A once-in-a-generation economic crisis in rural America means this year could be the last one for many farmers as Trump-Xi call offers no relief

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/once-generation-economic-crisis-rural-164404261.html

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SGGeorwell@lemmy.world · 69 pts · 343d (9 replies)

This is deliberate. They’re consolidating the grip of corporate agriculture. This will be a wealth/land transfer to the rich. Feudalism is back, baby.

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 343d (8 replies)

I didn't vote for him

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 343d (2 replies)

Instead of the Lady of the lake, we have the troll with a Tesla

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 343d (1 reply)

You can't be a leader because some tart in the lake through a sword at you

fluxion@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d

You can't be a leader because you made up some story about some tart in a lake throwing a magical sword at you

plyth@feddit.org · 2 pts · 342d (3 replies)

Do you use Windows and did you give Bill money so that he can buy all the land?

FenderStratocaster@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 342d (1 reply)

I was quoting the film.

plyth@feddit.org · 2 pts · 342d

I should have noticed, there is no excuse.

newthrowaway20@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 342d

I switched to Linux and only ever pirated Windows when I did use it. But Bill still had all the money anyways.

apenstaartje@lemmy.cafe · 1 pts · 343d

Did you cast a vote into the direction most likely to ensure he lost?

wetbeardhairs@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 54 pts · 343d (2 replies)

Remember that sooper-communist policy where the us government would buy surplus crops to ensure that too much was grown for the sake of having enough when there were bad years and crop disasters?

Gosh I wonder which president got rid of it

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 343d (1 reply)

It was Obama, wasn't it? Maybe Clinton?

3abas@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 342d

It was Clinton... Nixon began dismantling it, Reagan for rid of government grain reserves, and Bill Clinton scrapped the last remaining big reserve mechanisms with the 1996 “Freedom to Farm Act”. That law explicitly moved U.S. farm policy away from supply management toward reliance on global markets.

When leftists tell liberals that Democrats are a different side of the same coin, it's because of shit like this. Everything horrible were dealing with is neo-liberal policies set in motion decades ago, and was called the lesser evil at the time. We're out of time, we need a revolution.

unrealizedrealities@kbin.melroy.org · 30 pts · 343d (2 replies)

The rural americans are the salt of the earth, the clay of the new west, you know, morons...

miked@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 343d (1 reply)

I've read trivia that Sherrif Bart was not allowed to see the script for this scene. His reaction is genuine.

unrealizedrealities@kbin.melroy.org · 5 pts · 342d

Mel, is thank god, a true humanitarian....tis true, much of the film was 'off the cuff' for editorial reasons...Mel is a saint.....

BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 28 pts · 343d (1 reply)

GOD! he Was only supposed to go After BROWN AND TRANS KIDS! NOT us Farmers!

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 343d

"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting"

NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 343d (1 reply)

Wasn't this the plan so big corpos could buy out all the smaller farms?

FuglyDuck@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 343d

More like big ag corpos could buy out smaller ag corpos.

“Family” farms haven’t been family-operated in ages. Just family owned.

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 343d (1 reply)

There's going to be a lot of land available for Tech Bros to set up their private cities.

CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 343d

Yeah, fucking weirdoes like Curtis Yarvin and people that follow The Sovereign Individual are going to love that.

Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 342d

JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 342d

Well, have the day you voted for. Glad you gave up your country for some other guys war.

evenglow@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 343d

"No one could have predicted this." /s

justOnePersistentKbinPlease@fedia.io · 8 pts · 343d

Now its time for Canada to come down with a 100% export tariff on Potash.