• Gammelfisch@lemmy.world
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    The vast majority of cattle ranchers voted for the MAGA shitheads. I have sympathy for the cattle suffering from the screwworm and wish they could stampede the shit out of the ranchers.

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    If you’re in the states and you’re worth less than 50 million, we will all be living in third world poverty, too soon.

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    doubles down to blame Biden.

    Ok, sure. Maybe. But Biden isn’t president now. Don’t point fingers. Do something productive. Don’t cut the parts of government that are supposed to help with this kind of stuff.

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      You expect rationality and sanity where there’s none. But, one begs the question, didn’t you pay attention at all previous year and half? Nothing has changed, nothing will change, it’s the Biden’s fault for literally anything bad… And ofc “crazy far left lunatics”. Zero accountability, zero responsibility. President is not well, even if we forget about him being a pedophile and a criminal and a crook, he has a dementia and can barely keep eyes open… Sleepy Donny… It’s hard to fucking watch.

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      No, this is a direct result of Musk cutting USAID. It’s not even a first term consequence, this is fully on this current Trump administration, within this electoral cycle.

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    You know all those feral hogs Cody at Some More News has been freaking out over for like a decade now?

    They’re the vector.

    That… they’re almost certainly how the worm is popping up in multiple places that are too far away for direct connections to previous specific locations to make sense.

    … I feel bad for Cody’s blood pressure and hairline.

    Anyway, beef ain’t gonna be on the menu much longer, boys.

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      Well, I actually like the way the beyond burger patties taste. Maybe now they’ll actually have a shot when they don’t cost more than the actual meat.

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        I mean, I think I tried one once, thought it was ok, definitely didn’t hate it… but yeah, yep. Going to be an interesting shock to the American diet.

        I’ve been saying unironically need to figure out how to do the bug pizzas from CyberPunk 77 for a while now… because … meat just is going to get more and more expensive…

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      It’s more likely than you’d think. I’m old enough to remember when John McCain and Mitch McConnell blamed the 2008 collapse on Jimmy Carter’s FHA reforms. Also remember getting an earful about how FDR turned a minor recession into a Great Depression by abandoning the good governance principles of Calvin Coolidge, and that we were still paying the economic price to this day.

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    Brooke Rollins doubled down on claims that an “open border policy” under the Biden administration was to blame.

    Nevermind, that Trump’s ICE is not checking the flies documentation any more than Biden’s ICE was, Trump also lifted a ban on cattle imports from Mexico, and so they’re the ones with the open border to fly larva policy.

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      Ketamine Musk and his merry band of DOGE misfits eliminated the department tasked with tracking and stopping screwworm flies. And now we have screwworm flies. Yet it’s Biden’s fault?

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      they’re the ones with the open border to fly larva

      The thing about those damned larval flies is that they keep crossing the border regardless of what laws you put in place.

      Ultimately, you need a regulatory regime that actually polices for them. And you need an agricultural, medical, and research system capable of detecting and culling the flies as they’re found.

      The idea that you can just throw up a Big Beautiful Wall and end the risk of cross-border disease spread is - aside from being nakedly fascist bordering on genocidal - totally bullshit pseudoscience.

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        You have to take care of screwworms far from the US border. This was all part of the gutting of USAID. DOGE saw it was a foreign aid program operating through the UN, didn’t bother understanding it, and just cut it along with the rest of USAID. But hey, something happening in Central America could never affect the US, right?

        This outcome was predicted for at least the past year, since the program was cut. Will ranchers who lose cattle finally punish Trump and Republicans at the ballot box for doing something monumentally stupid? Or is Elon just going to be used as a convenient (if somewhat deserving) scapegoat?

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    Here’s my take as a military person.

    Okay, fine, it’s Biden’s fault you have screw worm in the States.

    He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?

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      Hungarian here, Fidesz blamed previous prime minister Ferenc Gyurcsány for all of its incompetence, up until the Russo-Ukrainian war started.

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      thats the problem. they dont know how to fix it so they blame others who are powerless to fix it and that gets them off the hook in their view

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      He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?

      Gotta vote Republican harder this time. There’s still too many Democrats in government. Once we’ve gotten rid of all the Democrats, then we can implement the magical policies that will solve all our problems.

      That is, of course, assuming there aren’t any fifth columnist liberal voters who try to obstruct us. We might need to get rid of them, too.

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      He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?

      That’s the thing, they won’t solve it. All they know how to do is blame blame blame blame blame

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      He’s not in power anymore. How will YOU solve it?

      Simple. He’ll wish it away the same way he did Covid. When that fails he’ll have RFK start telling the world that Ivermectin kills them.

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      I mean, as a military person, aren’t you currently involved in a war with Iran that’s Obama’s fault? Conservatism is fueled by personal greed at every level, from the most powerful to the poorest voter empowering the people they think they share a tribe with in the expectation prosperity will trickle down. They all lack personal accountability and share a consensus that any negative outcome from an action that was clearly their’s, it will be blamed on whoever is currently a convenient target for their disappointment. Run out of real people to blame? Oh, it was the devil.

      You’ll get no solutions because they don’t care about the hubris as long as it’s not directly affecting them. Flesh eating maggots have no impact on Trump’s day to day life, he doesn’t give a fuck if they infect his constituents or destroy their herd, he knows they’ll still vote for him next time he runs.

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          Well when the US attacks whichever nation you’re serving, remember, it was Biden, or Obama, or maybe your leader’s fault for forcing Trump to have to do that. /s

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      Are you saying, are you implying Stalin’s glorious and perfect leadership caused this, failed to forsee this?

      I’ll be reporting you to the company political officer.

      … uh that’d be approximately the MAGA ‘military’ response.

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          Fortunately indeed… I keep trying to tell people that you really do not want to fuck with the Canadian military, they consistently punch above their weight, and have a bit of a historical track record of that to boot.

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    Any time the Dow ticks up, regardless of the reason - that’s the result of Pumpkinhead’s financial genius, ability to make great “deals”, and probably because of his 16 inch girthy schlong.

    Anything bad - that’s Biden. Also probably Obama. And Bill. And Hillary. Maybe even Carter.

    Nothing can ever fail because a Republican was in charge or because conservative ideology was in play. If things fail under Republicans, it’s because they were RINOs and/or they didn’t go hard enough on the conservatism.

    It works just like Communism that way.

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      “If conservatives become convinced that they can not win democratically, they will not abandon conservatism. They will abandon democracy.”

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      George Orwell’s work might be overrated, but his depiction in 1984 of how The Inner Party blames everything bad on either the military enemy of the week or Emanuel Goldstein is a prime example of pop-cult leadership.

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      I’m sorry but can you please explain to me how exactly an RBMK reactor can explode? No? I didn’t think so!

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      Hold up. “Communism doesn’t work because republicans do things” is an overlappping belief between communists and republicans, also. Which I would argue is somewhat of an admission of something.

      But yeah its definitely “Republicans can’t fail, they can only be failed.” Which is a great accountability system.

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        I mention the Communism thing because that’s almost exactly the same way the Communists tend to talk about Communism. Or tended to.

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          My overlap between the two has always been “the reason authoritarianism isn’t working is because its not authoritarian enough”.

          This is also something capitalism does with ‘privatized/corporate authoritarianism’. “The reason the economy isn’t working is because the plutocrats are not given enough free reign over society”

          Like at the end of the day there’s two groups of thought: “the public is good at decision making” or “the public is bad at decision making” and pretty much everything falls out of that core asumption.

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    Watching the US collapse from the outside while enjoying bottomless margaritas & nachos is def the way to go

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    Stuffing industry bribes into a bag Damn bro, I can’t believe Biden is doing this.

    Edit: have you tried Nature Supplement Corporation’s all natural cattle health crystals?