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Chris Theis, Jacob Nails, and Lawrence Zhou discuss the 2021 NSDA Nationals topic, Resolved: A public health emergency justifies limiting civil liberties. They discuss some thoughts about how to improve the topic voting system before talking about their general thoughts on the topic, not particularly positive in nature; background information and interpretational issues, such as definitions, examples, and thoughts about burdens; and common affirmative and negative arguments and strategies, such as quarantines, libertarianism, the trust disadvantage, and democratic backsliding. They also discuss some tips and tricks for succeeding at NSDA Nationals. They conclude with some recommendations for content and fun facts about Nails’ hometown.

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Episode Links:
The Victory Briefs for this topic: https://classroom.victorybriefs.com/briefs
Topic voting statistic: https://www.speechanddebate.org/topics/
Public health definition: https://www.who.int/hac/about/definitions/en/
NYTimes op-ed: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/07/opinion/racism-public-health-emergency.html
Justify definition: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/justify
“Reconciling civil liberties and public health in the response to COVID-19”: https://www.facetsjournal.com/doi/10.1139/facets-2020-0070
“When libertarianism goes bad”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/22/opinion/coronavirus-masks.html
China censorship of COVID: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/19/technology/china-coronavirus-censorship.html
Singapore robot dog: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/singapore-using-robotic-dog-enforce-proper-social-distancing-during-covid-19-180974912/
Israel anti terror technology and COVID: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-israel/israel-to-use-anti-terror-tech-to-counter-coronavirus-invisible-enemy-idUSKBN21113V
China facial recognition with masks: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-55573802
Debating traditionally by Lawrence Zhou: https://youtu.be/dhLK7zbhi7U
Last year’s Next Off NSDA Nationals episode: https://soundcloud.com/user-86431574/episode-4-nsda-nationals-with-jake-nebel
Only Connect with Tom Scott: https://youtu.be/c_Fa_fucl1o
Tom Scott golf carts video: https://youtu.be/pcVGqtmd2wM

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Chris Theis, Jacob Nails, Lawrence Zhou and guest Quentin Clark discuss the 2021 TOC and how the lethal autonomous weapons topic played out. They talk about general trends in the topic, the best and worst affs including China and emerging tech, the best and worst neg strategies including circumvention and politics, and talk about ways the topic could have been improved. They conclude with some thoughts about intrinsicness.

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The Victory Briefs: https://classroom.victorybriefs.com/briefs
Police robot bomb: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/08/police-bomb-robot-explosive-killed-suspect-dallas
Hypocritical theory: https://www.vbriefly.com/2019/04/23/on-hypocritical-theory-by-jake-nebel/
The case for regulating fully autonomous weapons: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2528370
Intrinsicness article: https://www.debatemusings.org/home/rehabilitating-intrinsicness-redux?fbclid=IwAR2CDRa3ywduEzyX-ncTRvs6FEfpWWl5HYWOJ2ToDH-hSKKyJJfOOgJrngI

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Chris Theis, Jacob Nails, and Lawrence Zhou discuss the 2021 March/April LD topic, Resolved: The United States ought to guarantee universal childcare. They talk about their opinions on the topic, what childcare is, what it means for something to be universal, common pitfalls for affirmative economy based arguments, different ethical frameworks, the best negative strategies and counterplans especially at more traditional tournaments, and some thoughts about the topic selection process.

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The Victory Briefs: https://classroom.victorybriefs.com/briefs
The problem of childcare: https://www.vox.com/the-weeds
True cost of childcare: https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/early-childhood/reports/2018/11/15/460970/understanding-true-cost-child-care-infants-toddlers/
Erickson article: https://ifstudies.org/blog/measuring-the-long-term-effects-of-early-extensive-day-care
Lanham Act: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/11/daycare-world-war-rosie-riveter/415650/
Pogchamps 3: https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/rainn-wilson-channels-dwight-schrute-in-hilarious-pogchamps-chess-roast-after-final-loss-1524591/
Wandavision trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj9J2ecsSpo

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Chris Theis, Jacob Nails, and Lawrence Zhou discuss the 2021 January/February LD topic, Resolved: States ought to ban lethal autonomous weapons, as it has played out so far at the CPS and Blake tournaments. They discuss misconceptions about fiat, if “bans” for single country affs make sense, some of the common plans including the nuclear and landmines affs, thoughts about the regulation counte rplan, and more. They conclude with predictions about the following months for the topic as well as an assessment of the truth of the topic.

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The Victory Briefs: https://classroom.victorybriefs.com/briefs
The Queen’s Gambit’s effect on chess: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/nov/29/chess-world-hails-queens-gambit-fuelled-boom

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Welcome to the Next Off Podcast, a Victory Briefs podcast!

Chris Theis, Jacob Nails, and Lawrence Zhou discuss the 2020 November/December LD topic, Resolved: The United States ought to provide a federal jobs guarantee. They cover a wide range of arguments and strategic considerations such as basic economic concepts to be familiar with, misconceptions about the FJG and econ impacts in LD, how COVID affects the topic, to what extent affirmative specification is legitimate, which aff advantages are best poised against most counterplans, and which neg counterplans are the most strategic. They end the episode with a discussion of why you should attend an international debate tournament.

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The Victory Briefs: https://classroom.victorybriefs.com/briefs
Levy Proposal: http://www.levyinstitute.org/pubs/wp_902.pdf
CBPP: https://www.cbpp.org/research/full-employment/the-federal-job-guarantee-a-policy-to-achieve-permanent-full-employment
MMT: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/4/16/18251646/modern-monetary-theory-new-moment-explained
Effective Altruism Debating Championship: https://www.facebook.com/EADebateChampionship

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Chris Theis, Jacob Nails, and Lawrence Zhou talk about their thoughts on the Compulsory Voting topic as it has played out so far, including their thoughts on strategy, theory, and plans.

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Episode Links:
80,000 Hours Podcast Episode: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/global-issues-beyond-80-000-hours-current-priorities/id1245002988?i=1000489422170
Game Theory Among Us: https://youtu.be/Ck604TT4hEg

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