[ExI] texas county judge demands residents wear bananas

[Stathis Papaioannou]

On Fri, 24 Apr 2020 at 13:41, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> >…So you are saying that if my scenario occurs, that will be the end of
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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> No I don’t think so.  Our federal government would be bankrupt and would
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> The United States would still be united with half our current population.
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> Presumably the rest of the world would lose half their populations as
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But in the rest of the world, even in anarchist societies, they would make
everyone wear masks. You are saying there is no legal way to do this in the
US, even if almost everyone agrees that it would be a good idea. This would
seem to be a problem with the system, if true.

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Stathis Papaioannou
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