<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br clear="all"></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 8, 2026 at 4:28 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Adrian Tymes via extropy-chat</span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-4616894758088390808"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-4616894758088390808WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] Trump suggests letting Iran ‘take out’ Los Angeles and San Diego</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">On Thu, Oct 8, 2026, 10:50<span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span>AM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p><blockquote style="border-color:currentcolor currentcolor currentcolor rgb(204,204,204);border-style:none none none solid;border-width:medium medium medium 1pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">>>… why did the opposition party… lose … spike</span></b><u></u><u></u></p></div></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">>…There were multiple reasons… Adrian<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">I am watching this signal, for it has direct bearing on how I plan to bet in the coming year. Adrian is right in that there are multiple reasons, however it understates the current situation to say there is no consensus: the multiple reasons Adrian cited appear to be contradictory to each other. This goes along with my own theory: the losing party has gotten too broad a coalition, and now it contains too many elements which are incompatible with each other.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">In my own chosen party we are experts in that problem, for our factions are even more numerous than either of the mainstream parties and are even less compatible with each other. If one pitches too broad a tent, it collapses under its own weight. As we saw at the 27 May 2024 convention, the broad tent need not even weigh much to collapse under its own weight. <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">The real problem is that the Libertarian party flatly refuses to come together and just do it my way dammit.</span></p></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">People attracted to the Libertarian Party can't agree on where to have lunch, much less any thing more substantial.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">You apparently have not known many of them.</div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-size:small" class="gmail_default">Keith<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 class="msg-4616894758088390808"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;" lang="EN-US"><div class="m_-4616894758088390808WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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