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    12 hours ago

    It doesn’t help that a lot of farmers are handicapped by the strong arm of capitalism and can’t invest in better, sustainable, practices that would help crops.

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        11 hours ago

        And a lot of Muslims voted for Trump in hopes for an end to Gaza. The voters may have been wrong in placing their hopes in him and the Republican party, but neither party has helped farmers in the ways that are needed. The blame still rests on the government, and corporations.

        I try to stay away from blaming the working class for the ruling class’ failures. It’s not their fault, for the most part. They are just a useful cog in the machine, much like us all.

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          I don’t know dawg. I talk to farmers and they’re vile people. I give credit to the working class by default but farmers are just so consistently genuinely bad people that I retract that one credit for them specifically.

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            I’m sorry that you have had such poor experience with farmers. The ones I know are lovely people. But even still, would it not benefit us to instead wish only the best for farmers and advocate for them, even if they are ignorant and hateful? Would that not still be of great benefit to the countless innocents involved with the lives of these farmers? If they see people care about them, how could they ever believe the lies that they are hated?

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      And that they often vote for people who would rather watch them starve and die before ever helping them, or anyone else in the working class.