r/LeopardsAteMyFarm • u/Conscious-Quarter423 • 6h ago

so MAGA farmers chased off immigrant farmworkers because Trump said they were taking American jobs, now they can’t find anyone to pick their crops. Funny how the pick-yourselves-up-by-the-bootstraps crowd suddenly needs someone else to do the work

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u/earthlingHuman 6h ago

The cruelty is the point. They enjoy the distant suffering of others as long as none of the consequences come near them.

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u/18ekko 6h ago

Weakening the country is the goal behind every action.

The cruelty was just how they got the cult on board.

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u/earthlingHuman 6h ago

Right. Good point. The cruelty is the point for voters. Those in power may enjoy the cruelty, but they also use it to gain more power.

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u/Different_Umpire9003 5h ago

I think they’re trying to starve us to the point that Americans are willing to do it (pick the crops for $3/hr). They’ll frame it as some “America first” win while the entire country’s QOL decreases to breadlines. And the people voting for this are typically too old to even do it. So they’re counting on Gen Z and Gen Alpha. And when people complain that the American dream is gone they’ll say “nobody wants to work anymore”.

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u/0K_-_- 5h ago

It’s probably there to be seen in project 2025, along side bankrupting the farms and rolling them up for pennies on the megabuck into JD Vance’s project. Let me go put both these prompts into an AI and I’ll be back…

…I have returned, you might want to run those prompts together for yourselves.

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u/jeremiahthedamned 45m ago

gen Z & gen alpha are too physically for farm labor

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u/No_Industry_1062 4h ago

If that’s their point they should hope there isn’t an afterlife.

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u/ragun2 5h ago

It is about cruelty because if the GOP actually cared about this issue, they know exactly who is hiring undocumented workers. ICE is rounding the migrants up at their worksites and so they could be arresting the owners as well.

If no one is hiring undocumented workers then there is no work for them to come to the USA for. Supply and demand, it's pretty basic stuff that I know they throw out there in their own arguments.

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u/earthlingHuman 4h ago

Yes, they could go after people hiring undocumented folks and actually do a lot more to solve the problem. Or they could guarantee immigrants market rate wages and give them a pathway to citizenship. Or both. Instead they do the cruel, inefficient and ineffective thing.