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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] 57 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaemo 31 points 6 days ago (6 children)

It almost sounds as though this labour was chronically undervalued and absolutely taken for granted. If I strain my ears, hard, I can almost make out the dawning realizations.

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[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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] 38 points 6 days ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 6 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 42 points 6 days ago (4 children)

It's strange. I live in rural VT and whenever i bike around you see Trump signs on a lot of farm fields. But then you read the newspaper and you read about ICE detaining legal employees at farms and the farmers being upset about it.

I genuinely don't understand.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Complete and dangerous lack of education and critical thought in any capacity

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lies about brown people are their favorite, they can't resist. They'll believe anything you tell them as long as it's bad.

Someone was bound to figure that out and start doing it (40 years ago)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago

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

[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago

Propaganda works.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

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

"We voted for trump..." = you deserve whatever you get

[–] ayyy 13 points 6 days ago

Have the day you voted for 🌈

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago

hahahahaha

what a bunch of fucking idiots. I'd laugh harder if the actual threat to my life wasn't real.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

And to this milk farmer I say: Shut up and keep milking

I hope the industry collapses.

[–] [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.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

"I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face :("

[–] [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] 20 points 6 days ago

If you voted for Trump you deserve worse than you'll get.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 6 days ago

Thoughts & prayers, idiots.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 6 days ago

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump...

Then he gets what he gets. I don't feel a damn bit sorry for someone that stupid.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago

If you don't want to have to be milking cows in the wee hours, maybe cow farming isn't for you.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago

Sounds like he just incriminated himself from his own illegal business practices, lock him up!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Or, you know, they could offer good wages and benefits to attract legal workers and charge enough for the milk to cover their costs. I'm lactose intolerant anyway, I don't care if milk and cheese become a little more expensive. But I know, my idea is crazy.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

What's interesting in watching all this unfold is the revelation to us all just how unsustainable a lot of this is.

I'm doing ok, saved a bunch ahead of this dumpster fire bc I was afraid it'd happen. But it's weird watching people suffer at their own self-inflicted consequences.

I want to help, but... 🤷

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago

Not a shred of simpathy from me. Now milk faster. Papa needs his cereal in the morning.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (5 children)

And the drugs is still happening anyway and those gangbangers were locals anyways so yeah, congratulations 🎉

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

remember when humans were free of intoxicants and violence ?

the good old-never-fucken-happened days.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 days ago (4 children)

This is the kind of thing that made me realise how much a urban being I am.
The way, I'm imagining a farmer, at least the one with milk farm is a guy waking before the sun because he must milk the cows at 4 a.m.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Sometimes it feels like being happy that Trumpers are suffering is like cheering when a disease dies with the host. It's a momentary happiness that the Balrog fell... milliseconds before you realize it's pulling you down with it.

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[–] [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!

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