Votes for billionaires, shocked when billionaires act like billionaires
Votes for billionaires, shocked when billionaires act like billionaires
Tiktok video: https://www.tiktok.com/@cattlemenfamilyfarms/video/7467698017559170350
Bsky post: https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lhrdl5nt222s
Articles:
- https://www.ft.com/content/bed728f5-e832-4c1d-8c1f-791b574ccb4c?sharetype=gift
- https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/trump-california-water-policy-farmers-00202751
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ft.com US farmers ‘prepare for the worst’ in new Trump trade war Guy Chazan 7–9 minutes
Aaron Lehman’s soyabean farm in the heartland of Iowa feels like an oasis of calm in the turbulence and tumult of President Donald Trump’s second term. Yet all that could change in a matter of weeks.
Lehman is bracing himself for the impact of a potential trade war hatched in Washington that he says could lay low the US corn belt and irreparably harm America’s standing with its neighbours.
“Farmers understand that trading relationships go up on a stairway, where you work hard to build them up, but go down on an elevator — very, very fast,” Lehman said in the living room of his farmhouse about 20 miles north of Iowa’s capital Des Moines.
“The long-term effect is that countries around the world will no longer see us as a reliable partner.”
It has been a turbulent week in US trade policy. Trump announced last weekend that he would impose 25 per cent tariffs on Mexico and Canada, saying they were not doing enough to stem the flow of migrants and the illicit drug fentanyl into the US. Then after last-minute talks with the two countries’ leaders, he agreed to give them both a 30-day reprieve.
The same was not the case for China. The 10 per cent levy he imposed on all Chinese imports still stands. And many in Iowa believe it is only a matter of time before the tariffs on America’s northern and southern neighbours are reinstated.
The opening salvo of a new trade war has sent a chill through the Midwest. Canada, Mexico and China together account for half of all American agricultural exports. Just last year, the US sold more than $30bn in farm products to Mexico, $29bn to Canada and $26bn to China, according to American Farm Bureau statistics.
Suddenly, farmers were facing the spectre of retaliatory tariffs and the prospect of a full-scale conflict that some fear could decimate America’s rural heartland. Two large grain silos and an old shed sit on a dry, grassy area with expansive flat fields in the background under a partly cloudy sky Farmers fear a full-scale trade war could decimate America’s rural heartland © Amir Prellberg/FT
Farmers in an area of the country that has become a bedrock of support for Trump now worry that the president’s tariffs, though suspended at the last minute, have permanently damaged the image of the US in the eyes of its most important trading partners.
“We’ve gone from being a seller of choice to a seller of last resort,” said Mark Mueller, a farmer from near Waterloo in north-east Iowa.
Few US states better embody the agricultural wealth of the Midwest than Iowa. It is a land of vast corn fields stretching as far as the eye can see, the landscape broken by the occasional grain silo, hay bale or low-slung barn. Hogs outnumber people more than seven to one.
It is also Trump country. Although Iowa voted for Democratic presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama, it backed Trump in 2016, 2020 and 2024 in ever greater numbers.
More than a fifth of Iowa’s economy — or $53.1bn — is tied to agriculture, from crop and livestock production to food processing and manufacturing. It is the country’s largest producer of corn, hogs, eggs and ethanol and a top-three grower of soyabeans. That makes it particularly vulnerable to any downturn in agricultural exports.
“Free trade is the backbone of the economy in the Midwest,” said Ernie Goss, an economist at Creighton University in Omaha, Nebraska. “What we have here is some of the most productive agriculture on the face of the Earth, and the domestic market is not even close to being big enough to absorb all the commodities produced here. You have to have international markets.” Aaron Lehman is seated near a window inside a room, wearing glasses and a checkered shirt ‘The long-term effect is that countries around the world will no longer see us as a reliable partner,’ said Aaron Lehman © Amir Prellberg/FT
The latest volley of tariff threats has evoked painful memories of the trade war unleashed by Trump in his first term. Among the most striking moves was Trump imposing duties on $300bn of Chinese goods. Beijing responded in 2018 by slapping 25 per cent tariffs on imports of US soyabeans, beef, pork, wheat, corn and sorghum.
The skirmish ended with the countries signing a trade deal in 2020 under which Beijing pledged to increase its purchases of US goods and services. But since then, it has been buying more grain from countries such as Argentina and Brazil, which overtook the US as China’s top supplier of corn in 2023.
In the last trade war, “a lot of our Asian buyers started developing relationships with soyabean producers in South America, and they’ve taken more and more of our market”, said Lehman, who is also president of the Iowa Farmers Union. “And we haven’t got it back.”
Not all of Iowa’s farmers oppose the way Trump has used the threat of tariffs to achieve a key policy objective — stemming illegal immigration.
“It was a strategy he needed to use to . . . get those countries to the negotiating table,” said Steve Kuiper, a fourth-generation Iowa farmer who grows corn and soyabeans in Marion County, south-east of Des Moines. After all, “a president has just four years to accomplish all he’s promised to do, so he’s got to get things going immediately to gain traction”.
Still, he is pessimistic that Mexico and Canada will be able to deliver on their pledges to Trump to strengthen border security in time. “It takes forever for these things to happen, and they’ve only got 30 days,” he said. A view through a window shows a barren soybean field The latest volley of tariff threats has evoked painful memories of the trade war unleashed by Donald Trump in his first term © Amir Prellberg/FT
The prospect of another round of trade tensions comes with American farmers already in a tight spot, hit by a fall in crop prices and higher costs. Net farm income, a broad measure of profits, was $181.9bn in 2022 but is projected to have been $140.7bn in 2024, according to data from the US Department of Agriculture — a 23 per cent slump.
“This [trade war] isn’t coming at a good time,” said Rick Juchems, a farmer from near Plainfield in north-east Iowa. “Commodity prices are low and the price of inputs like seed and fertiliser is going up.” Sources from the Iowa Corn Growers Association said many farmers had been producing at a $100 per acre loss.
Investments in new equipment are down, reflecting the wider downturn, said Juchems. “I’ve got friends who’ve lost their jobs selling agricultural machinery because of reduced demand. The lots are full of unsold tractors.”
Makers of farm equipment such as Deere, Kinze Manufacturing and Bridgestone/Firestone have shed hundreds of jobs in Iowa since last year.
Yet the prospects for farm finances could get even gloomier if Trump makes good on his threat of import levies. Fertiliser, for example, could become much more expensive, since more than 80 per cent of the US’s supply of potash — a key ingredient — comes from Canada.
But perhaps the most destructive effect of the tariff debate is the uncertainty it has triggered, just ahead of the crucial spring planting season.
“We’ll get by as long as we know what’s coming,” said Juchems. “But things are changing all the time. I’m sure the whole world is laughing at us.”
Lehman said farmers were trying to stay optimistic. “They tell me they’re hopeful cooler heads will prevail and this dispute will result in good trade agreements,” said Lehman. “But they’re also preparing for the worst.”
I don't feel bad at all for anyone that voted for Trump. I've lost all my sympathy this round. I hope he loses his farm. You fucked around, I hope you find out.
Must be the 50th such post I've seen in the past 7 days. Would people now vote differently if there was an election tomorrow or are they incapable of learning from their mistakes?
You know the fucking answer to that as well as I do. They voted for hate and would do it again.
Republicans would shit in their own pants just to make Liberals smell it.
Why do they always get into their car / truck to panic?
Honestly, maybe so the family doesn't see, while they can gather composure. A little bit of "men don't cry" and a little bit of "don't want the family to all have heart attacks before I know for sure"
Maybe acoustics too. But at this point it's just part of the right wing grift asthetic.
It's a small room where you're usually alone?
Well, to that i can only say a heartfelt
.|..
New York real-estate and South African tech billionaires don't actually care about the working man?
Who could have forseen such a turn of events???
If you make a deal with the devil, you should not be suprised if you have to pay your due
This isn't even a monkey's pawn kind of deal. They get nothing at all in return.
At least the devil delivers on mad guitar-playing skills before taking your soul.
They "owned the libs."
re: first 2 links: Notice he never mentions, blames or criticizes Trump. It's "the government" doing this to him.
I don't think I will ever get tired of this:
"The whole world is laughing at us."
No, they're laughing at Trump voters. The rest of us they just feel sorry for.
Nah, we're also laughing at the non-voters and third-party voters. Even some of the Democratic voters are worthy of ridicule.
There is a special kind of laugh for the useful idiots who blame non-voters for not voting rather than the party leadership of the party they wanted to win for refusing to do the bare minimum to turn those non-voters into voters.
It's the same kind of laugh reserved for people who, when their own team plays horribly and loses to a crap team, blame the referee.
I'm curious what qualifies a "democratic voter" as worthy of ridicule - can you give me some examples?
Much like an outsider looking in at your country (whatever it is), there's a ton of nuance to every culture. For example; I'm a decendant of a family that settled in New England in 1603 and I can't fucking stand the 2 party system. I've always wanted to abolish lobbyism, set term limits on congress critters, and outlaw insider trading for both politicians and their immediate families - but my average neighbor gets exhausted if I talk about anything but the simple stupid pleasures. I identify as an adult with compassion and a vision for my kids' future so that makes me a defacto dem because anything else is spoon-feeding the grand ole wizard party a victory.
Tons of us have been trapped here our whole lives and have tried to organize over the years. I know it seems like all finger-pointing and inaction from afar, but it's more nuanced than that.
Edit: Not to mention that civil unrest is the whole point at this stage. Project 2025 has the penultimate goal of suspending the writ of habeus corpus by June 30th while simultaneously deploying the US Military as a civilian police force.
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/articles/article-i/clauses/763
I imagine you think you're one of those special few that people aren't laughing at huh?
We're all in some way or another part of the problem don't try to paint yourself out.
No, we're also laughing at the "yOu VoTe FeR tHe LeAsT aWfUl CaNdIDaTe" guys.
Votes for Leopard, gets face eaten.
I got banned from Hexbear for saying that. Apparently I’m a fascist for wanting Trump voters to get their just deserts.
To be honest, I have never understood why the "average joe" ever identified with Trump, whose whole point is that he is a "successful" billionaire businessman. Why they believe he's looking out for the little guy is beyond me.
I think people are reacting mainly emotionally (i.e. "I feel that this person can be trusted") rather than doing any meaningful level of political analysis and that the attraction of many for confident loudmouth politicians is in part a reaction to a couple of decades of being swindled by soft speaking slippery suits on both sides of the isle.
(Politically Aware people - which I imagine most of us here are - tend to expect from others similar levels of being well informed about Politics and thinking it to be important, when in reality most people do not think, care or are as well informed about politics anywhere as much as the Politically Aware)
These things come in cycles and we're back in the age when people are over-saturated with the "sophisticated misdirection and half-truth deceiver" type of swindler whilst not being innured to the "loud and brash liar" type of swindler, because the last couple of decades have been dominated in politics by the former kind of manipulator whilst the last time the latter type was dominant was almost a century ago.
That's my theory.
I have never understood why the “average joe” ever identified with Trump
A major reason for the vehement support the right receives is trying to control what people can say.
The left has itself to blame for its overreaching censorship in online spaces for why so many people feel more comfortable being part of the right.
You can't just tell the "average joe" that a man is a woman and vice-versa, then ban him for saying otherwise and expect him to stay on your side.
Can you explain what you mean with "censorship in online spaces from the left"? As far as I know, most of our digital infrastructure is in the hand of MAGA right wing billionaires (X, Facebook, Instagram) and other people who are not really known as left (Reddit, TikTok, Google/YouTube). Most of our big social networks are not doing any left wing censorship. YouTube will demonitize you when you swear enough, because advertisers don't like that. Musk will censor you when you disagree with his politics. Trump will fire you if you mention certain words. But that is right wing censorship. So where are those spaces where the left is censoring everything that are pushing people to vote for the right?
Probably one of a few things.
- always voted R
- one or a few, policies matter to them more than anything (abortion, tax cuts etc.)
- likes the toxic traits (owning the libs, bigotry, pro America and fuck everyone else)
- fell for the neo-con lie that conservative = good economy = better for everyone
- fell for the "we're going to help the working man" Conservative lie
But most likely, imo, is that the average Joe is just way less politically engaged or aware, then you and your peers. They don't see all the bullshit, bigotry, obvious lies, the way R policies will fuck them over. They just know times are tough, prices are high and "right wing dude said he'd fix it".
These people are the common clay of the land.
Rural people generally on average mistrust city people. City person shows up one day and gives them riches beyond their wildest imaginations, two hundred dollars and a luxury import chocolate. Other city people say "don't trust these gifts, that guy is a known con artist". Rural people didn't grow up in an environment where scammers could just get away with it, cuz they'd get beat up by the other 80 people in the town that all knew them.
They don't have the defenses mechanism of skepticism built in from day 1. They often do not understand the difference between the law as written vs as intended, because strict interpretation of the rules is not required for a small society of people that all generally know teachers other to function.
hes a clown. the whole bread and circus thing.
I think it has to do with the conservative tendency to see a natural hierarchy to humanity.
(begin sarcasm)
Obviously, rando leopard victim currently under discussion is a member of the upper echelon of that human hierarchy. They are confused by the same things as Trump, they hate the same people as him, and they see the same TrRuTh about the world as him.
Surely, those are enough "good people" attributes that any day now they will get swept along on the Trump train and will be out of the trailer and sitting on a golden shitter before you know it. He might even let them push the button that takes food stamps away from a brown skinned single mother!
Or, and hey let's be fair, maybe some of them are smarter than that. They know that no Aryan Dividends are coming their way. But they have the integrity to tough it out while the other "good" people in charge spend all their energy hurting the subhuman garbage that deserves it most. That is obviously more important than education or human rights or whatever the limp-wristed liberal cucks are crying about today.
The money is just part of the deal when you're one of the master race-- err, no, I mean when you're one of the good people, the REAL Americans. It's not like you have to be BORN already having the money or just win the lottery some other way, lol.
Because they don't think of themselves as the little guy. No matter how poor they are, they're always temporarily embarrassed millionaires.
Same... I have always known Trump to be an idiot... literally the stereotypical kid whose Dad is ashamed of because he decided to clown around and never accomplished anything given all the opportunities
And he will still vote red in the midterms because otherwise a trans woman might get to play darts.
hating a kid that might be different is more important than his farm.
Won't stop him from crying on camera about losing his livelihood due to his own actions, and probably low-key blame democrats for letting it happen.. as these fucktards always do.
I saw this guy's Tiktok on my FYP a couple of hours after he posted it, and in the comments he was DOUBLING DOWN on voting for Trump. He's now either deleted them, or they've gotten buried.
Either way I don't think these guys are getting it, even as they lose everything.
Sunk cost fallacy. Also, admitting to having been wrong is hard. It's one of the core mechanisms cults use to ensure loyalty. The more embarrassing, absurd and shameful the accepted "truths" become, the harder it is to exit the cult.
I literally don't even get schadenfreude from these faceless people being attacked by leopards. This country is being destroyed because people chose hate over listening to any source that wasn't Fox News. For years... So now we all have to suffer?
This country is being destroyed because people chose hate
Hate was chosen for them by the rich and powerful.
We all bear part of the burden for why the rich and powerful are so rich and powerful; we made them that way and keep rewarding their greed.
When this country was about empathy love and cooperation? Capitalism is not that!
We tried to deprive you of this disillusionment. You could have lived the rest of your life in bitterness after Trump lost and got convicted of more crimes - and at least you still would have had your farm. But no, you had to go and hand him your fucking farm.
Good.
MAGAts can only learn the hard way.
So this chode actually has a shot at learning something for once in his life.
Learn? LEARN?! What in the last decade has made you think these people learn ANYTHING?
No he'd vote for Trump all over again tomorrow. He doesn't care how clearly bad this is for him, he's still better than black people, women, and Hispanics.
Yeah the one part of the article someone was more worried about border security than their own ability to farm.
Well I cant afford to eat anymore, the products all became to expensive and I'm going to have to sell my farm for Nickles on the dollar but it's alright, because those other people trying to escape inflation somewhere else, didn't get a chance at an opportunity either.
Actually, history would suggest you're wrong.
Clinton, Dubya, Obama, and Trump all had control of Congress going into office and lost it at the mid-terms. It's such a strong historical pattern I expect it to repeat in 2026.
The problem here is that both parties rule as conservatives, so you can change who (at least based on outward appearances) has power, but the wealthy class is still pulling all of the strings anyway.
No, you will continue vote on a system that... not ever will represent you... Trump is a face not the system
He probably blames Biden because the contract was signed under his administration.
But an administration comes up with a good deal for you, one that improves your life, and in this case your farm, and you vote for the other guy. I guess I'm not a gymnast.
The problem is all of the innocent people who have to starve to death to teach them this lesson.
The farming section of the 2025 Project spelled this out.
If they were so important to us then why did they vote that way to harm us ?
Is this what liberal tears taste like ?
They Will not
MAGAts can only learn the hard way.
The problem is, he's clearly not learning anything. The whole video is "see, the government sucks!", which is basically the Republican message.
It's depressing. One side campaigns on "government sucks", and then breaks the government. The people who see that don't say "hey, those guys broke the government" they think "hey, they're right, the government sucks, I should keep voting for them."
reagan bankrupted thousands of farmers too. conservatives are horrible for the rural voters who always hit that button
Yea but do dems have cowboy hats? See, you vote for the hat cuz that means you share VALYOOOZ!
George W was awful to the military and veterans get screwed by republicans all the time. Yet they love republicans and vote for them in droves. People don’t make sense.
When I was in, the bs spewed was that you should vote Republican to get pay increases because the Dems won't do it. Of course the GOP also likes to chip away at the VA and other veteran aftercare. We also had personnel equipment shortages like armor during OEF/OIF and Congress just shrugged.
Unfortunately there are a lot of impressionable kids and they pass the same dumbassery on when they are old timers. It is effective because you're basically indoctrinated to trust senior leaders.
Mr. Farmer, when trump talks about finding fraud in government, he's referring to USAID paying you for your farm products. You are the waste he is referring to.
This dude doesn't mention Trump or Republicans once during the entire video. I wouldn't be surprised at all if somehow he blames this on the previous administration. I've already had multiple conversations blaming any adverse effects from Trump's decisions on Biden and the Democrats in a similar fashion.
In the TikTok video, no, but in the BlueSky video, he mentions he voted for Trump. Although, your point most likely still stands, because he doesn't place blame.
Why does America subsidize so much corn?
Lots of reasons. Generally its not just corn but soybeans too. Essentially the USA has optimized its supply chain for producing massive amounts of corn and soybeans and bringing them to market. The subsidy is to ensure that USA capacity to produce enough food for its populace irrespective of geopolitics or world economies. We never want to be in a position where we aren't ramped up to feed our population entirely. If you overproduce, you can always get rid of the excess. If you underproduce, at least a portion of your population goes hungry. That cannot be allowed to happen. The ancillary benefits are things like USAID that use the overproduction as expressions of Soft Power around the world in the form of nutritional aid.
Dude doesn't quite connect the dots. The government — under Biden — had a deal to save his farm. The government — under Trump — is changing all the rules, reneging on the contract. If all he groks from this is "government bad," then game over. Except it's not a game.
My impression from the video is that all he is taking from this situation is “government bad.”
I mean, it is sort of the lesson. The government sort of exists to be stable and a stabilizing force.
We've concentrated power in the executive branch for years, throughout several administrations. If one election can cause this much chaos in a month (really a few weeks). Than the government isn't performing it's primary function.
At this point I'm not sure how much it matters that one party is mostly responsible. The state is looming on failure. These radical position shifts every few years are a bad thing.
Commodity crops prices often trend the inverse of the economy. The reason is simple; It is highly dependent on the export market.
When overall economy is strong, the dollar is strong versus other currencies. This makes importing easier and exporting harder. So prices for commodities in the U.S. fall.
When the overall economy is weak the dollar falls in value. This makes importing harder but exporting much easier. Prices for commodities rise rapidly and farmers make more gross money.
Even through they are making more gross income their cost skyrocket so their net returns are in general pretty average.
Farmers tend to make the most money when the economy is in recovery mode and commodity prices are still higher but input costs fall.
So here is the vicious cycle we have fallen into. Republicans get into power and crash the economy. When it crashes, farmers get high prices but low returns. Democrats come in, repair the economy but by the time elections come around, farmers have not made any money for a year or two. Rinse and repeat.
Now the orange moron adds a bit of a twist to it. Trade war: This can fuck the farmer up really bad as buyers are willing to pay a modest premium to minimize the impact of an unreliable trading partner. It reduces both the volume moved and prices offered from other countries for years.
They never care until it happens to them.
Conservatives are just people incapable of empathy.
The "conservative" plan is and has always been to eliminate small businesses. That dipshit's land will get gobbled up by a corporation.
FUCK THEM ALL FAFO
I dislike how the slow roll of economy coincides with voting cycles. These iowan farmers would get gutted now, but the whole impact of that would grow well over 4 years of presidency, and those dealing with it by them would not get credit for it like it always happens, and many would vote degenerate right again as they usually do.
In four years, these same people will vote against their own interest again because "Trump said he would save my farm after this next election". While conveniently overlooking the fact that both parties will be offering to save their farm by that time, and only one of those will have actual solutions and won't have caused the problem in the first place.
we can only hope this is the rock bottom that people need in order to see their way out of the fox news pit of lies.
First time?
I sadly suspect that this is the type of voter who will continue to blame anyone and everyone else for the problems they triggered themselves.
Cognitive dissonance has well and truly set in.
I think fundamentally this is the underlying issue with the current situation in the USA. I'm not sure what fixing it looks like.
This isn't something that started in November last year, it's been brewing for decades, perhaps even longer, it's that right now it's burst out like an infected boil and become visible for the whole planet to see. It's why I used triggered, not caused. I think it's much, much deeper than the latest election.
Don't get me wrong, there's plenty of people left who don't think like this, but they are losing ground fast as their democracy is demolished bit by bit by the billionaires.
Organising, protesting and actively fighting this appears to be where it's now at.
Helpful link on how to find like minded folk to organize with: https://infosec.exchange/@tinker/113589807117870451
HA HA HA
These assholes would be living under a bridge because of GOP policies and they would still blame it on Dems, immigrants and gays.
Fuck them and their primitive ability to understand reality.
Even after he loses his farm. Even after his friends and family cut him out of their lives. Even after he goes bankrupt from medical debt.
He will still vote exactly the same as he always does. It's the definition of a conservative: They don't change. Consequences be damned!
This is nothing new for Americans. This will go on for many more years, it might not change at all until the corpos do it for them.
I wouldn't bet anything important on it. The lack of empathy endemic to the right means that every voter will have to experience their own life-changing betrayal directly affecting them.
For most of these people, there is no way to convince themselves to dig themselves out, we just have to wait until they keep digging and tunnel to the other side. A better wager would be that's going to take more time than Trump & Musk will need to gut the government and dismantle democracy.
Even then it's not for certain. If their politics is grounded in hatred rather than self-interest they have no reason to stop as long as the outgroups can be punished as well.
You can move self-interest to mutualism more easily than you can move hate to compassion.
lol good. Reap the bullshit you’ve sown, dipshits.
They're eating shit so we have to smell their breath.
They're dragging us down with them.
I just hope this is true and not click bait. Tired of taking the higher road and well-wishing those who want to see me and my friends harmed tbh.
I stopped buying into that "they go low, we go high" bullshit. The only people impressed by that nonsense are the other milquetoast liberals who think we can stop these deranged assholes with platitudes and sneering op-eds.
They wanted to burn it all down, right? Mission accomplished?
As a warning to my own side: Mark Cuban is eyeing Bluesky. Do not trust him even if he's saying the right things about Trump and a few other things about American politics.
That's why I looked to Mastodon as a Twitter alternative and not Bluesky.
Still a billionaire.
I was never at risk of siding with him on anything? Why would I?
He's the least shitty of the Sharks. For some people, this is misinterpreted as being good.
These people feed us, unless you want to rely only on corporate farming, who will rely on 14th amendment prison workers, or slavery, in simple terms.
What can you do? Vote for people that want to help everyone while they vote, and win, on people that want to help only themselves.
Unfortunately, you gotta call it like it is. They are bad business owners making bad decisions. I can talk to them, try to convince them, but not control them.
Does everyone include everyone? Because I saw two major parties aligned with billionaires.
Will happily see them work for a factory farm if it means they end up voting for my rights next time, and not only their own interests.
You're the one eating the food and paying their prices. 🤷♀️
Why are half the posts here unverifiable screenshots and social media clips, often out of context, as opposed to something more substantial and provable? I don’t doubt this is happening but this hardly counts as a legitimate source showing this is some larger opinion/shift occurring.
The video link is helpful. Memes are not journalism. You're right to hold on to skepticism.
you’re right the video certainly is something, I’m not saying it’s worthless to be clear. But I don’t like feeling like I’m browsing conservative corners that just plaster screenshots and claim whatever they want. It’s hard not to compare this community to that sometimes (even if the content is generally way more accurate/truthful).
"(A farmer) votes for billionaires, (he) is surprised when they act like billionaires."
The OP's post and headline doesn't claim any larger opinion shift is occurring.
Just that a farmer who voted for the LEFP is getting his face eaten by the LEFP.
That's the point of the instance.
The water dump in the added links is definitely true, and has impacted mostly-republican farmers in the Central Valley for no useful purposes.
Another article: https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/06/trump-california-water-policy-farmers-00202751
The thing is that it's not that easy to post it as its own post, as farmers haven't all voted for Trump
Its leopardsatemyface, where do you expect the individuals having their faces eaten be found aside from social media? Most of those taking place on social media many on Lemmy would be unwilling to go to, and may even be blocked by the instance (x for example, depending on the instance of course).
This community is not about large scale shifts so much as individuals having their faces eaten by the leopards eating faces party.
So I'm not sure what you're expecting to see instead.
What do you expect
The occasional report, study, article, interview, etc of substance? Is it some strange requirement that we’re not allowed to show something a bit…more? Are the rules of this community that it has to be out of context screenshots and social media clips?
Why are you asking me something you can easily figure out yourself? You’re just being contrarian. Besides, how can you possibly claim to be showing “large scale shifts” with posts like this? Surely you’re joking.
Did a bit more research, found this 2019 article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/chuckjones/2019/08/30/amid-trump-tariffs-farm-bankruptcies-and-suicides-rise/
Here's a post on Bsky it that makes the screenshot verifiable: https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3lhrdl5nt222s
That's super funny. Get a factory job and enjoy!
Whoops they've mostly been outsourced. I guess you're homeless! Wait, that's illegal now . Go to jail. Heyy good news while in prison you get to work on your old farm again!
🎶 It’s the circle of life! 🎶
What factory? Not many of those around the US anymore. Amazon warehouse is more like it.
oh no...anyway...
I would laugh if I didnt know how bad this is going to be now. Coorporations will completely own and control the food system and we will be eating slop that may or may not kill us and liking it.
This is almost like the Cyberpunk 2077 lore is comming true play by play
"Cyberpunk was a warning, not an aspiration." - Mike Pondsmith
It's probably too early to tell just how many people will be impacted and if those impacted will connect the dots to Trump and his cabinet's actions. But I'll ask as a precaution - is there a lethal dose for schadenfreude? My gut tells me we may experience quite a bit of it and I don't want to overdose.
Sounds like a Soros funded crisis actor....
/s
I for one hope Trump and team burn everything to the ground so everyone loses in the end.
I for one would like to lose slightly less.
Hahaha 🤣😂
¯_(ツ)_/¯
Better late than never. But better never late.
The gut reaction to to laugh at the way he voted and tell him hey gets what he deserves.
He made a great follow up video on why that attitude is pushing people like him away.
It’s worth a watch. I’ll link it here.
He’s also actively trying to engage in a substantial political conversation and may be interested in changing his vote in the next cycle.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2BV9vyH/
EDIT: In many ways, this community is appropriate for all the people in it.
We talk down to anyone who doesn’t vote like us, we laugh at them, and hope for their suffering. No wonder all those people hate us and want to vote against the left out of spite. Seems like we did it to ourselves as much as they did it to us.
Also, it’s funny for all the people who make fun of this guy for not doing research, but 90% didn’t actually watch any of his video, especially not the one I shared.
Unfortunately the time for civility and reaching across the aisle has ended long ago. What pushing him away is the fact that he wanted to harm other people and suddenly got harmed himself and now is crying about it and wants someone to cuddle him otherwise he will be continue to vote to harm people.
Fuck him, he should suffer, he should feel ostracised, pushed away, hurt. That's what he wanted, that's what he actively worked for.
He could try to redeem himself and all that, but until he does, he's the monster and should be percieved as such.Fuck him. I hope his entire family ends up living under a bridge.
Nah, that guy's an idjit.
If you're voting based solely on info from tik Tok, then maybe you shouldn't be voting.
Oh wow, the orange Hitler voter is having a crisis so we should have a reserved discussion about it to help him find his way...
Absolutely not. If you can't see the writing on the wall, it is not worth the calories to explain it. As my late grandmother used to say "If you can't listen, you'll have to feel". Hopefully he learns a lesson.
"They both hate us"
So vote for an alternative party.
I know it isn't easy, and the system is rigged, but what you're doing isn't helping.
Serves him right on 2 counts, voting that way, and depending on government, any government, for security.
The leviathan giveth and the leviathan taketh away.
This song always plays in my head when I read stuff like this. I just replace the lyrics between the "dum dum dum dum dum's" to fit the new dumb, conservative topic I'm reading about.
Too late.
Too bad.
So sad.
Man, fuged every stupid people.
I think we should have empathy for people that were fooled into voting for Trump with the promise of prosperity. Working people should be voting for a party that actually supports the middle class, and Republicans had better (albeit untruthful) messaging there.
Whatever their reasons, if the voters are seeing the consequences of their actions and reflecting I'm going to forgive them. It sucks that it came to this, but if people are learning from their mistakes, we might be able to push back in a couple of years. I have less empathy for those that haven't changed their minds. I have zero empathy for people that voted for Trump out of hate.
Well, apparently they aren't going to wake up until they lose their farms--and apparently maybe not even that is enough. Some other commenter said he was doubling down on Trump in social media. They wanted disruption, and this is what it looks like.
It's been interesting watching the schadenfreude.
My parents have been borrowing my car for almost a year now so they can drive for DoorDash, because if they don't, this country will sit by and let bloodsucking capitalists take their home and their lives. This didn't happen to them under Trump. It happened under Biden, and Democrats shouldn't be pointing and laughing. They should be having calm, measured conversations with these people and trying to garner their support instead.
But for all their degrees and education, they lack empathy and don't understand people at all.
This didn't happen to them
What didn't happen to them?
Democrats shouldn't be pointing and laughing
Nobody's pointing and laughing. Leopards Eating People's Faces is about Justice-based Schadenfreude. It is the pleasure associated with seeing a person who wished ill on other people receive that ill themselves. The overriding emotion isn't joy, it's a mix of exasperation and relief. Exasperation because someone was stupid or cruel enough to wish those things for other people, and relief that there's finally some justice because they're suffering from the exact thing they wished on those other people.
When all we have is factory farmed,
grabbingroutinely pesticided* and routinely antibioticd food, will they? Like I'm really okay with vegan but plant* butter is still just transfat. Chemicals build up in our bodies, especially liver.It's always good to blame the democrats when the felon slashes social security and doubles food prices.
When the democrats have been warning about those consequences of voting for trump the whole of last year.
And it's funny that you mention the lack of empathy when that priest was just accused of "The sin of empathy".
The people you accuse of lack of empathy are in favour of increasing minimum wage and benefits for the poor.
It's sad to see a country give the reins to a madman that said he would be a dictator and follows through on project 2025.
This didn’t happen to them under Trump. It happened under Biden
Weird, because by all available metrics, the economy was recovering under Biden.
So your parents must have been doing something wrong.
