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[-] DupaCycki@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

To be fair, killing farming in the USA wasn't a difficult task. Most countries importing any American food products have had major restrictions on them for years due to safety and hygiene concerns. The EU, for instance, pretty much only imported some soy and grain, because anything else doesn't meet our quality standards. There only had to be a single minor inconvenience here to end the imports from the USA.

And in all honesty - wonderful news for Europeans. I don't think any of us will miss American products. Personally I'll happily pay a tiny bit more for soy from Brazil or China.

[-] eve@evecodes.com 11 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Americans are learning the hard way that elections have consequences, and I’m loving it. Sadly, most still won’t learn. I said it before and I’ll continue to say it that Trump, Elon and their lackies are anarchists. They are destroying the government because they hate government (because it gets in their way) and they’re not going to put any of it back. He’ll be gone and we’ll have some broken, ghetto, incompetent government that can’t put the pieces back together and it’s what we’ll be stuck with for generations to come while other countries progress.

[-] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 18 hours ago

Yea, elon (and presumably many other super rich) want(s) cyberpunk ultra capitalism
no rules, just money…

Trump is just a corrupt puppet making it possible somehow

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Americans are learning the hard way that elections have consequences, and I’m loving it.

You think? I tend to doubt it. Seeing as these are the same lessons since Reagan and they've only gotten more popular. They don't know why they hate government. That's the real lesson they won't learn.

It's the lesson the rest of the world will need to learn super, super quickly, too. It's about media. And therein is the clue as to why no one will learn it without a big effort.

[-] Inucune@lemmy.world 15 points 19 hours ago

What a bunch of welfare queens. They should have planted crops people want to buy.

[-] guyoverthere123@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 16 hours ago

If only people could have seen this coming, especially the farmers who dealt with the same shit last time they elected Trump.

Sucks to suck.

If only they knew it was their own votes that bent them over the barrel.

Common clay and all that. Morons.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

I think ‘morons’, while technically accurate is missing the nuance that conservative media deserts are where these voters live. They’re not on Lemmy, they’re not even on reddit. They’re on facebook and they watch Fox News. Their local paper is written by and for others who watch Fox News. That’s “the world” afatk.

The Left has zero plan to combat this, and even less money and interest in doing so.

[-] WhatGodIsMadeOf@feddit.org 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Trump killed America, with massive help from American citizens and criminals.

[-] nosuchanon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

And now JD Vance’s Acretrader can come buy up all the land for cheap and sell it to foreign interests!

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

When this shitshow is over It would be nice if we could reconstruct our farming practices to focus more small local and sustainable farming instead of corporate conglomerates that damage our environment and wipe out biodiversity.

[-] Malfeasant@lemmy.world 25 points 1 day ago

Lol might as well ask for the wholesale dismantling of all capitalism...

(Yes please)

[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

I think Europe has better farming practices

[-] frog_brawler@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Well… you know, if you have a farm, there’s options other than soy beans.

[-] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 84 points 1 day ago

I would MUCH rather LITERALLY LOSE MY ENTIRE INDUSTRY AND WAY OF LIFE then to have ONE Trans Kid NOT feel suicidal!

-LITERALLY all Republican Voters!

[-] iloveDigit@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is hilarious and I upvoted. But it's also not accurate, and presenting it this way makes Trump look like a giga chad tricking bullies into punishing themselves, when he's more like just king of a mentally ill cult. I won't take my upvote back because I voted for Trump one time 9 years ago and I can't take that back

[-] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 26 points 1 day ago

I regret your use of the word "gigachad", but "Tricking bigots into punishing themselves" is the precise description of the Republican party.

That's not a good thing. The theme of American history is "Rich whites convinced poor whites to destroy their own public goods out of fear that someone not like them might benefit too."

It's not mental illness. It's not economic anxiety. It's not ethics in gaming journalism. It's white supremacy.

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[-] orioler25@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

If you're committed to unlearning the fascism, you should know that the narrative that it's just "mentally ill" people that voted for him is also not accurate and is infact ableist. White affluent Americans have been primed to endorse these values for centuries, it isn't new and it isn't disabled people's fault.

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[-] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago

Canada, Russia, Belarus and China are the major players in potash mining and production. The US doesn't mine or produce any in a substantial number. The US has huge import tariffs on China, and can't currently buy from either Russia or Belarus.

Canada needs to put a 50-70% export tariff on potash. That would crush US farming.

If Trump wants to play, let's burn them to the ground. Here is your 51st state you cunt.

[-] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

This is idiotic. You are literally suggesting Canada follows Trump example and try to use tariffs to hurt another country.

Canadian potash producers have no reason to be punished with tariffs.

Tariffs damage your own country. Not the enemy. This is literally what you're complaining about.

[-] IndridCold@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Tariffs damage your own country. Not the enemy.

Read what I said. I said EXPORT tariffs. These are taxed at the border, by Canada, to the buyer exporting - IE; the farmers and supply chain in the US. These aren't like Trump's import tariffs but they have the same effect to Americans.

The only effect this would have on Canada is MAYBE some reduced sales, but US farmers don't have a choice with this product. They literally can't buy it from anywhere else in the numbers they need.

And yes, the design would be to cause even further damage to US farming because of Trump. It's a huge power play Canada has. They want to reduce our added tax on potash? They need to drop or reduce tariffs on their end.

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

"Temporary" my ass. They are going to beg for those evil socialistic handouts for the coming years. Simply because it is unlikely to get better.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Well yeah, farm subsidies aren’t new.

[-] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 27 points 1 day ago

This is why farmers shouldn't monocrop. Even if a farmer doesn't care about the environment and soil health, monocropping makes a farmer vulnerable to the volatile nature of geopolitics and the global economy.

They don't? Afaik soy is an off season crop to balance nitrogen(?) in the ground. But not being able to sell your harvest 50% of the time is still pretty bad.

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[-] betanumerus@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hey there woah ... if you say something bad about djt, he'll dump on you from an F35 so EVERYTHING is PERFECT no matter what you say.

[-] Lucky_777@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago

Couldn't even ask AI to recreate that video with correct mask placement lol. Trump is a huge fucking loser.

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[-] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

I'm going to end up emigrating from this fucking country primarily so I can stop bailing out dumbfucks.

This is absurd.

We're going to bail out "bootstrap" assholes after they were warned they were going to kill their own livelihoods. Fuck that clown shit.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 day ago

The US government has been doing this forever. For example, meat and dairy farmers are heavily subsidized. They couldn't survive if they weren't subsidized.

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For example, meat and dairy farmers are heavily subsidized.

They're subsidized to regulate productivity. You don't want large fluctuations in the supply of staple goods, so you offer a price floor that's cost of production + vig to guarantee a certain volume of retail surplus.

If you want to get extra fancy, you turn the excess into a good that you can preserve for long periods (excess milk turned into Government Cheese) that you can then store in the event of a supply contraction or dole out abroad for goodwill as material aid.

The only real caveat is that you need the agricultural property owned by actual working people, rather than some enormous private conglomerate or trust. The goal is to guarantee a steady supply of his that still offers gainful employment, not to create a massive shareholder give away for folks who will still fuck with the supply chain

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[-] starrysonics@lemmy.today 12 points 1 day ago

You know which country? Argentina. Who are we aiding with currency transfers and trade deals for meat? AREGENTINA

[-] madjo@feddit.nl 55 points 2 days ago

Dear US Farmers, You wanted America First... Enjoy being America Alone. Have the day you voted for.

kind regards, The rest of the world

[-] Newsteinleo@midwest.social 30 points 1 day ago

I hope we all like soy beans because that is going to be the only affordable thing in the grocery store.

[-] balsoft@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 day ago

Soy is great, you can make some really good-tasting, high-protein food with it for very cheap. But I'm afraid there won't be a lot of cheap soy in grocery stores, instead those farmers will just go bankrupt.

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[-] AnimalsDream@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago

I'm hoping this means low soy-food prices. And other beans. Beans are the best.

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[-] AsyncTheYeen@lemmy.world 19 points 1 day ago

That is the result of a hyper individualist society, USA is literally the cancer of the world and now it's hurting itself

[-] Dagnet@lemmy.world 137 points 2 days ago

Big thanks from Brasil. Our soy exports are up like 30%

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[-] Bamboodpanda@lemmy.world 67 points 2 days ago

Most farmers voted to burn their own fields... again. The same man who nearly crippled American agriculture last time was welcomed with open arms. Tariffs, trade wars, and labor shortages wrecked their profits before, but somehow they lined up for another round. It is like watching someone hire the same man who burned down their house and expecting him to rebuild it this time.

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[-] Formfiller@lemmy.world 48 points 2 days ago

Trump is bankrupting America like he bankrupted all of his businesses.

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