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FrequentNectarine Mar 28, 2026 +142

He voted for this repeatedly. I can not seem to understand these people; are they all just single issue voters who think the rest of the party platform wont go into place?

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Droo99 Mar 28, 2026 +69

I honestly think Americans in general just take everything for granted and think nothing the government does will effect them You'd think covid would have taught us differently, or losing roe, but it doesn't really seem like that many people learned anything

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Kakistocracy_0 Mar 28, 2026 +12

you'd have to be even slightly informed to have learned anything, and that has never characterized these ignorant cultists. it's probably "woke" to even be aware of things like losing roe, or losing the US Constitution to the Supreme Court's "interpretations" of so-called originalism.(picking and choosing when to completely ignore the plain wording of the Constitution)

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Reelwizard Mar 28, 2026 +7

Originalism was always kind of a crock of shit but at least it was a judicial philosophy. I would argue that it died with Scalia though and has been replaced by political ideology and arbitrary expansions of executive power when the Republicans control the executive branch. No one on the bench is even pretending to find a historical basis anymore. Sorta like our politicians just say the racist shit now instead of dog whistling.

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The_Lost_Jedi Mar 28, 2026 +2

Even Scalia was bullshit about it and made shit up when he wanted to.

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linktothe Mar 29, 2026 +3

Sorry to joke a bit in this really f\*cked up of times, but it *is* woke to be aware of societal pressures and people who would want to harm you. It's an old warning to be awake and alert to the malignant cancer type of people. They're workin' hard to turn the whole country into a sundown town.

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Hufflepuffpassmethej Mar 28, 2026 +3

>and think nothing the govt does will affect them Unless it’s a dem in office, then the entire f****** world is on fire for these conservatives because of the constantly lies spewed by Fox News. But when a Republican is in office? Ehhh whatever

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eskimospy212 Mar 28, 2026 +5

I think there’s a belief among Americans that things can’t get too bad because the adults in the room won’t let it, which gives them license to vote for crazy or stupid shit. It does appear that some people are finally figuring out that there aren’t any adults coming to save us.

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The_Lost_Jedi Mar 28, 2026 +2

Absolutely this. Too many people seem to have had an unshakeable faith in the system and the laws, to the point that they just assume that because someone won the nomination of a major party, they're a serious and qualified candidate who will do a decent job, and be surrounded by/appoint competent people. They ignored all the warnings from the people in Trump's previous cabinet who were screaming about how awful he was, and ignored the very blatant warnings that he was going to put nothing but yes-men, sycophants, and toadies in this time.

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Gunter5 Mar 28, 2026 +2

Its crazy the amount of people who were / are in Healthcare and voted for Trump after seeing how badly he handled covid I get that a lot of people were not exposed to the chaos, and propaganda works (congratulatory circle jerk sessions of a job well done aired daily on fox) but these people witnessed it first hand

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Available_Year_575 Mar 29, 2026 +1

Everyone knows Trump is an idiot, they didn’t vote for him as doctor in chief

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pierre_x10 Mar 28, 2026 +24

Racism “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.” ― Lyndon B. Johnson

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Available_Year_575 Mar 29, 2026 +1

Ah, the gift that keeps on giving! The glue that holds the Democratic Party together.

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Teddy_RGB Mar 28, 2026 +11

Because bigotry is the most important thing to them

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Available_Year_575 Mar 29, 2026 +1

And victimhood is the most important thing to the other side

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barryvm Mar 28, 2026 +6

Why would you vote for a reactionary party, whose worldview proposes a social and moral hierarchy based on identity, if you didn't think you and your group were special, would surely end up in the protected in-group because of that, and are selfish enough so as to not care about everyone who doesn't? It's self-selection, basically. It even works in hindsight, because there are two ways to react to being betrayed: The first is to see it for what it is, but that means putting your entire worldview and the emotions that caused you to support it into question. The second is to double down. Since the victims must always deserve it, there can be no solidarity. When it happens to you, one of the special ones, it has to therefore be a mistake, a nefarious conspiracy or a betrayal by somebody else. At the end, you're still special, still selfish, still frustrated and still angry. In other words, you're still primed to jump on the next far right bandwagon. You can probably watch Trump go from the leader who can do no wrong, from the good ruler blocked and sabotaged by his evil political opponents, to the good Czar surrounded by evil boyars, to the one who "betrayed" them, to the one they never really supported in the first place. It works that way because their own self-image as moral actors depends on their self-imposed ignorance of or delusion about what they are voting for and why.

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FrequentNectarine Mar 28, 2026 +2

To oversimplify this in context to my personal perspective: One of the key reasons I can not understand them is because they fundamentally don't understand themselves. And a major contributing factor to their lack of self understanding is a kind of delusion of grandeur, which prevents them from engaging in the world on a realistic level and shields them from meaningful self reflection, causing a cycle of avoidance in perpetuation of their delusion. Is that a fair summary? If that is the case doesnt that basically mean they can't or don't view other people as real? (Like other people are just flat characters and set pieces in their novel where they are the only protagonist?)

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barryvm Mar 29, 2026 +1

It's a fair summary I think. It's not even the most cynical one, because you could argue that they can not afford to understand themselves and their motivations, because such understanding would mean confronting the immorality of their actions. They would be people who want to do bad things to other people while feeling good about it, deliberately losing themselves in a narrative to justify their actions because when they stop and think they must realize they are doing evil, that their targets are not faceless strangers but people like them.

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OldDoubt1577 Mar 28, 2026 +2

To too many of them the GOP is the party of low taxes and for millionaire farmers.

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hifumiyo1 Mar 28, 2026 +42

Have the day you voted for

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Ok-Annual50 Mar 28, 2026 +32

And I bet he voted for trump and would again so no sympathy here

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OldDoubt1577 Mar 28, 2026 +11

Worse, he'll say he's very disappointed openly, but keep supporting the right hoping someone else will clean up the mess.

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WakingWaldo Mar 28, 2026 +5

So many people, especially conservatives, see the other side as so much worse than anything their "team" could do. Like, sure, maybe Trump's policies are threatening my entire livelihood, but at least he's not a Democrat. It's all about who is selling them the idea, rather than the idea itself. If Republicans came out and labeled Liberal ideals as their own, their voters would eat it up. But because a Democrat is pushing for it then it must be bad. It's all just so immature and ignorant.

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kinxnwinx Mar 28, 2026 +3

Gotta be Biden’s fault though. DJT is just fixing the inherited mess and has to do tough unpopular things. There is no amount of data, including their own well being, that can convince MAGA otherwise.

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def_indiff Mar 28, 2026 +36

> And now, after generations of feeling at home in the Republican Party, the O’Harrows feel politically homeless. I hate that I feel this way, but I honestly hope he loses everything. I hope all Trump supporters suffer all the pain they voted to inflict upon others.

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AlkaiserSoze Mar 28, 2026 +20

Many people spent their entire lives trying to bridge the gap. I, for example, maintained friendships with people who voted Republican. I tried peaceful debate with friends and family. Sometimes it would work, sometimes not. The shifting point was during the second Obama term, though. After that, those folk just became more angry, belligerent, and downright racist. I don't know if it was there before or if they bought into it through Fox News, but here we are. What I'm trying to say is.. I'm tired of being nice and trying to be the sensible adult in the room. These people should learn some hard lessons. They voted for those lessons, I didn't. Their lack of understanding, unwillingness to engage in empathy, it's all come to a head. This is where we are. Either they learn their lesson or they double down in stupidity as they drown.

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def_indiff Mar 28, 2026 +7

Yeah, agreed. The past 10-15 years have consumed my empathy and patience.

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Deeman0 Mar 28, 2026 +14

Voting against self interest is the Hallmark of an ignorant maga supporter

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victotronics Mar 28, 2026 +12

"For Tim, the family patriarch, his politics first came into conflict with his profession in the fall of 2006." And then it takes him 20 years to conclude that republicans are evil? He's a bit thick, this farmer.

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CrustyTh3Punk Mar 28, 2026 +12

Cope, ya f****** moron.

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DrunkAndHornyGuy Mar 28, 2026 +18

A lot of farmers stupidly expected the ethnic cleansing they voted for would only happen in cities.

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elitistjerk Mar 28, 2026 +9

They just want slaves.

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imjustnatek Mar 28, 2026 +17

I hope he goes out of business and loses everything

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Travelerdude Mar 28, 2026 +8

Maybe you should rethink your values if you support the current GOP.

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defiant-raven Mar 28, 2026 +7

Guess allll the white people complaining about immigrants taking their jobs aren't showing up, huh?

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lonelythrowaway463i9 Mar 28, 2026 +6

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes. He’ll go out of business and still vote republican like a f****** moron because bigotry matters more to republicans than common sense.

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WebbityWebbs Mar 28, 2026 +5

Yeah, that is the core ideology of conservatives.

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thenickel005 Mar 28, 2026 +4

you wanted a circus,yoy voted in a clown.

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Unique-Coffee5087 Mar 28, 2026 +7

>For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction. The lede cost me to think that This guy was kind of woke. Perhaps he had been working for a less oppressive and exploitated immigration system that would Make immigrant labor more reliable and humane. But then, the first paragraph made it clear that he had been voting Republican all this time. So he is simply an idiot

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konacoffie Mar 28, 2026 +5

Trump lies about almost everything but he literally ran on tariffs and mass deportation. Can’t even say he deceived these idiots because this was the one thing he was actually truthful about.

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Gullible_Ad3785 Mar 28, 2026 +6

You broke it, you own it farmers.

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Ok-Move9389 Mar 28, 2026 +8

I don't know if I should feel empathy for him. I mean you did see his 2016-20 term.

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Marvin_Frommars Mar 28, 2026 +9

But dude, no one is going to force you to have a sex change now. You need to look at the bright side.

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rit56 Mar 28, 2026 +12

For 20 years, Tim O’Harrow has asked lawmakers to acknowledge that America’s food supply depends on immigrants. Politics went in the other direction. "I don’t know that I’m a Republican anymore"

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Beginning_Cream498 Mar 28, 2026 +14

My livelihood vs my hate for women, LBGTQ, brown people, and owning libs. 🤔

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Str8UpJorking Mar 28, 2026 +25

He’ll still vote Republican.

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Chemical-Fault-7331 Mar 28, 2026 +4

A Republican farmer is a dumbass. That should be the title of this article.

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InevitableAvalanche Mar 28, 2026 +4

Then maybe vote different farmers.

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tom-branch Mar 29, 2026 +3

Its always been the contradiction of the Republicans, on one hand they are incredibly reliant upon immigrant labor, on the other hand they want to round up and deport all immigrants, end result, they shoot themselves in the foot.

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Some-Brick6223 Mar 29, 2026 +3

Here’s my shocked face. It’s looks like my ‘oh really’ face now.

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HangryHuHu Mar 28, 2026 +2

Did krasnov trump forewarn his electorate? Yes, yes he did. Hearing about these people complaining about the consequences of their vote is plain a$$ boring.

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External_Brother1246 Mar 29, 2026 +2

A message to all farmers. The Republican Party has been taken over by extremists. It is not really the Republican Party at all any more, at least not the one we knew, believe in, or want. We cannot continue to support them and hope they will do the right thing. You know on your heart they will not, and things will continue to get harder for you. Change parties. The democrats have moved to the middle. They use traditional economics policy to set the stage for healthy business. And they will not destroy your workforce, or import beef from Argentina to under cut you.

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MeanJeanDopamine Mar 28, 2026 +2

Maybe he can makes some money doing corn on OnlyFarms https://nypost.com/2026/03/27/us-news/white-house-unveils-onlyfarms-website-welcomes-farmers-with-golden-tractor-on-south-lawn/

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InclementImmigrant Mar 28, 2026 +1

My moral Illegal Immigrant.

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Organic-Class-8537 Mar 29, 2026 +1

We own a manufacturing business and it’s always shocking to see how many of our customers make comments about how we must be making bank on tariffs. How stupid can these people be?

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Dowew Mar 29, 2026 +1

What did he think he was voting for ?

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HolyToast666 Mar 29, 2026 +1

You voted for the Mass Deportation Party, dude. Now you just get them bootstraps and start pulling yourself up!

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Angstrom_Wither Mar 28, 2026 +10

Nobody tell this guy who cleans the rooms in Trump hotels or cuts the grass at his golf courses...

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Angstrom_Wither Mar 28, 2026 +13

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/08/trump-organization-undocumented-workers?srsltid=AfmBOopXzjZjwKyb2C-3mW8oe-sHIcG9sKoGDoE25LhZBjyVg6vJGqFf It was on the front page of plenty of news outlets and has been pretty much the whole time he's been a known entity. Something Republicans struggle with is the same mentality that drives one to say, "this sign can't be for me because I can't read." "I didn't read it" isn't equivalent to "it didn't happen."

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MystikSpiralx Mar 28, 2026 +3

Clearly you are not a New Yorker. We've known all his shit for decades, son. Ignorance doesn't equal non-existence.

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pierre_x10 Mar 28, 2026

Maybe it shouldn't be against the law simply to enter the USA without permission. Maybe we should go back to open borders with Canada and Mexico, similar to how things were in the recent past, and similar to the current EU policy.

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pierre_x10 Mar 28, 2026 +6

The term "fettered" is right there in your argument of not allowing unfettered immigration. Creating and managing a system of "fetters" to track and adjudicate every single entry into this country and deportations with its vast borders does not come without a cost. It is a massive sink of resources and energy and people and money, and clearly not even anywhere near 100% capable of executing its stated purpose.

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Kakistocracy_0 Mar 28, 2026 +3

something tells me Republicans don't even understand what you just said. it's something of an abstraction despite concrete consequences, and their minds (prejudices) don't work that way.

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pierre_x10 Mar 28, 2026 +9

Republicans are quick to say that it would be dumb to ban guns, because then only the outlaws would have guns, people who are going to break the law regardless. But then here you are saying it would be dumb not to ban all illegal entry into the country, and dumb not to burden everyone including people who won't break any other laws, because we have to stop the actual outlaws. Seems like two contradictory stances.

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dblan9 Mar 28, 2026 +6

>"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free" Tell me you understand ZERO of anything American without telling me.

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dblan9 Mar 28, 2026 +6

So show me where you complained about Trump shutting down the biggest immigration bill in US history according to republicans because as Trump said "It would give Biden a big win". Clearly since you are interested in border security and not simply parroting Trump, that you would be 100% against that sort of political gamesmanship.

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sxyaustincpl Mar 28, 2026 +3

Would you support deporting someone who came over to the US on a student visa, then stayed after dropping out of school? Do you think that person should be able to apply for a different method of remaining in the US, or should they need to leave? Should there be a path to citizenship or should they have to go back to their home country? What about applying for and receiving a visa they aren't qualified for, under false pretenses? Should that be revoked and the person deported? Or should they have a path to citizenship?

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sxyaustincpl Mar 28, 2026 +2

So, then Elon and Melania should be deported, by your criteria, since those examples were pulled directly from documented, verifiable accounts of their histories.

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pierre_x10 Mar 28, 2026 +3

I realize there is a difference, which is why I specified illegal entry, as opposed to simply anyone entering the US. I think it is fair to question if spending so much money and time and border patrol and immigration courts and manpower in terms of agents and border patrol and immigration lawyers and judges and detainment facilities is really worth the tradeoff in how much it deters or manages illegal entry, rather than just going specifically after real criminals like drug smugglers and human traffickers, etc.

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sxyaustincpl Mar 28, 2026 +7

Your odds are astronomically higher of being killed by a US citizen with a legally purchased firearm, or killed by a US citizen driving under the influence, or really anything involving a US citizen. Immigrants, including undocumented, have one of the lowest crime rates out there as a class, far far lower than US citizens, and straight white Christian males.

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Kakistocracy_0 Mar 28, 2026 +3

facts are like cancer to the Republican base, they reject wholesale any information that doesn't line up with their many prejudices.

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sxyaustincpl Mar 28, 2026 +6

Again, you're so wrong it's amusing. The fraud in Minnesota was discovered years ago, and had already been under investigation with multiple people having been charged, before it ever turned into red meat culture war nonsense for the mouthbreathing MAGA crowd because some dark people were involved. Nobody is talking about unfettered immigration. Other than 2025, Trump deported fewer people than most Democrat presidents have, however they did it legally, and with humanity and dignity. Things the GOP knows nothing about.

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sxyaustincpl Mar 28, 2026 +2

Your 20 million number is a made-up Trump number, like most of his, including polls and real estate evaluations. The highest estimates are around 14 million, total, living in the US at any time, having come over the course of decades under Presidents of both parties.

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dblan9 Mar 28, 2026 +4

>"Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"

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dblan9 Mar 28, 2026 +3

So my great grandfather wan't welcome?

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dblan9 Mar 28, 2026 +4

> by a illegal criminal *an Poindexter

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gentlemantroglodyte Mar 28, 2026 +9

Most people also think that businesses that want to illegally pay less than minimum wage should go out of business also. The problem isn't this particular consequence, it's that the government is taking action without any plan to deal with the fallout.

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Beginning_Cream498 Mar 28, 2026 +1

We need the fallout so they can join against the governments actions. They are part of the nesecary sacrifices to make change.

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imjustnatek Mar 28, 2026 +7

He's getting what he voted for.

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HitCount0 Mar 28, 2026 +7

>this man and all farmers like him should go out of business Isn't this explicitly what this man -- and [more than 75% ](https://www.yahoo.com/news/u-farmers-voted-trump-feeling-210000721.html)of "farmers like him" -- have been voting for?

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Proper-District8608 Mar 28, 2026 +3

Americans don't want, and can't live off four or 5 dollars an hour. If farmers start and can afford to raise it to at bare minimum at least minimum wage(take into consideration as well, by their nature, farms are not in larger towns with transportation such as bus routes available, nor healthcare) then maybe. Of course, those raises in labor costs will pass to consumer making USA minimum wage even more unaffordable to live on

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FearlessAwareness469 Mar 28, 2026 +3

Yes

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MiddleAgedSponger Mar 28, 2026 +3

Americans don't want to do the work or Americans don't want to do the work for shit wages? All the right wing dimwits love the free market until they actually have to compete on it.

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Angstrom_Wither Mar 28, 2026 +5

"Because Americans don't want to do the work"? I'm sure this guy is offering a living wage and health insurance, yeah? "Don't want to do the work"? Sounds like this guy doesn't want to do the work of being an employer and, as a consequence, has to use the mudsill labor he thinks it's appropriate to dehumanize for political points. I think this man, all the farmers like him, and everyone else like him in general should do more than go out of business. They should get fucked *and* go out of business. Industrial-scale farming is a solution to a problem no one actually has. The issue is the scale at which the labor is being performed. Agriculture needs to be re-localized and specific to needs that don't require massive shipping solutions and drains on infrastructure.

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MystikSpiralx Mar 28, 2026 +6

'false delema' 😭 \*dilemma but nice try

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MystikSpiralx Mar 28, 2026 +8

And yet it's still wrong. Edit: Not deleting this because the original change was "delimma"

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Available_Year_575 Mar 29, 2026

Yall wanted this farmer to vote for a party that uses words like cis and binary he has no idea what all that is, he feels he has nothing in common with you.

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nach0_ch33ze Mar 29, 2026 +1

Please tell me how many actual democratic politicians are campaigning using cis and binary?

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