[extropy-chat] Politics

[Samantha Atkins]

I would argue that Bush, being the leader of the most powerful nation  
on earth, could easily come up in quite extropic conversations.  Now  
I can see that the occupant of the Oval Office's sex habit are not  
relevant.  But his attitudes toward freedom, science and so no could  
well be.  Other than that, I agree.

- samantha

On Dec 22, 2005, at 9:35 PM, Russell Wallace wrote:

> 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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