New vegan struggle just dropped

    • notaleph [she/her]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      As always, the ones who deserve it are furthest from it

            • mars [none/use name]
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              3 years ago

              Never heard someone refer to the impoverished, mostly immigrant underclass of landless, at-will, underpaid, often migrant workers on farms as "farmers"

        • notaleph [she/her]
          hexagon
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          3 years ago

          Ehh, its a heavily consolidated field, thats heavily reliant on exploitative labour, and has been the wedge voting bloc in the coalition.

          Im not shedding too many tears here. Rich get richer yada yada

            • notaleph [she/her]
              hexagon
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              3 years ago

              ahh, a non australian i see. The conservative Liberals hold coalition with the even conservativer Nationals to form the Liberal National Party which has for the past... 10? years? has held power and still blamed the fuckups on everyone but themselves, if they even acknowledge the fuckup in the first place, if they havent already spun the fuckup as a win.

              • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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                3 years ago

                Oh, right. Not an aussie no.

                But my point was that if we are going to build socialism it's probably not a good idea to alienate the people who provide us with food.

                "Love me some farmer's tears" is just an objectively bad take that we should not be applauding. The vast majority of farmers on the planet are not corporate scum wading in money.

                • mars [none/use name]
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                  3 years ago

                  Idk like every LATAM revolution screws farmers by attempting to redistribute land away from them to the people actually working the land, the exploited. I'm fine with that.

        • MarxistMaths [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          You can use this logic to defend almost any business owner. Farmer = person who owns farm, exploits labour for profit.

    • MarxistMaths [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Great take actually, fuck farmers - along with every other land and/or business owner. :marx-joker:

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      But at least in the US, farmers are literally landlords. Even relatively small farmers - I knew a guy who inherited his "small" family farm... he did some work on it but it was mostly exploited laborers. Dude owned like 4 SUVs and took 2-3 vacations a year to Europe or the South Pacific for weeks at a time.