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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dan TheBookMan<br><b>Sent:</b> Sunday, July 14, 2019 2:41 PM<br><b>To:</b> ExI chat list <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] I see pitchforks.<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Jul 14, 2019, at 2:25 PM, William Flynn Wallace <<a href="mailto:foozler83@gmail.com">foozler83@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"'>>…<span style='color:black'> just when were pitchforks employed? </span>…<span style='color:black'>bill w <o:p></o:p></span></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Sounds like a question for Quora.... My guess is peasants mostly didn’t have access to regular weapons or the training to use them, so using farm implements like pitchforks was the usual prop for a revolt. (I’m guessing this partly on reading about the history of Okinawa. That might be a fanciful history though. Not much of a scholar on this.) <o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Regards,<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br><br><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Dan<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><o:p> </o:p></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Then we suddenly realize we are overlooking the obvious. A continuous proletariat revolt began long since and has been ongoing. Two recent examples: Nipsey Hussle and Slim 400, both in Los Angeles. In both cases, their lyrics contained information about their wealth:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>…Worth a couple a million, that's a fact…<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Nipsey Hussle lyrics.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'>Slim 400 opined thus about himself:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>>…I ran to the block when they was trying to save me</span><span style='font-size:16.0pt;color:#222222'><br><span style='background:white'>My plan worked, I'm a million dollar baby…<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>Remarkably, Mr. 400 managed to survive being shot 10 times.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>If we wish to interpret the murder of Mr. Hussle and attempted murder of Mr. 400 as proletariat revolt, it is clear that pistols are the weapon of choice rather than pitchforks. However, it is clear in these two cases that bitter resentment of wealth might have played a role.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><span style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#222222;background:white'>spike</span><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>