Original title: ‘Catastrophe’: Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red Nebraska town

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    52 minutes ago

    Human suffering? Chance at being smug? The libs are going to love this! If only everybody listened to them…

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      33 minutes ago

      Question, do you ever have anything else but “libs” on your mind? They’re all you ever talk about and it’s concerning how much they live rent-free in your head.

  • Inucune@lemmy.world
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    12 hours ago

    Why are all these people who voted for Trump the pedophile pushing 300 pounds?

    Maybe if they put the fork down they’d have some extra money in this self inflicted emergency.

    Not sure how long someone can survive on their own fat reserves.

  • BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz
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    Have COMPASSION! These Good Americans thought ONLY Trans kids and Brown people would be Affected! If they had KNOWN Trump would Ruin Their LIVES too they STILL would have Voted for Him! But STILL you Must have Compassion!

    -Chuck Schumer!

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    Well it sure is a good thing SNAP basically doesn’t exist anymore, otherwise these brain dead morons, these wayward souls, they’d have a chance to be tempted into becoming profligate hypocrites in another way!

    You see, God, Trump, they’re the same thing, and this is all a good thing, because now they’ll have a chance to prove themselves before the sacrificial altar of capitalism, just as Jesus wanted.

    Just uh, start a business or something, in the midst of a rapidly worsening economic depression, can’t be that hard, right?

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      1 day ago

      Ironically, a decent chunk of the most successful businesses out there actually did start in an economic downturn, however I suspect survivorship bias is playing a role there.

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        You don’t need to suspect that, you need to be 1000% sure of that.

        Even in good economic times, what is it, like 90% of newly started businesses fail in a year or two?

        Yeah, the ‘start your own business!’ advice is yet another laughable boomerism, easily dismissed by a casual glance at any data from the last 50 years, but no, no, they know better than reality, donchaknow?

        Just… yeah, I’m sure all the banks are really just itching to give out a $250,000 business startup loan right about now.

        Not like bank failures have been steadily climbing, not like the credit markets are seizing up, bond markets going fucking haywire.

        No no no, everything’s just fine.

        … I suspect people are going to be very shocked to discover the differences between a recession and a depression.

        History is apparently stupid though, learning from it is evidently a social faux pas… we just love continuously having to learn what mistakes look like by slamming our faces into them with reckless abandon.

  • Nomorereddit@lemmy.today
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    13 hours ago

    Ah yes, the nostalgic story played every week.

    “My enemy admits to being wrong and stupid, therefore we were always right!”

    Thanks bytonbikes for bringing us this moldy take!

    ( Ill now return to my dinosaur chicken nuggets.)

  • kudra@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    Reading the article, seems a major reason this is happening is actually climate change, which of course these knuckleheads don’t believe in 🤦

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      It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can’t really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.

      Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump’s incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn’t see a recession coming, they’d likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.

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        Beef that we can’t really export anymore because carnism is fundamentally unsustainable and literally destroying the planet.

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        I also read on another thread: many of the plant workers are immigrants and there’s been increasing tension between the workers and the “native” townies. So there’s a decent contingent of town folk who are happy the plant is closing, and think their communities will adjust to living without the plant workers spending their money locally.

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      1 day ago

      I’ve always thought that was from the old military expression, 2 in the chest, 1 in the head.

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          23 hours ago

          It really wouldn’t surprise me if the shocker originated from that phrase as well. 20 years ago it was almost an unofficial salute.

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          23 hours ago

          Yup! They’ve kinda pulled back on it because of the heartless nature of saying it. “Double tap” also to a lesser extent. I can’t remember what the new verbage is because I’ve been out a long time now and it was just starting to change as I was getting out.

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              2 hours ago

              Collateral is one of my favorite movies of all time!

              Edit: there’s a puscifer song that references the Mozambique drill. “Conditions of my parole” it’s a great song on its own, but it’s a good story within a song.

  • bagsy@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Don’t worry, they are opening a Maga/Nazi concentration camp just up the road in McCook Nebreska. All the inbreds will just go work there instead.