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Walleye

(42,877 posts)
1. What's worse, it's FAFO, again. These guys all knew what happened to their soybean markets in the first term
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 03:24 PM
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Chasstev365

(6,491 posts)
3. Boo Hoo
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 03:31 PM
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THEY VOTED FOR TRUMP IN BIG NUMBERS because they couldn't vote for a talented, amazing woman who happned to be multi-racial.

To use an agrarian/biblical term: You reap what you sow!

Blue Full Moon

(2,943 posts)
4. It is on purpose.
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 03:44 PM
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JD Vance's company buys bankrupt farms. The tech bros wants the farmland for cheap so that they can build more data centers.

Buns_of_Fire

(18,860 posts)
5. I hope whoever is designing these data centers
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 04:16 PM
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is making accommodations for their eventual repurpose as low-cost housing when the AI fever breaks and all the bros have taken their billion-dollar-bath.

erronis

(21,677 posts)
6. Housing? The plutocrats won't give housing, food, meds, water, nothing. They want us to die.
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 05:09 PM
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Buns_of_Fire

(18,860 posts)
12. Hopefully, the leopards will have eaten most of them by then.
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 06:20 PM
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Once the "I-didn't-vote-for-this!" MAGAts have been digested, the leopards will be looking for a new food source.

Blue Full Moon

(2,943 posts)
14. We are not needed.
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 06:23 PM
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Fully automated. They have known this day would come. So how did they plan for it? They didn't. Their solution is to kill as many people as they can. Death cult Christians are more than glad to help them out.

sop

(16,525 posts)
9. Smaller "family farms" are being replaced by large-scale corporate agribusinesses.
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 05:53 PM
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I think that was Trump's plan all along.

Auggie

(32,625 posts)
10. No, not good news at all. Smaller family farms are going to get bought up ...
Fri Oct 17, 2025, 05:58 PM
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by large family farms and farms owned by corporations and private equity farms.

Less quality oversight, more pesticides, higher prices, more mechanization ....

and I'm probably going to lose a client.

No Schadenfreude here.

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