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[–] Myxomatosis@lemmy.world 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But not for him and his circle of elite friends.

[–] TransplantedSconie@lemm.ee 28 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Having a nation of starving people who are armed to the teeth usually doesn't end well for the ruling class.

[–] Sonicdemon86@lemmy.world 19 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't count on it when Trump has already said that he'll use the military on those who are "the enemy within" which includes everyone who voted against him.

[–] hohoho@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

The neat thing about fascism is that eventually everyone becomes the enemy.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

And let's be honest, they'll scapegoat so many groups that neighbors will shoot at neighbors first.

[–] ImWaitingForRetcons@lemm.ee 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ironic, considering how right leaning most farmers are…

[–] Johnmannesca@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Machines can't pick everything, so that means they need to get their families that they drove away, or set up some fancy kind of child labor force that eventually gets a conspiracy when one of the workers gets electrocuted by a fallen transformer, but nothing changes because they can't do anything but keep working. If citizens were solely responsible for this kind of work we might see that kind of conspiracy disappear or at the least get more attention when people die in freak accidents due to cheap people hiring cheap labor. https://www.wqad.com/article/news/local/drone/8-in-the-air/2-sterling-teens-die-after-being-electrocuted-while-detasseling-11/526-27e206cf-9432-411b-a384-a8f41a0ed91b

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago

I'm going to guess it would reduce our food production by more than 10%.

[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] jeffw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] fluxion@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There's an alternate interpretation

[–] spongeborgcubepants@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Soylent Greencard

[–] MediaBiasFactChecker@lemmy.world -2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Grist - News Source Context (Click to view Full Report)Information for Grist:

MBFC: Left-Center - Credibility: High - Factual Reporting: High - United States of America
Wikipedia about this source

Search topics on Ground.Newshttps://grist.org/food-and-agriculture/mass-deportation-food-trump-immigration-agricultural-workers-us-labor-supply/
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[–] metallic_substance@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

This damn bot needs to be retired. I've never seen it in the positive number of upvotes. I'm aware I can block it, but I've decided not to because I need something in my life to siphon anger into