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In reply to the discussion: Magical thinking [View all]HumansAndResources
(229 posts)249. "Reality Based" = "What Transnational Corporations Find Acceptable"
... to continue exploiting working people and bombing / coup-ing anyone or anything that gets in their way.
"Blame America for Everything" - Hmmm, errily similar to "Blame America First" ala Limbaugh and Hannity to deny history? You mean actually citing actual historical precedents - virtually open-secrets due to their complete absence from the Billionaire Owned and Run Tee Vee / Media and schoolbooks to spite full documentation - in order to See the Larger Picture?
IOW, versus "Ignorance/Jingoist-Based Reality?"
Let's examine the operative term and dissect it a bit. Starting with Wikipedia:
The source of the term (Reality Based Community) is a quotation in an October 17, 2004, The New York Times Magazine article by writer Ron Suskind, quoting an unnamed aide to George W. Bush (later attributed to Karl Rove[1]):
The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that realityjudiciously, as you willwe'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."[2]
The "reality" your sentiments reveal, is far more akin to Rove's Manufactured Reality (to Manufacture Consent)- where the USA is the holy-saviour to the rest of the world. Sorry, but that's just not "reality based" at all. Read a bit more about American Foreign Policy - from Philippines (kill any man over 10), Latin America (death squads), and Taliban / Fundamentalist-Terrorist Support in the Middle East (for decades to Libya and Syria today); then research Reagan's "National Endowment for Democracy," (the Ford Foundation, Universities, and the Indonesian Massacre), and other CIA-affiliated Foundations and front-corporations as regards their very "selective" support of so-called "democracy" (Never mind all those coups of democracies). After that, feel free to get back to me on "what is reality" vis-a-vis American Foreign Policy.
Your Journey Starts Here and Here (below):
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=oeHzc1h8k7o
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For god sakes, it's a think tank, not a person, IMHO. Instant reponse by personas, yada yada
grahamhgreen
Sep 2013
#102
Surely you're not referring to the poster(s) who are here a minimum of 12 hours a day?
dflprincess
Sep 2013
#232
Haters always imagine yourself important enough for people to waste money replying to their hate
ConservativeDemocrat
Sep 2013
#312
HAHAHA "haters". Name calling. Typical right wing think tank double speak, sorry, but you make me
grahamhgreen
Sep 2013
#313
People with whom you do not agree are "bigots," "haters," and "teabaggers."
Comrade Grumpy
Sep 2013
#158
Good Lord! you do know that we Americans - and we Democrats opposed the bombing all along
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2013
#172
"Reality Based" = "What Transnational Corporations Find Acceptable"
HumansAndResources
Sep 2013
#249
Hilarious post. And WP did not even thank you for proving his point! How remiss of him.
merrily
Sep 2013
#278
maybe ... it was all that you criticize to a point, that made others realize how seriously obama
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#3
that is how i saw it played. and when it all first started people said, why let them know what you
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#16
If he and the US, and western powers in general really didn't like chemical weapons--
eridani
Sep 2013
#23
when there are people with agenda, balance and truth fly out the window. that is what i
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#114
If there's "no way either side can clamin any truth" why should they keep talking?
FiveGoodMen
Sep 2013
#127
they are talking. you and i are not included in the discussion. do you really think any of us
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#128
the people that died as a result of chemical weapons seem pretty much forgotten
azurnoir
Sep 2013
#168
see, these comments even sound like a petulant child. your post does not even make sense.
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#180
i find the name calling pathetic. so? it is like people on here are DEMANDING that obama stands
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#187
obama worship. it is like all the other name calling we do to someone in another position. it is
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#196
ok. labeling people "hero worshipping". geez. again. really? and i forgot about calling people
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#209
when labeling someone in this manner, you have stopped listening. have an inability to hear. yes.
seabeyond
Sep 2013
#282
That's all I care about, the avoidance of more war, of more blood on OUR hands
Dragonfli
Sep 2013
#143
If you didn't want your balls in this particular vise, you should not have dangled them there
BeyondGeography
Sep 2013
#6
Yes. And the USA and Russia have been talking about if for a year. Yet some claim no planning?
freshwest
Sep 2013
#200
"Credit?" - aka: "Surrounded by Police, The Bank Robber 'did the right thing' and Put Down The Gun."
HumansAndResources
Sep 2013
#258
This. And Will can never reconcile in his mind that he might've been wrong.
scheming daemons
Sep 2013
#15
The Hair-on-Fire Brigade was manipulated more deftly than anyone else, except maybe R's in Congress
alcibiades_mystery
Sep 2013
#17
I think they are all bald by now. No hair left for the next Obama caused Apocalyse. n/t
Whisp
Sep 2013
#21
Absolutely, a master plan...to let Russia once again take the moral high ground. It's brilliant!
Starfury
Sep 2013
#64
Your position requires a rigidity in the political landscape that is totally imaginary.
sibelian
Sep 2013
#264
Obama Doesn't Give A Shit How You Spin This, How It May Appear or His Public Standing in the Polls
Skraxx
Sep 2013
#96
Will, when you've been reduced to quoting Torygraph hyperbole your point isn't as well made
msanthrope
Sep 2013
#11
The Increasingly Orwellian flavor of public discourse is creepy and pathetic.
woo me with science
Sep 2013
#18
It is with the GREATEST pleasure that I co-sign every word of your post, especially the expletives
Number23
Sep 2013
#87
Now yours is a name I DO vaguely remember and considering the racial quality of your posts
Number23
Sep 2013
#288
Rex, why you feel compelled to frequently talk AROUND me while trying so hard to pretend that you
Number23
Sep 2013
#290
+1, based off passed actions and not blind allegiance but some hate him so it doesn't make a diff
uponit7771
Sep 2013
#35
The Libyan Civil War Was Started Under Bush, Obama Just Continued That Policy
HumansAndResources
Sep 2013
#262
My analogy is not focused on PR, but simply on the *mechanisms* (underline, italicize) of communicat
LanternWaste
Sep 2013
#90
"Syria is well on its way to be being disarmed of its chemical stockpile"?
WorseBeforeBetter
Sep 2013
#228
Thank you for helping distinguish truth from fiction in this Syrian bomb/not-bomb episode.
99th_Monkey
Sep 2013
#48
Maybe you weren't paying enough attention to what the other hand was doing while the one hand
KittyWampus
Sep 2013
#50
I Agree With Your "Or Else" - In That the Anti-War Anti-Corporatist Dems Need To Say "Or Else"
HumansAndResources
Sep 2013
#269
The initial burden of proof rests on the one making the assertion-- Debating 101.
ColesCountyDem
Sep 2013
#307
evil motives? That's a judgment I haven't made. Committed to military strikes, no matter what
bigtree
Sep 2013
#233
The game is called poker...and you have to be willing to follow through...
VanillaRhapsody
Sep 2013
#81
Any argument about yesterday's developments on Syria is futile if it's premised on:
ProSense
Sep 2013
#84
Right, Cuz No One Ever Heard Of Using a Credible Threat of Force to Achieve Diplomatic Ends Before?
Skraxx
Sep 2013
#92
No, they never presented the carrot, only lobbied like rabid dogs of war for the stick.
grahamhgreen
Sep 2013
#105
Wow, the fact that this diplomacy was EFFECTIVE and military strikes were AVOIDED really bothers you
Skraxx
Sep 2013
#107
Some people have got a lot invested in certain things, so no, they can't give in.
freshwest
Sep 2013
#222
Umm, I Was Pro-Effective, Hard Nosed Diplomacy Backed Up by Credible Threats of Force
Skraxx
Sep 2013
#136
Step 2: Magical thinking at its finest. No other force or work was necessary. Don't ruin the magic.
freshwest
Sep 2013
#225
well said. unfortunately we still see the usual handful of fringe Democrats representing their
Douglas Carpenter
Sep 2013
#150
Yugoslavia? Yes, Too Bad The USA STARTED That War Just Like In Syria
HumansAndResources
Sep 2013
#271
When Mitch said he was against military intervention, I just knew we were on the
efhmc
Sep 2013
#171
Nice post. The sneering reaction of the "Friends of Obama" is embarrassing.
Comrade Grumpy
Sep 2013
#173
I don't think you are going to get an invite to the BOG Christmas party this year
Marrah_G
Sep 2013
#176
thank you DU for enforcing civility. this post surely deserved to be hidden
Pretzel_Warrior
Sep 2013
#178
I'm glad. because being entertained should be about 50% of the reason we come here
Pretzel_Warrior
Sep 2013
#189
Watching this train wreck of people bound and determined to see Obama as some kind of Brilliant...
Beer Swiller
Sep 2013
#203
They have to think Obama is playing chess, just being lucky does not suit them. n-t
Logical
Sep 2013
#212
no master plan here... Obama has clearly just bumbled his way through this
paulkienitz
Sep 2013
#250
I personally don't give a sh*t what Pitt and other critics "would have" done..
TekGryphon
Sep 2013
#261
As the United States isn't sufficiently well trusted in the region to act as broker
sibelian
Sep 2013
#310