Debatisms 2009Debatism*: Noun A dumb, silly, or downright unbelievable argument or statement that is said by either an Affirmative or Negative in a Debate round.
2007-2008 - Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase its public health assistance to Sub-Saharan Africa.
- Neg. "Who will your plan be working with?"
Aff. "The President of Africa." - "If someone with AIDS drinks from a river, and someone without AIDS drinks from that same river, they're going to get AIDS because the person with AIDS drank from that river first.
2008-2009 - Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase alternative energy incentives in the United States.
- "The Affirmatives said something about burning garbage to make fuel...um, we shouldn't do that, because it'll make the world smell funny."
- (Durring Cross-examination)
Neg: "Who's Uncle Sam?"
Aff: "The Government"
Neg: "Does your card say that?"
Aff: "No, but that's who it is."
(Later in the Rebuttals)
Neg: "The Affirmative read a card about some guy named Sam and then said it was the Government they were talking about. That card should be tossed out, because Sam could be some random person's uncle. It doesn't mean the Government." - "Wind turbines will kill bats and bats are, you know, are very important to the environment, and without bats, humans will become extinct because insects will overrun the world and kills us all. So we should be friendly to the bats and not build these wind turbines because the bats are more important."
- ”You want to stay away from the windows, because the Zombies are going to get you!" Ok, so this one didn't really get said during the round, but it happened right before the round started so I felt compelled to add it to the list.
- “We don’t want to turn the world into Mars. Mars is a crappy planet. That’s why nobody lives on Mars.”
- “I don’t think anyone in another country is going to starve because our fuels are made from feces.”
2009-2010 - Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially increase social services for persons living in poverty in the United States.
- “ Providing Broad Band services to the poor through the Federal program ‘ Project LinkUp’ will solve for poverty in the United States by allowing them access to internet.”
- Neg in Cross-examination: “You um, just contradicted everything we just said.”
Aff.’s response in Cross-examination: “Ah, that’s the point of Debate.” - “Racism out weight’s Nuclear War and its harms are more significant then a bomb could ever be.”
- “If Nuclear War happens, it will increase poverty, which is what our Block Grants are solving for.”
- “Nuclear War is one of the worst things out there. It kills lots of people and that’s not good.”
- “Nuclear War will kill half the population, or more at least, and we’ll have to eat poisoned food.”
- “The war with Hitler, WWII or Vietnam or something, started because of zeno-cide, not economic collapse. He, Hitler, wanted to zeno-cide the Jews or the white people or something like that.”
*Debatism is a word I came up with for the above mentioned definition of the word. Some of these statements are too funny to not write down.
I Have To Pee
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I could say "I love him" a million times and still end up short....
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
~Lloyd Alexander
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
~Lloyd Alexander
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
~Lloyd Alexander
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"The poor concept, perfectly executed, still makes a poor photograph.
Therefore, the most important ingredient of the powerful image is a concept." Misha Gordin
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"All that writers can do is keep trying to say what is deepest in their hearts."
~Lloyd Alexander
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Sometimes the truth is strainger then fiction
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