Original title: ‘Catastrophe’: Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red Nebraska town
The local bar tender is doing good this Christmas at least.
Dumbasses.
Daaawwwww… son, that’s just too bad.
Thanks, Trump.
Oh noooo
anyway
Reading the article, seems a major reason this is happening is actually climate change, which of course these knuckleheads don’t believe in 🤦
Carnism is a major cause of the climate apocalypse, not a result.
It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can’t really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.
Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump’s incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn’t see a recession coming, they’d likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.
I also read on another thread: many of the plant workers are immigrants and there’s been increasing tension between the workers and the “native” townies. So there’s a decent contingent of town folk who are happy the plant is closing, and think their communities will adjust to living without the plant workers spending their money locally.
“think” is a rather generous phrasing of what they’re doing.
Please don’t rain on this lib parade with a story of the actual victims.
Beef that we can’t really export anymore because carnism is fundamentally unsustainable and literally destroying the planet.
Yeah, and growing crops uses up vast swathes of land and tons of water, so what? We’re human and we need food, and we have to pay a price for that. The trick is to balance the benefit with the expense.
You aren’t looking for a solution, you are only interested in promoting your personal agenda, which people here aren’t interested in. If you don’t want to eat meat, that’s your free choice, but your self-righteousness is cringy.
Yeah, and growing crops uses up vast swathes of land and tons of water, so what?
This seems more like a story about global warming killing jobs than anything else.
Of course, Trump’s obscenely pro-oil stance is very Leopards Eating Faces.
This isn’t a result of global warming.
Carnism is a primary cause of the climate apocalypse.
I’ve always thought that was from the old military expression, 2 in the chest, 1 in the head.
That’s called the Mozambique Drill. The more you know!
Yup! They’ve kinda pulled back on it because of the heartless nature of saying it. “Double tap” also to a lesser extent. I can’t remember what the new verbage is because I’ve been out a long time now and it was just starting to change as I was getting out.
As seen here. :)
I guess it depends on how you want to treat them, it’s nice to have options though
Don’t worry, they are opening a Maga/Nazi concentration camp just up the road in McCook Nebreska. All the inbreds will just go work there instead.
Some will. The ones that can’t keep a roof over their heads will become slave labor.
I was born in Cozad, yeah not surprised they managed to fuck up their own place.
This isn’t some sudden new thing. Tyson has shut a bunch of its plants down (at least 8 or 10) over the last 2-3 years. They still have over 100 left, it’s not like they’re going out of business or anything.
Tyson
they saw the profit in artificial scarity in beef prices, they are doing this on purpose.
they saw the profit in torturing and murdering the defenseless
They’ll all blame Biden.
Probably because he continued all of Trump’s policies and didn’t do shit to stop him.
Well it sure is a good thing SNAP basically doesn’t exist anymore, otherwise these brain dead morons, these wayward souls, they’d have a chance to be tempted into becoming profligate hypocrites in another way!
You see, God, Trump, they’re the same thing, and this is all a good thing, because now they’ll have a chance to prove themselves before the sacrificial altar of capitalism, just as Jesus wanted.
Just uh, start a business or something, in the midst of a rapidly worsening economic depression, can’t be that hard, right?
Ironically, a decent chunk of the most successful businesses out there actually did start in an economic downturn, however I suspect survivorship bias is playing a role there.
You don’t need to suspect that, you need to be 1000% sure of that.
Even in good economic times, what is it, like 90% of newly started businesses fail in a year or two?
Yeah, the ‘start your own business!’ advice is yet another laughable boomerism, easily dismissed by a casual glance at any data from the last 50 years, but no, no, they know better than reality, donchaknow?
Just… yeah, I’m sure all the banks are really just itching to give out a $250,000 business startup loan right about now.
Not like bank failures have been steadily climbing, not like the credit markets are seizing up, bond markets going fucking haywire.
No no no, everything’s just fine.
… I suspect people are going to very shocked to discover the differences between a recession and a depression.
History is apparently stupid though, learning from it is evidently a social faux pas… we just love continuously having to learn what mistakes look like by slamming our faces into them with reckless abandon.
time to get a real job then.
Yup yup, best find those bootstraps and start pullin’, reaaal hard.
Oh what, you’re obese and crippled and old and tired?
… did I stutter …?
