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  • This house believes that the US Democratic Party should aggressively “fight dirty” going forward.

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    In politics, “fighting dirty” refers to the use of tactics by political parties that are technically legal, but are deemed as against the spirit of democracy. Examples of "fighting dirty" include excessively redrawing electoral districts in their favour, launching smear campaigns against their opposing politicians, pitting their opposing politicians into scandals, etc.

    Singapore International Schools Debating Championships 2025 · Semifinals · 2025-11-16

  • This House Regrets the rise of "Social Commerce"

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    For the purposes of this debate, "social commerce" stands for the expansion of social media into e-commerce, integrating shopping features, where users can discover, browse, and purchase products without leaving the app. Examples include Facebook Marketplace, Instagram Shopping, TikTok Shop, etc.

    Ecuadorian National Schools Debating Championship 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-14

  • This house prefers for a society to have British humour rather than American humour

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    British style humour tends to be subtle, dead-pan and self-depricating often mocking the authorities and societal norms finding the humour in darkness. American style humour tends to be direct and upbeat often jokes are around big personalities and the comedians’ use of body language.

    Norwich Mini 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-14

  • This house believes that the representation of nihilism in art does more harm than good.

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    Nihilism is the belief that all values are baseless and that nothing can be known or communicated. It is often associated with extreme pessimism and a radical skepticism that condemns existence. A true nihilist would believe in nothing, have no loyalties, and no purpose other than, perhaps, an impulse to destroy.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-10

  • This house regrets the rise of the 24 hours news cycle

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    News used to be reported and updated more infrequently twice-daily broadcasts by news networks. The 24-hour news cycle is the 24-hour investigation and reporting of news.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-10

  • This house, as the journalist, W take the bribe.

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    You are a journalist living in a democratic state with endemic corruption covering the upcoming elections. A local politician that is known to engage in corrupt actions has approached you to bribe you to focus on his opponents instead of scrutinising his actions. Agreeing to this would ensure a steady source of future funding for your journalistic career.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 1 · 2025-11-10

  • This house would choose to become a ghost-writer.

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    You are a young and talented short-story and poetry writer who publishes online, earning little and working multiple part-time jobs to get by and afford rent; you are approached by a fairly prominent artist and offered a deal to sign with their label, guaranteeing a stable and significantly above- average salary as a ghostwriter; you will never publish online or under your own name again as a part of the contract

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-10

  • This house supports intellectual banality as a key principle in the academic approach.

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    Intellectual banality, in this debate, is defined as a principle that states the practices and habits of academia should make intellectual discourse (e.g., debates, lectures, academic forums) and academic products (e.g., journals, theses, dissertations, papers, etc.) more banal, meaning simple and easily understood by the general public, both in terms of substance and communication.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · U-19 Semifinals · 2025-11-10

  • This house believes that individual awards should carry greater weight than team championships when evaluating all-time great athletes.

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    In competitive sports, an all time great athlete's legacy includes both individual awards (MVPs, Scoring Records, Ballon d'Ors) and team championships (NBA Championship, Stanley Cup, World Cup, World Series).

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-10

  • This house prefers Disney's approach to Ghibli's approach in children's media.

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    For the purpose of this debate, there are two tropes in children's media. Disney's approach presents a world with clear good and evil, wherein good always triumphs. Ghibli's approach presents a world with no true evil and morality is subjective, where peaceful compromise is ultimately possible and neither side necessarily triumphs.

    LUMS Asians x OPFDC 2025 · Round 2 · 2025-11-10

  • This house supports the growing role of private equity in online content creation

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    Private equity refers to a class of businesses which buy and invest in private companies (companies which are not publically listed on stock exchanges). In recent years an increasing percentage of Youtube channels have been purchased by private equity firms including CocoMelon, Veritasium, and Game Theory. The nature of these contracts is often undisclosed, but typically involves the private equity firm keeping on the original creators as part owners or employees who are paid a fixed salary or percentage of revenue.

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 5 · 2025-11-08

  • This house prefers for queer narratives in popular media to primarily center around the present (ex. Heartstopper, Bottoms, Love, Simon, Twinless) rather than the past (ex. Boots, Queer, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Brokeback Mountain).

    Chancellor's Cup 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-08

  • This house prefers Disney optimism to Ghibli optimism

    Infoslide

    For the purpose of this debate, there are two tropes in children's media. "Disney optimism" presents a world with clear good and evil characters wherein good always triumphs. "Ghibli optimism" presents a world with no true evil.

    Cambridge WGM 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-07

  • This House Regrets the rise of the cultural obsession with uncovering one's "true self"

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    The modern cultural obsession with uncovering one's true self refers to the growing emphasis in contemporary society on discovering and defining a supposedly authentic inner identity. This trend is visible in the popularity of therapy and self-help practices aimed at self discovery, personality frameworks (e.g., Myers-Briggs Enneagram), tracking apps, online micro- identities and similar introspective tools.

    Santa Fe Open 2025 · Round 4 · 2025-11-07

  • This house believes that the act of recasting minority actors as existing characters in popular franchises has done more harm than good

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    Recently, there has been a trend of recasting characters of popular franchises. For example, in the series Bridgerton, Regé-Jean Page (a British- Zimbabwean) was casted as the Duke of Hastings, Simon Basset. Similar occurrences have also happened, such as Zendaya (who is half African-American and half European) being casted as Mary Jane in the Spider-man franchise, Jonathan Majors (an African-American) as Kang the Conqueror, Halle Bailey (an African-American) as Ariel the Mermaid. On April 14th, a new Harry Potter series was announced, with Paapa Essiedu (a British-African) entering the franchise as Severus Snape.

    UBC Summer HST 2025 · Round 3 · 2025-11-04