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Small Farmers Are Struggling With Trumpian Chaos—and Bracing for More (newrepublic.com)

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Small farmers will go bankrupt and have to sell their farms that will be bought by corporations.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Just as designed

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Everyone in here is like 'yeah fuck those farmers' not realizing who grows their food

Did they make the wrong choice? Yes.

Blaming them isn't going to make food cheaper.

[+] [email protected] -9 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Seriously. What happened to working class solidarity?

You don't build it by cheering for their suffering. You take the moment to teach them their mistakes and give them a chance to do better.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 hours ago

No solidarity with bigots.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure 70% of lemmy are outrage bots

We're left, but we don't support worker rights, free speech, differing opinions or neurodivergence but we'll pat ourselves on the back all day for being so much more progressive than the other site

Money says this comment will be removed within the hour

[–] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

People don't dislike you because of your neurodivergence, but because you consistently act like an insufferable asshole towards more or less everyone and then use being neurodivergent as an excuse

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago

It's pretty funny you think you can get a full work up of my mentality from a few dozen words online, you just want an easy excuse to justify your casual cruelties

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

Well, there’s a hot take if I ever saw one. A strawman, a bot accusation, some fascinatingly false takes, and a little oh-poor-me as the cherry on top.

How about an alternate theory: people are just tired of being told by people like you to ‘just be nice’ to the person who keeps punching them in the face?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 19 hours ago

Someone come tune this bot, it's set to 'instagram drama queen' mode

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I get it, but if Trump excluded farmers from everything, they would still be flying Trump flags and "owning the libs". They don't give a fuck until it starts impacting them.

This is all Republicans in my experience

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 day ago

None of that matters, only the fact that you will be poorer for the necessities of life

There is literally zero gain to be had by bitching about hypocritical farmers

We need to be pulling the assholes trampling the constitution out of office and into the streets

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Seriously. What happened to working class solidarity?

Yeah, why did they vote against it?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

It's not just a 'they' thing, most people don't support workers rights in any meaningful way

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Because they were conned and manipulated by being fed lies that preyed on their fears, insecurities, and ignorance while being raised on propaganda intentionally designed to brainwash them into voting against their own interests.

Seriously, think critically and remember that they too are fallible humans who are victims of the system.

So, again. What happened to your working class solidarity? Cause right now, I don't see any, I just see someone spreading hate against the wrong enemy.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

People who go out of their way, and to their own detriment support a system of racism, sexism and xenophobia, are people who deserve any hate aimed at them. There's no solidarity for someone who would intentionally hurt themselves to hurt others more.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I just see someone spreading hate against the wrong enemy

Funny, I've been watching conservatives do exactly that for decades now while the rest of us try to reason with them. I grew up with Limbaugh convincing my dad that liberalism is a mental disorder and Clinton won the election because women vote with their vaginas. They've done nothing but get more disgusting, hateful, and bigoted since.

"Oh boo hoo they were conned and manipulated" How come I can consume the exact same media as them and see through the bullshit? I'm really supposed to feel sorry for them? We've been telling them for decades they're being lied to; they enjoy it.

I'm done. Fuck every single one of these fascist-enabling pieces of shit AND their fucking feelings. I'm not gonna cry when some fucking dipshit who has the exact same access to information that I do and can't be bothered to verify their news sources gets exactly what they voted for.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Cool. Continue to abandon your solidarity and exacerbate the problem.

I never said Republicans weren't doing that. I'm saying you're no better by sinking to their level.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

40 years of 'not sinking to their level' brought us fascism so maybe give up that old wives tale and address the reality we live in now, hm?

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You act like thisnis the first time. They've had their chances. I live in rural places and near a lot of farmers and small town people. They fly their fucking flags and espoused their unfounded bullshit and never show any ability to change or learn.

Not all farmers. Not everyone. But there's certainly a lot I am done wasting breath on. Fuck em.

[+] [email protected] -7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

So you willingly abandon your working class solidarity and just become another small minded person spreading working class hate and division. You're part of the problem.

I too live in a small rural town. I'm deep in the heart of Southern Louisiana. I'm all too familiar with people flying their flags of ignorance and hate.

That doesn't give you an excuse to sink to their level of blind hatred because it is easier than seeing the person behind it and understanding that they are as much a victim of the system as anyone else.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

What the fuck solidarity is there in siding with the very people trying to strip away the working class? They had the same access to information as anybody else and they chose to ignore the warnings and double down.

Form solidarity with the ones who aren't actively trying to ruin everything, because the zombies have made it very clear whose side they're on.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Where is their solidarity with the working class? It is nowhere to be seen. They hate solidarity. They piss on it. They deliberately voted against it. And now they cry crocodiles tears when they become victims of their own decision. And usually blame it on others instead of questioning their own choices.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Are you aware of the term scab in the union world? One doesn't forgive a scab.

This situation is no different.

You cannot have solidarity with people who will betray you. You are part of the problem. They are part of the problem. People not allowing themselves to be fooled are not.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I'll exhibit "working class solidarity" the second they stop selling out the working class.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

#GOOD

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Have the day you voted for!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Somehow I doubt the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association is voting for the orange turd.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago

You are correct

https://www.mofga.org/advocacy/policy-tracker/

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I feel so owned.