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Virilio K
By FlashMaster
Very strategic and simple kritik. It links to almost any aff and has good turns case arguments. Contains block overviews and answers to the generic answers most people will make.
This is a good file to have in your back pocket. You can catch people off-guard or use it as a generic critique when you have nothing else to say.
Table of Contents
Virilio K.. 1
1NC Shell [1/2] 2
1NC Shell [2/2] 3
****LINKS****. 4
Link: Extinction. 5
Link: Disaster Representations. 6
Link: Communications. 7
Link: Communications. 8
Link: Deterrence. 9
Link: Military Technology. 10
Link: Military Technology. 11
Link: Hegemony. 12
Link: Hegemony. 13
Link: Economics. 14
Link: Ecology. 15
Link – Terrorism... 16
*****Impacts*****. 17
Impact – Extinction. 18
Impact – Nuclear War 20
Impact – Totalitarianism... 21
Impact – Ethics. 22
Impact – Value to Life. 23
*****Alternative*****. 24
Alt Solvency – Eschatology. 25
Alt Solvency – Ethics. 26
Alt Solvency – Resistance. 27
2NC/1NR Overview.. 28
*****Other Business*****. 29
AT: Perm... 30
AT: Perm...31
AT: Perm... 32
AT: Realism... 33
AT: Cede the Political 34
AT: Nuke War Outweighs. 35
AT: We Solve War 36
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Thirst for Annihilation K
A Bataille Cap K that relies heavily on Nick Land's Thirst for Annihilation reading though is supported by a diversity of other authors. Can function as a K of many other anti-cap affirmatives and many affs that just take the economy as a mechanism or management task.
A brief explanation of the argument:
Against most (neo)Marx affs or any aff that deals with the economy for the most part this is a method criticism about the ontological/epistemic implications of framing debates in terms of scarcity, productivity, waste, etc. Argues that this framing is what sustains the destructive logics of growth that most critical approaches to the economy attempt to address. Our framing ought to be in terms of excess and solar economies of matter and energy since economic productivity and exchange are often thermodynamic questions. We ought not fear loss, we ought not frame political economy in a productive/wasteful paradigm, we should embrace a solar sovereign (I like to joke Sun King) position, exchange dictated by play not by the question of loss and lack.
Or phrased on other terms, Marxists and many anti-capitalists and even progrowth capitalists more broadly are trying to resolve the question of entropy in economic systems as though this is a negative or problem to be resolved that's just a matter of some inefficiency. Entropy is inevitable and creative, the universe and our relationship to it and the planet are thermodynamic, the economy is not a closed/restricted system, and thus, to borrow from the title of Land's book, 'thirsts for its annihilation.'
1NC Shell 1
Link – Law.. 5
Link – Marxism/Capital Crisis. 6
Link – Marxism... 7
Link – Marxism... 8
Link – Hegelian Marxists (Zizek) 9
Link – Revolution. 10
Link – Revolution. 11
Link/Solvency – Revolution. 12
Link – Revolution (Redistributive) 14
Link – Nature Preservation/Species Die-Off. 15
Link – Food/Animals. 16
Link – Sustainable Energy/Dev/Environment 18
Link – Utility. 20
Link – Independent Subject 21
Link – God. 23
Link – Morality/Justice. 24
Impact – Value to Life. 25
AT What does “Unproductive Expenditure Meanâ€. 26
Alt Solvency/AT Cap = Enjoyment 29
Alt Solvency – Crapitalism’s Bad Shit 30
Alt Solves – Ecology. 31
Alt Solvency – Ethics. 32
Alt Solvency – Left Wing Metaphysics. 33
Alt Solvency – Sovereignty. 34
Accursed Share Best/Inevitable. 35
K Comes First 37
K Comes First 38
K Pre-req to Aff. 39
Historically Refusal of Excess à Subject/Object 41
AT Perm – No NB.. 43
AT Perm – Carrying Capacity DA.. 44
AT Perm – Starting Points. 45
AT Bataille = Cap. 46
AT Bataille = Anarchy. 47
AT Empirically Growth Solves War 48
AT Economic Theory/Policy Based Cap Good. 50
AT Economic Theory/Policy Based Cap Good. 51
AT Psychoanalysis. 52
Mass Revolt Fails. 53
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"Victim" PIK
By RyeZOAM
The argument is that when people (academics, journalists, writers) use the word “victim†to describe people who have been done violence or abuse, it creates stigmas surrounding the construction of that identity of victimhood—this can include things like inferiority, passivity, images of being “damagedâ€, etc. Most importantly, not everyone who has been done violence identifies as a victim willingly, which is why it is important that when we speak of violence, we need to be careful about how we discursively construct those whom we are speaking for (or speaking to).
This is a useful file to keep in your tub for critical affirmatives claiming a moral high-ground—you would be surprised at how much critical literature uses rhetoric of victimization. A control + F search of their doc is a quick litmus test for a link.
There is a quasi-alternative which is to use the word “survivor†instead of “victimâ€â€”whether or not you want to spin this as a floating PIK is up to you—which can be useful to check things like case as offense or net benefits to the perm
This file also includes some generic (yet effective) evidence and blocks to answer the go-to reactions to language Ks (apology, language policing, reps don’t shape reality, etc) which can be applied to other language or discourse Ks that you already have.
Closing sell—all of the evidence in this file is original research and high-quality. This file should provide you the tools to catch even some skilled teams off guard. ADDITIONALLY: while this is filed under the “Critiques†section, and has “1NC†as the block header, you could viably go for this on the affirmative if you make the argument that we should try to solve proximate violence first (in this case discursive) instead of the substance of your affirmative—this is also an offensive reason for not going for your Aff if this is the 2AR and they read an aff condo argument.
P.S. Also includes full block overviews and extensions!
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Security K Core - ARGogate
By ARGogate
Note: File price reduced
Hey everyone
This is the security k. Form matches function; the file is constructed to be just as versatile as the argument itself. The two 1nc shells, long and short, are there depending on the 1nc commitment you want to make. I'll highlight a few must-read cards and then general strategies.
1nc burke -
it's makes a ton of different arguments - root cause, aff impacts not real, war impact, util bad, and even a perm answer. it's referenced a bunch in the 2nc blocks, and is a great all-purpose arg.
2nc bilgin -
beginning discussions at the intellectual level is a better way to approach policy. it cites empirics of grassroots movements that have been taken upstream to be successfully implemented as policy, which is a classic arg against aff framework cards. this card makes the arguments that all security k debaters have to win eventually, that our academic discourse DOES matter.
the rest of the K is modular. the impacts can be read anywhere from the overview to the perm debate. whenever the aff talks about "our specific _____" you should pull lines from their evidence and incorporate those lines into the link blocks. for big Ks like aerospace, there are 1nc links in the link section, so make sure you check those out before round
finally, you'll be coming across the zenko and cohen article quite a few times in this file as well as the full text of the article at the bottom. the article characterizes this version of the security K well - this is the security K you read in front of judges who don't like or don't understand the K. it's written so that the impacts are very policy-friendly (see: impact calc) and salient to a wide range of affs across many topics. despite being a generic, it can be an argument that is easy to make very aff-specific.
good luck and happy debating
Contents
1NC Shells. 2
1NC—Security K (Short). 3
1NC—Security K (Long). 6
Top-Level Answers. 11
Framework. 12
K Prior. 13
Impact Calc. 16
Actor-Network Tracing. 18
Alt Solvency. 19
Death is an Illusion. 24
AT—Perm: Both. 26
AT—Perm: Other Instances. 29
AT—Perm: Judge Choice. 30
AT—Perm: Cozette. 31
AT—Cede the Political 32
AT—Threats Real 34
AT—Nye: Policy Relevance. 35
AT—Rotter: Focus on Materiality. 37
AT—Schweller: No Paranoia. 38
AT—Owen: Critical Turn Bad. 39
AT—Rasch: Enmity Good. 41
AT—Wendt: Inevitability. 45
AT—Pinker: Wars Down. 49
AT—Kaufman: No Impact 51
AT—Kraus: Reception Theory. 53
AT—Coyne: Falsifiability. 56
AT—Fitzsimmons: Complexity Bad. 58
AT—Jones: No Alt Solvency. 59
AT—Gunning: Pragmatism... 60
AT—Kurasawa: Predictions. 61
AT—Non-Unique Disad. 62
AT—Alt = Transition Wars. 64
AT—Threatcon K2 Action. 65
Realism Debate. 65
R—2NC.. 66
R—Psychoanalysis. 68
R—Fails. 70
R—Self-Fulfilling Prophecy. 71
AT—Human Nature. 72
AT—History. 75
AT—Defensive Realism... 76
AT—Mearshimer. 77
AT—Waltz. 79
AT—Guzzini 80
Impact Debate. 80
I—Arms Race***. 81
I—Cooperation. 83
I—Dehum***. 84
I—Ethnocentric Thinking***. 85
I—Interventionism***. 87
I—Racist Scholarship***. 88
I—Social Militarism... 89
I—Social Progress***. 90
Link Debate. 91
L—Agriculture. 92
L—All Purpose. 94
L—Arctic. 96
L—Aerospace—1NC.. 104
Morrissey 2011. 108
L—Biosecurity. 110
L—China—1NC.. 111
L—China—XTN.. 112
L—China—Epistemology. 115
L—Competitiveness—1NC.. 117
L—Competitiveness—XTN.. 118
L—Competitiveness—F/W... 122
L—Competitiveness—Epistemology. 125
L—Cybersecurity. 128
L—Death Impacts. 129
L—Democratization. 132
L—Deterrence. 133
L—Drones. 135
L—Economy. 138
L—Environment—1NC.. 142
L—Environment—XTN.. 144
L—Environment—Epistemology. 151
L—Environment—Scapegoating. 152
L—Environment—AT—Mobilization. 154
Apocalypticism... 154
Buell 3. 154
L—Environment—Alt Solves. 161
L—Hegemony. 162
L—Iran—1NC.. 166
L—Iran—XTN.. 168
L—India. 175
L—Infrastructure. 177
L—Infrastructure Terrorism... 181
L—Japan. 183
L—Korea. 186
L—Latin America. 192
L—Linearity. 194
L—Nanotech. 198
L—Nuke War. 199
L—Prolif—1NC.. 200
L—Prolif—XTN.. 207
L—Prolif—AT—Universal Opposition. 209
L—Prolif—AT—Perm... 210
L—Prolif—Epistemology. 214
L—Resolve. 216
L—Russia. 220
L—Space Mil 221
L—Trade. 227
Bottom-Level Answers. 229
Utopianism Good. 230
K Debate Good. 231
AIK.. 232
AIKs Good. 233
Vagueness Good. 234
Important—2013. 234
Must Read. 235
2NR Materials. 243
2NR—Impact Overview.. 244
2NR—Ethics Impact 245
2NR—Framework. 246
2NR XT—Bruce/Dean*** (H.A.M. Version). 247
2NR—AT Specificity/Solvency. 248
2NC—Psychoanalysis. 249
2NR—Cede the Political 250
2NR—Competitiveness K—Link. 251
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Schmitt K
It's a critique of liberal utopianism as well as Cap Bad affirmatives and K affs that claim to change the nature of politics. Enmity is at the core of our existence, the only question is how do we regulate and direct violence, doing otherwise pushes it underground and causes swings to the right. It's an argument that's fallen out of popularity but I think is ripe for a comeback and some of these cards are the best you'll find to roll with Schmitt against these affs.
Zizek/Rev K 1NC.. 2
Derrida/Etc K 1NC.. 8
Liberalism/Policy K 1NC.. 13
2NC Stuff (Liberalism/Policy K) 19
Link – Liberalism... 21
Link – Liberalism/Civil Society. 22
Link – Moderation/Hearts and Minds. 24
Link – Parliamentary Democracy. 26
Link – Democracy/Human Rights. 28
Link – Human Rights. 29
Link – Human Rights. 30
Link – International Law.. 32
Link – Radical Democracy. 34
Link – Radical Democracy. 35
Link – Demo K Affs. 36
Link – Derrida/Undecidability. 37
Link – Agamben/Divisions Inevitable. 38
Link – Communist Revolution.. 39
Link – Revolution/AT Perm... 40
Division Inevitable. 41
Impact – Extinction.. 42
Impact – Extinction.. 44
Impact – Total War. 44
Impact – Permanent Universal War. 47
Impact – Booms. 49
Impact – HR-->Extermination.. 50
Alt – Conflict as Vocation.. 51
Alt – Lines in the Sand.. 53
Alt – Affirm Division.. 56
Alt Solvency – Divisions Good.. 58
Alt Solvency – Ethics/The Other. 59
AT Alt --> Violence. 60
No Enmity --> No Politics. 61
AT Rethinking.. 62
AT Ontology First 63
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Food Security Discourse Kritik
By RyeZOAM
The Security K has been a popular file being put up to Evazon, and they are always useful on multiple topics.
This one is uniquely strategic for this topic because of the series of Affs that will have agriculture or food-based impacts from Latin American trade. The link and impact evidence is very specific to the framing of food insecurity (over say, soy beans) as a terminal crisis, as well as the typical solution to somehow increase production rates. the specificity in general will make it a struggle for the Aff to spin their generic security answers against this K.
This kritik has a neolib/imperialism ring to it: it criticizes this framing because it is ultimately used to cover up the negative implications of the way that we actually distribute food that is produced, and how those that grow it are hurt. The impacts go the structural violence route with some resource wars and instability turns-case arguments to keep the Aff on their toes.
I think the most strategic part of the K is the alt--it's not your traditional rethinking security or rejection of securitization types of alts--this one advocates a pragmatic response to the way that institutions determine what food goes where that is also an interrogation of the way we frame food insecurity as a threat. What this means is that the typical "case is a DA to the alt" or typical institutional-action-based net benefits to the Perm aren't as responsive, and teams that go for them will be fighting an up-hill battle.
as always, feel free to contact me with any questions about the file, the lit, or other debate-related topics at mason5855[at]gmail[dot]com
TOC
***Discursive Food Security K***. 1
**Top Level**. 2
1NC. 3
Overview.. 7
**Framework**. 8
Role of the Ballot 9
A2 Judge Choice. 11
Oppressed voices first 12
**Perm Debate**. 13
A2 Perm.. 14
A2 Every Other Instance. 15
A2 Timeframe Perm.. 16
Multiple Perms Bad. 17
Gotta have a perm text 18
**A2 Other**. 19
A2 Cede the Political 20
A2 You don’t solve all structural violence. 21
A2 Threats Real/Outweigh. 22
A2 Realism Good/Inevitable. 24
A2 Neolib Good. 27
**Links/Impacts**. 28
Link—Economic Engagement 29
Impact—Structural Violence Trade-off 30
Impact—Structural violence/Farmer Suicides. 31
Impact—Structural Violence (Classics) 32
**Theory Debate**. 35
A2 Perf Con. 36
A2 Vague alts. 37
A2 Floating PIKs Bad. 38
A2 Condo Bad. 39
A2 Ks Bad. 40
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Security K, Complexity K, Neoliberalism K,+5Ks, Aff k toolbox,Framework
By The-Troll
This file now contains 8 ks see below for details
Version 3.1 now contains aff answers to lots of k tricks
Version 3.2
Racial Binary K
Updated links for security
Updated links for complexity
Aff cards
3.25
1. Psychoanalysis added
2. New Section (what the community wants)
3. New k Answers
3.26
1. Framework
2. New k Answers
3.27
Neoliberalism Kritik
3.28
AT: words pics
AT: Terror Talk
AT: Said K
3.29
Neg Framework-This is a stand alone entry and will be expand
3.30
K theory
3.31
AT K of t
AT CUOMO
AT Disease k
Full Table of Contents= http://www.mediafire.com/?x08bhoa46hj0yhs
(ps you have to download too view)
Side note the "what the community wants Section" is a section that anyone who pms me with an argument they want to see added i will look into adding it
Hi everyone as you can see this file has undergone a huge transformation. it started off as just a security k and now has evolved into 8 separate ks. Gained an Aff section which now contains Framework, K tool box, and AT:ks. My long term plan is to almost turn this into a "Thursday" file of Ks. So far 20 people have bought the file thanks for the support! I hope many more of you will purchase it and i hope it will be the best selling file on Cross Ex one day ! Now down to the nitty gritty stuff....... More information on whats included. In the negative section the first thing included is the Security k the best way to describe this is ready to go everything is prepped. I already updated the links for this years topic and will look into adding a few more things too it. The shell is short 3 cards this makes it easy to put in with almost any 1nc the strongest part of security part of the file is the Answers to affirmative arguments a lot of time went into making sure those were right. The next thing in the file is complexity. This is also ready to go its just the generic complexity k that we have all come to love but it has some great stuff in it and is better then anything else you will find on cross ex. it still needs some slight updating but it is for the most part ready to run. The Political k is a k that is used against teams that don't use the state. Im sure we all know what Anthro is the version included is a little more specific to k teams. The econ k is close to complexity but is more economic specific. Dynamics is a k of neoliberalism and energy combined. The Racial Binary k is used against race teams basically they don't allow for focus on other forms of racism. Neolib is what we all know just a neolib . Now to the aff section. Ok first thing is first framework its pretty good fully prepped and ready to go as it stands you could just go for framework against the neg. I will most likely add a few more things to it too in future updates. Next thing is the k tool box this is basically an answer to all the tricky and mean things that k teams read. Next is the Specific ks section that for the most part is just cards to read against those ks. Right now the Useful things section is just good generic perm evidence i will expand that later. And last but not least is the what the community wants section which right now just has an answer to one specific k.(k theory just added) I hope you guys like the file thanks for all the support!!!!
Note: This is only put under the Transportation topic because Latin America wasn't an option.
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K Toolbox Updates
This file is a collection of a few things:
Kritik framework updates and answers to basic alternative takeouts. Along with basic impact framing/prioritization args, I've included a number of pretty strong cards that should cover you on alt defense in the block, as well as a few pieces of external offense for controlling truth-claims and the like. I also threw in a handful of specific critical indicts of the Pinker study concerning rates of violence that people read as impact uniqueness against the K in the 2AC. These cards are almost all relatively new (i.e. published since last summer's camp evidence output) and should be compatible with most Ks.
K Aff answers to some of the 1NC framework args that have gained prominence in the last few years. Specific emphasis is placed on defending against agonism- and deliberative democracy-based offense. These cards are older, but still quite good, and to my knowledge, most of them haven't been read in high school or college debate yet.
Some recent links to China and global warming impacts - because you need to stop reading those tired old Pan cards.
If you go for the K with any regularity on the aff or on the neg, new and recent points of offense can often be the difference between victory and defeat against well-prepared teams - this file will help catch your opponents off-guard with new ways to indict their stale defenses of traditional policymaking.
Behold, the table of contents:
Critique Goodies – Evazon 2013. 1
***Framework/Etc. 2
Ontology 1st 3
Epistemology 1st 4
Language 1st 5
Facts Bad. 7
IR Bad. 8
AT: Specific Alt Key. 9
AT: Sil/Epistemic Pragmatism.. 11
AT: Science = Truth. 13
AT: Objectivity k2 Action. 14
AT: Predictions Solve Complexity/Science is Self-Correcting. 15
AT: Big Words Bad/Ivory Tower. 16
***AT Agonism.. 17
AT: Nietzschean Agonism – 2AC. 18
Critical Agonism Good. 21
AT: You Destroy Debate. 22
AT: Positivism/Objectivity. 23
***AT Deliberative Democracy. 24
Deliberative Democracy Bad. 25
Consensus Bad. 29
Consensus Bad - Fundamentalism.. 30
Consensus Bad - Populism.. 31
Third Way Bad—Inequality. 32
Third Way Bad—Power. 33
Topicality Bad. 34
AT: Rules k2 Democracy. 38
AT: Coalitions/Krishna. 39
AT: Bahktin/Dialogical Exchange. 40
***Violence UQ.. 42
AT: Pinker—General 43
AT: Pinker—Democratic Peace. 44
AT: Pinker—Foucault K. 45
***Generic Links. 47
China Link – 1NC. 48
China Link. 50
China Framework. 52
Global Warming Link. 53
Global Warming Framework. 56
AT: Warming’s bad for the 3rd world. 59
I debated in high school and college for eight years. This fall, I'll be a policy debate coach at the University of Puget Sound. I also am an assistant policy debate coach at Bingham High School, where I have coached multiple teams to acquiring TOC bids.
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Enjoyment K
Looking for a new K to break against those pesky K affs or a new trick to try and blind side a die hard policy team so certain that roleplaying is good? Look no further. The Enjoyment K is a psychoanalytic critique of the belief that a speech act is material, that imagining ourselves in impossible positions of leadership and heroism is good, and of those that would reject any and all epistemic authority or social hegemony. The critique argues that these beliefs and structures are all intimately tied to a "society of enjoyment" that brings people to retreat into their own private worlds and eventually come to be narcissists that live vicariously through their ego ideal.
For any questions about content of the file or strategy email me at - alex.bonnet.debate@gmail.com
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Ecosophy K
By DML
A smaller version of the Ecosophy aff that I have also submitted reformulated into a K with appropriate blocks. Strategy wise, this can be either a one-off position or an insular position in the 1NC that becomes 13 minutes of the block. The card quality is fantastic and can likely carry over into other Ks that you wish to run.
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Distributism
By Phantom707
***The problem with too many cap K debaters is that they're lazy. The same goes for affs that answer them. "I see that your card talks about free market growth? Isn't that different from capitalism?" No one ever asks those kinds of questions, and both sides get away with it. Likewise, just because a card says "capital" doesn't mean that it's talking about "capitalism".
This file includes three separate sections that are all fully blocked out to the teeth straight through until the 2NR. There's a states counterplan, a corporatism/corporate domination kritik, and a capitalism kritik. Included within the file are some of my favorite uniqueness cards about how corporations are actually decreasing in the status quo, so it's easy to run this as a disadvantage.
This also includes some of the only affirmative answers in existence to this argument, so in the random event that someone else has bought this, you'll be able to put up a fighting chance.
As with all of my files, I'll able to offer strategic advice to those who buy this file. Honestly, though, this file is so prepped out that I'd say even a person who had never explored it before could do a decent job of defending it.
States
What can I say? This is a standard states counterplan. The thesis is that distributism contains the value of subsidiarity, the idea that higher levels of organization exist to aid the lower levels. It is unjust for the higher levels to usurp the power of the lower levels because this divorces policies from the people that they affect. Imagine the difference between the impersonal bureaucrat in the federal government and the local city counselor.
It is important to note that subsidiarity is different from federalism. Subsidiarity is about always having the most local level possible act, while federalism is the balance between the federal and state governments (technically, this also means that subsidiarity actually calls for city and even families to act first).
Corporatism
This is my favorite section of the file. Only one team that I’ve ever faced had “proper†answers to this (that was only because I had previously beaten them on this, and even then their answers weren’t very good), and the impacts are extremely diverse. Note that the 1NC does not currently have any impact. If looking for one that fits with the liberty turning case arguments, one of the Adams 10 cards has warrants for multiple extinction scenarios while also claiming corporate slavery as an impact. The aff will most likely drop that warrant in the 2AC, and if that happens, you’re set.
I would dare say that this is better used as a disadvantage than a K, if only for the theoretical justifications. It saves a lot of time to not have to answer perms, framework, and other theory arguments. Corporate domination is going down? Douglas 12 and a litany of other uniqueness cards make that argument (the UN declared 2012 the year of the cooperative, so that’s a thing now). If this is made into a disadvantage, then the only issue will be link uniqueness, but that may not be an issue depending on the topic and the particular link used. As an aside, this could easily be turned into a counterplan, considering the actor, but I like to leave open the option of a floating PIK.
What’s that? Corporations cause nuclear proliferation? Why yes, Masters 9 does say that (favorite card if only for its unexpectedness). EVERYONE will try to argue that this is a cap K, but press them on it. Why are corporations uniquely key to capitalism? Weren’t they a creation of the US government in the mid-1900s? Capitalism has existed since the industrial revolution in the 1800s, long before corporations came into being. Sure, Amy 7 argues that capitalism today is corporate, but they don’t have that card. Even if they do, leverage the aforementioned arguments against them.
In explaining the impacts and how co-ops avoid them, explain that co-ops aren’t as greedy as corporations. Corporations exist to make profit for shareholders, and more often than not, those shareholders are far away from the actual workings of the corporation (refer to the subsidiarity point in the states notes above). Contrast that with a co-op, where the workers are part owners of the business. They won’t exploit themselves because the reason that they got into the business in the first place was for their own benefit. As such, co-ops are much more likely to be sustainable and not as prone to corporate, short-term greed.
Capitalism
After the 2AC, ask the aff to define capitalism. They’ll either stutter for some time (don’t let them take too long), or they’ll give an answer like “an economic system where an individual has the right to private property/capitalâ€. What’s the problem with this definition? So. Many. Things. Begin with “individualâ€. Was Nazi Germany a capitalist system? The Jews, gypsies, and other undesirables weren’t allowed to own private property, but they weren’t considered citizens, so the government was upholding capitalism. What about a situation from the state of nature, where it just so happens that a single person is able to accumulate 90% of all capital? As a result, everyone else has to rely on this one person for 90% of their livelihood, and that includes future generations who do not currently have a say in the situation. If this is the system that capitalism is, capitalism is jacked up.
Distributism captures the goods of capitalism (working for a profit) without its vices (focus on profit). It’s supposed to strike that strange balance between the two extremes of forced, state labor and extreme individualism.
Contents
Distributism 7
Notes 8
File 9
Distributism 10
States 12
Corporatism 13
Capitalism 14
Counterplan 15
Shells 16
Generic 17
Domestic 18
Lawsuit 19
Treaties 20
Solvency 21
International Perception 22
Treaties 24
Lawsuit 25
Nullification 27
Overviews 28
2NC/1NR – Generic 29
2NC/1NR – Domestic 30
2NC/1NR – Lawsuit 31
2NR – General 32
2NR – Domestic 33
A2: Perms 34
Do Both 35
Do the Counterplan 36
Extensions 38
A2: Theory 41
50 State Fiat Good 42
A2: Specific 44
Federalism 45
Rollback 47
Links to Politics 48
State Politics DA 49
Links to Kritik 50
Kritik 51
Shells 52
Generic Link 53
Corporatism 54
Corporatism (One Card) 55
Capitalism 56
Solvency 57
Taxes 58
Rejection 60
Economy 63
Spillover 65
Block Overviews 66
Generic Link 67
Corporatism 68
Capitalism 69
Turns/Outweighs Case 71
2NR Overviews 72
Generic Link 73
Corporatism 74
Capitalism 75
Turns/Outweighs Case 76
Perms 77
Floating PIK 78
2NR Corporatism 79
2NR Capitalism 80
A2: Perms 81
Do Both – Corporatism 82
Do Both – Capitalism 83
Do the Alternative 85
Double Bind 86
Timeframe 87
All Other Instances 88
Non-mutually Exclusive Parts of the Alt 89
Krishna 90
Juxtaposition Perm 91
A2: Cede the Political 92
Corporatism 93
Capitalism 94
A2: Framework 95
Corporatism 96
Capitalism 98
Offensive 101
Extensions 104
2NR Offensive 109
If the Aff Doesn’t Read 110
Satellites 112
Both 113
Security 114
Process 115
Subsidiarity 116
Capitalism 117
Psychoanalysis 118
Disadvantage 122
Uniqueness 123
Cooperatives 124
Capitalism 127
Corporations 129
Politics 130
Capitalism 131
Corporatism 132
Impacts 133
Capitalism 134
Corporations 142
Cooperatives 160
Distributism 163
Subsidiarity 169
Links 172
Generic 173
Securitization 174
Crisis Politics 176
International Peace Missions 178
Agents 181
Federal Government 182
State Action 183
Supreme Court 186
Obama 187
War Powers 189
Restrictions 190
Advantages 192
Economy 193
Hegemony 199
Competitiveness 201
Environment 202
Drugs 203
Social Issues 204
Latin America 208
Cuba 209
Venezuela 211
Treaties 213
Generic 214
Arms Trade 215
International Criminal Court 218
Other 219
Financial Incentives 220
Reduce Restrictions 222
Patents 224
Hip Hop 226
Education 228
Internal 231
D – Cooperative 232
Co – Distributed Generation 234
Co – Demand 235
C - Monopoly 236
D – Individuals 237
Corp – Law of the Sea 238
Answers To 239
Capitalism 240
Good 241
Inevitable 244
Transition Wars 246
Space 248
Environment 250
Libertarianism 253
Theory 255
Floating PIKs Bad 256
Vague Alternatives Bad – Corporatism 257
Utopian Fiat 258
Distributism 262
Socialism Bad 263
Thomas E. Woods, Jr. 266
Distributism Bad 268
Agrarianism 270
Catholic 271
Distributism is Capitalism 272
Anarchy 273
David Deavel 274
Cooperatives 277
Cooperatives Bad 278
Cooperatives are Corporations 282
Democracy Bad 283
Corporations 284
Good/Limited 285
Neoliberalism 286
Other 287
Corporatism Alt Links to Kritik 288
Statistics 289
Speciesism 291
Occupy 292
***Affirmative*** 293
Cooperatives 294
Failure 295
Capitalism 296
Distributism 297
Property Rights 298
Agrarianism 300
Utopian 303
Vague Alts 305
Catholic 306
Link 309
Socialism 311
Anarchy 312
Wage Slavery 314
Fascism 315
Other 317
Solvency 318
Capitalism 319
Good 320
Profit Motive 321
Other 324
Corporations 326
Good 327
Neoliberalism 329
Subsidiarity 330
Link 331
Federalism 332
Other 333
Politics 334
Lawsuit 335
Supreme Court 336
Perms 338
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Process K
By Phantom707
Complete with overviews through to the 2NR, this K is great on the neg or on the aff. Since OOO seems to be gaining in popularity, you may need this to beat back those neo-Platonists in the 2AC. It can also be used as an advantage on most international topics (I'm looking at you, Latin America). Included in the file are also some uniqueness cards, so you can use it as a DA if you want to.
When you buy this file, you can message me at any time for strategic advice. I'm not just selling a product; I'm selling customer service .
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Policy
The policy 1NC is about how the aff paves over processes. They go to their impacts so quickly that they don’t care about their ridiculous internal link story. The phrase “the devil is in the details†shows up a lot because of this point.
The 1NC impact is that ignorance of processes means we can’t see environmental processes. That’s extinction. The block impact is that their predictions suck, and they cause all of their problems. The K functions as an impact turn.
The alternative is to accept process philosophy. Succinctly, process philosophy puts processes before objects/outcomes/everything.
Identity
Now forget all of that. That’s the true philosophy. I’ve butchered it into something much more palatable to judges, who, despite saying that they’re open to new things, are really just stultifying and a tool of entrenchment for modern academia. /rant
The actual “process philosophy†stuff only comes into play if you use the “Identity†shell against a K aff that’s all about identity. A focus on identity is static, entrenching concepts of being. Contrast process philosophy’s becoming, which is changing. Think of this as like an Agamben “whatever beingâ€.
Law
See above but apply this to the law. Laws are static because you pass one kind of statute and expect it to apply to all kinds of different peoples across time. Look at the constitution, a document which is over 200 years old but is said to still apply.
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Contents
Explanations 1
Policy 2
Identity 3
Law 4
Counterplan 5
Shells 6
Sunset 7
Referendum 8
Process 9
Answers To 10
Perm Do Both 11
Perm Do the Counterplan 12
Process CPs Bad 13
Kritik 14
Shells 15
Policy 16
Law 17
Identity 18
2NC/1NR Overviews 19
Policy 20
Law 22
Identity 24
2NR Overviews 25
Policy 26
Law 27
Identity 28
Perms 29
Uniqueness 30
Up 31
Down 34
Links 35
Christianity/Socialism 36
Complexity 38
Death 40
Economy 41
Environment 44
Ethics 48
Farming 50
Hegemony 51
International Relations 55
Identity 57
Language 58
Law 60
Mathematics 63
Mistakes 64
Nihilism 65
Objects 68
Science 71
Security 73
State 75
Strategic Management 76
Truth 78
War 80
Impacts 83
Root Cause 84
Value to Life 85
Extinction 87
Solvency 89
Alternative 90
Solvency 91
Spillover 97
Truth 98
Queer 99
Alternative Solves Case 101
Anthropocentrism 102
Economy 103
Environment 104
Ethics 106
Gender 109
Peace 110
Value to Life 112
Internal Links 115
Capitalism 116
China 118
Critique 119
Education 124
Feminism 127
Human Agency 128
Hermeneutics 130
Individuals 131
International Relations 132
Law 134
Religion 138
Satellites 141
Policy 141
Feminism 141
Security 141
Nietzsche 141
Identity 141
Buddhism 141
Queer Theory 141
Policy and Identity 141
Anthropocentrism 141
Capitalism 141
Framework 141
2NC/1NR 141
Process 141
Law 141
Identity 141
2NR 141
Process 141
Law 141
Identity 141
Answers To 141
Perms 141
Do Both 141
Extension To Do Both 141
Do the Alternative 141
All Other Instances 141
Non-mutually Exclusive Parts of the Alt 141
Krishna 141
Timeframe 141
Juxtaposition 141
Representations 141
Discourse Focus Bad 141
Empirics 141
Realism Good 141
Representations Focus Bad 141
Specific 141
Aff Focuses on Processes 141
Author Indicts 141
Cede the Political 141
Complexity Theory Bad 141
Heidegger Bad 141
Inevitability 141
Identity DA 141
Postmodernism 141
Religion Bad 141
Strawson 141
Theory 141
Utopian Fiat 141
Vague Alts 141
Fairness 141
Affirmative 141
Kritik 141
Analytics 141
Miscellaneous Link Turns 141
Perm 141
Christianity Bad DA 141
Christianity Good DA 141
Solvency 141
Anthropocentrism 141
OOO 141
Identity DA 141
Being Good 141
Complexity DA 141
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Climate Adaptation Neg
This is a useful case neg supplement to deal with the popular climate adaptation aff alot of teams are reading. The primary focus of the file is a capitalism K with a bunch of specific links to the plan (including a 2nc link wall with analytics and extensions already scripted). Also includes some solid answers to "fed key to disaster relief." Most of these cards are brand new (minus some of the cap impact/alt cards which are all quality). Please email me me if you have any questions about it.
Case Debate. 2
1nc disaster cap turn. 3
2nc disaster cap turn. 5
States CP. 9
AT: Fed K Disaster Aid. 10
Cap K. 14
1NC 99 Percent K. 15
2NC Link Wall 19
AT: Framework. 21
AT: Perm.. 23
AT: Competitive Policy Option/McClean. 26
AT: Alt not a policy. 27
AT: Alt = Utopian. 28
AT: Cap Inevitable. 29
AT: Gibson-Graham.. 32
Collin is an assistant coach at the University of North Texas and has coached multiple college teams to late out-rounds of many national tournaments including Wake Forest (Octos), UT-Dallas (Finals), UNT (Finals), UMKC (Octos), Wichita State (First place). This season UNT has had two top 25 ranked teams. He has also been coaching high school debate for over 3 years. His students have been in elimination rounds of dozens of national tournaments, including semi-finals of the TOC and NDCA. He has worked at numerous debate camps and judged elimination of national tournaments, including finals of the TOC. He debated four years at Deer Park High School and four years and the University of Texas at Dallas where his accomplishments included: three time qualifier to the NDT, first-round bid to the NDT, octo-finals of the NDT, 1st place at the UMKC tournament, octo-finals of GSU, octos at Harvard (twice), semis of Georgia, semis of Emporia, Kentucky Rd Robin invite, Pittsburgh Rd Robin Invite, 1st place at the Arizona Debate Institute Fellows Tournament and numerous speaker awards.
He debated four years at Deer Park High School and four years and the University of Texas at Dallas where his accomplishments included: three time qualifier to the NDT, first-round bid to the NDT, octo-finals of the NDT, 1st place at the UMKC tournament, octo-finals of GSU, octos at Harvard (twice), semis of Georgia, semis of Emporia, Kentucky Rd Robin invite, Pittsburgh Rd Robin Invite, 1st place at the Arizona Debate Institute Fellows Tournament and numerous speaker awards.
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Epistemology K2 Heg
It's a collection of cards by the Director of National Intelligence for the Army from a declassified report on intelligence gathering. The author argues, using a variety of different brands of (mostly French) epistemic criticism, that if it is true that the Cold War realpolitik models do not apply since war has become asymmetrical and violence more diffuse then new epistemic models are essential to leadership.
A lot of fun for Ks on the aff or neg that don't want to have to deal with a massive heg good/bad debate. Yay dirty tricks!
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Security K - Core
By Maury
This is the foundation for the most basic of negative critical positions - the security K. This file includes the cards everyone should have if they ever plan on going for a security-based position in addition to over 100 pages of additional evidence that provide nuance to the position and cover every relevant detail of the debate. The file is completely highlighted, has extensive 2NC blocks, and is completely battle-ready. Just open the document and you are ready to debate!
Table of Contents:
1NC Shell 2
***LINKS*** 9
Link – Superweapons/ New Weapons 10
Link – Superweapons/RMA 11
Link – Superweapons 13
Link – Superweapons 14
Link – Fear of the Bomb 18
Link – Threats 20
Link – Enemies/ Threats 22
Link – Asymmetrical Warfare 24
Link – Environment 26
Link – Environment 27
Link – Environment 28
Link – Environment (Defense/ Win Store) 29
Link – Space Weapons 31
Link - Timeframe 33
Link – Diplomacy 34
Link – Enemy Construction* 35
Link – Terrorism 38
Link – Terrorism 40
Link – Hard Right on Terrorism 41
Link – “War†on Terrorism 42
Link – Evolution 43
***Orientalism*** 45
Orientalism – 1NC 46
Orientalism – 1NC 47
Link – Iran 49
Orientalism – Impact Extension 50
Orientalism – Framework 53
Orientalism – Framework (Discourse) 55
Orientialism – Alt Solves 56
***Prolif K*** 58
Prolif K/ Gusterson 1NC 59
Alt Solves the Case 60
Framework – Discourse Key 61
Link – Generic 62
Link – Third World Instability 64
Impact – Racism 65
Impact – Patriarchy? 66
Impact – Turns Case 67
Uniqueness – Fear Now 68
A/T: Third World Deterrence Fails – Too Poor 69
A/T: Third World Deterrence Fails – Border Sharing 70
A/T: Third World Deterrence Fails – Time differences for arrival 71
A/T: Third World Deterrence Fails – No Second Strike 72
A/T: Third World Deterrence Fails – Unstable 73
A/T: Third World Deterrence Fails – Religious Fanaticism 74
A/T: Third World Deterrence Fails – Preemption wont be nuclear 75
***China*** 76
China Security 1NC 77
Link – Aggression Against China (Turns Case) 79
EXT – Turns case 80
Framework - Representations 81
The Truth – China is not a threat 83
The Truth – Taiwan won’t go Nuclear 84
The Truth – Won’t Accelerate Weapons Development 85
The Truth – Chinese Subs Good 86
***Implications*** 87
Criticism Turns the Case 88
Threats are Irrelevant 89
Impact – VTL (Short) 90
Impact – VTL ( Long) 91
Impact – Terrorism (Root Cause) 94
Impact – War (Root Cause) 95
Impact – Extinction 96
Impact – Extinction Inevitable 97
Impact – Genocide and Extinction 98
***Framework*** 99
Framework - Generic 100
A/T: Predictability 101
A/T: Aff choice 102
A/T: Real World 103
A/T: Time Skew 104
A/T: Abusive 105
Framework – Local Good 106
Framework - Ontology 108
Framework – Discourse/ Rhetoric 111
Alternative/Framework – Discourse Solves 113
Discourse Shapes Reality 114
***Alternatives*** 115
A/T: Vague Alt 116
A/T: Utopian Fiat 117
A/T: Agentless Alt Bad 118
A/T: Rorty/ Pragmatism Good 119
Alt Solves – Local 121
Alt Solves Prolif/ AT Link Turn 122
<Realism Full> 123
A/T: Realism Good 124
A/T: Realism Inevitable (Critique) 127
A/T: Realism Inevitable 129
A/T: Realism Inevitable – Resource Conflict 131
Util bad 132
Permutations 133
A/T: Permutation 134
Misc. 137
A/T: Ivory Tower 138
Nuclear War Not a Threat 139
No Need to Maintain Stockpile 140
Nuclear Stockpile Obsolete (complete disarm OK) 141
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Heidegger specifically for Transportation
By jakeswede
Classic Heidegger tailored specifically for the transportation topic. Plenty of specific links, good impacts, alts and some pretty good framing cards. Excellent for both beginner kritikers and advanced. Even contains some answers to Heidegger.
Table of Contents
***1NC Shell*** 3
***2NC Block*** 6
Framework 7
*Framing (Ontology before Calc) 8
*Methodology key weighing impacts 11
Perm 12
Links 14
Impacts 16
Alt 18
***Links*** 20
-Transportation 21
-Agriculture 23
-Industry/Military 24
-Maintenance 25
-Object Manipulation 27
-Science 28
-Security 29
-Technology 30
-Speed 34
-Terrorism 35
***Impacts*** 37
-Calc Thought 38
-Environment 40
-Error Replication 42
-Generic 43
-Patriarchy 46
-Security 47
-Technology 48
-Value To Life 51
-Violence 52
-War 55
***Alts*** 56
-General 57
-Identify Essence 58
-Meditative Thinking 59
-Questioning 61
-Questioning key to morality 64
-Questioning Key to Science 65
-Stepping back 66
***Framework*** 67
-Discourse First 68
-Impact calc: ontology > extinction 70
-Ontology before calc 71
-Ontology Key to Politics 73
***Answers to 2AC Args*** 76
-Perm 77
-Heidegger’s a Nazi 80
-Our ontology is good 82
-Nuclear War outweighs 83
-Realism 84
-State/AT- Cede the poltical 86
-Tech inevitable 87
-Try or die mentality 88
***Aff Answers*** 89
-Tech Thought Good 90
Growth 91
Tech Thought Good – Environment 93
Tech Thought Good – Freedom 94
Tech Thought Good – Life 96
AT: Empirics Bad 99
Alt Fails 102
Alt Bad – Nazi 103
Ontology Focus Bad – Genocide 105
Ontology Focus Bad – Paralysis 108
Ontology Focus Bad – Extinction 109
Ontology Focus Bad – Cedes the Political 111
Perm Solvency 112
Permutation Solvency 113
Permutation Solvency – Grossberg 114
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Nanotech K
By DML
Nanotech impacts/advantages/affs have always been around in debate, but I've always noticed a surprising lack of specific critiques of this. I cut this as a way to remedy that problem. This file is a Deleuzian critique of nanotechnology - it goes for quality over quantity in that there are few cards, but all of them are A+ quality and incredibly specific. In the research I did for this file I didn't find very much aff literature for nanotech affs against the K, and absolutely none for this K in particular.
Even if you're not a Deleuze fan - the cards in this file will be incredibly useful for going for the K against nanotech affs!
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Bataille Kritik
By geist
This kritik was written for use in college debates, but as I cut it I kept the high school topic in mind. Links are the most important thing, so let's review that first.
This kritik links to any case that tries to achieve any kind of stable, calculable order of its target system, whether that is a transportation policy or an energy policy. Topical affirmative cases will tend to achieve their advantages by believing to have their whole system accounted for, as when an affirmative case advances benefits that follow from an overall reordering/augmentation of existing transportation infrastructure, or when an affirmative case claims to make the world more sustainable and thus manageable. These kinds of cases conceive of what they solve for as a closed economy with calculable, standing-reserve items. There is ONE link about transportation (from where Stoekl, the main author talks about 'autonomism' and how attention to speed, movement, is just an instance of ordering our world as 'standing reserve'). There are MANY links that talk about sustainability, steady states, and energy. Thus, for HS you have one link to read but also many links you can read if the aff claims any kind of energy independence/stability/steady state as a result of plan. There are also links to the use of science, the use of social science, and things like upholding hegemony.
What is the argument? The aff thinks/operates on the scale of a closed economy. (insert link here) puts the closed system of matter and energy to work, which buys into the idea of a rational system of utility/consumption/etc. But there is another inevitable counterpart to this: insubordinate energy, excess, the accursed share. The claim that there is insubordinate energy is (for Bataille) warranted by two things 1) the scale of a general economy. When we open up our consideration more widely/broadly, out even to the stars and universe, the excess energy of the system is evident. This claim is fairly straightforward: widen up your scope of the system you consider, and the other complex and involved elements are revealed. 2) our own nature. Bataille thinks we have a drive to expend that cannot be suppressed by the asceticism of sustainability. Various psychological/cultural analyses show that we dispense with these drives in rituals, sacrifices, erotic activity, etc. (this can be healthy) or warfare/destruction. So, excess energy is inevitable, how to deal with it? With the affirmative, you drive excess back into the closed economy and this inevitably results in the 'burnoff' of warfare. This is pure (attempted) utility, no sacredness. With the negative, you embrace the general economy and deal with excess by making a sacrifice of the affirmative case. This achieves non-knowledge, heterogeneity, the sacred.
As I have mentioned, this was cut for the college topic but with hs in mind. My verbatim paperless index is set up so you can adapt the file for either kind of debate. Given that aff cases will often seek some kind of 'sustainability' under future resolutions, then this file has extended use. This kritik requires a fair amount of creativity to 'sell' a judge on the kritik. You have to make the cards work so that the judge buys the link and the closed vs general economy paradigms that are at stake. If you can establish that, the very binary "try or die" kinds of cards that set up a stark decision for the judge are fairly compelling.
I currently coach at Binghamton University and at Millburn H.S. I won the TOC my senior year in H.S. I debated in college. I went to grad school for Philosophy. This file includes cards from the two main texts that are sources for any such Bataille file: Stoekl's book on Bataille, and then the Accursed Share vol 1 by Bataille. There are also cards from secondary sources answering various things. This file is also made so that you can run it compatibly with Heidegger
Index summary:
***1NC shell
***2NC must read evidence (6 cards)
***Links:
Secondary (2012 ndt or hs resolution)
- quantifying energy/having advantages
- nuclear power
- steady state energy or sustainability
Secondary - standing reserve tie-in (2012 ndt or hs resolution)
- energy production
- conservation/recycling
- energy innovations
- steady state/sustainability
- transportation/autonomy
Tertiary (any debate resolution)
- science
- solving problems/social science
- upholding Hegemony
***Impacts
- outweighs all
- sequences before all
- growth -> nuclear war
***Alternative
Sacrifice
- geneoristy
- communication of healthy dread
- reverence
- new society
- recognition of the other
- AT sacrifice is violent
Other alternatives
- Eroticism
- Laughter
- Potlach
- Transgression
Self consciounsess net benefit
Generosity net benefit
***Permutation debate
Mutually Exclusive
- all the best cards
- the sacred
- the night of nonknowledge
AT do plan sacrifice the neg
AT do plan, our war/death advantages are the sacrifice
Add on disads to perms
- graceless sacrifice
- your tv is 50 inches mine is 27
***AT counterkritiks
- AT anthro
- AT Baudrillard, Lyotard, Postmodernism
- AT Capitalism
- AT Derrida 'gift'
- AT Habermas
- AT Hegel
- AT Nietzsche
- AT Sade
***AT indites
- AT marshall plan
- AT fascist
- AT irrational
- AT pathological
- AT perverse
- AT pornographic
- AT racist
- AT not scientific
- AT anti semite
***AT various
AT ethics
- AT general
- AT doesn't recognize other
- AT egoistic
- AT relativist
AT god/religion/mysticism
- AT you kill god
- AT you need god
- AT bad religion
AT perf con
- AT u run Heidegger
- AT talk of k violates
AT excess vs scarcity
- AT there is no excess
- AT there is no scarcity
- AT excess vs scarcity claims incompatible
- AT innovation solves
- AT 1st law thermodynamics
- AT ignores distribution
- Perspective shift
Real, not theoretical
K before psychology
Definition card - potlach
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Critical Advantage Frontlines
By PKennedy
This is a all purpose file that is useful to construct a critique on the fly based on the advantages the aff is reading. The file includes critiques to handle a variety of different arguments the aff will likely make on this topic. A must have for NFL districts, the ToC, NFL nationals or any other crucial tournament.
Critical Advantage Frontlines....................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 1
African Stability............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 2
Alternative Energy........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 4
China............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 11
Counter-Terrorism...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 13
Disease........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 16
Drone Strikes............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 19
Free Trade................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 23
Iran Prolif.................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 25
Iran War/Terrorism/Prolif.......................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 26
Iran Hegemony........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 28
Middle East Prolif........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 31
Nuclear Terrorism...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32
Prolif............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 35
Refugees...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Rule of Law................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 41
Russia........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 45
Sectarianism................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 47
Stability........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................ 49
2NC A2: Walt/Realists Support Transitions................................................................................................................................................................................................ 52
2NC A2: Perm............................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 54
2NC A2: Realism/Dominance Inevitable................................................................................................................................................................................................... 57
Terrorism..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 58
Util Good..................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 63
Water Wars................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................. 69
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New Death Cult K
By PKennedy
What happens when a team says new aff, and you just don't have that much to say? This is one of the most useful generic critiques that you can have ready to go- it has a high record of success and tricks to answer all of the common arguments. This is not the old Dartmouth version, it has been revamped and features a lot of newer and stronger evidence. It is a must have for flex and K teams (policy teams even read this argument, though).
Death Cult............................................................................................................................................................. 0
***New 1NC.......................................................................................................................................................... 1
*** 2NC OV............................................................................................................................................................ 2
AT: No Link – We Had Other Impacts...................................................................................................................... 3
2NC Impact........................................................................................................................................................... 4
2NC A2: Perm Do Both........................................................................................................................................... 5
2NC A2: Perm All Other Instances.......................................................................................................................... 9
2NC A2: Perm Plan and Non-Mutually Exclusive Parts.......................................................................................... 10
2NC A2: No Agent to Alt/Vague Alts Bad............................................................................................................... 11
2NC A2: Coalition Building/Motivates Action....................................................................................................... 12
2NC A2: Cede the Political/Political Action Good................................................................................................. 13
2NC A2: Democracy Checks Violence................................................................................................................... 15
2NC A2: UQ Doublebind....................................................................................................................................... 16
2NC A2: No Structure to Alt.................................................................................................................................. 17
2NC A2: Floating PIK’s Bad................................................................................................................................... 18
2NC A2: Contradictions Bad/Your K’s Link to Each Other...................................................................................... 19
2NC A2: Militarism Inevitable/We Should Win..................................................................................................... 20
2NC A2: CMR Good............................................................................................................................................... 22
2NC A2: Militarism Good..................................................................................................................................... 23
2NC A2: Judge Choice.......................................................................................................................................... 26
2NC A2: Sever Reps.............................................................................................................................................. 27
AT: Alt Doesn’t Solve............................................................................................................................................ 39
AT: Dollimore...................................................................................................................................................... 40
AT: Censorship Bad.............................................................................................................................................. 43
AT: Framework.................................................................................................................................................... 44
AT: Beres............................................................................................................................................................. 51
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Energy Production Culture K
By Willmo
Unbroken 100+ page critique of the culture of fossil fuel / renewable energy production. Blocks are written (and highlighted!). This file includes a 2nc overview, an impact outweighs module, an alt solves module, and blocked out answers to the perm, and framework. Not to mention there are links you can read as satellite k's in the 2nc.
There is also a 'building blocks' section that allows you to customize the file however you should choose.
Basics............................................................................................................................................. 3
Fossil Fuel Culture................................................................................................................... 4
Explanation-y Thing............................................................................................................. 5
1NC Standalone.................................................................................................................... 6
2NC Satellite.......................................................................................................................... 9
2NC Overview....................................................................................................................... 11
2NC Impacts......................................................................................................................... 12
2NC Alt.................................................................................................................................. 14
2NC Framework................................................................................................................... 15
Framework............................................................................................................................... 16
XT: Education Bad............................................................................................................... 17
Turns Education.................................................................................................................. 20
Epistemology....................................................................................................................... 22
Utopianism.......................................................................................................................... 23
Discourse Key...................................................................................................................... 24
Nuclear Discourse Key....................................................................................................... 29
Just Society.......................................................................................................................... 31
Blocks....................................................................................................................................... 32
AT: Perms.............................................................................................................................. 33
AT: Fossil Fuels Good........................................................................................................ 35
AT: Renewables Solve....................................................................................................... 37
AT: Cede the Political......................................................................................................... 38
AT: Consumption Inevitable............................................................................................. 39
AT: We Solve the Environment......................................................................................... 41
Building Blocks........................................................................................................................... 43
Impacts..................................................................................................................................... 44
Agency/Nazis/Wars............................................................................................................ 45
Resource Wars.................................................................................................................... 47
Violence............................................................................................................................... 49
Cap........................................................................................................................................ 50
Structural Violence............................................................................................................. 51
Disposability....................................................................................................................... 53
Regulation........................................................................................................................... 55
Alts............................................................................................................................................ 57
Question Education........................................................................................................... 58
Interrogate Freedom.......................................................................................................... 59
Renewables........................................................................................................................ 60
XT: Utopianism.................................................................................................................... 62
Think..................................................................................................................................... 64
Social Construction............................................................................................................ 66
Oil Relations....................................................................................................................... 69
History.................................................................................................................................. 73
Link............................................................................................................................................ 75
Generic................................................................................................................................. 76
Energy................................................................................................................................... 77
Economy............................................................................................................................... 82
Energy Market...................................................................................................................... 84
Future Supplies.................................................................................................................. 86
Consumerism...................................................................................................................... 90
Warming............................................................................................................................... 93
Fossil Fuels......................................................................................................................... 95
Natural Gas......................................................................................................................... 97
Oil.......................................................................................................................................... 99
“Green Fossil Fuelsâ€........................................................................................................ 105
Renewables...................................................................................................................... 108
Categorization................................................................................................................... 111
Military Renewables....................................................................................................... 114
Nuclear Power................................................................................................................... 117
Electricity............................................................................................................................ 124
Wind Power....................................................................................................................... 126
Solar.................................................................................................................................... 129
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Techno-Optimism Critique
By Willmo
Highlighted and blocked out critique of techno-optimism (the belief that all our problems can be fixed with a simple technological fix--same argument Harvard BS got to semis of the Wake Tournament reading!) with evidence specific to nuclear framing that is fantastic!
Features:
-Excellent 2nc epistemology indict of the affirmative as well as impact framing evidence.
-Satellite K's / Link Mod's included for accidents, competitiveness, econ, environment, hegemony, and warming.
-Indicts of positivism and deterrence included (common aff answers)
-Awesome framework evidence about nuclear power and energy
-Skepticism evidence to make the argument that aff impacts should be considered unlikely
10 purchases
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Answers to the 'F-word' K
By Willmo
HIGHLIGHTED! Frontline to answer the 'f' k. Don't get caught off guard. Frontline includes diversity of offensive and defensive answers.
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'f-word' k w/ impact extensions and framework
By Willmo
HIGHLIGHTED! K of the word 'f' in a debate round. Very useful if you are debating someone who uses profanity. Included are impact magnifiers and framework arguments about the importance of in-round discourse.
5 purchases
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K Updates - Aff and Neg
By DML
This is simply a collection of random K updates for the aff and neg that I've amassed recently, primarily centering around representations-based Ks (security, etc). I've never seen any of these cards in a debate that I wasn't in. The vast majority of the cards are from 2011/2012, all the aff cards have extensions, and everything is highlighted. As a bonus - you'll get the best card I've cut this year that can really apply to any situation in which you're reading a K.
Random K Updates. 1
Aff 2
2ac slayer. 3
1ar slayer. 5
2ac policy relevance. 6
1ar policy relevance. 7
2ac reps. 8
1ar reps. 9
2ac fear good. 10
1ar fear good. 11
2ac moral relativism bad. 13
1ar moral relativism bad. 14
2ac realism... 16
1ar realism... 18
at: sfp/arms race. 19
at: counter-examples. 20
at: realism is violent 21
at: liberalism good. 22
2ac nyquist counter-k. 23
Neg. 26
the best k card you will read. 27
1nc/2nc heg link. 30
2nc reps first 32
at: owen 2. 34
at: policy relevance. 36
2nc role of the ballot 37
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