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Arkansas

moniss

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20. I remember in the '70's and '80's

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Reply #16)

Fri Dec 5, 2025, 02:33 PM

8 hrs ago

wives would go out to the barn and find their husbands had hung themselves etc. Life insurance to try to leave their wives with something to live on after the farm got foreclosed. Some because of a sense of having failed the family generations before them.

I come from this background and know how deep and dire these circumstances are.

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Arkansas Farmers Begin Destroying Their Own Crops! [View all] LiberalArkie 11 hrs ago OP

FAFO we can do it 11 hrs ago #1

And they would vote for Trump again if they could. Just not a black woman. BradBo 11 hrs ago #2

How devastatingly sad, but 100% fucking true. OverBurn 8 hrs ago #19

Oh, man, if only there was a way to avoid the entirely predictable consequences RockRaven 11 hrs ago #3

All this happened in rural America even before the Great Crash of '29. flashman13 11 hrs ago #4

I know it may be a little satisying to point and say, "FAFO". Climate Crusader 11 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 11 hrs ago #6

We have spent the last 30-40 years reaching out to these folks, mwmisses4289 11 hrs ago #7

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

There's an underlying animus that is enthusiastically expressed against farmers here. littlemissmartypants 9 hrs ago #16

I remember in the '70's and '80's moniss 8 hrs ago #20

And this is just Arkansas. The problem is national in scope. patphil 10 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 10 hrs ago #9

That's a good question. I think the people who have caused this haven't thought that through. patphil 10 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 10 hrs ago #13

Big Ag going to buy up those family farms duckworth969 9 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 7 hrs ago #23

And the department of Ag used to support local smaller scale farms growing high quality crops Botany 8 hrs ago #21

And yet food prices are still through the roof LT Barclay 10 hrs ago #12

Oh no! I'm being owned! BaronChocula 9 hrs ago #14

Also of note about the land values is that moniss 9 hrs ago #17

MAGA is really owning the libs by bringing down grocery prices IronLionZion 9 hrs ago #18

The video never explains WHY commodity prices have crashed. Fil1957 8 hrs ago #22

Because our foreign grain buyers took their business elsewhere IbogaProject 51 min ago #24