• 13igTyme@piefed.social
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    11 months ago

    A coworker was just complaining to me about “Biden’s Bullshit” for the reason his utility bill is massive. He lives in Florida. I used to live in Florida and now Oregon. Oregon has regulations because it’s not a shit hole state.

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      11 months ago

      do they have ai datacenters there, i wouldnt be surprised if the electric bill is higher too. Florida is going under water, plus so much invasive species there, because of illicit exotic pet/plant trade.

      • ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        About 20 years ago, I wrote a mobile app for a company that surveys power lines all over the rural South and cuts away trees and vegetation that threatens the lines. In most places, the landowners are compensated for any trees that have to be cut down, with a variable scale that pays more the rarer the tree is. This has created a cottage industry where landowners plant all sorts of exotic shit directly under the power lines as a guaranteed cash crop. It’s certainly an under-appreciated source of invasive species.

    • marcos@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      Voting again and again for the same people that are destroying your life isn’t best described as “selfish”.

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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        11 months ago

        they vote for the same thing, because they are hoping to get rescued everytime they get screwed over, the gop does this to test the waters, so eventually they dont bail people out. this how the farmers think.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Is this a real person? Or is this “Nebraska broke 60/40 for Trump in 2020 and 60/40 for Trump in 2024, nothing has changed”.

    Year | GOP | Dem

    2020 | 556,846 | 374,583

    2024 | 564,816 | 369,995

    I am willing to gamble on the difference being entirely old people dying / new people registering to vote.

    • gloog@fedia.io
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      11 months ago

      It doesn’t say or suggest that the person voted for Biden in 2020.

    • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      According to Frank, “abortion is never outlawed, school prayer never returns, the culture industry is never forced to clean up its act.”

      That might have seemed true in 2004 when “What’s the matter” was published, but even then the Republicans were laying the groundwork with judiciary appointments and institutional support to develop young future conservative judges.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      11 months ago

      Am I missing something? How does showing the vote tallies support anything you are saying? Nearly 2x people voted for Trump than Biden.

  • Darkard@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You used almost slave labour in the form of migrants workers, and paid them in government money so you could continue to be a farmer and not have to sell up to some multinational agri-corp.

    But then you voted for trump because other people said foreigners were taking your job, and because your a fucking gormless mouth breather.

    • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      11 months ago

      But the Democrats want to tie government funding to responsible environmental practices like reducing nitrogen fertilizer runoff and manure leaks, and they might mandate slightly less inhumane conditions for animals in feed lots. The horror! /s

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      11 months ago

      The DNC also expanded pathways to citizenship as part of their bipartisan border security bill. I think there is a pretty stark distinction between slave labor and “almost slave labour”, for example the private prison complex is salivating at turning the new Trump migrant detention facilities into actual slave labor.

    • Lemmynated@lemmy.zip
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      11 months ago

      If people had just kept their mouth quiet, stuck their nose up and voted blue, they could still to this day happily be exploiting poor foreigners in slave like conditions. Trump has ruined America!

      • NotSteve_@piefed.ca
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        11 months ago

        The USA has always been a horrid country but to act like neoliberal Democrats are the same as the warmongering fascists that make up the Republican party is pretty fucking stupid.

        The American population could have voted in Harris but instead voted in a party that is repeatedly pushing for the invasion of Canada, Greenland/Denmark and Panama while also ACTIVELY bombing Venesualisan fishing boats in an attempt to instigate a perpetual war.

        Fuck off with the whataboutism

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          11 months ago

          They’re not the one doing whataboutism. The topic of discussion was the impacts of farming and the use of migrant labor. “Whataboutism” is leveraging an off-topic criticism to distract from something that disproves your belief. As an example, imagine someone who was both unable to defend the exploitive labor practices Harris advocates for, so they suddenly pivot to talking about something wildly unrelated like military policy.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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          11 months ago

          they dint want a women, especially a POC one in power. besides from supporting Israel, its only her sex that bothered male voters, when pressed, they give the excuse of “not liking her, or dont know her policies,etc” they can say they hate women, but are too afraid to say it out loud.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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    11 months ago

    I guess, at the end of the day, there is always hunting and gathering. We are moving forward into the future at light speed!

  • markovs_gun@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m so glad I didn’t see the word Bitch that would have ruined my day and made me less likely to buy Coca-Cola™

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      11 months ago

      I just purchased less Coke™️ after reading this comment. Think of the shareholders next time, will you?

      This will be marked on your permanent record.

      • A7thStone@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        They are getting to be as annoying as the prudes who clutch their pearls when you do swear.

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        11 months ago

        It’s just infantile to say shit like “rhymes with witch” bro grow up. Don’t say the saying if you’re afraid to actually say it.

        • Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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          11 months ago

          Fuck a cunt in a bitchfucking asshole shit for fuck!

          It’s a joke. It flew so far over your head you got upset and deigned to lecture us on what adults can and should fucking say.

          You fucking need some goddamn cursing in your motherfucking life to, what, feel the metaphorical stretch of your sleazy putrid asshole and confirm you’re a fucking adult with no fucks to give like a bitch? Fuck that bullshit grandma, all my homies say frig and dang.

      • RagingRobot@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        All they do is bitch, bitch, bitch because this bitch is too much of a bitch to say bitch. Bitch

      • bunnyBoy@pawb.social
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        11 months ago

        I swear on some instances I feel like you’d get more hate for saying f*ck than a slur

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    11 months ago

    Natural selection babyyyy

    And when they get hooked on opioids as a coping mechanism to escape their newly entrenched poverty, which leads to a vicious cycle of criminal record and repeated arrests?

    Guess who’ll have voting restrictions.

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      11 months ago

      Government specifically went after weed and later crack because more black people used them. IMO they will always do this shit and then congratulate themselves for it because “what if a black person owned a farm or could go to a hospital”

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      11 months ago

      Seems like the USA is on the same slope as the URSS were …

      In an evolutionary perspective.

  • plyth@feddit.org
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    11 months ago

    It’s not crazy. Voting should be decided by what is best for the country. Not being bribed by some government program is a good thing.

    However, I don’t believe that that is the thought process of this hypothetical Nebraskan farmer.

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      11 months ago

      A country beeing able to produce its own food is a good thing even if said food is not viable on a global market because of cheaper imports. What happens if there is a shipping crisis like with a pandemic? Does everybody just starve because no food is brought in from other countries? Subsidies can be very useful, but just subsidizing corn and soy for export is not one of these cases.

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    11 months ago

    Those family farmers are all millionaires. They want those tax cut plus the socialist policies that made them rich. They wanted to screw everyone over while they got richer.

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        11 months ago

        The media always tries to push the narrative about “family farms” hurting without pointing out that it’s almost exclusively wealthy people that always vote GOP that expect both parties to give them handouts no matter what.