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/BlackDiscernment 6h ago

why wont they pick it themselves

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u/SimilarYard9840 5h ago

You know exactly why. There’s so many chubby farmers for a reason. Most of them don’t do any of the hard labor of picking crops.

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u/Twigsneko 5h ago

and humorously enough that shit is why an urban vs rural civil war would be a win for the urban side. The rural people have zero leverage as they grow food for foreign markets and they barely do any physical labor.

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u/Tyraniboah89 2h ago

I feel so validated seeing this lol. Years ago some rural people tried telling me "you urban types would be fucked without us" when I said that the rest of us subsidize their lives. Even said I'm down for my tax dollars to help everyone live, including them.

But that wasn't good enough for them lol. I had to explain to them that most of the food we eat is imported and that they starve because we would just keep importing while they won't have access to steady food, medicine, or supplies.

Not that I'd ever want such a thing to happen.

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u/AppointmentOne1111 1h ago

You may not want it, but they sure as hell will keep voting for it to happen to them.

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u/Slight_Rise_6422 5h ago

All those kids a none of them to help out the family farm

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u/Zhombe 5h ago

Well driving a big ole tractor and truck all day is belly growing work you know!

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u/Hoodedmastersin 5h ago

They wanted slaves I’m sure in their little huddles on Facebook somewhere or in their group chats they thought chattel slavery was back

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u/weldingTom 6h ago

You can pick up so much, and they lower the wages so much that they can't find anyone to work.

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u/not_a_moogle 5h ago

Im sure they are. But a person can only pick so many a day. Sucks for them, but also i don't exactly feel sorry for them.

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u/Blurockcreek 5h ago

I'm anti-trump and anti-MAGA. The local farmers are not all MAGA but much of their help has been detained or they have left out of fear. I have not heard one farmer complain about immigrants. Many of them did support trump and of course trump is the reason for the ICE migrant roundups.

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u/Pleasant_Pen8744 4h ago

Although managing a business worth hundreds of thou- sands of dollars was surely time-consuming, the truth as to who did most of the work on the plantation is surely captured more accurately by this quotation from a Mississippi planter lamenting his situation after the war: "I never did a day's work in my life, and don't know how to begin. You see me in these coarse old clothes; well, I never wore coarse clothes in my life before the war."

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u/Evil_Sharkey 2h ago

It takes a lot more than one farm family to pick all of that. I’m sure they’re picking some and whining about it