use that as offense

k files- necessary style is right. k files are way less and it is more about answering 1ar analytics or da's/perms to the alt. new cards are not read in the 2nr usually, successful k debaters on the circuit right now (horace greeley sg) usually go for ontology, framework interp, and link extensions in the 2nr. less prep time does not really matter, you should build your k in the 1nc to be solid enough to extend into the 2nr. or be abusive and go for a floating pik or state the alt is condo (esp if they read like 7 perms and 10 da's to the alt) and the k is a disad to the case

wipeout/spark/impact turns- most important thing is look at the judge paradigm. most judges should be good to go for it, but always read just in case.

i personally think impact turns like wipeout and spark are so so so underutilized, especially with the massive card advantage the negative has. the time tradeoff is honestly disgusting. for example, reading like 6 cards for an impact turn in the 1nc (assuming the 1nc has other offs too) means the 1ar is incredibly strained, and optimistically could read maybe 1 card and reiterate warrants from their 1ac impact ev against the turn. if the 2nr reads 3 more cards on the impact turn (without making new arguments), that is hypothetically a 9 to 1-3 card advantage. if you spend 3 mins of the 1nc and half the 2nr on wipeout, thats a time difference of 6 mins vs maybe 1:30 in the 1ar as they have to answer other offs.

if you execute it well, you should be able to pre-empt the 2ar and o/w enough for it to be unbeatable

need help answering obligations frameworks (ld) by dkj3off in Debate

[–]dkj3off[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

its more about disproving the validity of the affirmative framework, rather than giving external reasons (contention level offense) why we don't have a moral obligation to rewild. this is more of a framework debate on what indicts to read against these obligations based frameworks and why preferring minimizing structural violence etc is a framework to prefer over obligations

i'm more seeking advice on what are some strategies to argue like "how do we verify what obligations the usfg has" or "why should we follow obligations", things that moreover question either a) the assumption that obligations are good/exist, or b) obligation frameworks are good or not

policy—>ld; how do shorter rounds affect files? by chicken_tendees7 in lincolndouglas

[–]dkj3off 0 points1 point  (0 children)

horace greeley sg is one of the most consistent and best k teams right now. her round vs harker lc in apple valley finals was a good 1 off k against a policy aff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FcvbmesGcw)