[ExI] > Taiwan is standing strong

[William Flynn Wallace]

I think Sanders is toast now, but to me it is most amazing that he got this
far with the word 'socialism' in his philosophy.  bill w

On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 6:28 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
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> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 5:53 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> *> **Now we have John openly campaigning for communism*
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> Spike, be honest, do you really think that id a true statement?
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> John K Clark
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> John, we saw one of the major candidates ruin his campaign by saying a few
> generous words about Fidel Castro.  The party people let him know that
> those few words would cost him Florida by 50 points.  It has been a long
> time ago, but the Cubans and many Floridians still remember.  Without
> Florida, the cliff to victory is steep indeed, and unlikely.
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> In California, any charitable word about Chinese communism, Vietnamese
> communism, or any other brand of communism in a state generally open to
> socialism would be enough to cause that candidate to lose that state.
> Communism is reviled.  It is a murderous philosophy.  Any commentary
> elevating any part of communism ahead of freedom is revolting.
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> Whether or not that is really what you meant to do, it came across as
> analogous to that candidate who pointed out that everything Fidel Castro
> did was not necessary bad.  He was good for education, for instance,
> particularly the “re” variety.  North Vietnam was also good at that “re”
> version of “education.”
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> Communism is evil.  Trump is of the party you don’t like.  Two different
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