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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840

Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

LOL. Idiots

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 hours ago

These maga fuckers deserve all the worst

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

So you are... Checks notes 2200 miles away from the border. I feel like even if we disregard them voting for trump and just judge them based on that being their main voting issue, they're dumb as fuck, aren't they?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 minutes ago

Never understimate the power of bigotry as a political motivator, in particular among the uneducated. Trump and his oligarch cronies certainly doesn't.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 30 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump, the recent crackdown has prompted a deeper reckoning within his community

Umm, okay, no sympathy then. Burn.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Imagine being so dedicated to a politician/political party that you’re no willing to make a change that costs you 0$ to save your family business

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

This is exactly when the interviewer should have looked right in their eyes and said "so you didn't learn a goddammit thing" then "enjoy your udders" then left.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 hours ago
[–] [email protected] -4 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Farmers will pay more to hire local workers and they can sell their products for more because everybody has to pay more. This will effectively rise minimum wage for every citizen because demand for legal workers will increase.

Are only the farmer short sighted or do the emotions in this post come from people who know what is coming? Soon there will be a time when prices for food will rise but wages have not adjusted. It's not the farmers who will work more but every above minimum wage worker whose wages don't adjust.

Regular citizens have profited of human trafficing and low wages for unskilled workers.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty sure America is already deeeep in the stage where prices have significantly outpaced income....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

No disagreement from me. Most likely it will get worse.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

At least you guys are getting a parade for his birthday. That should be fun.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 hours ago

"We voted for racism, not poverty and hard work! We don't want these jobs - they're for the spi... I mean for those people." --MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 hours ago

May you have the life you voted for.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 hours ago

Guess who he will vote for next election. Nothing like repeatedly jamming a stick in your spokes.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Leopards! Leopards!

Nom Nom Nom!

Eat their noses

Bite their toeses

Nom Nom Nom!

Gooooo, LEOPARDS!

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 65 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?

well boo fucking hoo

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 hours ago

Fuck this guy and his farm.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 hours ago

So did this Make America Great Again?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 57 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

You're the cow now, Trump milks these rubes who don't care what he says or does until it affects them.

This article is focusing on the wrong issue, forget the "woe-is-me-poor-farmer" BS. The real tragedy is the countless workers, ya know the ones that ACTUALLY do the labor that are jobless for justifiable fear of being called a terrorist invader and get a trip to an El Salvadorian prison.

Boo hoo, the workers you were exploiting can't work. Too fucking bad. Do it yourself at 4 AM, it's quite literally and explicitly what you voted for.

Is America finally great again ya fuck?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

I agree with you about what the real issue is. That said, this kind of article is important. Remember that MAGA can't empathize with someone unless they identify with that person. To MAGA, the struggles of immigrants are unimportant so focusing on them is targeting the wrong audience if we want to change minds. Highlighting the struggles of people MAGA can identify with might actually be able to change some minds.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

The UK did the same thing just a few years ago and got the same results. The farmers and conservatives complained about it in the same words and tone. People were saying this exact scenario would happen in the USA. That's all dismissed as fear mongering and they voted for it anyway, getting the same results and complaining in the same way. It's stupidity playing on repeat.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago

Dude, the guy in the interview said he would vote for trump again anyway, no amount of identification will help those kind of people.

Just hope they have the day they voted for, and bless their heart.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago

They can't empathize with people period. Even when it's one of their own. This will not trigger empathy in any other magas.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 hours ago

Remember that MAGA can't empathize with someone unless they identify with that person. To MAGA, the struggles of immigrants are unimportant so focusing on them is targeting the wrong audience if we want to change minds.

More Americans need to watch The Grapes of Wrath.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

You're right and I hate it

[–] [email protected] 42 points 9 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 25 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

What was wrong with the border? The farmer is a racist or a sheep. Sounds like both.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 hours ago

Fixing the border... You mean... The thing that statistics clearly show was being fixed by the Democrats?

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