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'They quit after a few hours': Farmers admit they can't find American workers (www.rawstory.com)
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[–] 182 points 1 year ago (19 children)

Maybe these morons should stop voting to remove their employees. Too smart for these MAGAts.

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  • [–] 100 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    No no no, they'll vote for the GOP again, but hope they'll force inmates or homeless people to work the fields.

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

    Don't you guys have forced prison labour? That ought to do the trick. You can even employ Moore people that way because you need guards and fences, gps tracking on the volunteered workers and all that.

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

    Its truly incredible.

    Their response will just be to fold, to literally sell the farm, and also at the same time never even be cognizant of the fact that they got exactly what they voted for, that Trump repeatedly said he was going to do exactly this, that lefties screamed about Project 2025 and the resounding response was basically 'pff, he's just bluffing,' and then making up a fan fiction version of what Dear Leader will actually do.

    They're just gonna revert back to the 'no one wants to work' mantra untill we just literally put our incarcerated prisoners to work in the fields, going full circle all the way back to slavery.

    These idiots didn't even realize how dependant they were on so many massive subsidy programs untill they poofed out of existence, again, 100% in line with Trump's platform.

    Has any nation in history fucking autolobotomized as hard and as fast as we have?

    Literally the world's sole super power 20/30 years ago, and in a single generation we have destroyed ourselves in almost every way possible, short of just nuking ourselves.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    Has any nation in history fucking autolobotomized as hard and as fast as we have?

    Well, the Khmer Rouge killed everybody who wore glasses because they were "intellectuals," China killed millions trying to force city kids to become farmers during the Cultural Revolution, and I'm pretty sure other autocratic totalitarian governments have fucked themselves in similar ways. Usually when societies become illiberal, people with brains are the first to be put up against the proverbial wall.

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

    Just to add a point - if the farmers do end up folding and selling off, who's going to buy the land? My money would be on large corpos.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago

    Yes, it would 100% be large corpos that more or less run and own many farms that same way large landlords run 10s or 100s or 1000s of apartments / rental homes.

    Sorry, I had thought this was so obvious it didn't need to be directly stated, but yeah, it's not a bad idea to be more explicit and more clear.

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

    they tried it with prisoners already, they arnt doing it because they are already in jail, why work when you have all the ameneties provided for you, and it barely affects your sentence.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Much like how it is very easy to pass laws and ordinances that fuck over the homeless, it is also easy to pass laws and ordinances that fuck over prisoners.

    The US Constitutional + Ammendments explicitly allows slavery as punishment for a crime you've been convicted of.

    The Supreme Court has now repeatedly just thrown all prior existing legal case precedent out the window and just made such nakedly hypocritical rulings that its fair to say they are a completely biased and arbitrary institution.

    The rule of law in the US is dead, is a farsical joke.

    Some state will just pass a law that says uh hey, if you're a prisoner in a facility in our state, and the state has some kind of extraordinary need, we can force you into involuntary labor.

    Then other states will copy this once it passes one state's court, then in 6 months-ish it'll get to the Supreme Court who will say yep, checks out, carry on, and then every other red state and half the blue states will do it as well.

    I am not 100% sure this will happen, but it is very, very plausible. 95% sure something like this will happen within 5 to 10 years, possibly less.

    Also... its illegal to be homeless now, and the economy is crashing. Get foreclosed on, can't pay rent, end up in the streets, living in your car?

    Yep, why not crack down on that like ICE is cracking down on migrants, now you're convicted of being homeless, the punishment is a few years of forced labor.

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