• Sgt_choke_n_stroke@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Farmers are getting the rugged capitalism they ask for. If you don’t like the Chinese market, just sell somewhere else… Oh, they aren’t buying either?

    Well, just pick yourself up by your bootstraps and stop buying expensive lattes, black rifle coffee, and shot guns. Get a second job, eat less avacado toast and eat less at cracker barrels, or buy knock-off cereal at Walmart instead of brand named items.

    You farmers are so fucking annoying I don’t feel bad for you blame minorities and trans people all you want while trump pays hedge funds to buy your fucking land.

  • Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    One year. It took one year to crush the farmers. Mosr will be bankrupt by this time next year leaving our new breed of political vulture capitalists just over two years to buy up the farmland at a discount before the democrats have a chance to get in and bail out these idiotic farmers that voted for Trump and are getting exactly what they voted for.

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      1 month ago

      Just supplying more info to bolster your point, but this article I’ve quoted here is from August 19th, 2019. I am sorry I didn’t retain the source, which I am usually careful about.

      "Chinese companies have stopped buying U.S. agricultural products, China’s Commerce Ministry said on Tuesday, a blow to U.S. farmers who have already seen their exports slashed by the more than year-old trade war.

      American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall called the announcement from China “a body blow to thousands of farmers and ranchers who are already struggling to get by.”

      China imported $9.1 billion of U.S. farm produce in 2018 - mainly soybeans Sc1, dairy, sorghum and pork LHc1 - down from $19.5 billion in 2017, according to the American Farm Bureau."

      They knew it was not only possible or probable, but that it would absolutely fuck them in the ass, and here we go.