#ld debate

[the-apparatus]

Real friends try to get you to make a cult (prep group) and sell your soul (get paid to do debate prep).

[1134soup]

This LD topic is so lame I hate arguing right to housing it’s so overused I’ve heard it millions of times before ): the best topics were the 2021-2022 Nov/Dec and Sept/Oct topics genuinely they were so much fun to argue and last year’s was kinda boring it was just environmental, healthcare, and then borders (which was hell on earth to argue)

[wishiwereafrog]

Deceit would be an e x c e l l e n t LD debater because LD is about morality and also you can lie and lie and lie as long as your opponent can't prove you wrong

[hungoverjudge]

November December LD Topic

Resolved: The United States ought to eliminate subsidies for fossil fuels

The good news is I’ve been writing about related topics for longer than most of you have been alive.

The bad news is oh god, I’m so old.

[babbitsaleratus]

them: hey u want in on this email chain me, a fool: haha no them: *unintelligibly spreads a Baudrillard k*  

[makesomethingawfuleveryday]

This meme is rly just a summary of the structure of Lincoln-Douglas debate

[winkingrain]

How do we save the world? It’s totally f’d up.

Oh man. That is one hell of a question.

My personal opinion is that a major priority should be put on education if we want to improve the world we live in. Make it free and readily available; decrease and eliminate structural barriers to a successful education for people of color, disable people, and neurodivergent people; increase the standard quality so that quality of education is less racialized; make glasses free (a point I’d be happy to expand on but won’t right now); and teach WELL. A lot of kids I know stop being interested in things (particularly science) because the way it’s taught is just so DULL. If you teach to be more engaging and focus less on testing, you’ll actually get more information across and students will be more driven to pursue a higher education.

More educated populations are more likely to be progressive, vote for welfare programs, and typically to be healthier (although this last one can get wrapped up in wealth as well and how health care is so messed up).

Homeschooling (a definition I’ll use is education provided by family or a group of parents, not certified teachers and not through online and certified programs) should, in my opinion, be eliminated. If a student requires extra help, they should be able to get it from the school and the quality of such help will likely be higher than help from a parent. Homeschooling isolates groups of people so that they can’t learn about other cultures and expand their understanding of the world while education exposes people to varied points of view and gives them a more holistic understanding of the world they live it. Homeschooling also tends to actively limit students. Kids can be frightened to come to their parents with school issues or the people who tend to homeschool their kids, typically those who WANT to limit the experiences their children have, will deny learning disabilities or other challenges their kids may face. Eliminating homeschooling would give kids more access to professional assistance with schoolwork and mental health challenges, thus giving rise to a generation that assists people and is more open minded.

Secondly, health care should be free for all, especially required vaccines. At the VERY least, it should come at a starkly reduced cost. The medical procedures or medications people pay millions of dollars for do not actually cost that much, and people in the pharmaceutical industry do intentionally drive up cost because they VALUE MONEY OVER SAVING LIVES. Making this illegal or in some way limiting it would mitigate issues such as this.

Thirdly, “we must be intolerant of intolerance.” As counter-intuitive as it sounds, allowing people like our dorito in chief to be even CONSIDERED for the presidency is unacceptable. Any sort of disrespect that he and other people from his political corner repeatedly demonstrated should be a dismissing factor, not an endorsement. There was a fantastic article in the Atlantic recently about evangelicals and how they consider the encouragement of social progress to be oppressive to themselves. I recommend it to anyone interested in understanding how removed these poor people are from the rest of reality and how in the fresh hell they got there.

[natedoeslangs]

attn: fellow debate nerds!!

I’m looking for some other really cool debate kids to be friends with! My partner and I compete in public forum, but this year we’re thinking about doing policy alongside PF!(there’s only like 4 policy teams in our statewide division) I’ve been doing debate for about a year now and I absolutely love it, so let me know if you wanna be debate friends and talk nerdstuffs :)

(also mind the tags, I just want people to actually see this)