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Dawson County, Nebraska voted for Trump. And now 1/3 of them lost their job
(www.alternet.org)
Reading the article, seems a major reason this is happening is actually climate change, which of course these knuckleheads don't believe in 🤦
It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can't really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.
Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump's incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn't see a recession coming, they'd likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.
I also read on another thread: many of the plant workers are immigrants and there's been increasing tension between the workers and the "native" townies. So there's a decent contingent of town folk who are happy the plant is closing, and think their communities will adjust to living without the plant workers spending their money locally.
"think" is a rather generous phrasing of what they're doing.
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I've always thought that was from the old military expression, 2 in the chest, 1 in the head.
I guess it depends on how you want to treat them, it's nice to have options though
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That's called the Mozambique Drill. The more you know!
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Have COMPASSION! These Good Americans thought ONLY Trans kids and Brown people would be Affected! If they had KNOWN Trump would Ruin Their LIVES too they STILL would have Voted for Him! But STILL you Must have Compassion!
-Chuck Schumer!
Schmuck Schumer
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Well it sure is a good thing SNAP basically doesn't exist anymore, otherwise these brain dead morons, these wayward souls, they'd have a chance to be tempted into becoming profligate hypocrites in another way!
You see, God, Trump, they're the same thing, and this is all a good thing, because now they'll have a chance to prove themselves before the sacrificial altar of capitalism, just as Jesus wanted.
Just uh, start a business or something, in the midst of a rapidly worsening economic depression, can't be that hard, right?
Ironically, a decent chunk of the most successful businesses out there actually did start in an economic downturn, however I suspect survivorship bias is playing a role there.
You don't need to suspect that, you need to be 1000% sure of that.
Even in good economic times, what is it, like 90% of newly started businesses fail in a year or two?
Yeah, the 'start your own business!' advice is yet another laughable boomerism, easily dismissed by a casual glance at any data from the last 50 years, but no, no, they know better than reality, donchaknow?
Just... yeah, I'm sure all the banks are really just itching to give out a $250,000 business startup loan right about now.
Not like bank failures have been steadily climbing, not like the credit markets are seizing up, bond markets going fucking haywire.
No no no, everything's just fine.
... I suspect people are going to be very shocked to discover the differences between a recession and a depression.
History is apparently stupid though, learning from it is evidently a social faux pas... we just love continuously having to learn what mistakes look like by slamming our faces into them with reckless abandon.
I was born in Cozad, yeah not surprised they managed to fuck up their own place.
Don't worry, they are opening a Maga/Nazi concentration camp just up the road in McCook Nebreska. All the inbreds will just go work there instead.
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Yeah, so what? They voted for Trump to inflict pain, and he's doing that. They're getting what they wanted.
And you know what? If he was running again, they'd vote for him AGAIN. Anything to keep from voting for a Democrat, because Democrats are icky. Also Jesus.
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They'll all blame Biden.
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Not "catastrophe". Just "consequence".
Oh noooo
anyway
The local bar tender is doing good this Christmas at least.
This seems more like a story about global warming killing jobs than anything else.
Of course, Trump's obscenely pro-oil stance is very Leopards Eating Faces.
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Thanks, Trump.
Daaawwwww..... son, that's just too bad.
Get fucked, losers.
Fuck 'em
time to get a real job then.
Yup yup, best find those bootstraps and start pullin', reaaal hard.
Oh what, you're obese and crippled and old and tired?
... did I stutter ...?
This isn't some sudden new thing. Tyson has shut a bunch of its plants down (at least 8 or 10) over the last 2-3 years. They still have over 100 left, it's not like they're going out of business or anything.
Tyson
they saw the profit in artificial scarity in beef prices, they are doing this on purpose.
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Nice.
Hope they suffer.
Did anyone actually read the story?
Yeah, and i find it funny that these people voted for a party that consistently shits on climate change legislation and conservation efforts yet their entire livelihood is being wiped out due to drought condition caused by both climate change and lack of conservation.
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