Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
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Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
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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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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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The federal government put you there. Kinda doubt theyre gonna reverse course
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All this winning is getting exhausting
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“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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I bet nearly all of them will continue voting Republican (or just stop voting altogether).
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They'll shove a fork in their eye while chanting "Let's go Brandon".
They're fucking idiots.
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... And Trump will look down, and whisper:
No.
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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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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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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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“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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Look at all these socialists!
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Trump won Arkansas with 64% of the vote. May they get the day they voted for.
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Shame on you! If those poor
kidsfacists could read they would be very upset!
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“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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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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Too bad they ended funding for suicide hotlines.
I forgot about that. IIRC, Canada had setup some new hotline to help Americans or something along those lines.
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I'll send some thoughts and prayers (since I can't afford much else these days)
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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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Racism and blaming anyone but yourself, obviously
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Removed by Moderator — Modlog
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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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US farmers are the biggest welfare queens around. They don't know how to actually earn an entire dollar by working.
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Fuckem. Reap what you sow, assholes.
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Not just the country, but literally themselves
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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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Yeah, but Donny 2 Inches needs to keep that money for himself now.
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FEMA Agriculture assistance while supplies last. Maybe vote blue next time.
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Didn’t Trump say he was shutting down FEMA because the states could do a better job on their own? So let Arkansas figure out how to bail them out this time.
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What's the over/under that Arkansas farmers actually learn from this and stop voting Republican?
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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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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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Never gonna happen
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screw them Trump boot lickers
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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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Monsanto will just buy their farms for pennies on the dollar
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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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They could self deport and get a cool thousand dollars !
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Hundreds of farmers ask struggling federal government to save them.
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Fuck no you get nothing!
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lol no
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lol, get wrecked nerds
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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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Maybe they shouldn't have voted for the people who only ran on telling liberals to fuck themselves. Golden rule.
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No, they voted for Republicans because the Republicans said they would fuck over Liberals. The farmers cheered that on. So now, when they themselves get fucked over instead, they can reap what they sow. The farmers would never vote Democrat, regardless. Fuck em. They don't get to spit in people's faces and then demand sympathy and respect when they show none for others.
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So hate is the way to go. Burn the whole country down to own the libs. You guys are pathetic.
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Fuck right off, magat.
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they can't handle the winning. I think they need to keep winning