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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 months ago

Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them

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Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers ask federal government to save them

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return2ozma@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 4 months ago
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Hundreds of struggling Arkansas farmers are pleading with the federal government to provide emergency funding amid a farm economy crisis.Almost everything that
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    Trump won Arkansas with 64% of the vote. May they get the day they voted for.

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    “In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier.

    Jesus Christ.

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      I’ll send some thoughts and prayers (since I can’t afford much else these days)

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      It’s already a very poor area, I can’t imagine anything looking more bleak than an entire lifetime of work slip away. What is your purpose after that?

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        Racism and blaming anyone but yourself, obviously

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          Attending more Taco rallies and buying more Taco-branded shit from China, now with extra tariffs?

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      Removed by mod

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    • thebestaquaman@lemmy.world
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      Shame on you! If those poor kids facists could read they would be very upset!

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    Hope they don’t get a fucking dime. Cant vote to fuck the country then ask for handouts from the blue states when it does.

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      Fuckem. Reap what you sow, assholes.

    • PattyMcB@lemmy.world
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      Not just the country, but literally themselves

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      US farmers are the biggest welfare queens around. They don’t know how to actually earn an entire dollar by working.

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    It’s only gonna get worse. We’re heading towards dustbowl 2.0.

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    They watered their crops with librul tears and are now complaining that someone salted the earth. May they learn to actually think about what their vote will accomplish.

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    What’s the over/under that Arkansas farmers actually learn from this and stop voting Republican?

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      Never gonna happen

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      Anyone remember things like Farm Aid in the 80s?

      I think they’ll learn SWEET FUCK ALL.

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    I bet nearly all of them will continue voting Republican (or just stop voting altogether).

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      They’ll shove a fork in their eye while chanting “Let’s go Brandon”.

      They’re fucking idiots.

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      What, are they going to vote for the people with Blah candidates or allow the purple-haired trans people to use public toilets?! Are you kidding me? What choice do they even have?

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    I feel for the odd person who isn’t a maga muppet in that group. The rest just need to learn how to use that dildo they asked for in the election. Slide that bad boy right in you dumb sonsabitches.

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    They could self deport and get a cool thousand dollars !

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    All this winning is getting exhausting

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    … And Trump will look down, and whisper:

    No.

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    “In the last 14 months, five of my customers have committed suicide. That’s how serious this is,” said another Arkansas farmer who also works as an ag equipment financier.

    Fuck, that’s rough. Guess we’re gonna get dragged even more into corporate farms

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    they can’t handle the winning. I think they need to keep winning

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