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Conservatives may deride the #RealityBasedCommunity as a drag on progress and commercial expansion, but even the most noxious pump-and-dump capitalism is supposed to remain tethered to reality by two unbreakable fetters: #auditing and #insurance:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality-based_community
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https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/28/re-re-reinsurance/#useless-price-signals
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“There is a difference between political spin—which virtually all political operatives use and which generally means making a statement without full context so it is misleading—and rejecting the reality-based community in favor of lies and attacks. Political decisions that are not based on reality rob us of our right to make informed decisions about our government and what it will do.”
#RealityBasedCommunity #PoliticalSpin #Politics #History #LettersFromAnAmerican
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/february-11-2023
Since Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) led Republicans in shouts of “Liar!” when President Biden said in his State of the Union address that “some Republicans want Medicare and Social Security to sunset every five years,” Republicans have been swamping social and news media with accusations that Biden was lying.
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