[ExI] Nobody can say we weren’t warned

[William Flynn Wallace]

Trump wants to change that, he wants to "open up the libel laws". He thinks
if you say something bad about me and I sue you the burden of proof isn't
on me as it is now. he want
​s the burden​
 to be on you.  john

This is, in fact, the way it is in Britain and has been for centuries.  I
wonder how the Brits feel.  Anders?

bill w

On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 5:58 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

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> *>…*] *On Behalf Of *Adrian Tymes
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> >…Spike, are you empowered as moderator to keep people on the question
> when they keep running away from it despite being asked to focus on and
> answer the question?
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> Well, perhaps, but as a libertarian I disdain the notion of being
> empowered.
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> I see plenty of advantages in our quadrennial civics lesson Americans are
> compelled to undergo, and the freeform discussions that tend to cluster
> around those periods of symbolic riot.  My request is that we clearly label
> these discussions, for it doesn’t apply to a lot of us here.  I can imagine
> it would be interesting to expatriates and world citizens, in the sense of
> watching two lions fighting at a near distance or watching a bubbling
> volcano: dangerous but interesting.
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> We have plenty of reasons to be optimistic.  In times past, times still
> more benighted than the present, there were few instances of symbolic chaos
> and riot; they were far too literal.  Plenty of the Monte Python hilarity
> revolved around the insanity of battling knights, which involved actual
> death and dismemberment.
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> I personally do not consider the risk of nuclear warfare high even now,
> but I do worry about conventional warfare a lot.  That feels worse now than
> in the past 30 yrs.
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> There are no rules against annoying our own friends.  I have seen some
> personal attack and I do urge us all to eschew it, but what I have seen is
> mostly fair game.
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> Play ball!
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> spike
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