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[-] The_v@lemmy.world 157 points 1 month ago

Hmmm... Guess what percentage of the owners who raise cattle voted for the orange moron?

98.5%, 99% or 99.5?

[-] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 96 points 1 month ago

100%

Farm people always vote against their own interests - and it shows.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 104 points 1 month ago

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons

[-] ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works 86 points 1 month ago
[-] snoons@lemmy.ca 19 points 1 month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI

Favourite scene of all time. I don't think Cleavon Little knew it was coming and was genuinely laughing.

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[-] rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 month ago

If you utterly dismiss farmers as incorrigibly stupid rather than trying to talk with them, they will never change. If you leave agricultural workers to the wolves while the fascists pretend to have their backs, will they support you or the fascists?

Did you know most of the majority-black counties in the USA are rural areas in the South that vote overwhelmingly for Democrats? Are they also ejeets that deserve to get their cows screwed?

What about the people who get screwworms in their injuries? That's gonna be the poor bastards who get employed to work with the livestock. Who works in shitty underpaid farm labour? Poor whites, black people, immigrants. People who have few other choices.

Snobbery against rural areas is just classism. It's how Republicans could get such a grip on them in the first place. Go ahead and only struggle amongst educated people in the cities and scratch your head when when your country stays fascist. Watch the rural-urban divide get wider.

[-] thisbenzingring@lemmy.today 20 points 1 month ago

This is a really bad take on the situation dude.

[-] arrow74@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 month ago

Yeah none of this is a surprise. Trump has done what he promised. I told many conservatives this, and they just refused to believe it. Or some even dismissed some of the things Trump said "as just politics" claiming he had no intent to keep his crazier campaign promises.

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[-] supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 98 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Conservatives only know how to do one thing while governing which is to close their eyes, turn off their headlights, press the gas pedal and dare the road to swerve as they hurtle ahead into the darkness with no clue what is going to happen.

Ironic we call them "conservatives".

[-] grue@lemmy.world 51 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The only thing "conservatives" ever conserve, ever have conserved, or ever even intended to conserve, is hierarchical power. Conservatism only happens to line up with "preserving that which currently exists" in the sense that, when conservatism was initially developed, the system that currently existed was monarchy.

Make no mistake: under any system but monarchy/dictatorship, "conservatives'" single purpose will always be to transform it into monarchy/dictatorship as switftly, radically, and even recklessly as they can possibly manage.

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[-] spacegoat@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

They’re called conservatives because they should all be in conservatorships. That being the case, I think they should be called asylumists.

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[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 96 points 1 month ago

And we think beef is expensive now!

[-] Pencilnoob@lemmy.world 108 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It's aways a great time to join team veg!

Membership is open! Join for a single meal, or go hardcore and fully vegan! There's no rules, you're still on the team if you go veggie one meal a year or every single meal for the rest of your life. It's flexible!

We've got tasty daals, chilis, curries, pan-seared mushroom steaks, a million flavors of hummus, tofus, pulled BBQ seitan, juicy vital wheat gluten roasts, and so much more!

It's also cheap! Homemade hummus is incredible and light on the wallet! You'll discover a world of extremely tasty foods!

[-] lonefighter@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

What's your favorite simple and easy vegetarian recipe that's filling?

I'm not vegetarian, I love me a good cheeseburger every once in a blue moon and always will, but I don't eat a lot of red meat and I've been trying to eat less and less meat in general. I'm not going to pretend eating meat in today's world is ethical, but neither will there be a noticeable difference if I stop buying my pound or two of chicken and a filet of fish every month. I grew up on a meat and potatoes diet and while I've learned a lot since then I'm still not great at cooking filling vegetarian meals, I feel like every time I cook completely without meat I end up absolutely starving in an hour, even if I have protein from other sources.

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[-] Mavvik@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 month ago

I love this. Im firmly in team veg but still haven't given up meat. It may come one day, but for now im happy with about half my meals being vegetarian.

[-] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Yeah, there’s a really high Indian population in my area, and India has a huge vegetarian population. So most of the restaurants around me actually have decent veg options. I doubt I’d ever go fully vegan, but even casual “eat meat when you feel like it, but don’t intentionally make it the centerpiece of every meal” vegetarianism is extremely easy nowadays.

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[-] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 70 points 1 month ago

In fairness they've been spreading Northward yearly for several years, we knew they were coming and eradication efforts have been underway for a while to try to blunt it. But, with the idiots currently in charge, just assume those efforts have been botched until proven otherwise.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

the eradication program ended in 22-23, they were making headway ever since. likely it wouldve been restored under harris, A GOP wh will never restore something like this. they always end using budget cuts to fund TAX CUTS.

[-] Folstar@lemmus.org 26 points 1 month ago

At no point did the eradication program end. In 23-24 Biden's USDA quadrupled funding to the Panama facility producing sterile flies. The facility had been underfunded for years (/wave Trump1) and at some point during Covid lost contain of the Darian Gap, officially reaching "we fucked up" thresholds in 2022.

[-] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 month ago

It's the now classic answer to "Why is this happening now?" Trump fucked it up, Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency because he just assumed he'd get eight years, and then Trump came back and fucked it up again.

[-] prole 16 points 1 month ago

Biden tried to fix it without any sense of urgency

I would say funding it at 4x is pretty urgent

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[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 68 points 1 month ago

'Murica got exactly what' Murica deserved

There are awful, powerful people in the background pulling the levers of power, but this isn't new

It has always been fucked. It wasn't founded on the ideals of freedom or anything noble

It was stolen, then built with slavery, and that slavery was just rebranded as capitalism so white people would buy into it, so long as they still felt superior to everyone else

The cruelty and greed have always been the defining characteristics

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[-] BNE 59 points 1 month ago

Australia once again vindicated for banning beef from the USA years ago.

[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

We do a fair job at banning some of their people too

I like seeing local losers pay for tickets to the speaking event of some utter cunt who will be refused a visa, and then the pathetic losers whine about losing their money

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[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

I feel sorry for the cows, they did not vote for the MAGA shitheads.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 23 points 1 month ago

They voted for MOOGA.

[-] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

COWS, any kind of livestocks, it also include pets and most warm blooded mammals.

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 17 points 1 month ago

Shit, I'm a worm blooded mammal!

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[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 13 points 1 month ago

They never voted to be tortured and killed either.

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[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 49 points 1 month ago

We Saved MONEY!

-Ranchers whose Taxes INCREASED!

[-] ClownStatue@piefed.social 20 points 1 month ago

Exactly. Every one of those fuckers will happily vote R again after their herds all die off, because “RepUbLIcnS er BeTr for du EcoNiMeE!”

[-] grte@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 month ago

Well don't worry, this administration has a tried and true solution. If you stop checking for screwworm, it's not there.

[-] starlinguk@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

Daily reminder that the US government is a doomsday cult. This is is by design.

[-] BillyClark@piefed.social 35 points 1 month ago

I just saw this yesterday, and that article had an estimated yearly impact of how much money farmers/ranchers would lose every year if screwworm comes back to the US, and IIRC, it was something like $900 million.

That's not even enough for a ballroom.

[-] bluegreenpurplepink@lemmy.world 32 points 1 month ago

This is so much more horrifying than I realized. Humans can get it too. Here's a CDC article on it if you dare. https://www.cdc.gov/new-world-screwworm/about/index.html

[-] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 19 points 1 month ago

Symptoms can include

Feeling maggots (larvae) move or seeing maggots within a skin wound or sore, or in the ears, nose, eyes, or mouth.
Painful skin wounds or sores that worsen within a few days.
A foul-smelling odor from the site of the infestation.
Bleeding from open sores.

Yeah, that doesn't sound fun.

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[-] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 28 points 1 month ago

'Murica is a laughing stock, and rural' Murica somehow managed to be even more stupid

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[-] Quibblekrust@thelemmy.club 25 points 1 month ago

Kurzgesagt did a good episode on screworms.

https://youtu.be/zxq60I5RSW8

[-] angband@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

And with climate change, it could possibly spread further north than it used to, before it was eradicated in the US.

[-] pyre@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

awesome! for a moment i was worried famine wouldn't be one of the things this administration would bring about.

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[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago

Looks like they are screwed.

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[-] wasabi_noir@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 month ago

All those little doge twerps deserve the absolute worst.

[-] craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 13 points 1 month ago

If you don't know about the parasite, I really like this Kurzgesagt video explaining it (YouTube link)

[-] Kzad_Bhat@chaos.social 12 points 1 month ago

@fossilesque lets all take this moment to hold our hat in our hands and look demurely at the ground to thank #TheSedionistFeloninCharge and his #FascistSouthAfricanImmigrant for making things so GREAT.

[-] Paradachshund@lemmy.today 12 points 1 month ago

When something is eradicated, but comes back, how does that work? Was it only eradicated because of ongoing efforts from this agency?

[-] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 42 points 1 month ago

Basically. We had previously driven the screw worm south of the darian gap and we had been keeping it there by continuously dropping sterile flys across the region to prevent them from breeding. But the mitigation measures were cut to save money so now we're back to having screw worm in the US.

[-] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 month ago

This comment needs to be at the top. This was an intentional choice made in the first trump administration to just…stop doing the cheap thing that had been working for a generation. Now the exact expected outcome has come to fruition.

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[-] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

It was stuck in South America, and eradicated from North America, with the Darian Gap as the barrier IIRC.

But it’s been spreading north since like 2023. There’s been a kind of inescapable dread that it would come to the US eventually, but it happened faster than was expected.

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