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> You are, as long as you're not brown

I’m brown. I’m fine. This administration is at war with Americans who aren’t rich.

My taxes are being cut. I’m buying investment cropland on the cheap from idiots who voted for him to trash their livelihoods. They’re mostly white. But they’re not rich.



> I’m buying investment cropland on the cheap from idiots who voted for him to trash their livelihoods.

I don't understand this sentence.

Are you saying you are researching sellers' voting records, then buying the farms of the ones who voted for Trump?


> you saying you are researching sellers' voting records, then buying the farms of the ones who voted for Trump?

I’m buying cropland from creditors. They can sell it because the farmers are behind on their loans. They’re failing to make payments because we’re in a trade war.

As an ethical limit, yes, I look up the property owner and have only been buying if they’re registered Republican. That doesn’t mean they voted for Trump. (Though they’re all in heavily Trump-voting precincts.) And I don’t think people should lose their farms just because of how they voted. But it does increase the chances I’m not profiting from someone who had nothing to do with a mess they found themselves in versus someone who sort of brought it on themselves.


Isn’t the trade war only a few days old?


Anything smaller than the largest factory farms have been fighting for survival for an entire generation, sometimes longer.


There was one in the first term too. Farmers suffered quite a bit if I remember correctly.


Thank you for doing the lord’s work.


I’m doing work that makes me money. It’s entirely orthogonal to my skin tone. My point is this administration isn’t helping poor white men, the folks who voted for him, he’s just advantaging those who were lucky enough to start this imperial transition with capital on hand.




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