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Arkansas

OverBurn

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19. How devastatingly sad, but 100% fucking true.

Reply to BradBo (Reply #2)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:31 PM

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Arkansas Farmers Begin Destroying Their Own Crops! [View all] LiberalArkie 17 hrs ago OP

FAFO we can do it 17 hrs ago #1

And they would vote for Trump again if they could. Just not a black woman. BradBo 16 hrs ago #2

How devastatingly sad, but 100% fucking true. OverBurn 14 hrs ago #19

Oh, man, if only there was a way to avoid the entirely predictable consequences RockRaven 16 hrs ago #3

All this happened in rural America even before the Great Crash of '29. flashman13 16 hrs ago #4

I know it may be a little satisying to point and say, "FAFO". Climate Crusader 16 hrs ago #5

Good luck with that, they are in for some serious psychic pain when they realize how much they were conned Blues Heron 16 hrs ago #6

We have spent the last 30-40 years reaching out to these folks, mwmisses4289 16 hrs ago #7

That is exactly what they say about us. Climate Crusader 15 hrs ago #10

There's an underlying animus that is enthusiastically expressed against farmers here. littlemissmartypants 14 hrs ago #16

I remember in the '70's and '80's moniss 14 hrs ago #20

And this is just Arkansas. The problem is national in scope. patphil 16 hrs ago #8

When Rome used to invade and conquer, one of the first things was to burn the crops to make the populations LiberalArkie 16 hrs ago #9

That's a good question. I think the people who have caused this haven't thought that through. patphil 15 hrs ago #11

I think that if Khrushchev was still present, everyone would know. As Russia still hates the U.S. with a passion we LiberalArkie 15 hrs ago #13

Big Ag going to buy up those family farms duckworth969 14 hrs ago #15

So, we need a wizard to give brains, heart, and courage to people who appear to have none. Perhaps they just sleep. patphil 12 hrs ago #23

And the department of Ag used to support local smaller scale farms growing high quality crops Botany 14 hrs ago #21

And yet food prices are still through the roof LT Barclay 15 hrs ago #12

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

Also of note about the land values is that moniss 14 hrs ago #17

MAGA is really owning the libs by bringing down grocery prices IronLionZion 14 hrs ago #18

The video never explains WHY commodity prices have crashed. Fil1957 13 hrs ago #22

Because our foreign grain buyers took their business elsewhere IbogaProject 6 hrs ago #24

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