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Hey there woah … if you say something bad about djt, he’ll dump on you from an F35 so EVERYTHING is PERFECT and that’s it.
This is why farmers shouldn’t monocrop. Even if a farmer doesn’t care about the environment and soil health, monocropping makes a farmer vulnerable to the volatile nature of geopolitics and the global economy.
I’m going to end up emigrating from this fucking country primarily so I can stop bailing out dumbfucks.
This is absurd.
We’re going to bail out “bootstrap” assholes after they were warned they were going to kill their own livelihoods. Fuck that clown shit.
I would MUCH rather LITERALLY LOSE MY ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND WAY OF LIFE then to have ONE Trans Kid NOT feel suicidal!
-LITERALLY all Republican Voters!
This is hilarious and I upvoted. But it’s also not accurate, and presenting it this way makes Trump look like a giga chad tricking bullies into punishing themselves, when he’s more like just king of a mentally ill cult. I won’t take my upvote back because I voted for Trump one time 9 years ago and I can’t take that back
I regret your use of the word “gigachad”, but “Tricking bigots into punishing themselves” is the precise description of the Republican party.
That’s not a good thing. The theme of American history is “Rich whites convinced poor whites to destroy their own public goods out of fear that someone not like them might benefit too.”
It’s not mental illness. It’s not economic anxiety. It’s not ethics in gaming journalism. It’s white supremacy.
If you’re committed to unlearning the fascism, you should know that the narrative that it’s just “mentally ill” people that voted for him is also not accurate and is infact ableist. White affluent Americans have been primed to endorse these values for centuries, it isn’t new and it isn’t disabled people’s fault.
where are these soy farms
That is the result of a hyper individualist society, USA is literally the cancer of the world and now it’s hurting itself
I hope we all like soy beans because that is going to be the only affordable thing in the grocery store.
More likely feedstock for bio-fuels, which also gives Republicans heartburn because the only proper fuel for their SUV is sucked out of the ground under pressure from toxic chemical-laced fracking mud, like the Good Lord intended.
Which is super hilarious because the same idiots who support Trump are the same idiots pushing Soy memes about how too much soy makes you gay/trans.
Soy is great, you can make some really good-tasting, high-protein food with it for very cheap. But I’m afraid there won’t be a lot of cheap soy in grocery stores, instead those farmers will just go bankrupt.
Turns out the conservatives were the ones making America into soyboys all along.
Except it won’t be, because without a buyer the crops are going to rot in the fields.
I do! Been making and selling tempeh to my friends, also fried tofu is amazing.
All bailout money is earmarked for the corporations. We need to save the banks and the auto industry! Again!! /s
They voted for this and it’s going exactly to plan, they just wish the plan was faster.
The plan is to remove everyone undocumented and then bring them all back as H-2A visa labor paying them pennies on the dollar.
That doesn’t make sense. Adding paperwork isn’t going to lower labor costs.
Undocumented workers are already the least paid, least protected category of worker.
They’d be switching from workers with no minimum wage to ones that have a minimum wage, need to be properly tracked by the IRS and all that.Haha, you think they are keeping the rules the same? https://www.fisherphillips.com/en/news-insights/dol-issues-game-changer-rule-for-h-2a-farmworker-wages.html
In my state undocumented farm workers make a little more than minimum wage. After this rule change they will be able to legally pay them less.
These are the two most important points of the blog or article I posted:
- DOL’s Reasoning. The DOL estimates that agricultural employers will save over $24 billion over the next 10 years as a result of these changes.
- AEWR Examples. For some states, these AEWR changes will mean that the state minimum wage will become the highest applicable wage rate for H-2A workers. For other states, the new AEWRs will be lower than the state’s minimum wage. For example, California’s statewide hourly minimum wage for most employers for 2025 is $16.50. However, the new hourly AEWR in California after applying the state’s $3.00 downward adjustment for nonmonetary compensation is $13.45 for entry-level H-2A workers in the Skill I category and $15.71 for experienced H-2A workers in the Skill Level II category.
Lol.
The plan is slave labour
Gotta close that prison loophole.
Fuck em’!
Ok, ultra corrupt and all, but at least from environmental pov (especially water) killing soy where USA grew it en masse is a really good thing afaik.
It was too forced & unsustainable.USA: “let’s try beef instead”
Well, I mean, if the price skyrockets & the purchasing power keeps falling finally y’all gonna get into veggie patties. Non-soy veggie patties (which sux anyways).
I dont know if country’s in south America are filling the gap the US created, but if yes its probably much worse than farming in the US.
I once had the chance to hear a lecture from a Brazilian professor about how soy gets grown in Brasil and that shit was terrifying. Slavery like working conditions. Corruption, massive landgrabs, insane use of pesticides (they literally used to apply them with airplanes until it got banned due to health “concerns” (it actively destroys your health) for the civilians) and mono cultures all the way through. It was very informative, but fucking scary. Due to the fact that massive sizes of land are not really listed and nobody owns them. So farmers are literally creating their own documents, that say they own certain land, put them in a drawer with crickets, so the paper looks older than it is, go to the local government and surprise, they now own even more land.
Very true.
Tho that is true for any industry in such countries.And it’s not like fairly similar things don’t happen in USA farming.
Dear US Farmers, You wanted America First… Enjoy being America Alone. Have the day you voted for.
kind regards, The rest of the world
That’s one way to get the farms into the hands of billionaires for cheap.
This was the goal all along. They want all that land in the hands of private equity. The farmers can lease it back if they want to try again. Serfdom.
My wife said this tonight and it really hit me: China will be eating burgers and America will be eating soy
they are also eating soy and burgers.
I bet they’d love soy burgers?
Another nail for the coffin of US society. Keep it going USA you can do it.
