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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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  • 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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