this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2025
338 points (95.2% liked)
Political Memes
8985 readers
2371 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
No AI generated content.
Content posted must not be created by AI with the intent to mimic the style of existing images
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
Not just Mexican food...
You go to the back of any local restaurant, regardless of cuisine, and chances are, there is a Mexican cooking the food.
I see on other social media complaining of Indian immigrants doing Deliveroo or Uber. Who's going to be doing those then? It is the same result that happened with Brexit. Eastern Europeans left UK, and there is shortage of construction workers and truck drivers.
As well as working the fields, in the US, producing US food.
I think its something like 70% of farm laborers in the US have now just quit, vanished.
So we're gonna have a famine now, or just replace migrant laborers with imprisoned slave labor, because US farms absolutely cannot afford to operate by paying a wage that would convince nearly any actual 'legal citizen' American to do the work.
('legal citizen' in quotes because apparently citizenship can now just be revoked for... any arbitrary reason)
Shit's extremely difficult, complicated, and dangerous.
Its a fucking crime we call that 'unskilled labor', fucking no way, picking and harvesting as fast as US farms demand is absolutely a complex and difficult skill, the kind of thing that people can and do have competitions of.
Yeah I really could've picked any food but Mexican is so iconic & universally liked. But when indian places start shutting down pretty sure my SO will riot.
Not necessarily Mexican, but Latin American for sure.
Solid correction, thank you.
I know it's fairly pervasive everywhere, but I'm in Houston. Most of the restaurants here would have to go out of business.
Shout-out to a fellow Houstonian!