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>Exemptions: game consoles, alarm systems, agricultural and forestry equipment I don't understand how people seem to think their food just appears out of thin

>Exemptions: game consoles, alarm systems, agricultural and forestry equipment I don't understand how people seem to think their food just appears out of thin air. Farming is a 24/7 job and is hard on equipment. Repairing farm equipment is at least 50% of the job. Games consoles, alarm systems, or trees don't feed anyone. Maybe if farmers go on strike now of all times the fall which is harvest time and let the food rot. Let's see how long people can go without or with reduced availability of food. "Oh no my tractor broke down and I can't repair it"

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awesomeMilou 3y ago
I agree. I'm honestly surprised by how much shit US farmers are willing to take from John Deere. Not to make this political, but you'd expect a group that largely votes Republican to be a bit more radical and unfair in fighting an unethical company.
- digging 3y ago
  They're probably tired, scared, and unorganized. John Deere's bullshit only makes them more scared and unorganized, and not less tired. I'm sure they're not taking this shit because they're ok with it, but farmers have to take a lot of shit from a lot of powerful organizations to get by.
  - jimnotgym 3y ago
    > unorganized If they are anything like British farmers they would rather get shafted by John Deere than work together with their neighbours.
- colpabar 3y ago
  Well, if/when they ever do fight back, they will immediately be labelled right wing nutjobs by the mainstream media and no one will care about who/what they're fighting against, and you'll see lots of "well, I usually support right to repair, but those trump hats were really scary and john deere's position is actually kind of reasonable" comments here.
6510 3y ago
I think if we've learned anything during corona it should be that there are different tiers of economic activity. 4) that what we absolutely need, 3) that what would be nice to have, 2) that what serves no purpose/we would be better of without and 1) that what we've failed to ban. If we strictly define those we can then proceed to rate those who consume our attention and those tasked with governing by the ratio of time they spend on each. No doubt we are all guilty pondering niceties rather than necessities. Imagine an idea for a startup that is necessary.

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awesomeMilou 3y ago

I agree. I'm honestly surprised by how much shit US farmers are willing to take from John Deere. Not to make this political, but you'd expect a group that largely votes Republican to be a bit more radical and unfair in fighting an unethical company.

digging 3y ago
They're probably tired, scared, and unorganized. John Deere's bullshit only makes them more scared and unorganized, and not less tired. I'm sure they're not taking this shit because they're ok with it, but farmers have to take a lot of shit from a lot of powerful organizations to get by.
- jimnotgym 3y ago
  > unorganized If they are anything like British farmers they would rather get shafted by John Deere than work together with their neighbours.
colpabar 3y ago
Well, if/when they ever do fight back, they will immediately be labelled right wing nutjobs by the mainstream media and no one will care about who/what they're fighting against, and you'll see lots of "well, I usually support right to repair, but those trump hats were really scary and john deere's position is actually kind of reasonable" comments here.

6510 3y ago

I think if we've learned anything during corona it should be that there are different tiers of economic activity. 4) that what we absolutely need, 3) that what would be nice to have, 2) that what serves no purpose/we would be better of without and 1) that what we've failed to ban. If we strictly define those we can then proceed to rate those who consume our attention and those tasked with governing by the ratio of time they spend on each. No doubt we are all guilty pondering niceties rather than necessities. Imagine an idea for a startup that is necessary.