<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Who is the red hat crowd? My ex-wife joined that. Their founder wrote a poem that said 'When I am old I will wear purple, with a red hat.' And so a lot of little old ladies formed a club in which they wear that.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">A good example of not understanding the poem, which was about a mild sort of nonconformism, mixing those two colors. So what do they do? All wear the same thing, totally violating the spirit of the poem.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:comic sans ms,sans-serif;font-size:large;color:#000000">Now - what's this new red hat group? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 3:18 PM spike jones 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"><br>
>...> On Behalf Of Anton Sherwood via extropy-chat<br>
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>>... Anton the two areas you outlined are trade protectionism, which > doesn't really have a clear left/right split from what I can tell.<br>
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>...The red hat brigade seem to think it has.<br>
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OK Anton I will take your word on that one. I am not up to speed on what the red hat crowd is doing.<br>
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Regarding not knowing what the red hat crowd is doing: that is one of the most worrisome aspects of Twitter's actions with the account suspensions. We recently learned that hitting the mute button on Zoom does not turn off one's camera. Now we realize that muting a group turns off theirs in a sense: If one has no voice on a forum, there is no reason to leave ones ears or eyes there either. We now don't know what the red hat crowd is doing or where they went. I don't think they went away however.<br>
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