The culture wars have nothing to do with politics or resources but a game of optics…at the root of it all is foreign policy in which they ALL sing the same tune. The USA is a brutal imperialist empire. F@asc!st are the useful !_D!_0+z of empire. F@sc!sm is capitalism in crisis and imperialism is its highest form. We all are owned by the goverment… a good ol fashioned draft will remind people of that. There is no war but the class war.

Divide and conquer

Farmers begging for handouts reminds me of the Civil War

There’s a lot of chatter on social media right now about how farmers are asking for a handout (literally, a check) to help them cope with the fallout of Trump’s trade policies. Tariffs have driven up the cost of fertilizer and equipment, and reduced China’s orders of soybeans from American farmers to exactly zero. Farm subsidies aren’t coming until 2026. But farmers still overwhelmingly support tariffs and Trump — as long as they get a government handout to help them survive until then.

Many liberals and leftists - myself included - think no bailout should come; that commodity farmers with generational wealth in land who mostly grow soybeans they sell to China should deal with the consequences of their actions. We’ve been told that we should abandon our anger and find class solidarity with these farmers who voted for mass deportations and the end of DEI initiatives that have resulted in huge unemployment spikes for Black women. I’m reminded of the many times in American history that white working class people have abandoned people of color when they feel economically threatened. One example from out past: the New York draft riots of the Civil War.