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> We are free to hold them in North America You are, as long as you're not brown.
by curiousgal 2y ago
> We are free to hold them in North America
You are, as long as you're not brown.
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> You are, as long as you're not brown I’m brown. I’m fine. This administration is at war with Americans who aren’t rich. My taxes are being cut. I’m buying investment cropland on the cheap from idiots who voted for him to trash their livelihoods. They’re mostly white. But they’re not rich.
- jancsika 2y ago> I’m buying investment cropland on the cheap from idiots who voted for him to trash their livelihoods. I don't understand this sentence. Are you saying you are researching sellers' voting records, then buying the farms of the ones who voted for Trump?
- JumpCrisscross 2y ago> you saying you are researching sellers' voting records, then buying the farms of the ones who voted for Trump? I’m buying cropland from creditors. They can sell it because the farmers are behind on their loans. They’re failing to make payments because we’re in a trade war. As an ethical limit, yes, I look up the property owner and have only been buying if they’re registered Republican. That doesn’t mean they voted for Trump. (Though they’re all in heavily Trump-voting precincts.) And I don’t think people should lose their farms just because of how they voted. But it does increase the chances I’m not profiting from someone who had nothing to do with a mess they found themselves in versus someone who sort of brought it on themselves.
- throwup238 2y agoThank you for doing the lord’s work.
- JumpCrisscross 2y agoI’m doing work that makes me money. It’s entirely orthogonal to my skin tone. My point is this administration isn’t helping poor white men, the folks who voted for him, he’s just advantaging those who were lucky enough to start this imperial transition with capital on hand.
- mixmastamyk 2y agoIsn’t the trade war only a few days old?
- TimorousBestie 2y agoAnything smaller than the largest factory farms have been fighting for survival for an entire generation, sometimes longer.
- alphabettsy 2y agoThere was one in the first term too. Farmers suffered quite a bit if I remember correctly.
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- mikrl 2y agoPoor people get hurt most by wasteful belief systems. Sure the demographics might correlate positively or negatively with poverty, but that doesn’t change the fact that it’s primarily economics. After all, rich people can eat the extra $$$ imposed by tariffs. Maybe with grumbling… but, at a certain income level paying $5 vs $2 for a can of corn or soup won’t materially affect you, so you can use that extra $3 you paid to complain about immigration, or hierarchies or whatever.
- exe34 2y agohe said brown, not poor.
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