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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Workstation Aesthetics
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 11:17:10 -0400
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Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:

> On 2024-06-11 8:22 a.m., Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> Andrzej Matuch wrote this copyrighted missive and expects royalties:
>> 
>>> On 2024-06-10 2:50 p.m., rbowman wrote:
>>>> On Mon, 10 Jun 2024 10:43:03 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I went to his site a few months ago (after his rant got his comic
>>>>> dropped by many newspapers). Mmmmmmkayyyy.
>>>>
>>>> He's on X and can be interesting. In 2016 he predicted Trump would win
>>>> based on his use of media and framing. At that time my impression was he
>>>> was neutral, not taking a side. He is not on the fence these days.
>>>
>>> Given what he's seen the Democrats and their allies do over the last
>>> decade, I don't blame him for being disgusted and moving away from that
>>> side.
>> 
>> So you are not an advocate of the "Uniparty" theory?  :-)
>
> To be honest, I would do away with parties altogether. All politicians 
> should be independent, and the people voting for them should be aware of 
> what John Smith, Joe Brown, James Martin, and Janice White stand for 
> before voting, rather than which party they ally with. This would also 
> discourage morons from voting because they would have no idea what the 
> differences between all of them are.

I pretty much agree with that.

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