cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840
Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.
“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”
LOL. Idiots
He fucking TOLD you what he was going to do. In very simple, plain language even.
To be fair, everything out of his mouth is a lie. He told us he was going to do many things.
Stop moaning. It can’t possibly be hard work, because you pay a pittance.
It almost sounds as though this labour was chronically undervalued and absolutely taken for granted. If I strain my ears, hard, I can almost make out the dawning realizations.
I hope their fucking cows die. Idiots.
Not the cows fault
Fair point. I hope the cows rebel in an animal farm like scenario that sees them topple their oppressive rural overlords but to a better end result?
Really I just want to see deserving people have their faces eaten by leopards
To be fair, death is probably a better alternative to being a cow in the dairy industry.
Cows wouldn’t have voted for this shit.
I dunno, I feel like they’d be pretty susceptible to a populist campaign
Something about herd mentality
We voted for nazism and deportation, but didn’t think it would affect us and our undocumented workers. Trump his first term was economically really bad, but Trump said it was the best and I trust him more than facts and numbers so I voted for him again, but didn’t think he would fuck up the economy even more than before. I support the tariffs on China, but I didn’t think it would affect the price of fertilizer I import from there, so now my farm is going bankrupt because China now doesn’t want to buy my product anymore with the counter tariffs and they were my only customer. But I completely support Trump and fully trust him. Just from a cardboard box under the overpass from now on.
Don’t worry, Dustin Machia, fifth-generation dairy farmer from Sheldon.
Sell your farm to Farmco Inc: their robots will milk your cows.
Buy an overpriced house in the city to live, maybe one with lots of drugs and gang-bangers.
Make sure you support Trump’s election bid in 2028, and/or vote for Donald Trump, Jr, lest a satanic Democrat moderate who defeated AOC by just a hair wins.
If you get age related health problems, look to RFK, Jr.
Remember the days when Americans and Canadians could cross the Vermont-Quebec border with relative ease? Those days are gone, and much of Canada, and perhaps a third of America, now hate people like you.
Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.
Well, you voted Trump, now you get to milk it for all it’s worth. At 4 AM.
Get rekt, and pay a living wage next time you try and start a business.
You have to be a unique kind of stupid to profit from illegal labour and vote to have illegals deported.
Not unique, unfortunately, but very common.
To be fair, they have been targeted very precisely with a military psychological operation that is explicitly geared to striking fear into the vulnerable and building poor political choices off of that fear.
Yes, they’re incredibly arrogant, violent, and stupid, but MAGA (and it’s prequel; Brexit) works off of fear and not much else. Maybe if they really like country music I guess that could be a thing. Or flags. It sure as hell doesn’t work off of reason or logic, obviously.
Nah, farmers would vote for Satan if he had a GOP endorsement.
Yea but like that one trans athlete won a race and the bitch that finished 5th was blonde so like, cant have that
She didn’t even win the race. She placed 1 position higher than the woman who freaked out.
Most of the crime from illegal migrants is from farm labourers, they should certainly have expected them to be targeted.
It seems to me that most of the crime comes from inside of the White House.
- Citation needed
Do you think its from university graduates ?
Pretty sure this guy is a criminal.
“I hate black people unless they work on my plantation” - GOP voters
It’s hilarious because it’s the same shit as Brexit. At its core it’s racist policies that amount to “we don’t like brown people”. Sometimes you need to watch the house burn for people to learn.
It’s strange. I live in rural VT and whenever i bike around you see Trump signs on a lot of farm fields. But then you read the newspaper and you read about ICE detaining legal employees at farms and the farmers being upset about it.
I genuinely don’t understand.
Complete and dangerous lack of education and critical thought in any capacity
Lies about brown people are their favorite, they can’t resist. They’ll believe anything you tell them as long as it’s bad.
Someone was bound to figure that out and start doing it (40 years ago)
If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.
-Lyndon B. Johnson
Propaganda works.
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.
I come from a deep red state but all the farmers out there are Democrats, as are most degree holding individuals in general. It’s the people who work retail, the police, the oilfield, and the miners who all vote red.
Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump, the recent crackdown has prompted a deeper reckoning within his community
Umm, okay, no sympathy then. Burn.
Imagine being so dedicated to a politician/political party that you’re no willing to make a change that costs you 0$ to save your family business
This is exactly when the interviewer should have looked right in their eyes and said “so you didn’t learn a god-damn thing” then “enjoy your udders” then left.
My parents used to export fruits For a brief moment, I worked for the family business and had the pleasure of meeting some of these people.
I met a farmer that sold cherries. Over dinner he was telling me how pissed he was about Mexicans taking jobs away from Americans.
When pressed on why he doesn’t just hire Americans, he said no Americans wants to work minimum wage to pick cherries for 10 hours a day.
My dad has been trying to convince him for years that his rhetoric is ultimately going to hurt his livelihood. But his patriotism/ tribalism outweighs all logic.
No idea how he is doing now, but I imagine he just let his fruit drop this year.
The leopards were supposed to eat everybody else’s face only.
oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?
well boo fucking hoo
Exploiting how? They were paid employees. Employed by idiots, obviously, but that in itself is not exploitative.
If they’re milking their own cows at 4 A.M. and complaining that there’s no migrants to do the work, then one has to wonder if it’s because they couldn’t hire a citizen at the rates they were paying. If they can’t hire a citizen at the rates they’re paying well…
…it means that citizens are too far above manual labor. Still doesn’t necessitate exploitation.
It doesn’t necessarily mean that at all, that is your own personal opinion, not fact. Pay people a decent livable wage and they will perform your manual labour.
You think they were paying a decent, livable wage?
Obviously not. That’s why they can’t hire people that aren’t at risk and exploitable.
This is why they want to fill the tech sector with h1b migrants. If they lose their job, they have a narrow window to find another corporate sponsor, or they get deported. This makes even the well paying, white collar, market exploitable in the same way we exploit migrant labor for farms.
all wage slavery is exploitation
L take, unless sarcasm
“A red is any son-of-a-bitch that wants thirty cents an hour when we’re payin’ twenty-five!”
This doesn’t feel like a genuine question, because it’s an open secret that a majority of american restaurants, farms, and construction outfits run on migrant labor at below minimum wage. I personally work in construction in Oregon, and I’m well aware of this, even hundreds of miles from a boarder.
I’m not American, so other than random articles I see shared on various social media of questionable reputation, I don’t know. So yes, it’s a genuine question.
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what a bunch of fucking idiots. I’d laugh harder if the actual threat to my life wasn’t real.
I mean, if you hire illegal immigrants you have to know someday you might lose those employees. The key is in the name: illegal.
Which is usually a benefit for them. You call enforcement when they start talking about labor conditions or unions.
The fascists are morons and overplayed their hand.
Or even hire legal immigrants, they still get deported all the same.
