Blue Dot Farmer Gives Red Dot Farmers a Reality Check

[u/DuhBraux]

That blue-dot farmer is saying what a lot of people don’t want to hear: your vote didn’t just affect your farm. People lost jobs, families watched their grocery bills climb, and Americans struggled to afford basic meals while policies you supported hurt people you may never meet. Now that the pain has reached your own fields and your own wallet, you’re angry? Welcome to the consequences everyone else has been dealing with. Those very same consequences doesn’t just stop at your farm gate.

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[u/jopperjawZ]

They voted for cuts to those benefits while being some of the largest recipients of welfare in the form of agricultural subsidies. Conservative farmers are some of the biggest hypocrites alive

[u/ahuramazdobbs19 → u/jopperjawZ]

People also don’t seem to fully grok why SNAP is a program by the US Department of Agriculture and not some other bureau.

Hint: it’s because people being able to eat food means that farmers can sell that food.

[u/icarusrising9 → u/jopperjawZ]

Reminds me of an old joke:

Question: How do you starve a farmer?

Answer: Nail their mailbox shut.

[u/C_est_la_vie9707 → u/icarusrising9]

Why are the bills of farmers' hats curved? From looking in their mailbox.

[u/StateYourBusinessEgg → u/jopperjawZ]

This!! The hypocrisy is insane in the Ag industry.

[u/obsequiousaardvark → u/jopperjawZ]

People need to start waking up to the fact that not a single one of these motherfuckers actually gives one hot shit about hypocrisy. It's about power and control and hypocrisy is written into the rules of having power and control over others.

[u/mkvgtired → u/jopperjawZ]

Always have been:

Major Major's father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He was a long-limbed farmer, a God-fearing, freedom-loving, law-abiding rugged individualist who held that federal aid to anyone but farmers was creeping socialism. He advocated thrift and hard work and disapproved of loose women who turned him down. His specialty was alfalfa, and he made a good thing out of not growing any. The government paid him well for every bushel of alfalfa he did not grow. The more alfalfa he did not grow, the more money the government gave him, and he spent every penny he didn't earn on new land to increase the amount of alfalfa he did not produce. Major Major's father worked without rest at not growing alfalfa. On long winter evenings he remained indoors and did not mend harness, and he sprang out of bed at the crack of noon every day just to make certain that the chores would not be done. He invested in land wisely and soon was not growing more alfalfa than any other man in the county. Neighbors sought him out for advice on all subjects, for he had made much money and was therefore wise. “As ye sow, so shall ye reap,” he counseled one and all, and everyone said, “Amen.

-Catch-22, 1961