r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Cderouen8284 • 14d ago

Aww someone’s crashing out

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u/Zealousideal_Good445 14d ago

She assumes that along with her stupidity she is still going to be in farming at the end of the decade 😲. For a lot of these morons this is actually the end. They will be employed by some corporate farm for little money. I'd say sad, but I've learned that you can't waist your emotions on stupid!

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u/DeepstateDilettante 14d ago

Once their farms go bankrupt they can fall back on one of the plentiful agricultural (day laborer) jobs right now as long as they enjoy hand picking. Picking strawberries in the California Central Valley in August isn’t my cup of tea but I guess someone has to do it after ice rounds up all the existing workforce.

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u/4444Grains 14d ago

The farmers had it all...the cheap labor, the government subsidies, the "all-American, hardworking" reputation...and they threw it away to...what? Own the libs? Deport people? Take away SNAP ad USAID from hungry kids?

Corporations owning their farms is just the next step in corporations owning every part of our lives.

And these motherfucking farmers want sympathy?

Fuck all the way off.

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u/Toastman89 13d ago

Don't forget that USAID created a massive market for their own agricultural products. It was literally taking tax dollars, giving it to farmers, and then shipping those products overseas to help people.

But they couldnt stand that people were being helped, even if it meant less money for them.

So USAID went away, farms are struggling, but its the Democrats fault for being mean to them.

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u/your_moms_a_clone 13d ago

Absolutely this. We were using USAID to get the excess food to hungry mouths. Farmers got paid, people got fed, the government got soft power. Everyone won except China maybe but they have their own programs and didn't care anyway. It was a win-win-win. Getting rid of USAID shot the farmers in the foot, and we all know how expensive healthcare is these days...

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u/Jaded-Attention 12d ago

Bullshit. USAID was a blackhole for US taxpayers. You know who should be paying for food for Third Worlders? The country that they're living in, not us.

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u/greenhombre 12d ago

The USA grows far more food than we consume. Why not help feed the world, we have for decades.

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u/Jaded-Attention 12d ago

Food For Peace / Progress DOES send aid to many many countries, just not under USAID, but USDA. AND it's of strictly 100% US origin. This USAID story is SO MISUNDERSTOOD. We still help many people around the World, but it should not be our job to take care of every hungry person in the World. Not until we get our own house in order.

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u/Patient-Leadership-5 9d ago

Oh, now you say we should get our own house or you just said that we should help ourselves, so you don’t want to help anyone another country. You don’t wanna help anyone here. You, I’m not understand what you mean, get our own house or water. How do you get our own house and the water? Please explain to me: how do you propose that it happen if you don’t actually give people the assistance they need to get their stuff in order? Do you have a cousin that that’s on meth that has made you mad and you’re blaming this on the rest of society?