<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 Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 6:54 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</span><br></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div></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 class="gmail_quote"><div><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">> </span><i>### I want to avoid legitimizing the system. If I never voted for it, you can't blame me.</i></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><font size="4">I think<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> </span>Paul von Hindenburg <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"></span>was a pretty terrible human being, but if I was a German in 1932 I would've voted for him, and if I survived the upcoming war in 1952 I would <span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">have </span>look back a<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">t that</span> vote with pride.<span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> If I had voted for his opponent or just not voted at all I would be filled with shame, because there is no bottom to bad.</span></font><br></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="4"><span class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"> John K Clark</span></font></div></div></div>