A once-in-a-generation economic crisis in rural America means this year could be the last one for many farmers as Trump-Xi call offers no relief
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This is deliberate. They’re consolidating the grip of corporate agriculture. This will be a wealth/land transfer to the rich. Feudalism is back, baby.
I didn't vote for him
Instead of the Lady of the lake, we have the troll with a Tesla
You can't be a leader because some tart in the lake through a sword at you
You can't be a leader because you made up some story about some tart in a lake throwing a magical sword at you
Do you use Windows and did you give Bill money so that he can buy all the land?
I was quoting the film.
I should have noticed, there is no excuse.
I switched to Linux and only ever pirated Windows when I did use it. But Bill still had all the money anyways.
Did you cast a vote into the direction most likely to ensure he lost?
Remember that sooper-communist policy where the us government would buy surplus crops to ensure that too much was grown for the sake of having enough when there were bad years and crop disasters?
Gosh I wonder which president got rid of it
It was Obama, wasn't it? Maybe Clinton?
It was Clinton... Nixon began dismantling it, Reagan for rid of government grain reserves, and Bill Clinton scrapped the last remaining big reserve mechanisms with the 1996 “Freedom to Farm Act”. That law explicitly moved U.S. farm policy away from supply management toward reliance on global markets.
When leftists tell liberals that Democrats are a different side of the same coin, it's because of shit like this. Everything horrible were dealing with is neo-liberal policies set in motion decades ago, and was called the lesser evil at the time. We're out of time, we need a revolution.
The rural americans are the salt of the earth, the clay of the new west, you know, morons...
I've read trivia that Sherrif Bart was not allowed to see the script for this scene. His reaction is genuine.
Mel, is thank god, a true humanitarian....tis true, much of the film was 'off the cuff' for editorial reasons...Mel is a saint.....
Wasn't this the plan so big corpos could buy out all the smaller farms?
More like big ag corpos could buy out smaller ag corpos.
“Family” farms haven’t been family-operated in ages. Just family owned.
GOD! he Was only supposed to go After BROWN AND TRANS KIDS! NOT us Farmers!
"He's not hurting the people he needs to be hurting"
There's going to be a lot of land available for Tech Bros to set up their private cities.
Yeah, fucking weirdoes like Curtis Yarvin and people that follow The Sovereign Individual are going to love that.
"No one could have predicted this." /s
Well, have the day you voted for. Glad you gave up your country for some other guys war.
Now its time for Canada to come down with a 100% export tariff on Potash.