d:^)
Posted on 11/03/2022 7:25:35 AM PDT by rktman
And what about the late founder of Earth Day (Lenin's birthday) who murdered and composted his girlfriend, Holly Maddux?
“Like me, not knowing what ‘extractionism’ is. Guess I bees ignorant of that.”
That’s a new Orwellism on me, too.
I had to look it up...
“Extractionism: taking money/value from others without creating anything of value; anything that produces economic growth or improves our lives.”
Sounds like any government and bureaucracy.
Strange she would be against those two entities given her politics.
As I think about it more, fighting extractionism would create even more extractionism - it would require another huge bureaucracy to determine and regulate what consists “taking of money” and what objective “value” is.
By “taking of money” they mean you being fooled by some greedy “seller” into spending your money on something that you want but that some bureaucracy determines you don’t need, ie, has no “value”.
In other words, the bureaucracy will tell you that you can only spend your money on what they consider good for you (of value).
And the manufacturers and service providers will only be allowed to sell products and services that the bureaucracy deems “valuable” and not to advertise them because that “fools” people into buying your products.
So anti-extractionism is just a repackaged term for socialism and/or communism. It’s basically an anti-personal-freedom concept based on the premise that people are too stupid to know what’s good for them.
My prediction is, you will start seeing the use of this term more and more because the terms “socialism” and “communism” have developed a stench and thus they needed to manufacture a new “good sounding term” to push the same crap.
Here’s an article attempting to give it creds...
https://medium.com/@rolfpechukas/extractionism-357c3e17d1a3
Libs the world over are quite good at cleverly focusing their narratives. They know how to frame and brand their campaigns to push their agenda. They might be overplaying their hand this time with ‘extractionism’ however. That’s a little vague and not up to their usual targeting language.
Oh, like facebook?
Whag about “stochastic terrorism”? 😎👍
Of course. Most Gaia Worshipers are just global socialist watermelons.
d:^)
Greta doesn’t have the intellectual depth to define the term Capitalism or Marxism. All she does is throw a public temper tantrum. Kinda like our President, come to think of it.
It is all WEF doctrine
She’s just perpetually peeved that the Boob Fairy skipped over her.
“They might be overplaying their hand this time with ‘extractionism’ however.That’s a little vague and not up to their usual targeting language.”
Vague is what they’re after, so they can bamboozle the “useful idiots”. Don’t underestimate them - who had ever heard of cultural appropriation, gender dysphoria, gender affirming care, non-binary, preferred pronouns, undocumented migrants, etc, etc, just a few years ago.
With the propaganda organs pushing it, they’ll have no trouble making it mainstream if they want.
The real sad thing is that our side ends up using the same terms as well rather than rejecting them. When you do that you pretty much lost the debate.
Great post. Convincing argument.
You won me over. :)
That’s the problem with Western Capitalism’s success.
These little retards don’t know the evils of Communism. They
spared her having to live through it, and billions of others
too.
Now these know-nothings want to cancel the very systems that
afforded them the ability to travel by jet airliner freely
to trash the very environment so many other would risk life
and limb to enjoy.
That’s the look on the face of a long overdue bed wetter.
So true, and what a problem it is for "conservatives". Libs don't have a problem: their predominant instinct is to find people whose narratives sound appealing and make them feel good. They'll settle within that comfortable sphere, and follow the dogma without further question. However, a conservative's instincts are more to explore than to follow. They'll question most narratives and frequently imagine alternatives. They'll devise other narratives rather than follow one that doesn't suit them. They'd rather live outside the box than surrender to the lack of adventure they'd suffer living as the settlers do.
But there's no way to completely avoid the disparity. Without a "following" instinct, humans would devolve into anarchy. Without an "exploring" instinct, humans would settle into stupor. We've each been given both instincts to some degree or another, and humanity has to learn to live with both instincts or perish.
People who have a greater tendency to follow (the sheep) align on one side, presently the De⋔s. Those who tend to explore (the raptors) align differently, when they align at all. The raptors are somewhat aligned as conservatives at present, but unlike Libs, they will never focus their narrative - they must continually explore, listen to others, and decide each to his own how to survive and how to go about their lives.
When the "sheep" have the upper hand, as recently, they want everyone to settle like them, be like them, and not cause any trouble for them. If they got their way, we'd all eventually be living without any imagination. If the "raptors" had control to the point where no one would follow anyone else at all, we'd all eventually be living with a great deal of instability and uncertainty.
It take a little of each for the world to go 'round. Yin & Yang.
Trump does an exceptional job of framing, defining and branding his narratives. He excels at it, perhaps because of his media experience. And of course a lot of business success involves branding. Whatever, he is a master at it. And of course he’s a natural born street fighter with a sharp mind.
More conservatives should emulate him.
You may have a good point. I just looked up her age and she’s 19 now. She should be a little more “developed”.
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