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Pro-Trump farmer in Missouri faces losing his farm after federal freeze, says he “didn’t have time to research” before voting (wtfdetective.blog)
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A Missouri cattle farmer is facing financial ruin after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) froze funding for key conservation programs, despite previously signed contracts with the government.

The freeze, part of the Trump administration’s sweeping federal review of spending programs, has left Skylar Holden, a first-generation farmer, scrambling to save his land.

Holden, who voted for President Donald Trump, had signed a $240,000 contract with the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) under the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) to improve water lines, fencing, and wells on his farm.

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[–] 39 points 9 months ago* (7 children)

This shit is why stuff like Free Software and the Fediverse matters. Who made that quiz? Was it propaganda? How'd he run across it? Was it pushed at him by a proprietary social media algorithm?

The oligarchs are using technology to stack the playing field against democracy. It must be forcibly leveled again, at all costs.

This isn't an issue of simple individual responsibility. There's an entire conspiracy behind exploiting these idiots.

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    There’s an entire conspiracy behind exploiting these idiots.

    there's a certain type of person that feels their ignorance is as valid as someone else's educated knowledge, so even when we point out to them that they're being taken, they only hear they're being called rubes... and double down on whatever grift is draining their pocketbooks.

    it's famously worked nearly flawlessly for religion for all of human history.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago

    so even when we point out to them that they're being taken, they only hear they're being called rubes...

    Beceause too often that's literally what we tell them - you're being taken. Their reaction follows naturally. Ever since I started talking about concrete (class) issues affecting them I'm getting different responses.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    It might be something like:

    https://www.isidewith.com/political-quiz

    Not saying i agree with him, but it sounds like he was saying he felt certain issues were more important than others which led him to believe that Trump was his candidate.

    For example, he was led to believe through propaganda that illegal immigrants coming over the border selling drugs and eating cats and dogs was a higher priority than let's say taxing billionaires (who are the ones eating the cats and dogs it turns out) into oblivion, and the quiz spit out that he should then for for Trump.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Well if it is was that one he's a complete piece of shit if he got Republicans.

    Filled the quiz and treating people with the bare minimum of their constitutional rights still tilts heavily Democrat.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    It would be cool if there was some tool for non technical folks to see survey results on consensus from professionals in IT on if something is probably bullshit or not. I know plenty of people that would have fallen for scams or misinformation if they didn't have someone in their life they could ask & be confident their answer wasn't profit or power motivated.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

    Any such tool would rely on impartiality on the part of the creator, which doesn't exist. (Imagine if the thing being presented as such a tool were, say, Grok, and you'll immediately see the problem.)

    Unfortunately, there is no substitute for critical thinking.

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