• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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    Standard for a trumpet. He can deport their wives, insult them, wreck their livelihood, make fertilizer or the diesel to run their equipment unaffordable…and they still kneel and kiss the mushroom.

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    What ever will the multimillionaire farmers do!

    Seriously, they voted that way because they wanted even more tax breaks and handouts than they already were getting. They didn’t count on someone being dumber and greedier than they are. Fuck 'em.

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    It’s because most farmers left agriculture after the Depression and the only ones left have 3 generations of “family farms” that are huge thousand acre agri-businesses which control local politics like petty tyrants. The farmers don’t actually care because they are multimillionaires or leaving the business. That’s the only kind of farmer left these days. No one wants to farm.

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      And let’s not forget a farm bankruptcy is not the same as a traditional bankruptcy. The farmers generally won’t lose anything.