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DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S (mander.xyz)
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[–] 154 points 5 months ago (25 children)

Hmmm... Guess what percentage of the owners who raise cattle voted for the orange moron?

98.5%, 99% or 99.5?

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  • [–] 93 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    100%

    Farm people always vote against their own interests - and it shows.

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  • [–] 104 points 5 months ago (17 children)

    You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI

    Favourite scene of all time. I don't think Cleavon Little knew it was coming and was genuinely laughing.

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  • [–] 9 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    It was completely genuine, as the "you know... morons" part was adlibbed by Wilder. Little was already visibly struggling to hold a straight face as is, so when Wilder added that last part it made him crack. The film crew decided to keep that take in the movie because of how funny it was, but as the scene transitions you can see Wilder look towards the film crew as he wasn't sure if they would redo the scene because of it.

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  • [–] -4 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    If you utterly dismiss farmers as incorrigibly stupid rather than trying to talk with them, they will never change. If you leave agricultural workers to the wolves while the fascists pretend to have their backs, will they support you or the fascists?

    Did you know most of the majority-black counties in the USA are rural areas in the South that vote overwhelmingly for Democrats? Are they also ejeets that deserve to get their cows screwed?

    What about the people who get screwworms in their injuries? That's gonna be the poor bastards who get employed to work with the livestock. Who works in shitty underpaid farm labour? Poor whites, black people, immigrants. People who have few other choices.

    Snobbery against rural areas is just classism. It's how Republicans could get such a grip on them in the first place. Go ahead and only struggle amongst educated people in the cities and scratch your head when when your country stays fascist. Watch the rural-urban divide get wider.

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  • [–] 18 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    This is a really bad take on the situation dude.

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  • [–] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah none of this is a surprise. Trump has done what he promised. I told many conservatives this, and they just refused to believe it. Or some even dismissed some of the things Trump said "as just politics" claiming he had no intent to keep his crazier campaign promises.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago*

    It's just the standard conservative play-by-play of

    It's not going to happen -> it's not happening-> maybe it is happening but it's not our fault -> it is happening but it's too late to do anything about it. Alternatively replace step 3 with "but the dems do it too!!"

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    I understand where you're coming from, but I can't sympathize with people who hurt themselves trying to hurt me. They did real damage voting the way they did and having to suffer the consequences of their actions is the only justice I'm going to get.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago

    Do you think all of them voted this way?

    As I said, a bunch of the people hurt by this are gonna be immigrant labourers, black people, etc. They're in the shit with you, not against you. You're not gonna get them organized and mobilized to stand alongside you by dismissing them and lumping them in with their bosses.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    They're entitled welfare queens (that absolutely refuse to acknowledge their welfare because they're entitled) that vote consistently against everyone's best interest so they can keep growing garbage corn that we turn into garbage fuel that destroys engines. Fuck farmers. Monoculture bullshit fucking the soil.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

    Are the folks employed by the owners, the ones who are personally at risk of getting screwworms in their wounds and at risk of losing their jobs so bosses can keep up profits, entitled welfare queens? They're poor workers like you.

    And what of the black farmers in Tennessee? They overwhelmingly vote for the Democrats. Do they also deserve parasites in their cattle?

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    They deserve what they voted for, farmers overwhelmingly vote for republicans.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Did Hispanic farmhands vote for Republicans? They're the ones that are gonna be directly at risk of getting screwworms in their injuries. If the bosses scale down operations, they're gonna be the ones who lose their jobs.

    Do the 12% of farmers in Tennessee who are black also deserve to get fucked?

    You do not defeat right-wing populists with snobbery. You defeat it by offering a compelling left-wing alternative that addresses the economic issues which bigotry is peddled as an alleged solution to.

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago

    Thank you. Sometimes I think I'm taking fucking crazy pills on this site with these users not seeing anything wrong at all with their smug, holier than thou attitude. People who like the idea of being for the people, but hate the population.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    Half of Hispanic men voted for Trump. 1 in 5 black men voted for Trump. Agricultural workers overwhelmingly vote republican. We all deserve what we're getting for letting it fuckin happen in the first place, hell even now half of Americans think both parties are the same. So yeah, they fuckin deserve it. So do you. So do I. So does every US American.

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  • [+] -33 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

    Literally has nothing to do with Trump or Trump voters.

    While the USDA has long been prepared and will just repeat their actions of last time—which the article implies they're already ready to do as it escalates—it's more a concern of what happened to Central/South America, or the fly's reproductive behaviours that has caused the safe zone to slowly get overrun these past few years.

    If you really want to point this to Trump, I guess you'll need to find some sort of link to something the US did that somehow caused Panama and then Mexico to get re-invaded, about 6-12 months before he was in office.

    Edit: Imagine he catches wind of it though and decides to fuck it all by putting RFK Jr. in charge at the last minute...

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  • [–] 40 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The moron cut a critical organization when a major threat was known to be migrating north.

    The agency needed a massive influx of resources for an expanded effort to control it this year.

    No the root cause is not his fault, but his dumbass decisions the the fucking morons who voted for him are absolutely at fault for the shitty response.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago*

    That's...not how the sterile tactic works. Anywhere in the world.

    For starters, you think they're just going to release everything in winter because last fall there were a couple of cases in proximity of the border? It's insect ecology. Always wait for late-spring to summer before anything. Most generational breeding starts peak-summer period.

    When we do this for mosquitos in SE Asia, African Lakes, South America, etc. you prepare, then go it at the right time.

    "We had a case in Texas now! Unleash the horde!"

    Aaaand you're fucked.

    Again, the main concern is about how infestation breached through north of South America and Central America to get to North America. There were proxy cases to the US border over the last six months which obviously meant it'd be in the US come warmer months—and that's been factored for—but why did it get that far up the continent over the last two years?

    These are things way outside of Trump's wheelhouse and apparently Lemmy users that only come in here for US politics articles.

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  • [–] 5 points 5 months ago

    We lost containment because doge cut funding while beef snuggling in Mexico has ramped up, so it's not just Trump's fault. But he saw a brush fire and poured gas on it. Beef is going to a luxury for wealthy Americans. Just like pets are becoming. Somebody noticed that the bottom half of the country functionally does not participate in "the economy" so their solution is to eliminate them. Letting the screw fly run loose helps that goal. See also the repeal of environmental protections and regulations.

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