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US farmers say Trump’s $12bn package not enough to undo damage from tariffs (www.theguardian.com)

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Thousands of farms set to go bankrupt as grain farmers in particular hit by trade disruptions caused by price hikes

Donald Trump, having promised to “NEVER LET OUR FARMERS DOWN”, appeared to come through for them this month when he unveiled a $12bn aid package. Industry leaders say thousands of farms will still go bust this year.

While the US president has vowed to increase domestic farm production, and even claimed this formed a “big part” of his plan to lower grocery prices for Americans, many US farmers are grappling with mounting financial issues – compounded by Trump’s agenda.

Grain farmers, in particular, have been hit by trade disruptions caused by tariff hikes, and $11bn of the US Department of Agriculture’s Farmer Bridge Assistance Program will go to row-crop farmers. Trump’s trade war with China has hit soya bean farmers the hardest, as China bought 54% of US soya bean exports last year, according to the American Soybean Association.

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[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 5 points 1 day ago (11 children)

I agree, but using language like "inbred hicks" is counterproductive if you want their side to start seeing ours as the voice of reason. I'm no less angry, disgusted, frustrated, etc., but try not to reinforce their brainwashing regarding our side.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (10 children)

"We have to coddle the dumbest people in society until they choose to make the correct choice that they are responsible for making, but if we coddle them then they feel validated and never like the idiot they are, so they will never change"

Call idiots idiots, inbred hicks should take offence and grow as people, coddling Nazis makes them feel like their worldview is valid.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You must understand that people in deep red states have had structural barriers to their education purposefully placed there which make it difficult to grasp issues that require abstract critical thinking. This is not me looking down my nose, this is a fact.

This is made doubly difficult it's not about what's actually happening in their day to day that determines how they vote, Republicans have created an identity and entrenched it with their sense of self, making an attack on the ideology an attack on your their place in the world.

Does that make them right? Absolutely not, but in order to cure we must first understand.

[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Do we blame the regular German citizens who embraced Nazism for embracing Nazism?

I get it, but there isn't a way to educate the willfully ignorant.

You just have to let these people know they are on a path twoards killing their neighbors and you are ready to fight and kill them in defense if necessary.

[–] KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago

I'm not saying they have a right to be like that, I'm saying you're wrong about the cause.

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