<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'comic sans ms',sans-serif;font-size:small;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I've seen plenty of politicians that I've disagreed with, that I've hated, that I've had contempt for, but I've never seen one that has flat out terrified me as much as Donald has. </font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark </div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">I don't want to put words in your mouth, but I suspect that what really terrifies you is that he has such a large following, not so much the person he is. That's what's so upsetting to me. Or maybe just plain disgusting. </div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></font></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px"><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">bill w (my last political comment)</div></font></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 10:17 AM, John Clark <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:johnkclark@gmail.com" target="_blank">johnkclark@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><span class=""><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sat, Jun 4, 2016 at 3:10 AM, Anders </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:anders@aleph.se" target="_blank">anders@aleph.se</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div></span><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span class=""><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">>> </div>Perhaps, in the spirit of extropianism being in part
about what one can actually do to change things, limit
discussion to effective methods of change?</blockquote>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">> </div>That makes sense. The current hammering has been a rather strong
disincentive for me to participate: it crowds out extropian themes.</div></blockquote><div><br></div></span><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"></div><font size="4">I've been on this list continuously since 1993 and from day one existential themes<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> have been considered an appropriate topic for discussion</div>, but before we need to <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">solve the problem of</div> the sun evolving into a red giant the human race <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">needs</div> to survive <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">for </div>the next 4 years, and the events that occur in the next 5 months will have a dramatic effect on <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">the probability of that occurring</div>. A fascist, a ignorant thin skinned hot tempered and above all stupid fascist<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">,</div> is about to receive the nuclear launch codes of the most powerful military on the planet<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">;</div> and now would be a good time to tone <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">the discussion down</div>??</font></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><br></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">I've seen plenty of politicians that I've disagreed with, that I've hated, that I've had contempt for, but I've never seen one that has flat out terrified me as much as Donald has. </font></div></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4"><br></font></div></div><div><font size="4"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"> John K Clark </div> </font></div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><br></div>
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