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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840

Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

LOL. Idiots

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[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 56 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Stop moaning. It can't possibly be hard work, because you pay a pittance.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 30 points 4 days ago (6 children)

It almost sounds as though this labour was chronically undervalued and absolutely taken for granted. If I strain my ears, hard, I can almost make out the dawning realizations.

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[–] Primax@lemmy.world 293 points 5 days ago (9 children)

You have to be a unique kind of stupid to profit from illegal labour and vote to have illegals deported.

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 120 points 5 days ago

Not unique, unfortunately, but very common.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 72 points 4 days ago (1 children)

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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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 37 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He fucking TOLD you what he was going to do. In very simple, plain language even.

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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 55 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Don't worry, Dustin Machia, fifth-generation dairy farmer from Sheldon.

Sell your farm to Farmco Inc: their robots will milk your cows.

Buy an overpriced house in the city to live, maybe one with lots of drugs and gang-bangers.

Make sure you support Trump's election bid in 2028, and/or vote for Donald Trump, Jr, lest a satanic Democrat moderate who defeated AOC by just a hair wins.

If you get age related health problems, look to RFK, Jr.

Remember the days when Americans and Canadians could cross the Vermont-Quebec border with relative ease? Those days are gone, and much of Canada, and perhaps a third of America, now hate people like you.

[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 87 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

"I hate black people unless they work on my plantation" - GOP voters

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 28 points 4 days ago

It's hilarious because it's the same shit as Brexit. At its core it's racist policies that amount to "we don't like brown people". Sometimes you need to watch the house burn for people to learn.

[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago

We voted for nazism and deportation, but didn't think it would affect us and our undocumented workers. Trump his first term was economically really bad, but Trump said it was the best and I trust him more than facts and numbers so I voted for him again, but didn't think he would fuck up the economy even more than before. I support the tariffs on China, but I didn't think it would affect the price of fertilizer I import from there, so now my farm is going bankrupt because China now doesn't want to buy my product anymore with the counter tariffs and they were my only customer. But I completely support Trump and fully trust him. Just from a cardboard box under the overpass from now on.

[–] Gstocklein@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 34 points 4 days ago (1 children)
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[–] lambalicious 31 points 3 days ago

Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.

Well, you voted Trump, now you get to milk it for all it's worth. At 4 AM.

Get rekt, and pay a living wage next time you try and start a business.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 101 points 4 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 4 days ago

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

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 122 points 4 days ago (13 children)

oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?

well boo fucking hoo

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[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 157 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, because Vermont had so many issues at the Canafian border... and "gangbangers" are such a big problem in rural areas lol

GET FUCKED.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 80 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

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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[–] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 43 points 4 days ago (4 children)

It's strange. I live in rural VT and whenever i bike around you see Trump signs on a lot of farm fields. But then you read the newspaper and you read about ICE detaining legal employees at farms and the farmers being upset about it.

I genuinely don't understand.

[–] TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca 25 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Complete and dangerous lack of education and critical thought in any capacity

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[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago

Propaganda works.

[–] Stamau123@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago

To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulness while telling carefully constructed lies, to hold simultaneously two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradictory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy, to forget whatever it was necessary to forget, then to draw it back into memory again at the moment when it was needed, and then promptly to forget it again, and above all, to apply the same process to the process itself—that was the ultimate subtlety: consciously to induce unconsciousness, and then, once again, to become unconscious of the act of hypnosis you had just performed. Even to understand the word—doublethink—involved the use of doublethink.

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[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 33 points 4 days ago

hahahahaha

what a bunch of fucking idiots. I'd laugh harder if the actual threat to my life wasn't real.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 39 points 4 days ago (1 children)

"We voted for trump..." = you deserve whatever you get

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[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 57 points 4 days ago (4 children)

The guy is worried about gangs, yet lives in rural Vermont. What a fucking idiot.

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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 99 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

“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?

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[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 19 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

My parents used to export fruits For a brief moment, I worked for the family business and had the pleasure of meeting some of these people.

I met a farmer that sold cherries. Over dinner he was telling me how pissed he was about Mexicans taking jobs away from Americans.

When pressed on why he doesn't just hire Americans, he said no Americans wants to work minimum wage to pick cherries for 10 hours a day.

My dad has been trying to convince him for years that his rhetoric is ultimately going to hurt his livelihood. But his patriotism/ tribalism outweighs all logic.

No idea how he is doing now, but I imagine he just let his fruit drop this year.

[–] wall_panel_96@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I mean, if you hire illegal immigrants you have to know someday you might lose those employees. The key is in the name: illegal.

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

And to this milk farmer I say: Shut up and keep milking

I hope the industry collapses.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 78 points 4 days ago
[–] noride@lemm.ee 98 points 5 days ago (4 children)

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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[–] ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world 20 points 4 days ago

If you voted for Trump you deserve worse than you'll get.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 4 days ago

"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.

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 30 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

"I didn't think the leopards would eat MY face :("

[–] mogranja@lemmy.world 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

The leopards were supposed to eat everybody else's face only.

[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 34 points 4 days ago (6 children)

The problem here is those farmers will now want to charge more. Even though their labor cost just went down.

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

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[–] BMW_stick@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago

Thoughts & prayers, idiots.

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 31 points 4 days ago

"I voted to get kicked in the balls and I must say that I was shocked when I got kicked in the balls."

[–] Generica@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump...

Then he gets what he gets. I don't feel a damn bit sorry for someone that stupid.

[–] Nusm@yall.theatl.social 54 points 4 days ago
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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 63 points 5 days ago

what did they think .. wait. yeah. they’re not capable of thinking.

Knowingly using undocumented workers, complaining about not having a visa program to continue taking advantage of migrants he degrades, and would still vote Trump, too. I hope they get bird flu from a big face full of cow mucus.

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

If you don't want to have to be milking cows in the wee hours, maybe cow farming isn't for you.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 57 points 5 days ago (2 children)

“Not my undocumented immigrants, though.”

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