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

Oh don't worry, Trump has a plan to remove minimum wage, so Americans can work the fields. That combined with anti homeless supreme Court rulings means your ass will work the fields for $2 an hour or for free from prison.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Leopards are going to be eating well the next few years :>

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 hours ago

Came here to say this.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Would that be Trump voting farmers?

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

They forgot to read the memo

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

I live in farm country, and yes these guys are constantly voting republican and complaining endlessly about illegals, they buy into this non sense and they genuinely think it some how magically won't effect them, or that white migrant farm workers are going to magically appear.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 hours ago

You know it. They consistently vote against their own best interests.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

lol. Wait until a head of lettuce costs $14.

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

It's not a laughing matter. The poors will pay, and the rich people won't notice.

"how much can one banana cost, Michael? Ten dollars?"

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

Lol yep the only crops we will get will have to be imported and heavily tariffed. Gg Trump

[–] [email protected] 56 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (2 children)

It'll be because democrats are trying to raise the minimum wage and let trans people be represented in libraries.

/s, cuz I get in trouble for not relaying sarcasm well

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

It's because sarcasm doesn't work well over text.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

YOU DON'T WORK WELL OVER TEXT!!!

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Was there a queue when you visited last time? Would you consider "fine dining establishment" a good description?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 7 hours ago (5 children)

Yeah, if Trump deports all those people, who will we exploit for cheap labor?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

To deport someone, the receiving country has to agree to accept them. Mexico will accept their own nationals, and possibly those of some other countries, but they won't accept everyone. What do you do with people who's country refuses to accept them back (this has happened)? And what do you do with them when you can't determine where to send them back to? You've already promised they won't be let loose, so you'll put them into containment facilities - all very hastily-built, because there are so many people you've accumulated so quickly.

But you have more people than you know what to do with, and they're all just idling in the camps, and the nation is desperate for workers. The temptation is too great: instead of spending all this money maintaining the camps, you can offset the expenses by renting them to various industries as cheap labor.

It's still expensive, your people still resent spending money on them, and you still want to deport them, so you don't spend much on food or medicine or clothes or sanitation. Winter comes, disease rips through the camps, and masses die - but that's not your responsibility, these things happen ...

Just a reminder that most of the concentration camps Germany built weren't extermination camps, they were slave labor camps but the administration didn't care if the prisoners died of disease or injury, they'd just round up more people to feed the German machine.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 hours ago

They'll strike a deal with some other country to take them. Then issue contracts for private chartered flights at $10k/person, given to their best buddies.

https://www.bbc.com/news/explainers-61782866

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

Well I'm hoping white people but we know how well that worked in Georgia and Arizona, we found out they're just too soft to work those jobs despite being told they would be taking their jerb back

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

The migrant workers are often subjected to working conditions that would violate federal worker protection laws, but because they are in the country illegally, they don't report the poor working conditions out of fear. That's exploitation, through and through. No worker should be expected to tolerate such poor treatment, regardless of skin color.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, I'm absolutely opposed to this deportation thing, it's cruel and if anything I feel that we should be encouraging more immigrants to come here, but the "it'll be bad because it'll get rid of all the people who do these jobs american citizens don't want to do" line does sorta gloss over the fact that if the job conditions are so bad that if people have literally any other option the role goes unfilled, something probably needs to be done to improve the conditions of that job, especially if it is as vital as food production.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

You're not wrong but what's a realistic path to accomplishing such a thing? Capitalists want to extract as much money as possible so raising wages or improving working conditions without being forced is out of the question. The only party with even a pretend interest in forcing that discussion just got beat down all over the country. And no one cares enough about the issue to fix it by paying more for food, which would probably still be true if we doubled wages for all jobs.

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

Automation of some of the jobs might be possible, but likely still wildly more expensive than paying some immigrant peanuts

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 hours ago

Is it you and me? I bet it's you and me.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Good, fuck them for voting against their own interest and deport the second-third generatiom Mexicans thar voted for Trump.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 hours ago

Those are just Mexicans that can swim.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Would these be the same farmers that voted for Trump? 🤔

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 hours ago

"Ah sure ahm tired of all the mean tweets, but he tells it like it is!"

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 hours ago

Let the face eating begin!

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

The FO phase can finally begin

[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

It happened in 2016 and they found out and they went back to the trough for more toadstool.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 hours ago

This is the rare FA[FAFO]FO.