[ExI] Wise Donald Trump

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From: extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Stathis Papaioannou
Sent: Wednesday, June 01, 2016 7:11 PM
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Subject: Re: [ExI] Wise Donald Trump

 

With a 10% chance that a US president would use nuclear weapons in a 4 year term, that would mean about an 84% chance of use in the past 70 years.  Stathis

 

 

No, I would have gone with about 1% each.  The current two front runners are about 10 times and 12 times riskier than their predecessors in my estimation.  

 

Their opponent is safer in every area I can think of, every single one.  We just need to get over the outdated notion that only those two parties can win.  We really should get that.  Reasoning: in the past, the newspapers and mainstream TV news were the only real sources of information.  Now we have the internet, we have good alternatives.  We can find out things our predecessors could not.  

 

We can do as Bobby Kennedy suggested: look at things which have never been, then ask: Why not?  Where is the hard and fast rule that says all presidents must be either Republican or Democrat?  Who is telling us that, and what are their credentials?  Or are we all just too conservative and change resistant?  Is there a law that insists it can only be one of those two forever?  It can only be whoever the press tells us we can choose from?  Can anyone else ever win even if he is clearly better?  Why not?  Can we not hear the approaching steps of the girl with the hammer?  Why not?  I can.  Can you? 

 

spike

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