Any debate advice for me?

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I saw 7k do this and since I’m going with a debate against him right now, I thought what better way than to copy him and also ask what could I do better. So what does everyone think? I only have two debates so I’m not sure if that is a lot to go off of.

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Same as for him
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It's hard to get a sense of your debating style with this much to go off of.

Generally, for your first speech (which I believe is the most important for learning how to write pure logical arguments), you should simply put a few contentions. To really oversimplify it, a contention is a paragraph with a CLAIM (the central thing you want to prove), WARRANT (reasoning), EVIDENCE (concrete facts/statistics supporting the reasoning) and IMPACT/GROUNDS (the consequence of your claim, and why it matters. 

For example, say the topic is "We should ban junk food in schools."

Your first contention might look like this:

CLAIM: Serving junk food in schools leads to poor health later in life.
WARRANT 1: Serving junk food in schools is correlated with obesity. 
EVIDENCE 1: A study showing that schools that served junk food had higher rates of obesity than ones that didn't. 
WARRANT 2: Childhood obesity leads to worse health outcomes later in life.
EVIDENCE 2: A study comparing health outcomes of people with childhood obesity and those without.
IMPACT: Under the opposing side's plan, people would die. 
GROUNDS: People dying is bad.

And your next few contentions would cover other aspects of the topic - make sure not to overlap. For example,

Contention 2: Junk food is more expensive than healthy food, costing educational funds.
Contention 3: Serving junk food creates a bad precedent for public health programs.


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Ok, thanks.
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@JoeBob
If you care about votes, act like a politician.

If you care about the truth, act like a philosopher.
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I got you. 
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@JoeBob
I wlmean I will give you detailed advice when I get off of work. After I get my nap in
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Ok, thanks
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here you go. Just some stuff off the top of my head. https://youtu.be/ncIHVvq8wDA Probably boring to listen to but if you want to improve I think there is some stuff that can benefit you.
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Thanks! I’ll watch it tomorrow because it’s late for me right now.
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@JoeBob
Why do you have comments about being the boy who mocks God on your last video? Did you get famous for some crazy prank or something? What context am I missing?

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Oh yea.  For some reason people will just preach God on random videos. It’s pretty annoying.
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@WyIted
I mean I did mock him, but I don’t think that many people saw it
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@ADreamOfLiberty
What if you care about both?  Trump didn't care about votes in 2016, he acted like a philophisor and he won in 2016.
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What if you care about both?  Trump didn't care about votes in 2016, he acted like a philophisor and he won in 2016.
Trump has never to my knowledge said or done anything that would evidence a philosopher's mindset. His thinking (from what I can tell) is extremely linear and specific, which makes it accessible; but philosophy requires multidimensional abstract thinking.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
I meant the part where Trump doesn't care who he pisses off.
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@ADreamOfLiberty
Trump is a real philosopher, how dare you...

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I meant the part where Trump doesn't care who he pisses off.
There are many reasons why someone might not pander and a love of truth is the least likely in general.