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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Dylan Distasio via extropy-chat<br><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Immaculate Election<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Mon, Jan 11, 2021 at 9:30 PM Stuart LaForge via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>>>… I don't see how the Republic can <br>continue to survive if we can't restore people's trust in our elections… Stuart<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>>…Cui bono? That's where the explanation lies as to why we still use them, as well as why no transparency was provided around this election to assuage concerns over fraud… Dylan<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Note how the tech companies reacted. Twitter squelched comments pointing out that the election was suspicious. Parler boomed with simply offering to let people express their views without being censored. Apple responded by squelching Parler.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Good chance every person here over about 45 years already knows exactly what this image is:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=263 height=263 style='width:2.7395in;height:2.7395in' id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D6E855.8B8F3210"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>That advertisement stirred my emotions more than any other in my entire long life.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>It is ironic indeed that given the origin of this image, Apple would participate in making it difficult to communicate freely.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>spike<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div></body></html>