Resolutions

1.a. On balance, privately discussing politics with people with whom you substantially disagree does more harm than good.

1.b. Based on knowledge of the circumstances up to and including (but not after) July 2024, the Democratic Party should have held a presidential primary following Joe Biden’s candidacy withdrawal.

1.c. The United States Federal Government should grant felons the right to vote.

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2.a. The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia should substantially increase its investment in the NEOM project.

2.b. The State of Libya should significantly increase its farming infrastructure.

2.c. The Arab Republic of Egypt should seek the enforcement of the 1929 Anglo-Egyptian Treaty in response to the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia’s construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD).

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3.a. The United States Federal Government should substantially restrict the use of biometric data collection.

3.b. The United States Federal Government should significantly increase the budget of the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS).

3.c. The United States Federal Government should build the Resilient Resource Reserve.

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4.a. Effective protest movements require civil disobedience.

4.b. Capitalism is failing into techno-feudalism.
INFOSLIDE: Techno-feudalism is a concept that describes the shift from a capitalist economy to a system where a few dominant technology corporations and digital platforms exert feudal-like control over markets, labor, and data. In this model, wealth and power are concentrated in the hands of tech giants that act as digital landlords, extracting rents from users, workers, and smaller businesses through platform fees, data monetization, and algorithmic control. Unlike traditional capitalism, where competition and production drive profits, techno-feudalism relies on monopolistic dominance, network effects, and surveillance capitalism to maintain control.

4.c. The United States Federal Government should institute a Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC).

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5.a. The United States Federal Government should significantly increase defenses against anti-satellite weapons.

5.b. The Democratic National Committee (DNC) should focus its policy platform on economic populism.

5.c. In the next ten years, the Effective Accelerationism movement will do more harm than good.
INFOSLIDE: Effective Accelerationism (often abbreviated as e/acc) is an emerging ideological movement that advocates for the rapid advancement of technology, industry, and economic growth as a means to drive human progress. It contrasts with decelerationist views, which emphasize caution, regulation, or limitations on technological development due to concerns about risks such as environmental damage or artificial intelligence threats.

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6.a. The European Union should remove member states who implement authoritarian policies.

6.b. The United States Federal Government should classify Meta as a common carrier.

6.c. The citizen welfare standard is preferable to the consumer welfare standard in legal doctrine.
INFOSLIDE: The consumer welfare standard holds that businesses should only be stopped from merging or acting in anti-competitive ways that hurt consumers, like raising prices or lowering quality. The citizen welfare standard looks at broader impacts, considering negative externalities such as privacy, the environment, and democracy.

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E1.a. Internet anonymity does more harm than good.

E1.b. The United Nations should send peacekeepers to Myanmar.

E1.c. States should not employ prisoners in high-risk jobs, such as wildfire fire-fighting.

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E2.a. Major metropolitan areas should substantially increase the use of congestion pricing.

E2.b. India should significantly reduce its tariffs on imports from the United States.

E2.c. As the university, it would be preferable to dismiss all charges against the journalist.
INFOSLIDE: A group of university students were arrested for breaking and entering into a university building as part of a political statement. One of these individuals was a student journalist planning to report on the situation. The journalist, while knowing about the crime ahead of time, made no effort to stop or report it.

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E3.a. On balance, USAID projects are beneficial.

E3.b. The United States Federal Government should remove from the president the power to grant pardons for federal crimes.

E3.c. Nicaragua should build an alternative shipping lane to the Panama canal.

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E4.a. Governments should prioritize mitigating existential risks (i.e. nuclear war, climate change) over reducing suffering in humans and animals.

E4.b. Young Americans should pursue a Politics of Abundance.
INFOSLIDE: "Abundance Politics,"" also known as "a Politics of Abundance" or "supply-side progressivism," is a political ideology that emphasizes increasing the supply of essential goods and services to make them more abundant and affordable, thereby achieving progressive outcomes. This approach contrasts with traditional progressive policies that focus on wealth redistribution or subsidies to improve access to basic necessities.

E4.c. The Plurinational State of Bolivia should eliminate its currency peg to the United States Dollar.