• genXgentleman@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    I don’t know if this post is true or not. However, a lot of people don’t know history, civics, & economics. (This is the result of the Reagan & Bushes dismantling of the education system.) I’ve told a lot of people to look up the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930 and the impact it had on our and the global economy. Tariffs will start a trade war. That’s what happened to our farmers the last time Trump was in office. He ended up having to bail out farmers which cost more than the tariff brought into the government. The Chinese simply bought their soy beans from other countries instead of paying for ours. There were a lot of farmers that lost their farms then.

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      I have been told many times to feel bad for those farmers, that they aren’t idiots, etc.

      I thought I ran of fucks for them but a few more just flew out like butterflies from a dusty chest.

      I hope ever single one that put up those massive Trump signs loses their family farms to big corporations.

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        We need fewer corporate farms, which are dirty as fuck now let alone after they gut the USDA. I hope that they lose their family farm to two gay dudes from Vermont who got really into organic gardening and decided to cash in their b&b for corgis to start growing high quality produce right here in America’s heartland.

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      9 days ago

      I’m sure the corporate farmers were happy to buy up that land and cut the trump admin a nice check for the convenience.

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        9 days ago

        OMFG!!! LMFAO🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I totally forgot about that. Great memory and response!!! Line of the day!