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Leopards Ate My Face

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840

Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

LOL. Idiots

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

He fucking TOLD you what he was going to do. In very simple, plain language even.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

To be fair, everything out of his mouth is a lie. He told us he was going to do many things.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 6 days ago

Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.

Well, you voted Trump, now you get to milk it for all it's worth. At 4 AM.

Get rekt, and pay a living wage next time you try and start a business.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I mean, if you hire illegal immigrants you have to know someday you might lose those employees. The key is in the name: illegal.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Which is usually a benefit for them. You call enforcement when they start talking about labor conditions or unions.

The fascists are morons and overplayed their hand.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

My parents used to export fruits For a brief moment, I worked for the family business and had the pleasure of meeting some of these people.

I met a farmer that sold cherries. Over dinner he was telling me how pissed he was about Mexicans taking jobs away from Americans.

When pressed on why he doesn't just hire Americans, he said no Americans wants to work minimum wage to pick cherries for 10 hours a day.

My dad has been trying to convince him for years that his rhetoric is ultimately going to hurt his livelihood. But his patriotism/ tribalism outweighs all logic.

No idea how he is doing now, but I imagine he just let his fruit drop this year.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

The leopards were supposed to eat everybody else's face only.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes, making America Great Again. By bringing us back to a time period in which everyone in the household worked on the farm. Kids didn't go to school during planting and harvesting. Ditto for milking season. Better pump out six kids so you can have farm hands!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

Dont' forget an unchallengable patriarchy and lots of Jeeeezus!!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 days ago

I wanted a new piercing but now I have a hole in my body with a piece of metal in it and am out $100. How could this go so wrong‽

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

HAHAHAHA! Hire some MAGA fuckers to help you out. The real shame, the asswipes hiring the illegals should be prosecuted too.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Now they can find a cliff and jump! That would solve the country’s issue with stupidity and solve many national security concerns.

[–] [email protected] 294 points 1 week ago (8 children)

You have to be a unique kind of stupid to profit from illegal labour and vote to have illegals deported.

[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago

Not unique, unfortunately, but very common.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair, they have been targeted very precisely with a military psychological operation that is explicitly geared to striking fear into the vulnerable and building poor political choices off of that fear.

Yes, they're incredibly arrogant, violent, and stupid, but MAGA (and it's prequel; Brexit) works off of fear and not much else. Maybe if they really like country music I guess that could be a thing. Or flags. It sure as hell doesn't work off of reason or logic, obviously.

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[–] [email protected] 156 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Yeah, because Vermont had so many issues at the Canafian border... and "gangbangers" are such a big problem in rural areas lol

GET FUCKED.

[–] [email protected] 80 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

They have imagined a threat (there isn't one) so they can imagine they are in danger or persecuted (they aren't), so they can imagine they deserve a savior (they don't), who they imagine Donald Trump to be (he most definitely isn't one).

I'd say it's a cult, but I doubt most cults even require this level of mental gymnastics.

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[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 week ago (13 children)

oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?

well boo fucking hoo

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[–] AlecSadler 102 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump, the recent crackdown has prompted a deeper reckoning within his community

Umm, okay, no sympathy then. Burn.

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump

Maybe if he just offers the leopards a little more face....

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[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

You're the cow now, Trump milks these rubes who don't care what he says or does until it affects them.

This article is focusing on the wrong issue, forget the "woe-is-me-poor-farmer" BS. The real tragedy is the countless workers, ya know the ones that ACTUALLY do the labor that are jobless for justifiable fear of being called a terrorist invader and get a trip to an El Salvadorian prison.

Boo hoo, the workers you were exploiting can't work. Too fucking bad. Do it yourself at 4 AM, it's quite literally and explicitly what you voted for.

Is America finally great again ya fuck?

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"I hate black people unless they work on my plantation" - GOP voters

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

So you are... Checks notes 2200 miles away from the border. I feel like even if we disregard them voting for trump and just judge them based on that being their main voting issue, they're dumb as fuck, aren't they?

[–] TammyTobacco 56 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The guy is worried about gangs, yet lives in rural Vermont. What a fucking idiot.

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[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 week ago

what did they think .. wait. yeah. they’re not capable of thinking.

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 week ago

Knowingly using undocumented workers, complaining about not having a visa program to continue taking advantage of migrants he degrades, and would still vote Trump, too. I hope they get bird flu from a big face full of cow mucus.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Stop moaning. It can't possibly be hard work, because you pay a pittance.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 week ago

"We voted for racism, not poverty and hard work! We don't want these jobs - they're for the spi... I mean for those people." --MAGA.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Don't worry, Dustin Machia, fifth-generation dairy farmer from Sheldon.

Sell your farm to Farmco Inc: their robots will milk your cows.

Buy an overpriced house in the city to live, maybe one with lots of drugs and gang-bangers.

Make sure you support Trump's election bid in 2028, and/or vote for Donald Trump, Jr, lest a satanic Democrat moderate who defeated AOC by just a hair wins.

If you get age related health problems, look to RFK, Jr.

Remember the days when Americans and Canadians could cross the Vermont-Quebec border with relative ease? Those days are gone, and much of Canada, and perhaps a third of America, now hate people like you.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“Not my undocumented immigrants, though.”

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[–] [email protected] 54 points 1 week ago
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 week ago

We voted for nazism and deportation, but didn't think it would affect us and our undocumented workers. Trump his first term was economically really bad, but Trump said it was the best and I trust him more than facts and numbers so I voted for him again, but didn't think he would fuck up the economy even more than before. I support the tariffs on China, but I didn't think it would affect the price of fertilizer I import from there, so now my farm is going bankrupt because China now doesn't want to buy my product anymore with the counter tariffs and they were my only customer. But I completely support Trump and fully trust him. Just from a cardboard box under the overpass from now on.

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