cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/44641840

Machia voted for Trump, drawn by promises of border control and national security. “We didn’t want drugs or gangbangers,” he said. But what he didn’t expect was losing some of his most dedicated employees to immigration arrests.

“It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

LOL. Idiots

  • FollyDolly@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    ·
    7 days ago

    Ah yes, making America Great Again. By bringing us back to a time period in which everyone in the household worked on the farm. Kids didn’t go to school during planting and harvesting. Ditto for milking season. Better pump out six kids so you can have farm hands!

  • Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    edit-2
    7 days ago

    HAHAHAHA! Hire some MAGA fuckers to help you out. The real shame, the asswipes hiring the illegals should be prosecuted too.

  • Primax@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    296
    ·
    9 days ago

    You have to be a unique kind of stupid to profit from illegal labour and vote to have illegals deported.

    • Optional@lemmy.worldOP
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      73
      ·
      8 days ago

      To be fair, they have been targeted very precisely with a military psychological operation that is explicitly geared to striking fear into the vulnerable and building poor political choices off of that fear.

      Yes, they’re incredibly arrogant, violent, and stupid, but MAGA (and it’s prequel; Brexit) works off of fear and not much else. Maybe if they really like country music I guess that could be a thing. Or flags. It sure as hell doesn’t work off of reason or logic, obviously.

    • Catma@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      39
      ·
      8 days ago

      Yea but like that one trans athlete won a race and the bitch that finished 5th was blonde so like, cant have that

    • JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      21
      ·
      8 days ago

      Most of the crime from illegal migrants is from farm labourers, they should certainly have expected them to be targeted.

  • 0li0li@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    158
    ·
    edit-2
    9 days ago

    Yeah, because Vermont had so many issues at the Canafian border… and “gangbangers” are such a big problem in rural areas lol

    GET FUCKED.

    • viking@infosec.pub
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      4
      arrow-down
      84
      ·
      8 days ago

      Exploiting how? They were paid employees. Employed by idiots, obviously, but that in itself is not exploitative.

      • Stern@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        101
        ·
        8 days ago

        If they’re milking their own cows at 4 A.M. and complaining that there’s no migrants to do the work, then one has to wonder if it’s because they couldn’t hire a citizen at the rates they were paying. If they can’t hire a citizen at the rates they’re paying well…

        • viking@infosec.pub
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          arrow-down
          59
          ·
          8 days ago

          …it means that citizens are too far above manual labor. Still doesn’t necessitate exploitation.

          • breecher@sh.itjust.works
            link
            fedilink
            English
            arrow-up
            47
            ·
            edit-2
            8 days ago

            It doesn’t necessarily mean that at all, that is your own personal opinion, not fact. Pay people a decent livable wage and they will perform your manual labour.

              • JcbAzPx@lemmy.world
                link
                fedilink
                English
                arrow-up
                12
                ·
                8 days ago

                Obviously not. That’s why they can’t hire people that aren’t at risk and exploitable.

                • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works
                  link
                  fedilink
                  English
                  arrow-up
                  12
                  ·
                  8 days ago

                  This is why they want to fill the tech sector with h1b migrants. If they lose their job, they have a narrow window to find another corporate sponsor, or they get deported. This makes even the well paying, white collar, market exploitable in the same way we exploit migrant labor for farms.

      • Bravo@eviltoast.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        24
        arrow-down
        1
        ·
        8 days ago

        “A red is any son-of-a-bitch that wants thirty cents an hour when we’re payin’ twenty-five!”

      • bradorsomething@ttrpg.network
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        6
        ·
        8 days ago

        This doesn’t feel like a genuine question, because it’s an open secret that a majority of american restaurants, farms, and construction outfits run on migrant labor at below minimum wage. I personally work in construction in Oregon, and I’m well aware of this, even hundreds of miles from a boarder.

        • viking@infosec.pub
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          7 days ago

          I’m not American, so other than random articles I see shared on various social media of questionable reputation, I don’t know. So yes, it’s a genuine question.

  • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    102
    ·
    8 days ago

    Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump, the recent crackdown has prompted a deeper reckoning within his community

    Umm, okay, no sympathy then. Burn.

    • ianhclark510@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      34
      ·
      8 days ago

      Imagine being so dedicated to a politician/political party that you’re no willing to make a change that costs you 0$ to save your family business

    • Zexks@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      33
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      edit-2
      7 days ago

      This is exactly when the interviewer should have looked right in their eyes and said “so you didn’t learn a god-damn thing” then “enjoy your udders” then left.

  • noride@lemm.ee
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    102
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    9 days ago

    Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump

    Maybe if he just offers the leopards a little more face…

  • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    100
    ·
    edit-2
    8 days ago

    “It’s scaring the farming community,” Machia admitted. “We didn’t think they’d come for the people who help us milk cows.”

    You’re the cow now, Trump milks these rubes who don’t care what he says or does until it affects them.

    This article is focusing on the wrong issue, forget the “woe-is-me-poor-farmer” BS. The real tragedy is the countless workers, ya know the ones that ACTUALLY do the labor that are jobless for justifiable fear of being called a terrorist invader and get a trip to an El Salvadorian prison.

    Boo hoo, the workers you were exploiting can’t work. Too fucking bad. Do it yourself at 4 AM, it’s quite literally and explicitly what you voted for.

    Is America finally great again ya fuck?

    • vortic@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      arrow-down
      2
      ·
      8 days ago

      I agree with you about what the real issue is. That said, this kind of article is important. Remember that MAGA can’t empathize with someone unless they identify with that person. To MAGA, the struggles of immigrants are unimportant so focusing on them is targeting the wrong audience if we want to change minds. Highlighting the struggles of people MAGA can identify with might actually be able to change some minds.

      • Tja@programming.dev
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        27
        ·
        8 days ago

        Dude, the guy in the interview said he would vote for trump again anyway, no amount of identification will help those kind of people.

        Just hope they have the day they voted for, and bless their heart.

      • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        15
        ·
        8 days ago

        The UK did the same thing just a few years ago and got the same results. The farmers and conservatives complained about it in the same words and tone. People were saying this exact scenario would happen in the USA. That’s all dismissed as fear mongering and they voted for it anyway, getting the same results and complaining in the same way. It’s stupidity playing on repeat.

      • Bravo@eviltoast.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        8 days ago

        Remember that MAGA can’t empathize with someone unless they identify with that person. To MAGA, the struggles of immigrants are unimportant so focusing on them is targeting the wrong audience if we want to change minds.

        More Americans need to watch The Grapes of Wrath.

      • Zexks@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        9
        ·
        8 days ago

        They can’t empathize with people period. Even when it’s one of their own. This will not trigger empathy in any other magas.

    • whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      29
      ·
      8 days ago

      It’s hilarious because it’s the same shit as Brexit. At its core it’s racist policies that amount to “we don’t like brown people”. Sometimes you need to watch the house burn for people to learn.

  • nyctre@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    67
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    8 days ago

    So you are… Checks notes 2200 miles away from the border. I feel like even if we disregard them voting for trump and just judge them based on that being their main voting issue, they’re dumb as fuck, aren’t they?

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        13
        ·
        8 days ago

        It is kinda crazy how easy it seems to convince people the safest time in American history is the most dangerous.

      • conditional_soup@lemm.ee
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        8
        ·
        edit-2
        8 days ago

        Dude, fox news has crammed rural folks’ heads with so much terror, fear, and propaganda that they straight up believe that our cities- the very cities fox broadcasts from- are wartorn hellscapes brimming over with kiddie diddlers, drugs, and random violence. I used to work in a rural community with people that rarely went down to the central valley, and one dude in particular who watched Fox like he was gold medalist in it was always super freaked out anytime he/we went down to the valley. One time, he went to Modesto with another co-worker and, after they walked past one dude going the other way in a hurry, was like “holy shit dude, that was scary, I thought I was going to have to shoot that guy.” Second co-worker was like “dude, wtf is wrong with you, that guy was clearly just in a hurry”, but this clown swore that he felt their lives were in imminent danger.

        • Septimaeus@infosec.pub
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          4
          ·
          8 days ago

          I wouldn’t proceed with them armed, but that person would benefit from seeing how nice people are in urban areas

    • breecher@sh.itjust.works
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      23
      ·
      8 days ago

      Never understimate the power of bigotry as a political motivator, in particular among the uneducated. Trump and his oligarch cronies certainly doesn’t.

    • pno2nr@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      8 days ago

      No he’s near the Canadian border, which he was told was a major route for fentanyl.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    61
    ·
    9 days ago

    Knowingly using undocumented workers, complaining about not having a visa program to continue taking advantage of migrants he degrades, and would still vote Trump, too. I hope they get bird flu from a big face full of cow mucus.

    • toy_boat_toy_boat@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      9
      ·
      edit-2
      8 days ago

      still gonna be funny when this quote is the hook for the next big country song

      edit - maybe someone should have been paying more attention to those rich men north of richmond :S