lol. Wait until a head of lettuce costs $14.
this post was submitted on 19 Nov 2024
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It'll be because democrats are trying to raise the minimum wage and let trans people be represented in libraries.
/s, cuz I get in trouble for not relaying sarcasm well
It's because sarcasm doesn't work well over text.
YOU DON'T WORK WELL OVER TEXT!!!
This place is no different from reddit. Users too dumb to read obvious sarcasm. Pathetic we have to use /s on such blatant posts.
Would that be Trump voting farmers?
Good, fuck them for voting against their own interest and deport the second-third generatiom Mexicans thar voted for Trump.
Leopards are going to be eating well the next few years :>
Would these be the same farmers that voted for Trump? 🤔
"Ah sure ahm tired of all the mean tweets, but he tells it like it is!"
Yeah, if Trump deports all those people, who will we exploit for cheap labor?
Prisoners
To deport someone, the receiving country has to agree to accept them. Mexico will accept their own nationals, and possibly those of some other countries, but they won't accept everyone. What do you do with people who's country refuses to accept them back (this has happened)? And what do you do with them when you can't determine where to send them back to? You've already promised they won't be let loose, so you'll put them into containment facilities - all very hastily-built, because there are so many people you've accumulated so quickly.
But you have more people than you know what to do with, and they're all just idling in the camps, and the nation is desperate for workers. The temptation is too great: instead of spending all this money maintaining the camps, you can offset the expenses by renting them to various industries as cheap labor.
It's still expensive, your people still resent spending money on them, and you still want to deport them, so you don't spend much on food or medicine or clothes or sanitation. Winter comes, disease rips through the camps, and masses die - but that's not your responsibility, these things happen ...
Just a reminder that most of the concentration camps Germany built weren't extermination camps, they were slave labor camps but the administration didn't care if the prisoners died of disease or injury, they'd just round up more people to feed the German machine.
They'll strike a deal with some other country to take them. Then issue contracts for private chartered flights at $10k/person, given to their best buddies.
Yeah, I'm absolutely opposed to this deportation thing, it's cruel and if anything I feel that we should be encouraging more immigrants to come here, but the "it'll be bad because it'll get rid of all the people who do these jobs american citizens don't want to do" line does sorta gloss over the fact that if the job conditions are so bad that if people have literally any other option the role goes unfilled, something probably needs to be done to improve the conditions of that job, especially if it is as vital as food production.
Is it you and me? I bet it's you and me.
Well I'm hoping white people but we know how well that worked in Georgia and Arizona, we found out they're just too soft to work those jobs despite being told they would be taking their jerb back
The migrant workers are often subjected to working conditions that would violate federal worker protection laws, but because they are in the country illegally, they don't report the poor working conditions out of fear. That's exploitation, through and through. No worker should be expected to tolerate such poor treatment, regardless of skin color.
Let the face eating begin!
The FO phase can finally begin
It happened in 2016 and they found out and they went back to the trough for more toadstool.
This is the rare FA[FAFO]FO.