Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35499033
Dear MAGAs, the GOP told you they were going to screw you to death. They even created a step-by-step guide (Project 2025), detailing exactly HOW they were going to screw you to death. You. Got. Told.
This is what happens when you treat politics like WrestleMania.
So I remember seeing a local news report about a soybean farmers association president talk about how soybean farmers haven't recovered the market share from Trump's first term, meaning they recovered some under Biden, and how they were all behind Trump because reasons and racism.
Well there guys, have the day you campaigned and voted and remember to say no to socialism.
You voted against welfare and now you want welfare. Happens every time.
Federal government:
Got banned on reddit because of this post. Apparently "Die scum" is a threat of violence. Had no intention of pursuing a visa and travel there to slap anyone, not sure how this was implied. Just hoped they get sweet sweet karma.
Wait what? That's socialism!
This is just a FALSE FLAG by LIBTARDS! REAL Farmers would NEVER Ask for SOCIALIST HANDOUTS!
Silly farmers, bailouts are for billionaires.
64% of Ark 'n saw voted for orange pedo.
Exactly....enjoy!
You're stupid. They think you're stupid too. You thought that the democrats were going to make you gay so you voted against your own interest. Now ICE is stealing your employees, your crops cost more in other countries, and nobody will help because you aren't billionaires.
I would feel a lot more "leopards ate my face" about this if I could actually see that any of these people voted for the leopards, rather than merely being members of demographics that tended to vote leopard.
So go take a survey.
Oh wait, we did last November.
Tell me farmers are statically more leftist than average.
The whole county is red. It's statistically likely they wanted leopards but I'll agree it'd be nice to confirm.
Classic conservative.
Yes! More of this! Visualizations like this might stick in their brains better! We've got elephants, donkeys, and leaperds
I’m sure some corporate farming conglomerate will be happy to buy their farms on the cheap.
Have the day you voted for.
Maybe once they lose the farms that they inherited, they'll understand the angle where 99% of people are coming from?
Nahhh some are up for Trump raping thier kids and forgiving him and remaining loyal, so there's some brainwashed shit going on here that's beyond the scope of understanding of a sane person. Losing their farms won't "wake" them up.
Well well well...
You mean...a handout?
Those bootstraps aren't going to pull themselves up!
They'll get it. Republicans cannot win without the common clay of the new west voting for them. Trump's done it before. He wrecked their livelihood with his inane tariffs then wrote them big checks to keep them voting red.
Edit: Fixed link
IDK, farm owners are an extremely small part of the population. Even farm workers are only like 1% of the labor force. They're not really the common clay. If they get it early, it will likely be because the big players in the space bribed Trump and/or other officials.
Not before they lose the farm though.
I know this community is sort of for mocking these people but if this part of the article doesnt show how hard some of these republicans lives are then I dont know what does:
"“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."
Maybe we should be helping each other instead of kicking people while they are down, so they might not have voted for trump to begin with.
Most of the Republican base (blue collar) votes against their best interest because Republican politicians appeal to their bigotry, hate, and fear. They voted for a fascist who clearly telegraphed he was going to do fascist things. These are generally not good people. It's theoretically possible for them to be rehabilitated, but I don't know how that would happen.
He tricked them into thinking he'd help them out, same as the democrats do and have done. Hard to blame them at this point. I think we might have replaced racism with partyism in America, the way y'all are acting.
Ever hear the saying "you can't help someone that doesn't want to be helped"? We voted to help them (or at least not tear everything down whether it was warranted or not), they voted for everyone to be miserable instead, and misery won.
I'm done feeling sorry for people who can't think for themselves. These results are because of someone's actions, and those actions were not mine. You want someone to help? Vote for a government that will help make people smarter not strip away their education and leave a bunch of dumbfounded idiots behind
They voted for Cheetolini so he would hurt others because they are sadistic assholes. Now they’re complaining that the bully in chief is bullying them. They deserve every inch of this.
Conservatives aren't failed liberals, and liberals aren't failed conservatives. At some point, like now, we have to let them fall to their consequences and be done with it.
Five suicides are hard? No. Five suicides are consequence.
Hardly a consequence, there's 75 million of them.
Sucks to suck. Financially stable (i.e. blue) states could bail them out today and in a week, they'll harbor just as much resentment for them damn librulls as they did before.
Probably more once they soak in a Kremlin-concocted marinade of lies about how the Democrats did it to them in the first place and forced them to shamefully beg for relief. Oh, but also, they're self-made gumptiony bootstrap-puller-uppers who made it all on their own by the sweat of their brow. Can't forget that.
Those folk started to commit suicide when they voted for the orange rapist/felon.
Reminds me of that bash.org quote: "The biggest problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying we should kill the dumb, but why don't we take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?"
Except in this case we kept on putting warnings and they shot themselves anyway.
Why dont you turn your other cheek so they can black both your eyes. Stop supporting stupidity.
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Wow look how much better than them you are, such a good smart boy.
Yeah, golden rule and all, but they have absolutely earned the contempt they're getting, with interest.
Those are some rookie numbers, gonna need to pump them up.
Good riddance.
.world lives up to its reputation consistently, at least. I think there might be a maximum age allowed there of 16 or so.
Sounds like a pretty socialist thing to ask, ngl.