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• N0t_5ure@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ragland is a soybean farmer in Kentucky and he has been hit hard financially this year, mainly due to China being the biggest buyer of soybeans. Tariffs have halted the market.

  He explained:

  • It’s tough when you lose 25% of your market suddenly. And that’s the reality of the trade board and the retaliatory tariffs that have came from China against our soybeans. Soybeans are America’s largest agriculture export. We do a great job producing them and the world uses a lot of soy. China is the largest user. They use 61% of all soy consumed around the world. And here in this marketing year, the soybeans are being harvested. We have not sold a single bean to China, and normally they would be purchasing robustly right now, right in the middle of our harvest season.*

  Ah, another farmer reaping what he has sown. Face, meet leopard.

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  • resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    To be fair, how’s a farmer to know that he would reap what he’s sown?

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• T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If only he had a playbook spelling out all the horrible things he would do

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  • ChetManly@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Like a project that would be enacted in, say, 2025?

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    • T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yup! If only such a playbook, or as you put it, existed that spelled out all the awful things he would do

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• FistingEnthusiast@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have absolutely no problem with Trump supporters offing themselves

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  • DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, I could say “but they’re fellow Americans”, but I honestly don’t see them as fellow Americans because I don’t believe you can be a fascist and an American simultaneously.

    They act like our enemies, so they are. And I don’t cry when my enemies die.

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• sturger@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This person has enough foresight to predict disaster now, but not 12 months ago when he was in the voting booth?

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  • TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    most people can’t predict 12 days from now.

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• DarkDecay@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Thoughts and prayers I guess

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• BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So, a fire sale?

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• DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  He should chat with a fellow soybean farmer like Treasury Secretary Scott Besset, a mega millionaire who shares his pain and has already put a bid in his farm.

  To help out a fellow farmer you see.

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• DarkFuture@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Welp. Bankruptcies and suicides is what they voted for. So that’s what they’re going to get.

  Decades of them not giving a flying fuck about anyone else has left me with exactly zero sympathy for them.

  Have fun suffering and dying. I’ll be over here in my deep blue state with the 5 or 6th largest economy on the planet continuing to live.

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