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In reply to the discussion: Your Ignorance is not as Good; Or, You Don't Know Fuck-All About Syria [View all]delrem
(9,688 posts)20. What if they answer yes on 1, 2, and get a job through PNAC.
How would that change things?
Those quasi-mythical people 'the founding fathers' didn't expect the people should all have omni-expertise, but they did expect them to have some kind of common sense. But what kind of common sense of the people can adjudicate when the current administration always pardons the earlier, so nothing is ever brought before a people's court and discussed in public? Then all you get is criminals pointing to the expertise of technocrats, who have an expertise that's mostly classified, to exonerate themselves, and where there's no recourse for that kind of crude lie.
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Your Ignorance is not as Good; Or, You Don't Know Fuck-All About Syria [View all]
alcibiades_mystery
Aug 2013
OP
So what you're saying is that some of these RW Neocons that advanced under Bush
bullwinkle428
Aug 2013
#111
2003 Flashback: Your Ignorance is not as Good; Or, You Don't Know Fuck-All About Iraq
David__77
Aug 2013
#5
That claim is not a universal truth. There are plenty of examples in history...
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
#9
Then maybe instead of trying to pop off one liners you should explain that...
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
#17
First off, they aren't YOUR employees. They are employees of the state.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
#27
No, you are member of the electorate. You are a citizen. You are not the state.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
#37
The state encompasses public institutions. The public does not constitute the state...
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
#49
I'm not sure, but your explanation was pretty straightforward, but so many people don't get it.
6000eliot
Aug 2013
#133
When will this peace start? 'Cause I am fairly sure I have not experienced much of it,
jtuck004
Aug 2013
#72
"Why wouldn't you then submit to their superior knowledge?" - Cognitive dissonance
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
#11
It's not a matter of wrong predictions. The Iraq WMD evidence was fabricated.
Gravitycollapse
Aug 2013
#13
The person who works the middle least desk at the state department knew more about Iraq in 2002.
Smarmie Doofus
Aug 2013
#31
If intelligence and analysis drove policy there would be a lot of value to that point.
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2013
#36
Those "experts" are our employes, who ostensibly work for us, and have yet to demonstrate that...
JVS
Aug 2013
#47
The fact that powerful people are more informed in their affairs than us in general...
ocpagu
Aug 2013
#53
The problem is that there are people who know more than me on both sides of most issues.
Donald Ian Rankin
Aug 2013
#59
LOL. I know the state dept person is corrupt and profits from war and death. Full stop.
grahamhgreen
Aug 2013
#68
You mean that the fucktards who insisted there were WMD in Iraq knew more than I?
eridani
Aug 2013
#80
Yeah sure they do but are they telling you the truth or are they trying to manipulate you?
Ganja Ninja
Aug 2013
#91
No doubt they know more. BUt, that is no reason to trust them to do the right thing or
morningfog
Aug 2013
#98
I am conflicted about the Syria thing, but fully agree with this post
distantearlywarning
Aug 2013
#106
nice try at reasoning, but i am not surprised by the responses you're getting. nt
dionysus
Aug 2013
#128