• Jaysyn@kbin.social
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    No shit, Sherlock.

    This is what happens when you vote #GOP for 25+ years.

    Also, this wasn’t a mistake or error. They knew this would happen. The GOP wants these smaller farmers to fail so they can get bought out by their Big-Ag buddies for pennies on the dollar.

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      This is what happens when unrestricted funds corrupt politics.

      Who benefits the most from lower domestic production due to a decrease in the workforce in Florida?

      Extremely rich landowners in Mexico, and Central America whose production windows overlap.

      Buying a corrupt politician is cheaper than advertising.

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    Some people may wonder what Mexico did during WWII. Thousands marched across the border and maintained farms and ranches. Harvesting food that would be packaged and sent to US troops. Armies travel on their stomach and they helped win the war but were never recognized with a statue.

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    So wait - wait. Lemme recap this to see if i got it right.

    Florida republiQans passed a law to repeatedly slam a door on their hand. And now they’re reporting that it hurts?

    Wow. FloridaMan. That’s. Yeah. Well, enjoy that uh . . . whatever it is you got there.

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    6 months ago

    From the article…

    The Federal government estimates that nationwide over 40% of farmworkers are undocumented.

    … and …

    Families he’d worked with for 20 or 30 years were gone from one day to the next. “The government doesn’t seem to care,” he says. “Maybe they think the crops are gonna pick themselves.”

    Anti Commercial-AI license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)

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    So who will do the shitty hard labor work if there is no undocumented people to do it Sherlock? We don’t want to get dirty…