Stop moaning. It can't possibly be hard work, because you pay a pittance.
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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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"I hate black people unless they work on my plantation" - GOP voters
It's hilarious because it's the same shit as Brexit. At its core it's racist policies that amount to "we don't like brown people". Sometimes you need to watch the house burn for people to learn.
oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?
well boo fucking hoo
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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.
Imagine being so dedicated to a politician/political party that you’re no willing to make a change that costs you 0$ to save your family business
This is exactly when the interviewer should have looked right in their eyes and said "so you didn't learn a god-damn thing" then "enjoy your udders" then left.
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.
He fucking TOLD you what he was going to do. In very simple, plain language even.
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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.
“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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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?
The guy is worried about gangs, yet lives in rural Vermont. What a fucking idiot.
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Never understimate the power of bigotry as a political motivator, in particular among the uneducated. Trump and his oligarch cronies certainly doesn't.
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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.
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.
Complete and dangerous lack of education and critical thought in any capacity
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Propaganda works.
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what a bunch of fucking idiots. I'd laugh harder if the actual threat to my life wasn't real.
"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.
And to this milk farmer I say: Shut up and keep milking
I hope the industry collapses.
I mean, if you hire illegal immigrants you have to know someday you might lose those employees. The key is in the name: illegal.
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The problem here is those farmers will now want to charge more. Even though their labor cost just went down.
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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.
"I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face :("
If you voted for Trump you deserve worse than you'll get.
"I voted to get kicked in the balls and I must say that I was shocked when I got kicked in the balls."
Thoughts & prayers, idiots.
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Guess who he will vote for next election. Nothing like repeatedly jamming a stick in your spokes.
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.
These maga fuckers deserve all the worst
If you don't want to have to be milking cows in the wee hours, maybe cow farming isn't for you.
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