[ExI] Piker

[spike at rainier66.com]

...> On Behalf Of Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat
Subject: Re: [ExI] Piker

On 30/10/2026 15:10, spike wrote:
John wrote:
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> >…If, as you say, behavior similar to that of John McEntee is common among members of the Libertarian Party….
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>>... That isn’t what I said.  Read again please.


>...What you said was "I will offer that Libertarians have personalities like that", so I think John's interpretation is reasonable. He's not even interpreting it as "All members of the Libertarian party...", which your wording suggests.
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Ben

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Do allow me to clarify: the Libertarian party has personalities like that.  Fortunately they are not common.  The Democrat party also has distasteful personalities: Hasan Piker, Abdul El Sayed, Rep. Cortez, Ilhan (possibly) Elmi (possibly) Omar would be some examples.

Ben in the 2024 cycle, the Libertarian party invited the mainstream candidates to speak at the convention.  One did, one did not.  The party toyed with the idea of nominating the guy who showed up.  

However... that is a really bad idea which I opposed, for it introduces the risk of chaos.  For instance, what if the LP nominated the guy who showed up.  Then that guy's name appears twice on the ballot as nominee for two different parties.  One would think votes for that guy from either party would add.  Well, do they?  Is it necessary for them to add?  Who gets to make that call?  

What if... states split on that question, with some adding and some treating votes from two different parties for the same guy as two different votes, and they don't add?  And what if... the seven or eight swing states, where it is always close and where it really matters, split on how they count the votes?  Then what the hell do we do?  The governors of those states get to make the call on which representatives go to the EC.  What in the goddam hell if... their decisions reverse the election?  

Secondly: we had a hell of a lot of suspected infiltrators at the Libertarian convention.  We had a lot of loud voices there who have no traceable past, no internet presence, no one knows them.  It is difficult or impossible to prove any particular person is an infiltrator, but what if... Hasan Piker is a MAGA guy, who infiltrated the Democrat party?  He does kinda seem like it: a far right guy in disguise.  If so, that is exactly how he would act, ja?

spike