<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">Well, as Spike might suggest, this could be a bit of fun. Everyone would wear a sign telling what party he is in, what his views on abortion and porn are, and so on, done with colors and emoticons. Then everyone would wear guns and have showdowns on the street, perhaps between rival gangs of radicals (though it is getting increasingly hard to tell who is a radical).</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000">bill w </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 3:32 PM Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I would NEVER wish for a civil war, but I think you're underestimating the power of asymmetric warfare in that situation. Gun owners are hardly a bunch of silly rednecks with little hunting rifles. Many of them are as well armed as a typical infantry soldier in terms of weaponry. If the will was there to defend/revolt, it would not be an easy fight without resorting to bombing large swathes of the US.</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 4:23 PM John Clark via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">On Wed, Mar 18, 2020 at 2:14 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></div><div><blockquote style="border-top:none;border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:1pt solid rgb(204,204,204);padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span><i><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>></span> </span></i></span><i>POTUS does not have any authority on the date of the November election. </i></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u></p></blockquote><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"> </blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67)"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">>> </span>To paraphrase </span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(60,64,67)">Mao Zedong<span>, authority comes from the barrel of a gun. And before you ask the answer is no, I am not a fan of </span>Mao Zedong</span><span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">…</span></span><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> John K Clark<u></u><u></u></span></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span>And that my international friends is why the USA has a second amendment. The system was set up so that US citizens can protect ourselves from our own government if necessary,</i></p></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"></font><font size="4">I think that's a bogus argument for the second amendment, a bunch of silly rednecks with their little hunting rifles would be comically outmatched by what the Commander In Chief would have on his side, things like Abrams M1 battle tanks and helicopter gunships. And besides, most gun nuts are Trump fanatics too so they'd be of no help in defending the constitution. </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font size="4"><br></font></div><font size="4">Even before this epidemic I thought our Republic was entering a very dangerous time, but now with COVID-19 almost certain to further radicalize political activity I just don't know if the constitution can survive. I sure hope not but I'm afraid the nation could be unrecognizable a year from now. </font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_quote"><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span> </font></div></div>
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