Re: [FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy

2023-08-17 Thread Marcus Daniels
Of Prof David West Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 4:04 PM To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy I am about to get myself in trouble, so important caveats: I do not like Trump, I do not want to see him in office again, and I am happy to apply the adjectives, v

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy

2023-08-15 Thread Marcus Daniels
To: friam@redfish.com Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy I am about to get myself in trouble, so important caveats: I do not like Trump, I do not want to see him in office again, and I am happy to apply the adjectives, venal, crude, infantile, hyperbolic, and cunning-but-stupid to him

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy

2023-08-15 Thread Prof David West
I am about to get myself in trouble, so important caveats: I do not like Trump, I do not want to see him in office again, and I am happy to apply the adjectives, venal, crude, infantile, hyperbolic, and cunning-but-stupid to him. 1-all of the indictments assert that the words and actions of Trum

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy

2023-08-15 Thread Marcus Daniels
] Wait. Martha Stewart really went to prison. If anything, her reputation is even bigger! From: Friam On Behalf Of David Eric Smith Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2023 2:39 PM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy I think your points

Re: [FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy

2023-08-15 Thread David Eric Smith
I think your points are correct, Jochen, while to me there is also another important thing that I want to be able to frame, and find that I cannot in any satisfying way. Having lived under trump et al.’s (and it is a big et al.) daily degradation and violation of every aspect of decent or even

[FRIAM] Democracy & Autocracy

2023-08-15 Thread Jochen Fromm
The countless indictments against Trump remind me of the innumerous indictments against Navalny in Russia. The indictments against Trump look to me totally justified. He tried to undermine and to destroy the democratic system by all kinds of lies and deceit and treachery, by the things that Ruth