<div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(15,20,25);font-family:TwitterChirp,-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,"Segoe UI",Roboto,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:23px;white-space:pre-wrap">"Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul."
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn</span><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 8:16 AM John Grigg 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"><div>Spike wrote:</div>"John I wouldn’t be much fun there. I would be a rotting corpse. Recall the reason why Japan didn’t invade California: there would be a gun behind every bush. I would be one of those behind a gun."<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>I appreciate your fighting spirit! </div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Aug 11, 2021 at 6:48 AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">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 lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>John Grigg via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] US ?failed miserably? in wargame reportedly against China attack on Taiwan<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Spike wrote:<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">"The thought had occurred to me. The internet never forgets. All the<br>disparaging comments I have posted about commies are there forever. This is<br>not to say I have any intentions of stopping however." <u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">Spike, I hope that if China ever takes over, that I get to share a cell with you and Stuart! I would learn so much! : ) Well, at least when not working a 14 hour shift of breaking rocks, after which we would spend several hours memorizing Socialist-Leninist-Marxist doctrine, with a great deal of encouragement from the instructors...<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">John<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">John I wouldn’t be much fun there. I would be a rotting corpse. Recall the reason why Japan didn’t invade California: there would be a gun behind every bush. I would be one of those behind a gun.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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