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  • Jaysyn@lemmy.world
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    Welcome to the beginning of the American Holodomir.

    You likely won’t be able to get tomatoes or strawberries for any price next year.

    My vendors & clients all have food rotting in the fields right now.

    EDIT: Very telling that the downvoters can’t refute a single thing I stated.

    • MegaUltraChicken@lemmy.world
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      I’m gonna walk my ass out back and pick some. All this shit was the perfect kick in the ass to get my garden built last month.

      Prepare and learn skills people, shits gonna get bad. The more self sufficient you can be, the better. You then use these skills even further to help those around you and build your community.

    • Makeitstop@lemmy.world
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      Don’t worry, we’re cutting education and removing child labor laws for that very reason.

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        Im waiting for the time when “child labor laws” will stand for “laws forcing children to work” in the US.

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        Kinda the opposite, I believe it was over farming and poor crop rotation that caused it

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          Also an overuse of fertilizers that changed the pH of the soil, preventing any plants from setting down roots

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            and removal of windbraking trees and plants that were native to the area.

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        No, as Stamau123 mentioned, that was poor crop management exacerbated by drought conditions.

  • The_Caretaker@lemm.ee
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    Notice the headline says 800 immigrants NOT illegal immigrants. Noting in the article suggested any of the 800+ people arrested were illegally in the country either.

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      Yeah that is what is so fucked. The narrative rapidly went from criminal illegals only and not ‘regular’ illegals, to any undocumented person, and now to anyone who is just an immigrant.

      This is what is scaring the shit out of me. As a Canadian, I can visit the US and stay (but not work) for 6 months out of the year legally… but given the situation they might just arrest me st the border or just after crossing for no fucking reason. This is why I am not going in any time soon.

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        I’ve told everyone around me, once they run out of one scapegoat to persecute, they find another, it’s what fascists do – because persecuting x group didnt fix y problem, so now the issue must be z group. They’ve moved on so fast because they ran out of illegal immigrants to target. No one seems to listen to me, no one seems to care that after trans people and immigrants it’s going to be the gay and the disabled.

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          Did they ever finish going after trans people or accomplish what you think is necessary for them to move on to another group?

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            not yet, but they’re moving with alarming swiftness. I estimate it will be more than six months, less than two years for their attention to turn to other “undesirables”.

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        As a Canadian … they might just arrest me st the border or just after crossing for no fucking reason.

        What is the color of your skin? If it’s white, similar to the Family Guy meme, then you will be A-Ok 👍🏻

        • Phoenicianpirate@lemm.eeOP
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          I am a naturalized Canadian citizen. I have Middle Eastern features (but I am lighter skinned than many whites) but I could pass for Italian.

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        I’m not saying that they’re not lying about their operation being illegal immigrants.

        However, when multiple sources are using slightly different language, it makes it vastly confusing.

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    Another ‘great’ move in the GOP’s campaign to crash the economy in their quest for racial purity in the USA

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      this is florida, where thier industry is tourism and its mostly sustained by said migrants/immigrants.

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        YES! Finally, after my screaming this for decades, my words are being echoed unknowingly by others who have the ability to understand what really motivated those at the top of EVERY organization eventually.

        It doesn’t matter if it’s a “d and d” game or the presidency , or religious organizations, it always boils down to control and power at all costs.

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          They will send everything they care about to hell in order to screw over anyone non-white. This is the real danger of racism. It only leads to shit like ww2 and genocide. No one benefits from it except the 0.001% who use it to control everyone else.