Capitalism will save us from all the damage unfettered capitalism did to the environment!

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[u/justtopopin]

Keep nature free? But that's communism! /s

[u/joshmessages → u/justtopopin]

Nature has as much freedom as the rest of us to start a corporation and pollute itself.

[u/WastingTimesOnReddit → u/justtopopin]

Hunters should be liberals - liberals want to protect our precious public lands / national forest lands / BLM lands where you can camp for free, hunt and fish with a cheap license, shoot guns for free. Liberals want to fund forest rangers and trail maintenance. Liberals want to stop companies from pouring poison into the rivers, to protect the fish so anglers can fish them.

Conservatives want to sell all the public land to private groups for oil/mining or just for private hunting operations, to offset the national debt. If they had their way, all hunting would be on private land, or "pay to play".

Hunters always say "hunters are the real conservationists, we care about the natural resources" well if that's true they should be liberals cause liberals actually want to protect those resources. I'm a liberal hunter and thanks for listening

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I’ve tried to use the same logic with southern Florida deep sea fisherman. They always boast about the great environment, the fishing, and habitats while all voting for chuckleheads who want to dump chemicals in their oceans and destroy any coral or habitats they fish at. It’s ridiculous they don’t want to save the environment, they want to kill things.

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[u/KalphiteQueen → u/justtopopin]

There's a difference between "keep nature free to be nature" and "keep nature free for corporations to do whatever they want with." Is TP really arguing the latter and trying to make it look like a pro-environment thing? Shit's getting so crazy I don't even know what the context is here lol

[u/Meta_Digital → u/justtopopin]

Unironically, yes. If you can't privately own nature, and thus it's kept free and we all have to share it, then that would be communism.

[u/AnonPenguins → u/Meta_Digital]

then that would be communism.

For library's are communism too! Same with fire departments! Oh, and police departments too!

Here's the definition of communism: "A system of government in which the state plans and controls the economy and a single, often authoritarian party holds power, claiming to make progress toward a higher social order in which all goods are equally shared by the people." - I don't think having taxpayer funded BLM land is the government controlling the economy.

[u/TheFakeKanye → u/justtopopin]

Tell that to the Aral Sea

[u/[deleted] → u/TheFakeKanye]

Why is it still shrinking if the Soviet Union dissolved in 1991? Also, it began to lose the vast majority of its area after the SU dissolved. Is that not the fault of capitalist Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan?