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The problem here is those farmers will now want to charge more. Even though their labor cost just went down.
this post was submitted on 23 May 2025
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Sometimes it feels like being happy that Trumpers are suffering is like cheering when a disease dies with the host. It's a momentary happiness that the Balrog fell... milliseconds before you realize it's pulling you down with it.
Nah, not like that at all. More like having the tiniest drop of schadenfreud when the idiot bus driver finally realizes they fell asleep on the job again and we're about to go off the cliff. Much better when the idiots responsible for this mess realize it than not.
"I voted to get kicked in the balls and I must say that I was shocked when I got kicked in the balls."
Yeah, that's too bad. ANYWAY . . .
So you are... Checks notes 2200 miles away from the border. I feel like even if we disregard them voting for trump and just judge them based on that being their main voting issue, they're dumb as fuck, aren't they?
The guy is worried about gangs, yet lives in rural Vermont. What a fucking idiot.
Idiot, or extreme coward?
... ok you got me, it's both.
It is kinda crazy how easy it seems to convince people the safest time in American history is the most dangerous.
Never understimate the power of bigotry as a political motivator, in particular among the uneducated. Trump and his oligarch cronies certainly doesn't.
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Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump, the recent crackdown has prompted a deeper reckoning within his community
Umm, okay, no sympathy then. Burn.
Imagine being so dedicated to a politician/political party that you’re no willing to make a change that costs you 0$ to save your family business
This is exactly when the interviewer should have looked right in their eyes and said "so you didn't learn a goddammit thing" then "enjoy your udders" then left.
These maga fuckers deserve all the worst
oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?
well boo fucking hoo
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"We voted for racism, not poverty and hard work! We don't want these jobs - they're for the spi... I mean for those people." --MAGA.
At least you guys are getting a parade for his birthday. That should be fun.
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Guess who he will vote for next election. Nothing like repeatedly jamming a stick in your spokes.
You have to be a unique kind of stupid to profit from illegal labour and vote to have illegals deported.
Yea but like that one trans athlete won a race and the bitch that finished 5th was blonde so like, cant have that
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To be fair, they have been targeted very precisely with a military psychological operation that is explicitly geared to striking fear into the vulnerable and building poor political choices off of that fear.
Yes, they're incredibly arrogant, violent, and stupid, but MAGA (and it's prequel; Brexit) works off of fear and not much else. Maybe if they really like country music I guess that could be a thing. Or flags. It sure as hell doesn't work off of reason or logic, obviously.
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Not unique, unfortunately, but very common.
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“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”
You're the cow now, Trump milks these rubes who don't care what he says or does until it affects them.
This article is focusing on the wrong issue, forget the "woe-is-me-poor-farmer" BS. The real tragedy is the countless workers, ya know the ones that ACTUALLY do the labor that are jobless for justifiable fear of being called a terrorist invader and get a trip to an El Salvadorian prison.
Boo hoo, the workers you were exploiting can't work. Too fucking bad. Do it yourself at 4 AM, it's quite literally and explicitly what you voted for.
Is America finally great again ya fuck?
I agree with you about what the real issue is. That said, this kind of article is important. Remember that MAGA can't empathize with someone unless they identify with that person. To MAGA, the struggles of immigrants are unimportant so focusing on them is targeting the wrong audience if we want to change minds. Highlighting the struggles of people MAGA can identify with might actually be able to change some minds.
Dude, the guy in the interview said he would vote for trump again anyway, no amount of identification will help those kind of people.
Just hope they have the day they voted for, and bless their heart.
The UK did the same thing just a few years ago and got the same results. The farmers and conservatives complained about it in the same words and tone. People were saying this exact scenario would happen in the USA. That's all dismissed as fear mongering and they voted for it anyway, getting the same results and complaining in the same way. It's stupidity playing on repeat.
They can't empathize with people period. Even when it's one of their own. This will not trigger empathy in any other magas.
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Yeah, because Vermont had so many issues at the Canafian border... and "gangbangers" are such a big problem in rural areas lol
GET FUCKED.
They have imagined a threat (there isn't one) so they can imagine they are in danger or persecuted (they aren't), so they can imagine they deserve a savior (they don't), who they imagine Donald Trump to be (he most definitely isn't one).
I'd say it's a cult, but I doubt most cults even require this level of mental gymnastics.
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Leopards! Leopards!
Nom Nom Nom!
Eat their noses
Bite their toeses
Nom Nom Nom!
Gooooo, LEOPARDS!
May you have the life you voted for.
Fuck this guy and his farm.
Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump
Maybe if he just offers the leopards a little more face....
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