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fun fact: an average "policy debate" speaker speaks 350 words per minute and is completely unintelligible to an average person. They speak faster than auctioneers. A "policy debate" is not your average debate and is more like its own sport. The goal is to cram so many arguments into the limited time that your opponents cannot address them all.

Watch these and you definitely cannot understand them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FPsEwWT6K0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrTYHn1Am0c&list=PLHaG-zIzA-...

Even the Onion could not have written a better skit.



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