🙄 sigh. Good luck man, maybe get outta that area if that’s possible. West coast seems to be ok (just don’t go inland).

Oh, same. Absolute favorite.

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I admittedly can’t imagine people wanting such a thing. They really are of a different fabric it seems, hurt people hurting people. I guess all the rest of us can do is support letting people know there’s another option and helping them escape that trap if desired.

They don’t want to live like us, fostering the mind over breaking down the body. So be it, I guess.

$10 says the teachers tried. Getting blood out of a rock is hard, never mind getting imagination into one.

Missing the point, dumb.

We need food, the jobs were available and I want people doing the work to have rights too. I don’t want to pick strawberries. I will gladly pay someone to get some for me, if the price is right.

Are you a “brown person”? I guess I am as well.

I mean mush actually telegraphed that, “there will be some economic pain”…

Fuckin’ glad I’m not your son, my dad was a real man who actually put the work in to help me become a caring and effective man, not watch me founder and mentally shrivel.

I mean look at your comment. No shame, in spite of the supposed first hand experience. I feel for you, and for this country we both call home. Your crops, or your neighbors crops, may very well rot in the field while ripe, until the factory farm decides nearby decided to pay pennies on the dollar and take your land from you.

All legal, all what we progressives didn’t want. You’ll understand after 4 years of further hardship in your community. Competition and a free market are good, if they are fair.

Man dirk, I’m embarrassed for you and your family 🤦

Apparently I can’t curse at you & your low energy understanding of the world, last comment removed.

I stand by what I said before, I believe all workers should be paid fairly, have access to things like bathrooms & water, and be able to easily come and go as they need & desire.

Try getting better nutrition, it’ll help with your energy problem.

I hear what you’re saying. What boring people to be afraid of novel cultures.

Anyway, fine, close the border and make it so only US citizens can do all the labor nobody wants to do. Watch how much doesn’t get done; the economics behind work and such don’t change rapidly. I’ll bet most small farmers get destroyed with fields full of rotting, previously ready to harvest crops because nobody can offer a citizen enough to do the work, in a way that still yields a profit.

The billionaires with factory farms and prison labor will likely win out again.

I agree that it’s low-hanging… nope. Bailing on that one.

I do think quality farm work is critical for our health as a nation, and I don’t mean economically.

Can we automate it? Maybe. Till then, someone’s gotta do it, and for those who go into it, there’s gotta be a floor on job quality, seemingly basic things like bathroom and water breaks.

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Sure, the unborn work for that too.

I just wonder what is so scary about immigrants to people?

Why is there such an obsession with immigration?

Do you want to pick strawberries? It’s back-breaking and sucks.

E: thanks for all the replies. I wrote this while pissed about the results, it was supposed to be rhetorical.

At this point, work on helping immigrant friends and neighbors however you can, whether by helping with immigration paperwork or "other"methodologies.

Sigh. Just an ally, but I’ll keep being one however I can.

Imagine one of my medical apps refusing to run because of adb…

“Fellas, find a woman who looks at you like this! Pay no mind to the quiet muttering afterwards! Do not fear the steadily shrinking fingers.”

I’ve been the dude to help at least twice in my previous life there. Yeah, we complain a lot. Oh well.

Good number of heavy lines to understand from his speech. “Most of us discover where we were headed once we arrive”… a philosophy I’ve built out of that was trying new things even when I thought I’d found the best, new places, restaurants, ideas.

Life’s all about the experiences, even the ones far off the beaten path.