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'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.
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That just confirms how out-of-touch these folks are. It still boggles the mind, that so many people had no idea that Trump was actually going to do the things he kept saying he was going to do.
It's actually even more mind-numbingly stupid, these people (read: racist rural Americans) have been calling for this for decades without considering just how much they directly benefit from illegally-cheap immigrant labor.
I mean, it gives me pause to think about how I benefit from cheap exploitative migrant labor.
I was talking with my mom recently, and we came to the conclusion that it's not possible to buy something new in the US that does not have inhumane practices as part of the product at some point. Basically, the are no morally "good" things you can buy.
Hand made items from local merchants...and for example I don't mean ordering gems/beads from China and stringing them, I mean like a person who makes wooden or ceramic beads and threads them. But then there is the cord, so you'd have to spinbyour own twine etc
Unless every part of it came out of that merchants back yard, then it probably had exploitation at some step. Roads are frequently cleaned and maintained using prison labor. Cars are partially assembled all over the world in order to find the cheapest labor and materials...
I literally can't think of a single thing I've bought in my lifetime that didn't have industrialized human misery as a component or result of it's production.
I know. You'd have to have your own forest and farm land, raise sheep to make yarn, etc. Best we can do is as local and artisan as possible
Even then, I live on stolen land. I didn't steal it myself, but at some layer I'm complicit, because I bought it from someone who bought it from someone else... Until you get to the guy that stole it in the first place, and he probably stole it because of the value it would have in the future. I don't want to be here, but I don't have anywhere else to go. Even my own backyard is rooted in human misery.
We have to move forward and make reparations where possible, and try to live a better consumer lifestyle. But until billionaires are brought into check this world is rife with exploitation.
Agreed, but it can be hard to find the path when it hasn't really been used for decades. At a certain point, you're just trampling a new path to somewhere, over the stuff that is just trying to exist in the gaps.
Products made without exploitation exist. But if you're among the people being exploited, you won't be able to afford them.
I'd be curious to see one of those products.
I'm from the area. I'm not kidding when I tell you most of these people are too fucking stupid to draw the connection. Out-of-touch is such an under-exaggeration that its fairly depressing. The vast majority of people in that valley have no capability to correlate who they voted for to what is happening to them.
I guarantee you that a non-neglible percentage of these maroons knew exactly what Trump is and exactly what would happen to the migrant workers in their town, and happily voted for him anyway. A good chunk of them actually hate the browns (and trans, and students, etc.) that much.
Trump is a horrible person, but as a politician he says the quiet part out loud. Anyone that is surprised by his actions is an idiot.