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[–] 160 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Look at all these socialists!

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  • [–] 92 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    “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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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 64 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    It's only gonna get worse. We're heading towards dustbowl 2.0.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I haven't been wanting to say it, but it's crossed my mind several times over summer.

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  • [–] 118 points 1 year ago

    Trump won Arkansas with 64% of the vote. May they get the day they voted for.

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  • [–] 112 points 1 year ago
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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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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    FEMA Agriculture assistance while supplies last. Maybe vote blue next time.

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  • [–] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I bet nearly all of them will continue voting Republican (or just stop voting altogether).

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  • [–] 87 points 1 year ago (1 child)
  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago

    “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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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    What's the over/under that Arkansas farmers actually learn from this and stop voting Republican?

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  • [–] 45 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Zero, that level of rational thought makes them understand how fucked they are, at which point they kill themselves. Or sell the farm to a megacorp while they're still above water on their loans

    And I'm not joking about the suicide thing. There's suicide hotline programs specifically for farmers realizing they're going to lose everything, which of course have been cut

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    In the 00s my uncle was in a position where Monsanto was suing him for not holding up his end of the contract, because he had a bad crop year. Anyway, my grandparents bailed him out by financing a lawyer who settled for him, and it really didn't fix the problem at all. He still lost his farm, my grandparents were no longer wealthy because they kept trying to help him, and the uncle died a couple years later to cancer (probably driven by stress). They bailed him out because they were afraid he'd kill himself over the farm, and it took him out anyway

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Damn, that's rough. Monsanto are fucking demons, honestly? Solid chance they were making him use some product that causes cancer. Either way, the whole industry is horrible, sorry your family went through that

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Monsanto

    Cancer

    Hmm. Seems possibly related.

    Very sorry to hear about your uncle.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I have no idea if he used protective gear when applying it, which certainly could have increased his exposure. I would love to blame Monsanto, but most of the family carry the risk genes for this cancer too, and as yet his children are cancer free. Their babies though, not so much

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Fuck :/

    Yeah... I would also love to blame Monsanto but from what I understand it's basically impossible to definitively say what caused someone's cancer specifically.

    It's just the first instinct when I hear their name and "cancer" in the same sentence.

    One thing we can be sure of is cancer sucks and anything we can do as a species to understand it better is more than worth the effort.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago

    screw them Trump boot lickers

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This is a tragedy! Monsanto won't be able to squeeze them for more money if they go out of business! Think of the large corporations!

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Monsanto was bought out by Bayer a whole back. It no longer exists.

    Since Bayer is a larger company with more leverage against farmers, they are squeezing them harder than Monsanto ever dreamed of.

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  • [–] 84 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Hope they don't get a fucking dime. Cant vote to fuck the country then ask for handouts from the blue states when it does.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    from the video: “it’s hard not to be moved by the cries of those who put food on your table”

    FFS, I'm so tired of hearing this kind of thing, as if people are doing this for some kind of altruistic reasons.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    The vast bulk of crops grown in Arkansas are comprised of the top three: rice, soybeans, and corn. The rice and soybeans are mostly grown for export. The corn is heavily subsidized and most of it is turned into food additives like HFCS, corn starch, ethanol, etc.

    These people aren't putting food on our tables, they're lining their pockets at our expense.

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    People act like these guys are going to get left out in the cold. In Trump's first term when his trade war with China fucked over the soybean farmers the government bailed them out.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago

    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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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago

    All this winning is getting exhausting

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    They could self deport and get a cool thousand dollars !

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago

    “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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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    they can't handle the winning. I think they need to keep winning

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    As someone from rural Arkansas who in my early life was around these farmers and their families quite a bit until I was in my mid twenties. I can tell you they are some of the most obstinate people you can meet. They regularly got welfare in the form of subsidies and then talked trash about anyone needing welfare or food stamps. Some of those people were their workers.

    I've watched them buy new vehicles and trash them in just a few years when they could have taken care in the fields with them. Instead they would twist them like pretzels pulling and pushing on farm equipment instead of thinking things through. They didn't care because they would be getting some graft from the government to pay for a new one.

    So no they don't need help. Unless it mental health. They will never vote in their best interests. They will continue to believe they are better than everyone around them. They will of course whine like toddlers when they don't get their way.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    ... And Trump will look down, and whisper:

    No.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Hundreds of farmers ask struggling federal government to save them.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago

    The federal government put you there. Kinda doubt theyre gonna reverse course

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Fuck no you get nothing!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    lol, get wrecked nerds

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago*

    There's an actual prayer at the end of that article.

    Edit: nm, it was quoting a prayer from one of the farmers at the meeting

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    Gosh, I wonder who might have done this to them.

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  • [+] -6 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I hope they get it, except not any corporate farms.

    Liberals telling them to fuck themselves are why they won't vote for your party.

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  • [+] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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