<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Ben, I have long wondered if politics is a high profession or a low one. I think it can be and we have some good people - who are greatly outnumbered by the corrupt ones. bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 8:18 AM Ben Zaiboc 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">
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On 23/12/2020 22:28, bill w wrote:<br>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Biden says that we
are going to punish Russia for its role in the hacking of
government computers.</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Well, that's
spying, and doesn't everyone do it - like us? I'll bet we are
hacking away at North Korea's, Russia's, China's, computers and
problem a lot more. Remember when we were spying on our friends
in Britain and Germany?</div>
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<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">What about this
isn't just business as usual?</div>
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Well, I'd say, yes, it is hypocracy, and yes, it is business as
usual.<br>
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And what makes you think your govt. isn't still spying on britain
and germany? Of course they are. They are spying on everyone that
they think they can get away with spying on, including americans.<br>
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A politician saying X should be punished for naughty behaviour Y is
just a politician doing politics: being seen to be doing something
that they think will be popular. When politicians start doing things
that will actually be effective, instead of saying they will do
things that they think will be popular, then I'll sit up and take
notice. Until then, as you say, business as usual.<br>
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Ben Zaiboc</pre>
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