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[–] 289 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)
  • Farmhands deported, can't find replacements
  • $200k labor grant suspended indefinitely
  • Lost subsidies, making less money on product
  • Tariffs jacked up equipment prices and repairs
  • Depends on Medicaid, no insurance if it's cut

Oh boy, way to seriously fuck yourself from every conceivable angle, smart guys. Sumo wrestler lookin leopards after this one.

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

    Add that any products grown for trade are sitting unwanted in fields, or for aid rotting in warehouses because the government canceled the contracts for them. Food is often held in special warehouses where the oxygen is pumped out, but there aren't enough of those to hold all the excess that was expected to be sent elsewhere

    It's a colossal mess, with an incredible amount of waste

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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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  • [–] 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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  • [–] 130 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    I wouldn't mind being a crop worker...provided I get at least minimum wage, breaks, healthcare, and reasonable quotas that ensure my wellbeing.

    ...crickets...

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    [–] [S] 102 points 1 year ago (42 children)

    Nobody is going to work for slave wages and slavery conditions. Raise wages! Improve working conditions! That's the point of the whole Trump immigration policies you dumbass!

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

    It is indeed baffling that immigrants worked all this time for slave wages under slavery conditions. USA is full of people taking advantage of others. It is not just Trump, it is the 50% of the population that is anti-social psychopathic sociopath.

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    Yup. I worked a terribly hazardous job that will work you to death at asphalt plants for a couple of years and absolutely only did it for six figure pay in California. Worst people I have ever worked around. Most were dumber than the rocks in aggregate but they always show up, are great at driving in circles, and gossiping far worse than a group of little girls.

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

    You mean that the job isn't worth what you pay to do. They always pretend it isn't the money. But of course its the money. If I'm going to work my ass off I expect better pay. Those immigrants were working their ass off for minimum wage and the farmers knew they were exploiting them.

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    [–] 83 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    ICE facilities are currently overflowing. ICE prisoners will simply be leased out as farm labor.

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

    Jesus fucking Christ that's dark but entirely possible.

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

    These red voting MAGA fucks were receiving grants to hire labor and they claim socialism is bad. I have zero sympathy for their problems and this is another classic FAFO situation.

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    [–] 73 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    This is how Trump will defend recreating slavery adjacent to the prison system slavery.

    He will claim there is no choice.

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  • [–] 71 points 1 year ago

    Damn freeloading immigrants, staying at home and stealing all our jobs

    Shrondinger's immigrant.png

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  • [–] 65 points 1 year ago (6 children)
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    [–] 64 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They promised JJ 100,000 a year to hire illegals and whatever other farm subsidies AND his whole family is on Medicaid. Is he literally that bad at living off farming, rather than welfare, or is he also committing fraud?

    Why is a welfare queen (by the original definition) voting Republican

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    [–] 64 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Well yeah. Turns out people who aren't in fear of being deported won't work for a fraction of minimum wage paid under the table.

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    [–] 63 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What's that? Southern states running on cheap labour can't cope with the loss of that labour? Where have we heard that before?

    Fool me once and all that, but they actually voted for it this time round...

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    [–] 62 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    They'll start calling to use prison labor soon enough. Prisons are commercial facilities anyway and could use some cash. And there are more African American in prison proportionally so that's a bonus for MAGA. Police will get their cut for putting more people in prison. That way the new racist slave labor gets established.

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    [–] 61 points 1 year ago*

    It's almost as if immigrants are a big source of exploitable labor that keeps the wheels of capitalism turning. Who would've thought?

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

    This is part of the plan. Small farms will be run out of business and then bought for a low price and consolidated by mega farms.

    Big Agriculture wants this and lobbies for it to happen.

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    [–] 55 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Isn't it a confession that he wittingly employs undocumented migrants and isn't it illegal?

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

    Repeat with me, class: There are no bad jobs, only bad conditions

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    *can’t find american workers willing to work for what they’re offering.

    pay more get more.

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    [–] 46 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    No. Shit.

    Especially not when OSHA is simultaneously being dismantled.

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    [–] 45 points 1 year ago (1 child)
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    [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    At least they are removing all those gang members from the fields

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

    Maybe offer better compensation if you can't find workers. No one wants to bust their ass all day for a shit wage. Unless they're desperate.

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    This is all designed to drive the family farm out of business and make land cheap.

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "You reap what you sow" originates from farming wisdom. Just putting that out there.

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    [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Time for Mexico to pump up its own agriculture to supply the goods that will be needed on the other side of the fence. Labor is plenty now.

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    The idea is so badly implemented... you have to raise back Unions and decent salaries, what they expecting is that actual born americans will do the same job for the same shit money that desperate migrants who have absolutely nothing.

    So in essence they want the new slaves to be US born, yeah fuck that.

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    [–] 33 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    How would the couple, who had no health insurance, pay for their daughter’s care if the administration and Congress gutted Medicaid?

    🤣🤣🤣

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