[ExI] were they ugly?

[William Flynn Wallace]

What is more valuable:  keeping this chat content like it is, with the
occasional political issues, or just banning politics totally and emailing
the lost members and inviting them back to a new and improved content?

I would be strongly for the ban.  There  are plenty (!!) of outlets for
politics.  And we can always email person to person and exclude the chat
group.

What say?  Let's make a case for getting those people back!
bill w

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 4:49 PM ddraig--- via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> Hi
>
> On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 at 15:54, <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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>> Damien stopped posting because he was very annoyed at the incessant US
>> political chatter, where USians appear to think we are the only country in
>> the world.  Far too often we assume that everyone cares who is our
>> president and what he thinks or does.
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> Ohhhhh. Fair enough.  I did a search but did not see anything from him in
> the last 5 or 6 posts.  Unless there's gaps in my extropy archive on
> gmail.  I can totally understand that, that's ... the entire fucking
> internet, pretty much.  In the last few months before the last US election
> I withdrew from nearly all interactive online things (mostly gaming) which
> had Americans in it because it was just non-stop hysteria and shrieking
> back and forth.  It drives the rest of us crazy.  But that's okay! If we
> miss anything, the media in Australia will give us a minute-by-minute
> update on nearly anything to do with US politics, because they think we
> care.  I suspect mostly because it is cheap content.
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>> We also lost Anders Sandberg and Eugen Leitl that way and several other
>> valuable posters.
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> I thought that happened after 911 when the list suddenly discovered it's
> inner nuke-em-all gun nut.
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>>  In retrospect I partially blame myself for doing too little to encourage
>> that to tone down forthwith and be respectful of international
>> perspectives.
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> But in fairness to you, living in the US, you'd be used to that sort of
> stuff and might not see it as unusual, whereas from the outside it looks
> ... insane.   In Australia it is not the done thing to discuss politics or
> religion.  I kind of like the way the population of the US (at least the
> parts I interact with) are so politically engaged (compared to Australians)
> - but I also hate the fact that a lot of the Americans I know are so
> politically engaged ;p
>
>
>> BillK doesn’t hammer us with whatever Her Majesty is doing because it
>> doesn’t apply to most of us.  Australia has a Prime Minister, but I don’t
>> know who it is and don’t concern myself with Australian affairs.  So Damien
>> didn’t post about that.  He and plenty of others would prefer we USians
>> would return the favor.
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> On behalf of the rest of the global internet, I would agree.  But I'm used
> to it, so I just ignore it.  From where I sit it's mostly a religious civil
> war, instead of politics being discussed amongst civilised humans.
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> Dwayne
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