Followed up with -- "Yeah I really don't care about independent businesses. It's a free market. 8f you took care of your business you'd be fine so if you close its on you. The whole reason we have walmarts is because the small businesses charged too much and treated people like shit. You're too young to remember those things but I remember what those stores did to my hard working and poor grandparents and how they struggled until kmarts and hills department stores came in so I have no sympathy there. If walmart put them out of business they deserved it."

From a republican friend. Fucking heartless.