[extropy-chat] Politics

[Russell Wallace]

On 12/23/05, Dirk Bruere <dirk.bruere at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> When it comes to politics on this list I consider one form a necessity and
> the other a pest.
> The pest can be summed up as "parochial party politics". It is easy to
> spot - the names 'Bush', 'Republican', 'Democrat' etc make unwelcome
> appearances in almost all instances.
> If people want to talk about politics let's keep it to either specific
> instances that affect Transhumanist aims directly, or to principles and
> practices op the wider stage..
> Am I alone in this view?
>

Seconded (or thirded, fourthed etc). Anyone who disagrees, let's suppose I
got a bunch of Irish friends and we came onto this list and started spamming
it with a zillion angry messages a day about Bertie Ahern. Something tells
me the moderator wouldn't be quite so tolerant.

Now there are political discussions that are genuinely extropy-relevant.
They just don't tend to involve sphexish bickering about whether the current
occupant of $government_building shags sheep.

- Russell
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