Comment on DOGE cut 20% of APHIS the agency that protects U.S. agriculture and now the screwworm parasite that wipes out livestock has returned to the U.S

• ThanksObama@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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  • snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYTQ7__NNDI

    Favourite scene of all time. I don’t think Cleavon Little knew it was coming and was genuinely laughing.

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    • AzuranAurora@piefed.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It was completely genuine, as the “you know… morons” part was adlibbed by Wilder. Little was already visibly struggling to hold a straight face as is, so when Wilder added that last part it made him crack. The film crew decided to keep that take in the movie because of how funny it was, but as the scene transitions you can see Wilder look towards the film crew as he wasn’t sure if they would redo the scene because of it.

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      • yakko@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Letting comedic geniuses adlib on film should be the most common get rich quick scheme on Earth.

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• rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If you utterly dismiss farmers as incorrigibly stupid rather than trying to talk with them, they will never change. If you leave agricultural workers to the wolves while the fascists pretend to have their backs, will they support you or the fascists?

  Did you know most of the majority-black counties in the USA are rural areas in the South that vote overwhelmingly for Democrats? Are they also ejeets that deserve to get their cows screwed?

  What about the people who get screwworms in their injuries? That’s gonna be the poor bastards who get employed to work with the livestock. Who works in shitty underpaid farm labour? Poor whites, black people, immigrants. People who have few other choices.

  Snobbery against rural areas is just classism. It’s how Republicans could get such a grip on them in the first place. Go ahead and only struggle amongst educated people in the cities and scratch your head when when your country stays fascist. Watch the rural-urban divide get wider.

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  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    This is a really bad take on the situation dude.

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    • arrow74@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yeah none of this is a surprise. Trump has done what he promised. I told many conservatives this, and they just refused to believe it. Or some even dismissed some of the things Trump said “as just politics” claiming he had no intent to keep his crazier campaign promises.

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      • starelfsc2@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        It’s just the standard conservative play-by-play of It’s not going to happen -> it’s not happening-> maybe it is happening but it’s not our fault -> it is happening but it’s too late to do anything about it. Alternatively replace step 3 with “but the dems do it too!!”

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      • nullspace@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Anything else they just slap on a thought-terminating TDS label and move on.

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  • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They’re entitled welfare queens (that absolutely refuse to acknowledge their welfare because they’re entitled) that vote consistently against everyone’s best interest so they can keep growing garbage corn that we turn into garbage fuel that destroys engines. Fuck farmers. Monoculture bullshit fucking the soil.

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    • rambling_lunatic@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Are the folks employed by the owners, the ones who are personally at risk of getting screwworms in their wounds and at risk of losing their jobs so bosses can keep up profits, entitled welfare queens? They’re poor workers like you.

      And what of the black farmers in Tennessee? They overwhelmingly vote for the Democrats. Do they also deserve parasites in their cattle?

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      • edible_funk@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        They deserve what they voted for, farmers overwhelmingly vote for republicans.

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