don't worry, i'll be moving to rural america to do my part. And if they don't like me there, they'll just have to kill me.
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The real shame of all this is that we have to care what some of the worst elements of this country think. They are a minority and they live in areas that are not all that strategic when it come to the future, or economics, etc.
Their argument is always "we grow your food!". And I've never understood this argument as a valid one for so many reasons. For one, it's not like this is done as some kind of altruistic thing, any more than any other industry, lol. So you are part of agriculture, uh, so what? Secondly, most of the food that I personally eat is not grown in the flyover country they seem to indicate. Lastly, things like automation might be coming for all of that and so I don't know why I or anyone else have to be held hostage by a minority group that happens to be distributed in remote areas of our country and who may have been tenuously connected to food production at some point in the past...