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@coal
In your OP, and in your profile pic, and based on my knowledge of you in general, you display five layers of identities: (1) Jewish, (2) Aspie, (3) democratic socialist, (4) potentially goth/emo, and (5) gay.What role do these identities play in your understanding of yourself, and why? As you conceive of yourself, are you the sum of your overlapping identities, and, if so, do you agree that the set of them and their intersection indicates the degree of your own individuality? If so, why? Further, if the overlapping intersection of those or other identities or groups to which you belong, do you also believe that the individual must therefore be the fundamental social unit (as opposed to the groups, themselves)? Are identity-based groups social units of relevance?
1) Jewish is my religious identity and the faith that I choose to follow.
2) Having aspergers/autism has definitely affected who I am
3) DS is my political ideology. Interestingly I feel that DS goes hand in hand with Torah/Judaism values.
4) I'm actually not a goth. I just thought this was a cool pic.
5) 100% gay and not ashamed about it.
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@coal
Why democratic socialism, and, more interestingly, why NOT anything else? I may be misremembering, but I seem to recall that you were not always a democratic socialist, or even politically on the left. What changed, and why? Why have you stuck with this?I've noticed that you've had a lot of debates about whether Jesus is the messiah, here and elsewhere. Do you feel that validation of your religious beliefs requires the invalidation of Christianity? If so, why Christianity in particular? Further, if you believe that Christianity would need to be invalidated in order to validate your own religious beliefs, do you also feel this way about other Abrahamic religions, namely Islam? If you do not believe that Islam or other Abrahamic religions would need to be invalidated, why Christianity in particular? Beyond Abrahamic religions, have you similarly considered and rejected (as you have with Christianity) other world religions? Namely, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sikhism?How do you feel about Ben Shapiro?How do you feel about Noam Chomsky?How do you feel about the current situation between Israel and Palestine?
I feel like Democratic Socialism has the best policies. That being said, I do disagree with certain democratic socialist and have some issues with the Green Party, the party that I feel is closest to my ideology.
My political views have certainly changed and evolved over the years. I grew up in a conservative household and was exposed to Republican/Libertarian ideologies. After looking at the evidence and viewing the results of their policies, I just don't feel like their policies can work in the real world.
I grew up a fundamentalist Christian so that's kinda why I'm focuse my debates mostly around Christianity vs. Judaism. Further Christians spend millions of dollars each year to convert Jews to Christianity.
No real thoughts on Shapiro or Chomsky.
Israel and Palestine is way too broad of a question.
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@coal
How do you feel and think that having Aspergers impacts you? Do you think there are advantages? If so, what? Disadvantages? If so, what? If not, why?
There are several ways. First, a lot of people with Aspergers/Autism spectrum also have sensory processing disorder. There are certain textures, sounds, tastes, and smells that I absolutely cannot stand and sometimes have a bit of a mini panic attack if I come in cross with them.
I have a tendency to talk about the same thing and get stuck on one topic.
Also I tend to get too emotionally attached to someone too quickly, and often times it's with the wrong person.
Not sure if there are any advantages/disadvantages.
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@bsh1
I can get really gay with the right discussion topic.
Can confirm
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@coal
How do you feel and think that having Aspergers impacts you? Do you think there are advantages? If so, what? Disadvantages? If so, what? If not, why?
This is a fantastic question and will take a lot of time to answer. I don't have much time now but ding me tomorrow! I'm in the very early stages of writing a book about it.
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@Swagnarok
I was Kohai. I am/was also the moderator on Edeb8.
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@Mharman
the tiers have already went out. I’ll give you a bye round
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Aloha and welcome to the first round of the 2019 winter tournaments!
Debaters:
1. blamonkey
2. armoredcat
4. warren42
5. nmvarco
6. WisdomofAges
Teir 1
Blamonkey vs WisdomofAges
Teir 2
armoredcat vs Warren 42
Teir 3:
RationalMadman vs nmvarco
You all have 48 hrs to determine what the resolution is and what side you are taking!
Good luck!
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Doxxing is a serious issue and will be dealt with harshly. Doxxing is one of the most serious offenses IMO. We value the privacy of our members and any breech of that privacy is serious.
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Bumping for one last time. This tournament will start on Wednesday. Sign up before then!
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A K is challenging the assumption of the resolution. If the resolution was about whether or not the gov should recognize Same Sex Marriage, a K would be to challenge why the gov should recognize any marriage. If a debate was about whether or not Beethoven is better than Mozart a K would be to challenge the assumption that one is inherently better than the other.
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I’d love to do a live debate with you. And since we are close, we can do it at a live venue. That would be fun to see the
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@coal
Given that bsh1 has posted a "come clean" thread, this leads me to believe he suspects multiple people of multi-accounting. I have several theories on why this might be, though one common IP address across multiple IP addresses from various accounts is hardly an indicia of multi-accounting... it's not even plausible evidence of multi-accounting, given how IP addresses work -- especially given that many here likely post from their phones.
As bsh notes in the OP this thread exists precisely because we have seen people multi account and admit to it. We've closed more than 20 accounts that were all multis.
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@Castin
Lol.
I am almost always the good cop and bsh is almost always the bad cop.
/s
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@Nd24007
OK fair enough. Moved to politics.
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Hi all!
Just to inform everyone, Vaarka has decided to make a new DART/DDO discord server. This is the new link: https://discord.gg/ABRhtPX
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@RationalMadman
the brackets haven’t been finalized yet so you may or may not go against warren. If you do then you can pick the resolution and pick the side you want to argue
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@RationalMadman
Ah I thought you meant private citizens to be included. In that case I actually kinda agree with you on that.
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@RationalMadman
Then that means absolutely no freedom. Do you really want the government to watch you take a shower or have relations with your SO? I don't think so.
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@Tejretics
How about changing this one to "Resolved: The West should never endorse military coups, even when they overthrow autocratic regimes (e.g., Zimbabwe"?It'd be awesome to see that debated -- I quite liked that topic.
This is an interesting topic and would love to debate this with you. While I definitely think we need to stay out of everyone else's business, I think there are some times when it's necessary to intervene such as in case of genocide.
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@DebateArt.com
I think what would be helpful is to have the ability to "soft delete" threads so that admins can reference them and see them but the public cannot
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@blamonkey
OK awesome! I'll put you in as a debater for now.
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@coal
Not a problem! I hope you are enjoying the site so far!
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@coal
I was ThinkBig on DDO.
The deputy moderator is effectively the vice moderator. My basic duties are (but not limited to) help review reports and make decisions on bans and warnings, to help tej with the vote modding, and to reach out to members who need help or if they need to be coached.
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Aloha!
Welcome to the first DART tournament of 2019! I am hoping to run regularly scheduled tournaments throughout the year. I hope that these tournaments will help make DART and help grow the debate section of the site. I will be using the Tournament Bracket Generator to create pairings. This will be a single elimination tournament.
This tournament will have a maximum of twelve participants (6 pairings). This may be increased if there is enough interest. Regardless of how many debaters we get this tournament will hopefully start within the next two weeks.
This tournament will be moderated by myself.
Rules
1.Topics will be decided by the debaters. However, there is a strict 48h time limit. If no topic is agreed to after this time frame, I'll be choosing a topic for you.
2. In the event of an odd number of competitors, there will be bye rounds, and I will randomly choose people to freely advance to the next round.
3. The voting period for the debates shall be set for two weeks
4. No troll or non standard debates
Possible Resolutions
If you can't think of a resolution to debate here are some that I believe would make for a good debate.
Resolved: In a democracy, the public’s right to know ought to be valued above the right to privacy of candidates for public office.
Resolved: The United States ought not provide military aid to authoritarian regimes.
Resolved: The United States ought to withdraw from NATO
Resolved: The United States should build and maintain a border wall with Mexico
Resolved: The United States federal government should impose price controls on the pharmaceutical industry.
Resolved: The United States federal government should ban the advertisements of prescription medicine.
Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially reduce its restrictions on legal immigration to the United States.
Debater Sign-Ups:
1. blamonkey
2. armoredcat
4. warren42
5. nmvarco
6. WisdomofAges
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Judges Signup
I would also like to ask people to signup for judging debates. While anyone can judge a debate we want to be sure that each debate gets at least one high quality RFD and that there are no tied debates. As such if you signup to be a judge you may be called on to judge a debate if a debate has no votes and is less than 3 days left in the voting period.
1. Ramshutu
2. Moeology
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@coal
So, why was Supa banned? He's like the least troublesome kid on the site.
<bad joke>
It's pretty obvious that he was banned for beating bsh1 in the rap battles!
</end really bad joke>
Serious answer: "Also to stop people from asking I got banned 5 days for threat reporting Poly and my rants on her.
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@Wylted
This is kinda why I’ve been pushing for a mod log
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It's threads like this that prove how badly we need a public mod log.
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Hebrew test!
בראשית ברא אלהים את השמים ואת הארץ
(first verse of the Bible)
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@DebateArt.com
This website is subsidiary of Russian Mafia LLC that was contracted by the Russian government to influence your minds in order to support Trump, obviously.
I can confirm this. Mike's the boss, bsh is the underboss and I am the Consigliere, tej is the Caporegime and caspin is the associate.
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@MagicAintReal
This was the best answer so far, and effectively shows how to tell the difference between god and the devil...there is no devil.
Exactly! Satan has absolutely no power except the power that God gives him. There is no devil.
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Here's a Jewish answer for you!
There is no such thing as the devil or fallen angels. Satan in Hebrew means "opposer" or "accuser." The first time the word Satan appears in the Bible is Numbers 22:22
God's wrath flared because he was going, and an angel of the Lord stationed himself on the road to thwart (satan) him, and he was riding on his she-donkey, and his two servants were with him.
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@DebateArt.com
Ah lol. I couldn't remember if I had to confirm my email or not.
In that case who in their right mind would create 30+ different email accounts just to bog us down?
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