Argumentation
An argument which is a reason to vote for you
What is offense?
The length of time between the present and when the impact will occur.
What is timeframe?
The number of impacts in the instability advantage
What is two?
The number of "off-case" positions in the packet?
What is three?
A helpful acronym to answer counterplans in your 1ar
What is SPLOT?
An argument which mitigates the impact of your opponents offense
What is defense?
The likelihood that an impact will occur (determined by multiplying the likelihood of each of its links).
What is probability?
The number of impacts in the European Union Advantage
What is three?
I'm an alt cause to EU multilateralism
What is the US-China trade war, US tariffs on EU exports, and/or Brexit?
The counterplan is different from or smaller than the affirmative plan, and there exists a reason it is more desirable than a combination of the affirmative plan and the counterplan (or part of the counterplan).
What is competitive?
The bracketing out of the likelihood of implementation or part of the process of implementation to focus on the merits of an advocacy
What is fiat?
The size of the impact in its entirety, not taking risk into account. Severity or scope.
What is magnitude?
What are EU diplomatic influence and/or trade restrictions placed on the EU by non-US countries?
According to the oil prices disad, the reason oil prices have stabilized post-COVID
What is "producers have tightened supply?"
The frequency at which a counterplan is mutually exclusive
What is rarely?
I must nearly always be read in conjunction with an impact turn argument
What is impact defense?
An impact that can happen more or less, to a degree (e.g. pollution kills 200,000 a year, post-plan that number grows to 320,000). It does not have uniqueness or a brink.
What is a linear or systemic impact?
The solvency deficit the aff would need to go for if extending the instability advantage against a counterplan that solved for Iran prolif
What is miscalc due to drone strikes on oil competitors' targets by Iran to put pressure on the US to end sanctions?
This disadvantage has an impact that is "external" to the aff case
What is the oil prices disad?
I'm the most frequent net benefit to a courts counterplan
What is the politics disad?
I'm a uniqueness argument that can be conceded to kick out of a link turn
What is "uniqueness overwhelms the link?"
The number of "metrics" you should use to compare your impact to your opponents in the final rebuttal (not including "turns case")
What is one?
The likely reason there isn't a "warming causes extinction" card as part of the "oil shocks good" impact turn aff answer to the oil disad.
What is "it was read in the 1ac?"
What is "by moderating the regime/empowering moderates in the Iranian regime?"
The counterplan does not include all of the words in the aff plan
What is textual competitiveness?