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/madphroggy]

This quote from The Grapes Of Wrath sums it up nicely. No wonder they're trying to ban it: "There is a crime here that goes beyond denunciation. There is a sorrow here that weeping cannot symbolize. There is a failure here that topples all our success. The fertile earth, the straight tree rows, the sturdy trunks, and the ripe fruit. And children dying of pellagra must die because a profit cannot be taken from an orange."

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Six million, eight hundred and forty two thousand, two hundred and ten ^{at time of writing.}

This year.

So far.

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Profound