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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>Gift link of same<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.4Zqr.1djeOY0LbA4G&smid=url-share">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Z04.4Zqr.1djeOY0LbA4G&smid=url-share</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> on behalf of Santafe <desmith@santafe.edu><br><b>Date: </b>Thursday, November 14, 2024 at 4:16 AM<br><b>To: </b>The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject: </b>[FRIAM] signaling<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt'>This article (apologies for paywall; I don’t know how to send an open version)<br><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-trump.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/13/opinion/matt-gaetz-attorney-general-trump.html</a><br>is another example of missing the point, I think.<br><br>It’s all about messaging, and the campaign of demoralization. The puzzle that the trumper inside-group spends their time on is “What is the loudest way we can say I wipe my ass with your `rule of law’?”<br><br>So it is important to pick the lowest, both in terms of depravity and incompetence, to put as lords over the best, to prove that they can’t get out from under it.<br><br>I don’t think I “feel” anything about this, except that it is very important and I would like to understand the response to it. At the end, only effectiveness gets you back under a living circumstance you consider acceptable.<br><br>Eric<br><br> <br>.- .-.. .-.. / ..-. --- --- - . .-. ... / .- .-. . / .-- .-. --- -. --. / ... --- -- . / .- .-. . / ..- ... . ..-. ..- .-..<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Fridays 9a-12p Friday St. Johns Cafe / Thursdays 9a-12p Zoom <a href="https://bit.ly/virtualfriam">https://bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br>to (un)subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br>archives: 5/2017 thru present <a href="https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/">https://redfish.com/pipermail/friam_redfish.com/</a><br> 1/2003 thru 6/2021 <a href="http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/">http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></body></html>