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[Major Nikon]

8. Blame the consumer. Brilliant!

I'm not usually one for Nazi comparisons, but this is a pretty good one. Back in the 1930's, GM was enthusiastically mechanizing the 3rd Reich while simultaneously killing electric rail in the US during a time when the rest of the world was embracing it. This is what the looneytarian version of laissez-faire economics creates, which is basically capitalists which work directly against the best interests of the people. Your defense of the logging industry is laughable. They only started replanting forests because it became economically necessary for them to do so. In other words, only after they had clear cut vast expanses of US forests did it become economically viable for them to replant. If you want more examples of "robber barons" I could spend all day posting them, but I suspect all would be lost on your closed mind. Your reference to "tolerance" is equally laughable. This is the old tired and worn out RW meme which is that those on the left aren't "tolerant" if they don't tolerate the failed ideas of the right. Tolerance does not require me to tolerate assholery.

About the only thing you got right is that your tenure here will be short lived.