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A small recompense for decades of jokes at Mexico's expense, eh?

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[–] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Mar A Lago's Revenge

[–] Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

Visited the US and now I'm just squitting Trumpwater out of my arse.

[–] FlyingCircus@lemmy.world 5 points 6 hours ago

I went to the States and got Pocahontas’s Revenge.

Mexico: "They certainly give us the shits!"

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 13 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Don't drink Mexico's water and don't eat America's lettuce.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

My bucket list just gets easier the older I get

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 15 points 17 hours ago

As a family owned and operated company, we are deeply concerned for those who became ill, their families, and the many Americans whose trust in the safety of their fresh produce has been shaken

What a fucking load of bull.

The likely reason for this outbreak is because you didn't provide toilets to your farm workers, who had to shit in the fields where they work.

Not even an apology for your workers, you PR scum.

[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 8 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

34 states? Isn't that the number felonies?

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 6 points 13 hours ago

The number of states/felonies, so far.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 48 points 1 day ago (10 children)

Who the fuck is voluntarily going to the US in the first place?

[–] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

A lot of soccer fans did.

[–] morriscox@lemmy.world 3 points 15 hours ago

I first thought that your username is PlaidBacon and had to reread it.

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[–] M137@lemmy.today 19 points 22 hours ago (10 children)

This is a valid thing even without the current diarrhea epidemic.
US food is objectively shit, the poor quality and ingredients that are banned almost everywhere else being only some of many reaasons.

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[–] Zephyr@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

Totally cool so long as they stop pouring untreated sewage into the ocean. It's a bummer for the surfers and the ocean life.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 117 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Lmao. I was at a grocery store the other day and buying some grapes. Some old 70+ year old lady said I shouldn't buy Mexican produce because they use poop for fertilizer. I laughed looked her in the face and asked her what she thought we used for fertilizer. She didn't like that.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

There's a way to safely use poop for fertilizer. You have to compost it to kill pathogens first.

Neither counties do this, and that's one reason people get e-coli, parasites, and other diseases

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

The Romans did not understand this. Archeology digs in Roman latrines concluded most Romans carried parasites.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 0 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

Were those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water?

I don't think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Pete Hegseth says germ theory is fake.

The concept of bacteria didn't appear until almost 800 years later. Romans used poop to fertilize fields, but did not treat it.

[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)

Just published today in The Guardian:

The Trump administration has killed proposed regulations for sewage sludge contaminated with Pfas and spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers, destroyed their livelihoods, killed livestock, polluted water supplies, and poisoned meat and food products sold to the public.

[–] bitjunkie@lemmy.world 16 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah he really cares about the heartland 🙄

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asked her what she thought we used for fertilizer.

70+-year-old ladies. It works so well because they're full of shit.

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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 day ago

Advertencia de Trumporrhea!

[–] whitedovebooks@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago

Is that ~~diarho~~ ~~diarrhoa~~ - The Shits?

RFK Jr's revenge.

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