Original title: 'Catastrophe': Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red Nebraska town
Dawson County, Nebraska voted for Trump. And now 1/3 of them lost their job
https://www.alternet.org/trump-economy-nebraska-town/
https://www.alternet.org/trump-economy-nebraska-town/
Original title: 'Catastrophe': Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red Nebraska town
80 Comments
RaoulDuke85@piefed.social · 62 pts · 245d
kudra@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 245d
Reading the article, seems a major reason this is happening is actually climate change, which of course these knuckleheads don't believe in 🤦
DomeGuy@lemmy.world · 53 pts · 245d
It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can't really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.
Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump's incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn't see a recession coming, they'd likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.
aramis87@fedia.io · 26 pts · 245d
I also read on another thread: many of the plant workers are immigrants and there's been increasing tension between the workers and the "native" townies. So there's a decent contingent of town folk who are happy the plant is closing, and think their communities will adjust to living without the plant workers spending their money locally.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 244d
"think" is a rather generous phrasing of what they're doing.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -10 pts · 243d
Please don't rain on this lib parade with a story of the actual victims.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -10 pts · 243d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 243d
Yeah, and growing crops uses up vast swathes of land and tons of water, so what? We're human and we need food, and we have to pay a price for that. The trick is to balance the benefit with the expense.
You aren't looking for a solution, you are only interested in promoting your personal agenda, which people here aren't interested in. If you don't want to eat meat, that's your free choice, but your self-righteousness is cringy.
Gloomy@mander.xyz · 2 pts · 243d
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 240d
this is depending on poore-nemecek 2018, a dubious source. but even if their efficiency calculations are correct, there is no reason to think the land would not be developed into a more-polluting use
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -8 pts · 243d
Carnism is a major cause of the climate apocalypse, not a result.
kudra@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 243d
don't know why you're being downvoted, you're not strictly wrong, but too many humans being vegetarian would eventually have the same effect
hanrahan@slrpnk.net · 30 pts · 245d
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
I've always thought that was from the old military expression, 2 in the chest, 1 in the head.
monsieur_hackerman@programming.dev · 4 pts · 244d
I guess it depends on how you want to treat them, it's nice to have options though
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
It really wouldn't surprise me if the shocker originated from that phrase as well. 20 years ago it was almost an unofficial salute.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
That's called the Mozambique Drill. The more you know!
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
Yup! They've kinda pulled back on it because of the heartless nature of saying it. "Double tap" also to a lesser extent. I can't remember what the new verbage is because I've been out a long time now and it was just starting to change as I was getting out.
shalafi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 244d
As seen here. :)
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Collateral is one of my favorite movies of all time!
Edit: there's a puscifer song that references the Mozambique drill. "Conditions of my parole" it's a great song on its own, but it's a good story within a song.
BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 244d
Have COMPASSION! These Good Americans thought ONLY Trans kids and Brown people would be Affected! If they had KNOWN Trump would Ruin Their LIVES too they STILL would have Voted for Him! But STILL you Must have Compassion!
-Chuck Schumer!
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 243d
Schmuck Schumer
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 243d
Any basis for that comment?
nostrauxendar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Yeah they voted for trump
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 4 pts · 243d
Truth/Reality
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -12 pts · 243d
Too bad Chuck is the kind of guy that this sub wants us to vote for.
MiddleAgesModem@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
Too bad you stupid fucks constantly sink our party by inventing enemies that don't exist.
Zero reason to even bring him up in this conversation.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 243d
Nobody thinks anyone should vote for Schmuck, he's MAGA-Lite. But if it's a choice between him, or any MAGA, then it has to be him.
What we really need is someone to primary him, and force him out in embarrassing and humiliating fashion. He deserves to go out in disgrace, with his legacy as the American Nero, who fiddled with insider trading and became wildly wealthy, as MAGA burned down America around us.
drhodl@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Pathetic! You are a pathetic little magat dweeb ! Your kind have betrayed America, and humanity, you grubby little germ !
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 244d
Well it sure is a good thing SNAP basically doesn't exist anymore, otherwise these brain dead morons, these wayward souls, they'd have a chance to be tempted into becoming profligate hypocrites in another way!
You see, God, Trump, they're the same thing, and this is all a good thing, because now they'll have a chance to prove themselves before the sacrificial altar of capitalism, just as Jesus wanted.
Just uh, start a business or something, in the midst of a rapidly worsening economic depression, can't be that hard, right?
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 244d
Ironically, a decent chunk of the most successful businesses out there actually did start in an economic downturn, however I suspect survivorship bias is playing a role there.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 9 pts · 244d
You don't need to suspect that, you need to be 1000% sure of that.
Even in good economic times, what is it, like 90% of newly started businesses fail in a year or two?
Yeah, the 'start your own business!' advice is yet another laughable boomerism, easily dismissed by a casual glance at any data from the last 50 years, but no, no, they know better than reality, donchaknow?
Just... yeah, I'm sure all the banks are really just itching to give out a $250,000 business startup loan right about now.
Not like bank failures have been steadily climbing, not like the credit markets are seizing up, bond markets going fucking haywire.
No no no, everything's just fine.
... I suspect people are going to be very shocked to discover the differences between a recession and a depression.
History is apparently stupid though, learning from it is evidently a social faux pas... we just love continuously having to learn what mistakes look like by slamming our faces into them with reckless abandon.
21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com · 16 pts · 245d
I was born in Cozad, yeah not surprised they managed to fuck up their own place.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 16 pts · 243d
Yeah, so what? They voted for Trump to inflict pain, and he's doing that. They're getting what they wanted.
And you know what? If he was running again, they'd vote for him AGAIN. Anything to keep from voting for a Democrat, because Democrats are icky. Also Jesus.
FatVegan@leminal.space · 2 pts · 243d
That's probably my favourite part of the whole thing. If he would run again, he would promise them their jobs back that sleepy joe and hussein obama took from them and they would cheer and shake their fat fists
bagsy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 245d
Don't worry, they are opening a Maga/Nazi concentration camp just up the road in McCook Nebreska. All the inbreds will just go work there instead.
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
Some will. The ones that can't keep a roof over their heads will become slave labor.
SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 244d
They'll all blame Biden.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -8 pts · 243d
Probably because he continued all of Trump's policies and didn't do shit to stop him.
Treczoks@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 244d
Not "catastrophe". Just "consequence".
popekingjoe@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 245d
Oh noooo
tate@lemmy.sdf.org · 12 pts · 245d
anyway
riskable@programming.dev · 11 pts · 245d
This seems more like a story about global warming killing jobs than anything else.
Of course, Trump's obscenely pro-oil stance is very Leopards Eating Faces.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -9 pts · 243d
This isn't a result of global warming.
Carnism is a primary cause of the climate apocalypse.
TronBronson@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 244d
The local bar tender is doing good this Christmas at least.
Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 245d
Thanks, Trump.
flamiera@kbin.melroy.org · 8 pts · 245d
JeeBaiChow@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 245d
Daaawwwww..... son, that's just too bad.
tym@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 244d
Rhoeri@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 244d
Get fucked, losers.
edahs@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 243d
Fuck 'em
leadore@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 245d
This isn't some sudden new thing. Tyson has shut a bunch of its plants down (at least 8 or 10) over the last 2-3 years. They still have over 100 left, it's not like they're going out of business or anything.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 243d
they saw the profit in artificial scarity in beef prices, they are doing this on purpose.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -4 pts · 243d
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 5 pts · 244d
time to get a real job then.
sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 pts · 244d
Yup yup, best find those bootstraps and start pullin', reaaal hard.
Oh what, you're obese and crippled and old and tired?
... did I stutter ...?
Hikermick@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Did anyone actually read the story?
buddascrayon@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
Yeah, and i find it funny that these people voted for a party that consistently shits on climate change legislation and conservation efforts yet their entire livelihood is being wiped out due to drought condition caused by both climate change and lack of conservation.
Niquarl@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 242d
Tbf they probably were worried about talk more left that we should reduce our meat consumption witch if happened would probably eventually cost them jobs too
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Nice.
Hope they suffer.
NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online · 1 pts · 242d
The leopards are so obese from the face eating that it is a miracle they continue to stuff themselves.
kreskin@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 244d
Inucune@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 243d
Why are all these people who voted for Trump the pedophile pushing 300 pounds?
Maybe if they put the fork down they'd have some extra money in this self inflicted emergency.
Not sure how long someone can survive on their own fat reserves.
Soulg@ani.social · 4 pts · 243d
Poverty and obesity go hand in hand
Jaysyn@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 243d
FYI, you're only displaying your own ignorance here.
Inucune@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
Nope, just throwing the same lines I hear Trumptards bring up when SNAP or other social services enter the conversation.
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · -13 pts · 244d
Ah yes, the nostalgic story played every week.
"My enemy admits to being wrong and stupid, therefore we were always right!"
Thanks bytonbikes for bringing us this moldy take!
( Ill now return to my dinosaur chicken nuggets.)
nostrauxendar@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 243d
I don't even understand this comment. Have you had a bump on the noggin recently?
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · -7 pts · 243d
We can tell you dont understand. Lemme can be an echo chamber.
Google strawman confession or sock puppet admission.
This is the same as posting of stories of people on their deathbed during the epidemic saying "i shouldn't have hit kids and gone to a covid infection parry. Im stooped for hating vaccines."
Its largely propagandized stories made to have one political party believe they are smart and right.
The democrats keep loosing to idiots like trump because of tactics like this....vs learning, growing, evolving and adapting... Like we need.
nostrauxendar@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Yeah really cleared it up there bud 👍
Oh hey you edited your comment to say waaaay more, lemme give it a read
Okay, yeah it's for sure smug partisan reporting. There is, however, some catharsis to be found in acknowledging that the people who shot holes in the hull of the boat we're all in are also drowning. It's arguably petty, it's not taking the high road, but it can be satisfying.
It sounds like your complaint is basically with this entire community. Did you come here from /all, by any chance?
I don't agree that an outlet reporting on people being hurt by their poor voting decisions (i.e. voting for an American Republican party that is openly far right and is absolutely miles from sanity out of spite and the desire to hurt others) is what's holding back the entire US democratic party
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · -3 pts · 243d
Oh, yeah, this came to me from all or I would have ignored it entirely. Is this a tritactic a commonality for leopard date?My face, if so, I'll just block the community and let you all have your fun. Even if I do think it is unhelpful to you and me.
Glad you edited your comment too.Now we talked.
And the outlet didn't quote a single human being, yes, reporter saying I heard something from someone. There is no citations of data at all, i'm reporting on the change of tyson meat production without looking at the holistic chain of that market is statistically misleading af.
Most people working in meat packing for tyson are immigrants, and migrants workers, not republican voters.
nostrauxendar@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 243d
No idea what a tritactic is, you're speaking waaaay above my IQ there I'm afraid 😂 I'm also not in this community through anything other than /all; the stories are boring 🤷♂️
Yeah, most people are decent and not spiteful or cruel. Shame that a few bad apples spoil the bunch, innit. See you on the other side 🫡
Nomorereddit@lemmy.today · 1 pts · 243d
Don't bonk your head out there. L8tr.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · -34 pts · 243d
Human suffering? Chance at being smug? The libs are going to love this! If only everybody listened to them...
agent_nycto@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 243d
Hey. Hey. Hey.
Shut the fuck up.
Conservatives have been laughing at, and gleefully promoting and participating in, the human suffering of gay people, black people, Asian people, poor people, veterans, working people, the handicapped, neurodivergant people, religious minorities, child slavery, victims of war, and women. (And more people, these are just folks I can't up with off of the dome)
Republicans actively push to fuck over all of the above constantly.
Anyone who isn't their idealized version of a Christian white male can get fucked as far as they care.
So when the people who want that, who vote for it, and get those people into power get fucked over, suddenly they cry out for empathy and if people even report about it they are being big ol meanies? When they were saying any Democrat or liberal or lefty is a pansy ass crybaby?
No, they can get fucked, because they only care about suffering if it happens to them. The tolerant left, which has historically tried to just make things better for everyone, including conservative dipshits, is starting to die out. Conservatives saying "oh well they are suffering too" has been bait conservatives have used to get the left to backtrack on any aggressive behavior, using empathy as a way to stop people from making progress, all while laughing at us.
That bait has rotted and no one is taking it anymore.
I have absolutely no sympathy for these people anymore, they knew exactly what they were voting for, didn't care who got fucked over because they wanted to own the libs, and now they have to deal with the bed they shat in.
So fuckem and fuck you.
DarkFuture@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 243d
Vote like a dipshit, suffer like a dipshit.
Weird how all these regions who have voted Republican for decades upon decades live like shit.
Snowpix@lemmy.ca · 11 pts · 243d
Question, do you ever have anything else but "libs" on your mind? They're all you ever talk about and it's concerning how much they live rent-free in your head.
nostrauxendar@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 243d
Yeah, actually. If only trump voters hadn't spitefully tried to hurt anyone who they view as "other", they might not have ended up here. Tough shit. Better start tugging on those bootstraps.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 5 pts · 243d
the lack of self-awareness in your comment is fucking astonishing. 😆
hateisreality@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 243d
Nazis tend to suffer that issue
drhodl@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 243d
Fuck off and preach at the persons CAUSING all this ! You know, Donny 2 Inches and his mates. You fucking both siders make me want to puke!
dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 243d
Does being dumb hurt? It seems like it should hurt.