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>>6686
yeah, I see that logic. I see it applied to other cases.
>>6690
I should specify. I meant 'last year of high school' which was in 2008.
For those unaware, a decent portion of people in policy debate make up wild and wacky arguments, and even the "core files" that everyone gets (pre-made pro/con arguments) have arguments like "If you don't pass my plan, everyone will die in a nuclear holocaust" (well 'if you dont pass x, then y bad thing will lead to z bad thing which leads so nuclear war').
Some people try to intimidate their opponents by dressing formal and shit, and carrying cartwheels worth of papers and files. I normally debate 'regularly' with a little fun like marxism arguments but for my senior year I decided to 'pig out' so to speak.
Also, at the end of the rounds you shake your opponents' hands and go "Good game". The time with the Polish girl, I hugged her.
~2 years later (I occasionally go up to the league tournaments to check on my old team, and plan on judging too) I noticed I probably didn't say "i was joking" too blatantly so I told her that. She said 'yeah, I found that out'. We then discussed leftist ideas, from the USSR to the Republicans in the Civil War.
I think I told everyone I debated when I was in "insane troll logic mode" at the end "We're joking and it's just a debate" while hugging people.
In a way I feel bad for not making some of that clearer (I think I pissed off this ghetto dude a lot) but in a way I know i'd regret NOT being a troll in the future. Meh.
>>6687
public as in me, the opposing team and the judge and sometimes novice people would go on to watch. Honestly no more than 7-8 people.
me/my partner = 2 people
opposing team = 2 people
judge = 1 person
[sometimes] your coach = 1 person
[sometimes] novice debaters = 2-3 people
Again note my analogy to the Chappelle skit w/the black white supremacist - which I was roleplaying.
Debate team was fucking fun - I remember [before trolling in the last year] using image macros in debates, overwhelming my opponents by answering to much and so detailed that they would not be able to try to twist me around/prove me wrong, attacking their citations because it had a .de name (german) or as a COMMUNIST WEBSITE (the 'core files' included articles from socialist sites and i recognized some of them).
It's funny how I did all that but was arguably wayyyy more shy and whatnot then than now. Then meh, different sides of a person.
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