They’ll talk for half an hour about university reform but the moment you ask “who owns the coal mines” or “where does the lithium come from” they say they haven’t thought about it then they get mad at me when I say the Nordic model is fascist
I can bait the ADHD ones into reading theory by simply using enticing vocab words but idk how to deal with everyone else
Haha, same. When I was in college Ron Paul was running for president and our state is basically the buckle of the Bible belt. There were definitely more leftist representation in debate than anywhere else, but we were still a small minority.
Yeah, that would have been tough to overcome. I remember kids sticking pencils in their mouths while practicing reading to try and up their speed and annunciation.
One of my policy partners was a really tall and kinda creepy looking guy who was openly gay. He would wear old dirty hoodies and sweats, all around do his best to look as disheveled as possible, and then meticulously paint his nails whenever we got to the school we were debating at. During rounds he would stand as close as the judge would let him and read over their cards over their shoulder. It was hilarious how much he could weaponize homophobia back in the day. He would literally cause seasoned debaters to stammer through their cards.
It was a blanket term for any anarchy based k. We wrote up a file based on social and environmental ecology. Basically, environmental problems are caused by social ecology and how messed up the environment is directly reflects just how hierarchical a society organizes itself. The point was arguing that to fix environmental problems you would first have to rearrange how society is organized. Most of the stuff we had was based on stuff written by Murray Bookchin.
I think we did so well because a lot of people at the time had a hard time distinguishing between anarchy and libertarianism, and it was right when a ton of news about global warming was hitting the mainstream. It was also an easy k to slap on just about anything because it mainly attacked the idea of hierarchal systems.