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Fuckin welfare states. Pick yourselves up by the bootstraps you fuckin "without us America is nothing" fuck boys. I'm tired of these red states hurting people and still getting handouts.
I always have to laugh when I'd see people online arguing for rural areas/rural states and getting chapped about states being called "flyover states". They'd start with that "but WE supply your food! The people in the cities would starve without us!"
WTAF. Get outta here with that shit. First of all, most of what I eat comes from Mexico and California. Secondly, it's not as if these people are supplying food out of a sense of altruism. They act like they are really doing something truly noble and everyone else should bow and scrape over their racist bullshit because of that?
These people are going to really not know what to say as automation really, really starts taking flight for these kinds of jobs (why we started applying AI to things like white collar jobs first I have no idea). I know for a fact that full, end-to-end automation is a goal of the coal industry and it sure as hell is one for farming, too, as I saw a presentation on it being made several years ago. In any case, it's going to be hard for these morons that happen to live near corporations extracting food from the land act like they should call the shots on how most Americans live their lives.
These assholes have been unable to deal with the reality that most Americans live in cities and have for quite some time....they just have not caught up. But these people think a minority are "real murica".
Useless map. The only potential human food on that map is wheat.
It's also almost 20 years old
Edit: I actually didn't see the fruits, nuts, etc but my point still stands IMO.
The only potential human food on that map is wheat.
Huh? Humans eat corn, soybeans, fruit, nuts and vegetables, which are all on the map.
The corn and soybeans grown in the US is not for humans
Thanks. I wasn't aware. I'm doing some reading and it's surprising.
They specified food that is actually eaten. As opposed to turned into animal feed or even stupider like corn turned into gasoline.
Yes, California.
I’ve been saying for a while that the USA needs to disband and form (at least) three new Unions - a West Coast Union; a Northeast Union; and a Midwest/South Union(s). Take away all of the safety nets that red states get from the federal government supplemented by blue states and they’ll descend into utter chaos in a matter of months. That’s the only way that red state constituents will have a chance of realising how much they benefit from the federal government they so often rail against.
You want states’ rights? Secede and see how long you last.
While the MAGAt fucks continue to cry about SOCIALISM.
Don't worry 90% of it will go to Cargill, ADM, Tyson, Smithfield, John Deere, and Bayer/Monsanto.
All the remaining small farms will fight over the scraps and then get bought out by one of the first four, depending on what they farm...or be entirely under the thumb of the other two.
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A government handout? Lazy no good farmers taking my taxes. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Stop buying Starbucks. And most importantly, stop voting for gop pedophiles.
Fuck those guys. Taking money from the blue states. Get a real job.
It's okay guys, Trump has gained 17 TRILLION from tariffs. Biden? 1 Trillion, Trump, 17 trillion in 8 months! Imagine that!
/dripping with orange sarcasm
So US tax payers are paying for the tariffs. Who would have every guessed?
Paying twice. You pay the tariffs on imported goods and pay again to bailout the local farmers who can't sell their goods overseas.
Three times because we are also bailing out the country that is selling the soybeans we would normally sell to China.
They say you have to bury a farmer 10 feet down to prevent their arm from popping out of the ground to collect another handout.
Or you could feed them to the wood chipper
They should just do this monthly, but have regulations to figure out how people can not abuse it, but then you need offices and checks and balances... Maybe even government agencies....Wait a minute....
Like, all jokes aside, as reckless as this all is, at least maybe they DO get there?
We paid out 20 billion dollars to Argentina, fucked over a bunch of American soy bean farmers in MAGA country and so he's paying them another 10 billion to not turn on him. Cool.
Sooooo much winning everywhere!
A solution for a problem he created.
It solves nothing.
What about everyone else’s wallets that have been hurt by his decisions?
No. Let them fail. Show us the actual results of your asinine "free market" policies for once.
For this large of a bailout, my groceries should be free.
No, socialism is only for corporations and now farmers too I guess.
It was always for farmers... Capitalism is really bad at sustaining farm output
Capitalism dictates that we only grow food for profit. When it stops being profitable to grow food, we don't grow food, and then (poor) people starve.
This is not a bug; this is a feature.
Don't forget other countries.
Bail them out now, and then what? Their international customers aren't coming back if they already found comparable trade partners elsewhere, and the non-billionaires here are tapped out from high food prices. Won't they just need another bailout sooner than later?
It’s actually quite simple. Bail them out now, wait for the midterms. Let the farmers go bankrupt next year so mega corporations buy up their foreclosed fam land. Then the mega corporations and billionaires get to privatize the profits and socialize the loses. There’s no better investment than that.
Yep. They get to "own the libs", but the megacorporations will get to own their farms. Cons are not really great at thinking shit through. Being the emotionally flighty people that they are, but ironically, calling everyone to their left a "snowflake", they are easily manipulated....
Welfare queens
The shart of the deal everyone. He's a genius
I think I heard some woman politician on an older podcast episode from Thom Hartmann who was talking about sitting down with conservatives in her state and why they voted for Donvict, even though they knew he would start another trade war that would harm them - they figured he would just bail them out again.
There is a video of a farmer saying the same thing. They knew they would get bailed out.
Last time it cost us $26 billion because of his stupid tariffs. Why can't he just go play golf
Trump has another ~~solution~~ problem to every problem.
2 terms, 2 bailouts for farmers.
You mean make the US taxpayers pay them instead? Get one of his buddies he had fleece the stock market to the tune of hundreds of billions pay for it. Fuck these guys. I'm not paying federal tax these next four years.
Well, that's probably what the tariffs are for. Pay tribute to Taco via the Taco Tax, and then he gets to dole it out as favors to buy votes for the conservatives.
Saw this on (slight retch) reddit, might be helpful to you:
Hire a Trump, get rekt.
I think their business plan, such as it is, is hire the guy to disrupt the lives of everyone, including destroying their own livelihoods, but he'll bail them out. Everyone else can get fucked. Science and technology - destroyed. Institutional norms, democratic morality, (real) free speech, freedom of religion, the right to vote - all wiped away. But women, POC, immigrants, liberals will all be put in their "place", which may involve a literal grave for some and imprisonment/torture for others.
I'm sure most of it is rooted in racism when it all boils down....because none of it makes any fucking sense and racism is inherently very irrational. These people will not have their lives made better by Taco.
Farming used to be just hard work. Now with things like Monsanto trademarking crops so farmers need to buy new seed every year or john deere making it illegal to repair their tractors so you need to go directly through them, farmers are feeling the greedy pinch of enshittification. Suddenly hard work alone is not enough to just survive as a farmer. Now take a blowhard like Trump telling them how much "illegals" and other "others" are the cause of their sad existence and they just hop right on that train.
I mean, some of the most radicalization happened because of how farmers were getting fucked by banks, and by various combines, and so a lot of them started doing stuff like collective action.
I think the book What's the Matter With Kansas? even goes over some of this history. But I think as most family farms went bust, most of America went urban between 1910-1920, that kind of collective action was almost predetermined to get squashed. And the people holding out buy into a whole lotta Hollywood-style myth-making about rural life (ironically). Couple that with a lot of propaganda and racism and it spells the current situation.
Ironically, on the enshittification front, it was progressives that I first noticed pushing the "right to repair" stuff, by the way. Same with the stuff about patenting genetics of seeds...
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