• gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de
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    from the video: “it’s hard not to be moved by the cries of those who put food on your table”

    do not forget that most of them are huge mega-corporations that own vast areas of land and don’t operate based on small-families, but rather economies of scale

    and also do not forget that most of these farmers probably voted republican and also that they would decry the exact support measures they’re now asking for as “communism” if these support dollars would benefit somebody else.

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      those who put food on your table

      They can fuck right off.

      They’re doing a job and running a business just like everyone else. I don’t care if I eat their product or not. It’s a commodity.

      They’ve spent years voting and acting against their own interests. Maybe they shouldn’t have been so fucking stupid.

      Farmers are such cry babies and think they’re special. They aren’t. The only thing farmers have done in the US is let mega corps beat them into a ditch. If they can’t do the job, someone else will.

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    “In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier.

    Fuck, that’s rough. Guess we’re gonna get dragged even more into corporate farms

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      They’ll shove a fork in their eye while chanting “Let’s go Brandon”.

      They’re fucking idiots.

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    I feel for the odd person who isn’t a maga muppet in that group. The rest just need to learn how to use that dildo they asked for in the election. Slide that bad boy right in you dumb sonsabitches.

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    They watered their crops with librul tears and are now complaining that someone salted the earth. May they learn to actually think about what their vote will accomplish.

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    “Struggling Arkansas farmers” or MAGA bootlickers that fucked up and voted for a shifty, no-good, greasy, New York sidewinder because of some-dick complex? #fuckaroundandfinout #youdonefoundoit #gofuckyourself

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    “In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier.

    Jesus Christ.

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      Hmm, when Trump’s treason and corruption can no longer be denied, maybe we’ll have an epidemic of MAGA suicides. Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.

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        Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.

        I forgot about that. IIRC, Canada had setup some new hotline to help Americans or something along those lines.

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      I’ll send some thoughts and prayers (since I can’t afford much else these days)

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      It’s already a very poor area, I can’t imagine anything looking more bleak than an entire lifetime of work slip away. What is your purpose after that?