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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'> extropy-chat [mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, August 24, 2016 11:01 AM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Trump's lies<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p>On Aug 24, 2016 9:51 AM, "Dave Sill" <<a href="mailto:sparge@gmail.com">sparge@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Give it a rest, John. You're not convincing anyone and you're annoying and offending at least me, almost certainly others.<o:p></o:p></p><p>And me. Sufficient rational reasons have been given why someone who doesn't want Trump as president but would settle for Clinton might vote for Johnson. Either refute them or accept that your logic has been disproven. (Or show that you are uninterested in debate and should be banned, but hopefully that is nor the case.)<o:p></o:p></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>The reason why I have hesitated to ban this discussion and even participated in the whole distasteful affair myself, and the reason why I beg our non-yank readers to bear with us patiently please:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings'>à</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>This is a goddam scary time for Americans.<---- <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>It is even more scary for those of us who have worked in or around the US military, who have worked in or around military technology companies, who know how badly this can turn out. Ja, it is relevant to us and I would think to anyone who shares the planet.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>Your friendly neighborhood omnipotent but modest and power-eschewing ExI moderator,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif'>spike<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>