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Leopards Ate My Face

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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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[–] Primax@lemmy.world 297 points 2 weeks ago (8 children)

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 122 points 2 weeks ago

Not unique, unfortunately, but very common.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 73 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Catma@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yea but like that one trans athlete won a race and the bitch that finished 5th was blonde so like, cant have that

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[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 159 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 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.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Allow me to introduce you to most religion.

[–] Sterling@lemm.ee 31 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Is a religion not just a cult that really took off?

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 123 points 2 weeks 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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[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 102 points 2 weeks 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 34 points 2 weeks 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

[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 32 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

This is exactly when the interviewer should have looked right in their eyes and said "so you didn't learn a god-damn thing" then "enjoy your udders" then left.

[–] noride@lemm.ee 101 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump

Maybe if he just offers the leopards a little more face....

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 33 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 99 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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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[–] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 88 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 29 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 78 points 2 weeks ago
[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 66 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago (4 children)

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

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 63 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 61 points 2 weeks ago

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.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 57 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 57 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Nougat@fedia.io 57 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

“Not my undocumented immigrants, though.”

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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 56 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 48 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 45 points 2 weeks ago (4 children)

You could hire Americans at living wage...

Oh no, I said the 'other' quiet part out loud.

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[–] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago (6 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.

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[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 38 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 38 points 2 weeks ago

Guess who he will vote for next election. Nothing like repeatedly jamming a stick in your spokes.

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[–] Itdidnttrickledown@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Gstocklein@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 34 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago
[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 33 points 2 weeks ago

hahahahaha

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

[–] melsaskca@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] lambalicious@lemmy.sdf.org 31 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] rhvg@lemmy.world 31 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Trump made you a better, harder working person. That’s not good?

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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net 30 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

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

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

What was wrong with the border? The farmer is a racist or a sheep. Sounds like both.

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[–] TwinTitans@lemmy.world 29 points 2 weeks ago

Fuck this guy and his farm.

[–] MisterOwl@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

Boo fuckin hoo.

You also voted to milk cows alone at 4 a.m. you lazy mouth-breathing imbeciles. Enjoy.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 28 points 2 weeks ago

These maga fuckers deserve all the worst

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