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eppur_se_muova

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3. "PRO-EXTRACTION" is exactly the kind of language Dems need to be using.
Sat Apr 11, 2026, 05:09 PM
Saturday

Timber, cattle, and mining are all EXTRACTIVIST industries, which take from Nature, leave a mess, and don't have to put back any of what they have taken (except for some token efforts which are more show than substance). For most of history, most people didn't care, because they believed Nature to be effectively inexhaustible, and capable of cleaning up anything we wanted to dump in the environment. After millennia of uncontrolled population growth, that's not anywhere close to being true. But people who made gazillions of $$$$ doing things that way don't want to change, and the politicians they buy off (like Trmp and his minions) know that's what they're being paid to take care of.

The voters are only their tools, the "donors" are their paying customers.

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