And what about the 600,000+ Republicans who switched last year, not to mention the many more who switched during Trump’s presidency.
Ed __________ Ed Angel Founding Director, Art, Research, Technology and Science Laboratory (ARTS Lab) Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, University of New Mexico 1017 Sierra Pinon Santa Fe, NM 87501 505-984-0136 (home) edward.an...@gmail.com 505-453-4944 (cell) http://www.cs.unm.edu/~angel > On Jul 2, 2022, at 11:36 AM, Frank Wimberly <wimber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Over 1 million registered democrats switched to registering republican this > year, so far. Do you really believe that these people somehow became deluded > cultists? > > Maybe they want to vote against Trump endorsed candidates in the primaries. > > --- > Frank C. Wimberly > 140 Calle Ojo Feliz, > Santa Fe, NM 87505 > > 505 670-9918 > Santa Fe, NM > > On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, 11:33 AM Prof David West <profw...@fastmail.fm > <mailto:profw...@fastmail.fm>> wrote: > "The Republicans lost their way. When the Republicans turned into a MAGA > party, they lost their last sparks of integrity and became a violent > authoritarian cult which worships a conman." > > Absurd!! > > Over 1 million registered democrats switched to registering republican this > year, so far. Do you really believe that these people somehow became deluded > cultists? > > The absolute worst thing about the American political system is the, de > facto, two-party system that forces voting for something when you simply want > to vote against something else. > > And it is the party apparatchik that personify "something" into a living > breathing candidate. The vast majority (80+%) of voters then"hold their > noses" and "swallow their disgust" and appear to vote for a 'person' when > what they really want to do is vote against "something." [I am being > deliberately vague about something, but it would be a mix of philosophies, > beliefs, policies, laws, appointments, actions, oratory, etc.] > > It would not even be accurate to say that politicians and party apparatchiks > "lost their way;" as they never had a "way" to begin with. To a person they > are cynical amoralists who care nothing about acquiring power and winning the > next election. McConnell and Pelosi are but the two faces of same Janus god. > (Yes, I recognize that my rhetoric here is just as absurd as the quoted > rhetoric that began this post.) > > davew > On Sat, Jul 2, 2022, at 12:33 AM, Jochen Fromm wrote: >> It is not the US government. The Republicans lost their way. When the >> Republicans turned into a MAGA party, they lost their last sparks of >> integrity and became a violent authoritarian cult which worships a conman. >> >> Corrupt Republican politicians like Mitch McConnell who look like their own >> mummy cling to power by embracing this dangerous cult and by manipulating >> voter districts (gerrymandering). The GOP needs to renew itself. Here in >> Europe Green parties begin to replace the conservative parties. >> >> -J. >> >> >> -------- Original message -------- >> From: Sarbajit Roy <sroy...@gmail.com <mailto:sroy...@gmail.com>> >> Date: 7/2/22 08:58 (GMT+01:00) >> To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com >> <mailto:friam@redfish.com>> >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] self-care >> >> The hypocrisy of the US govts is amazing. >> >> For decades they have been desperately promoting pill based self induced >> abortions as "safe" abortions in India and Latin America through their >> puppets like the Guttmacher Institiute and by using misrepresentations and >> outright lies. >> >> These pills are highly toxic / carcinogenic and Guttmacher was caught red >> handed by us for using fake accounts on Wikipedia to shape the "self induced >> abortion" article to depict it as safe and as an at-home remedy. We got >> Guttmacher delisted in India for about a year, but they made their way back >> through the USAID RMNCHA programs used to bribe foreign government servants >> to shape policy >> >> Sarbajit >> >> On Thu, Jun 30, 2022 at 8:52 PM glen <geprope...@gmail.com >> <mailto:geprope...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> In the aftermath of the activist Justices overturning RvW, this popped up in >> my feed: >> >> How to Give Yourself an Abortion >> https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion >> <https://jewishcurrents.org/how-to-give-yourself-an-abortion> >> >> I remain torn on the issue of self-care. And lots of energy was added to my >> oscillators with the whole "horse dewormer" thing for COVID-19. (Yes, I'm >> poking fun both at the people who bought veterinary ivermectin and the >> people who used the disgusting sneer "horse dewormer".) To boot, this post >> came up this morning about a homeopathic packet sent home with the patient >> after surgery: >> https://centerforinquiry.salsalabs.org/2022cfimidyearemailversion11 >> <https://centerforinquiry.salsalabs.org/2022cfimidyearemailversion11>. >> (Placebo is a thing, despite Blumner's write-off.) >> >> Nick is fond of asking people whether they take multivitamins or not. And >> while it's true most experts claim that *healthy* people just pee them out. >> *Who* amongst us actually qualifies as "healthy"? What does "health" even >> mean? That's not an idle or rhetorical question. Am I "healthy", despite the >> excruciating chronic pain in my shoulders, neck, and lower back? Despite my >> sporadic debilitating migraines? Despite my now abated follicular lymphoma? >> Sure, I *seem* healthy because I can do pull-ups, shovel dirt, drink 5 pints >> without a hangover, and maintain a full-time job with a bit of time for >> hobbies. But what you see from the outside doesn't reflect what I feel on >> the inside, which is like a sick puppy where the slightest bad event would >> topple me into the "disabled" category. "Healthy" is at best a >> misinformation concept, at worst a malinformation concept: >> https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf >> >> <https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mdm-incident-response-guide_508.pdf> >> >> Sneer all you want at the new-age descendant reading self-help books, >> cutting out magazine ads for their "vision board", or self-administering >> veterinary de-fetus pills, but there's something important, here. Fad diets, >> bottled water, alcoholism or pregnancy as an indicator for moral failure, >> etc. all point at that thing, whatever that thing is. >> >> In that context, self-administered abortion is legit. >> >> -- >> ꙮ Mɥǝu ǝlǝdɥɐuʇs ɟᴉƃɥʇ' ʇɥǝ ƃɹɐss snɟɟǝɹs˙ ꙮ >> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam <https://bit.ly/virtualfriam> >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> <https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/> >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> <http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/> >> -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom >> https://bit.ly/virtualfriam <https://bit.ly/virtualfriam> >> to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com >> <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> >> FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ >> <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> >> archives: 5/2017 thru present >> https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ >> <https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/> >> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ >> <http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/> >> > > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam <https://bit.ly/virtualfriam> > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > <http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com> > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > <http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/> > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > <https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/> > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/ > <http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/> > -. --- - / ...- .- .-.. .. -.. / -- --- .-. ... . / -.-. --- -.. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom > https://bit.ly/virtualfriam > to (un)subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > archives: 5/2017 thru present > https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/ > 1/2003 thru 6/2021 http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/
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