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[–] AntiBullyRanger@ani.social 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And when we ask you to dismantle ICE facilities, you pray about your pensions instead.

Get a second job and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Stop ordering coffee and avacado toast, make it at home.

Lazy farmers. (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻)

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sounds like a personal problem to me. They voted for this.

https://youtu.be/badGHJLDpP8

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Stupidest thing I read today. Hunger and homelessness will skyrocket. But hey, mass incarceration is legal slavery, so who cares?!

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Farm owners are incredibly wealthy. They'll make the rest of us starve before they even come close. They aren't working class like the workers that they, indeed, enslave.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No, most that aren't corporate owned are not. Some may be comfortably secure but most are not. Source: I live in farm country.

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Do you think those big corporate ones will buy out the little guys as they start going under?

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How does that change the material reality of the working poor who can't afford food?

[–] Ascrod@midwest.social 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Just further concentrates the wealth and throws more people into the "can't afford food" pool. I'm not disagreeing with you.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 3 points 3 days ago

I hope the small farmers at least could sell to neighbors who have managed to save or inherit some savings. As it is, they may be forced to sell to conglomerates. Plus real estate law gets crazy.

https://courtroomproven.com/faqs/how-far-above-and-below-the-ground-do-my-property-rights-extend/

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

It's really hard to have any sympathy for someone who shoots themselves in the foot because they thought it was someone else's foot.