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Arkansas

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7. We have spent the last 30-40 years reaching out to these folks,

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 12:18 PM

12 hrs ago

only to be metaphorically punched down, sneered at and spat upon. No more. What little empathy or sympathy I had for them dried up a long time ago.

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Arkansas Farmers Begin Destroying Their Own Crops! [View all] LiberalArkie 12 hrs ago OP

FAFO we can do it 12 hrs ago #1

How devastatingly sad, but 100% fucking true. OverBurn 10 hrs ago #19

All this happened in rural America even before the Great Crash of '29. flashman13 12 hrs ago #4

I know it may be a little satisying to point and say, "FAFO". Climate Crusader 12 hrs ago #5

We have spent the last 30-40 years reaching out to these folks, mwmisses4289 12 hrs ago #7

That is exactly what they say about us. Climate Crusader 11 hrs ago #10

I remember in the '70's and '80's moniss 9 hrs ago #20

And this is just Arkansas. The problem is national in scope. patphil 11 hrs ago #8

Big Ag going to buy up those family farms duckworth969 10 hrs ago #15

And yet food prices are still through the roof LT Barclay 11 hrs ago #12

Oh no! I'm being owned! BaronChocula 10 hrs ago #14

Also of note about the land values is that moniss 10 hrs ago #17

MAGA is really owning the libs by bringing down grocery prices IronLionZion 10 hrs ago #18

The video never explains WHY commodity prices have crashed. Fil1957 9 hrs ago #22

Because our foreign grain buyers took their business elsewhere IbogaProject 1 hr ago #24