<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">I don’t know that personal attacks are really warranted, especially in regards to politics. I agree with Mod in that regard.<br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br>On Aug 12, 2020, at 8:30 AM, William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:small;color:#000000"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"> If I could cast a thousand votes for Trump in the closest state race, I would.</div><font color="#888888" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div><div>Trump is the most vile person I know of and the biggest liar. Fact-checking showed that only one of six things he said during the campaign was true. Birds of a feather, Rafal?</div><div><br></div></font></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 10:36 PM Rafal Smigrodzki 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"><div dir="ltr"><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:54 PM Adrian Tymes <<a href="mailto:atymes@gmail.com" target="_blank">atymes@gmail.com</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">On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:53 AM Rafal Smigrodzki via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></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 dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 5:30 AM Stathis Papaioannou <<a href="mailto:stathisp@gmail.com" target="_blank">stathisp@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></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><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="auto">What is the justification for not voting, beyond the fact that a single vote does not count much?</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></div></div>
</blockquote></div></div><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### I want to avoid legitimizing the system. If I never voted for it, you can't blame me.</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>We can totally blame you for neglecting to do your civic duty. It doesn't matter if you never asked for it; just by being an adult citizen of the United States of America, your choices are to have that duty (though it is possible to shirk the duty) or to renounce your citizenship (which usually requires leaving the country).</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>### No, we are Americans, we are a free people, at least for now, we don't have a duty to brown-nose the Leviathan by casting usually meaningless votes. It's only in the Communist Poland that I was forced to vote in municipal elections, on pain of being investigated by the police for being an enemy of the state if I didn't show up.</div><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><br></div><div>Certain people not voting was part of how Trump got into office.</div></div></div>
</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div>### If I could cast a thousand votes for Trump in the closest state race, I would.</div><div><br></div><div>Rafal</div></div>
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