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also almost no one actually works as a farmer anymore, a combination of heavy automation and overreliance on seasonal labor from undocumented immigrants has caused a near total collapse in the number of people actually full-time employed in agriculture. Oklahoma has seen an over 95% decline in the number of people working as farmers since I was born, even though it’s still a major sector of the state economy. It just doesn’t require very many people anymore, and the ones it does require are mostly only there for a few months. This also means that the service workers who supported all those farm laborers are no longer needed, so their jobs also go away, and you end up with a countryside full of dying small towns that have maybe 15-20 paying jobs available total and only still exist because the inhabitants are too poor to move. The independent small farmer is also basically dead as a career, there’s only a few hundred thousand of them left in the entire country and almost all of them have a day job or other source of primary income. The depopulation of the rural areas of my state over the last few decades has been really dramatic, there’s multiple towns I drive through regularly when going to visit family that don’t have main streets anymore because every building was abandoned and then fell over. The people who do live there survive on the informal economy (drugs, illegal salvage of abandoned buildings, etc.; I used to know a guy who made a decent chunk of money stealing sand from recreational beaches on the lake and reselling it as sandbox sand) or on government money like Social Security. What this has meant in practice is that the state’s two large cities have been getting redder as Republican voters flee small towns for the suburbs, and rural areas have been getting redder because the Democratic Party has so completely given up on them that they mostly don’t even bother to contest elections out there anymore. It’s really frustrating because the Dems had an ironclad hold on rural OK politics from the New Deal era until the mid-2000s and were even still reasonably competitive on the local level well into the Obama administration, but they don’t even try anymore, they’ve just conceded all that ground to the GOP.
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Mister Bates posted:also almost no one actually works as a farmer anymore, a combination of heavy automation and overreliance on seasonal labor from undocumented immigrants has caused a near total collapse in the number of people actually full-time employed in agriculture. well yeah, youve just explained why the dems don't waste their time with those areas, they don't have any money.
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Shear Modulus posted:well yeah, youve just explained why the dems don't waste their time with those areas, they don't have any money. Its not like Republicans care, though. Also, the US electoral system being what it is and states gerrymandering as much as they can means most people are irrelevant.
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that's a right wing Twitter account that has taken a 6 second clip way out of context, and everyone seems to be falling for it.
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spankmeister posted:that's a right wing Twitter account that has taken a 6 second clip way out of context, and everyone seems to be falling for it. It’s not out of context the whole video has been posted and that’s just the highlight.
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Shear Modulus posted:what's the context He was talking to some governors. https://twitter.com/seattletimes/status/1475605523118632971?s=21
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spankmeister posted:that's a right wing Twitter account that has taken a 6 second clip way out of context, and everyone seems to be falling for it. biden's secret plan for federal lockdowns
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Biden's secret plan is to let Republican states kill off their own supporters
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BALK BALK BALK
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Shear Modulus posted:this is just san francisco, which was populated almost entirely by imported tech workers who are now all getting work from home giga and moving somewhere cheaper. SF is not populated almost entirely by tech workers lol
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Rah! posted:BALK BALK BALK
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croup coughfield posted:now we're cookin lmao how Sleepy Joe continuing the whole Trumpian "let the states figure it out / do what they want" approach to deal with a national pandemic.
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etalian posted:lmao how Sleepy Joe continuing the whole Trumpian "let the states figure it out / do what they want" approach to deal with a national pandemic. im not sure thats strictly a trump thing. federal support for the provinces has been declining steadily for decades now, through increasing privatization and reduction of federal funds for steady state operations and disaster relief. if balk is what you want, look no further than the federation no longer serving local and regional power interests from its own purse. thats the entire point of membership in the federation. here's some general jack t ripper guy talking about the anticipated and feared consequences of limited american imperial power projection. its written in a very "ideology-rich" style, so you have to navigate around that, but it applies both internally and externally.
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Once we finally break up does everyone get a free pass to choose what team they wanna join?
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spankmeister posted:that's a right wing Twitter account that has taken a 6 second clip way out of context, and everyone seems to be falling for it. come on man
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BAE OF PIGS posted:Once we finally break up does everyone get a free pass to choose what team they wanna join? i dont think its going to matter
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the most important question facing americans today is which branded warlord to swear fealty to. im thinking monsanto state enterprises but im open to suggestion
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you better get the gently caress outta here, this is a unilever town
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does pepsi still have the soviet ships?Fame Douglas posted:Its not like Republicans care, though. Also, the US electoral system being what it is and states gerrymandering as much as they can means most people are irrelevant. The best thing about this for Republicans is that they don't need to care. They just gotta keep their mouths shut and the poor rural areas will reliably vote for them. The idea of Democrats being not just apathetic, but actively hostile to the rural poor is so engrained that so long as the gerrymandering remains in place, the RNC doesn't have to do poo poo in most areas.
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croup coughfield posted:you better get the gently caress outta here, this is a unilever town Procter & Gamble rules! Piss off!
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mars is 100% owned by like one old lady
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Real hurthling! posted:mars is 100% owned by like one old lady Mother is not to be referred to as "one old lady", cretin
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 tfw your wikipedia page says you have 45 billion dollars and the only picture of you is modern art
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croup coughfield posted:the most important question facing americans today is which branded warlord to swear fealty to. im thinking monsanto state enterprises but im open to suggestion ill be driving a tank for Uber defending the city from roving bands of chud deathsquads from the hinterlands
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Real hurthling! posted:
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They tried to make her retire but there was no one who could fill her shoes. I guess you could say Mars needs Mom.
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Real hurthling! posted:
The one smart rich person
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her actual face is all over google images she's not some secret identity supervillain
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which part of the us will become the kangarat murder society
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My heart wishes i could join the communi-bear silo state My brain reminds me I'll just be another screamer in the mad-lands
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Cup Runneth Over posted:choose your clan You can't post this without also posting their battlemech lineup.
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Nestle would just be a fleet of illegally obtained, previously-used-for-warcrimes timberwolves J&J would have just one mech but it's made of cyanide
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Cup Runneth Over posted:choose your clan HARLAN “COLONEL” SANDERS HEAD OF THE KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN FAMILY A PEPSICO CLAN SUBSIDIARY
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they're gonna merge, consolidate, hostile takeover, etc. its gonna be Unilever vs Nestlé in the end anyway
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spankmeister posted:they're gonna merge, consolidate, hostile takeover, etc. its gonna be Unilever vs Nestlé in the end anyway vs you say? 
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i mean the "blue states" are usually "a couple of blue cities surrounded by blood red chudlandia," the idea that you'll be safe in oregon because portland is hilarious unless you live within portland (which is basically going to be white liberals hoping minorities with guns protect them) and even then it doesn't matter much. seattle white people turn into heinrich himmler 2: heinrich harder when homeless people or extending the light rail come up.
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