[ExI] Even India and Haiti do it better

[William Flynn Wallace]

many voters claim they can tell them apart, but I still cannot.  What has
either of them said to convince me they know what to do when the lenders
suddenly stop lending?


spike

What if you were not a one issue guy, Spike?  Could you not tell them apart
then?

bill w

On Tue, May 12, 2020 at 12:26 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] Even India and Haiti do it better
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> > which is why it has never been done, even though nearly everyone at
> that level of power would have cheerfully done so.
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> >…I don't think that's true, Washington could have easily made himself
> dictator but he chose not to…
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> This makes me a big fan of Washington.  He was the first and perhaps only
> libertarian to be elected to that high office.  He set an important
> precedent that was followed but not codified into law until a century and a
> half later.  He left office after two terms, as did his successors.
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> >… But Trump does want to be dictator and he already has the Senate and
> the Supreme Court in his pocket, not to mention the Attorney General.  John
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> Then why didn’t he do it?  Because the constitution prevents it.  The
> SCOTUS will swear in whoever it collectively believes wins the EC vote in
> December 2020.
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> What I see as a bigger threat: a seriously disputed election, not by the
> players but by the voters.  You have long known my uneasiness with machine
> voting, but now with expanded use of mail-in ballots and ballot harvesting,
> that problem gets worse.
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> We may not know who won the coming election.  It was kinda that way in
> 2000, but it didn’t matter then: the candidates were indistinguishable to
> most voters.  This time around, many voters claim they can tell them apart,
> but I still cannot.  What has either of them said to convince me they know
> what to do when the lenders suddenly stop lending?
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