<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">On Aug 11, 2020, at 1:00 PM, John Clark via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><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></div></div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Recall who Hindenburg helped a certain other person to seize control about a year later. I’d say he was one of history’s great enablers. And let’s not forget his role in popularizing the stab in the back myth. See:</span><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><a href="https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth">https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth</a></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The best thing about Hindenburg in 1932 was that he wasn’t going to live that long. But that didn’t help matters much, did it?</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br><div dir="ltr"><div style="line-height: normal;"><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Regards,</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"><br></span></div><div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;">Dan</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><span style="line-height: 20px;"> Sample my Kindle books at:</span></div><div style="line-height: normal;"><p style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; font-family: Helvetica;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">http://author.to/DanUst</span></p></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>