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‘We Voted for Trump to Fix the Border. Now We’re Milking Cows Alone at 4 A.M.’ – Vermont Farmers Face Harsh Reality as ICE Raids Hit Home (thesarkariform.com)

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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

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[–] Primax@lemmy.world 259 points 1 day ago (6 children)

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

[–] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 105 points 1 day ago

Not unique, unfortunately, but very common.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 66 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] Catma@lemmy.world 33 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

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

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[–] 0li0li@lemmy.world 142 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

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

GET FUCKED.

[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 77 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (2 children)

They have imagined a threat (there isn't one) so they can imagine they are in danger or persecuted (they aren't), so they can imagine they deserve a savior (they don't), who they imagine Donald Trump to be (he most definitely isn't one).

I'd say it's a cult, but I doubt most cults even require this level of mental gymnastics.

[–] toiletobserver@lemmy.world 30 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

Allow me to introduce you to most religion.

[–] Sterling@lemm.ee 29 points 22 hours ago (3 children)

Is a religion not just a cult that really took off?

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[–] carotte@lemmy.blahaj.zone 106 points 20 hours ago (11 children)

oh no, you lost access to the people you were viciously exploiting because of your racism?

well boo fucking hoo

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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 91 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

“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?

[–] Vorticity@lemmy.world 20 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

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 23 points 14 hours 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.

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[–] noride@lemm.ee 88 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Even though Machia says he would still vote for Trump

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

[–] Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de 31 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The tears are seasoning

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 72 points 20 hours ago

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[–] flandish@lemmy.world 59 points 1 day ago

what did they think .. wait. yeah. they’re not capable of thinking.

[–] nyctre@lemmy.world 58 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] TammyTobacco@sh.itjust.works 50 points 12 hours ago (4 children)

The guy is worried about gangs, yet lives in rural Vermont. What a fucking idiot.

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[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 23 points 12 hours ago

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

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[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 52 points 18 hours ago

"We voted for racism, not poverty and hard work! We don't want these jobs - they're for the spi... I mean for those people." --MAGA.

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[–] Inucune@lemmy.world 43 points 1 day ago (4 children)

You could hire Americans at living wage...

Oh no, I said the 'other' quiet part out loud.

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[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 39 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

Don't worry, Dustin Machia, fifth-generation dairy farmer from Sheldon.

Sell your farm to Farmco Inc: their robots will milk your cows.

Buy an overpriced house in the city to live, maybe one with lots of drugs and gang-bangers.

Make sure you support Trump's election bid in 2028, and/or vote for Donald Trump, Jr, lest a satanic Democrat moderate who defeated AOC by just a hair wins.

If you get age related health problems, look to RFK, Jr.

Remember the days when Americans and Canadians could cross the Vermont-Quebec border with relative ease? Those days are gone, and much of Canada, and perhaps a third of America, now hate people like you.

[–] Blackmist@feddit.uk 39 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Stop moaning. It can't possibly be hard work, because you pay a pittance.

[–] jaemo@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 hours ago (5 children)

It almost sounds as though this labour was chronically undervalued and absolutely taken for granted. If I strain my ears, hard, I can almost make out the dawning realizations.

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[–] LordWiggle@lemmy.world 35 points 3 hours ago

We voted for nazism and deportation, but didn't think it would affect us and our undocumented workers. Trump his first term was economically really bad, but Trump said it was the best and I trust him more than facts and numbers so I voted for him again, but didn't think he would fuck up the economy even more than before. I support the tariffs on China, but I didn't think it would affect the price of fertilizer I import from there, so now my farm is going bankrupt because China now doesn't want to buy my product anymore with the counter tariffs and they were my only customer. But I completely support Trump and fully trust him. Just from a cardboard box under the overpass from now on.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 34 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

"We voted for trump..." = you deserve whatever you get

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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 34 points 19 hours ago

Guess who he will vote for next election. Nothing like repeatedly jamming a stick in your spokes.

[–] ramsgrl909@lemmy.world 34 points 6 hours ago (4 children)

It's strange. I live in rural VT and whenever i bike around you see Trump signs on a lot of farm fields. But then you read the newspaper and you read about ICE detaining legal employees at farms and the farmers being upset about it.

I genuinely don't understand.