While discussing the city versus rural conflict that is obviously coming, this is what a lefty had to say on the subject:
They think that whatever office job they have is skilled labor, because it required a degree from a liberal college, but farming is something that is so easy that anyone can do it with only a simple Google search. All they need to do is snatch away your land.
Communists always think this, which is why the Soviet’s agriculture was such a spectacular failure that the US had to sell them wheat every year.
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Stefan v. · January 5, 2025 at 3:46 pm
Something similar emanates from our 2ic, and therefore our Top Boss/Owner. He (2i/c) was a banker. Somehow he thinks reducing quality and increasing price while brutally suppressing wages is helping the bottom line. This involves replacing silver solder with brass wire and the cheapest powder flux and shorting us on oxy/acetylene. Or buying the minimum quantity of “special quality” round stainless bar and the cheapest tool inserts and shorting us in lube and cutting oils. There is always a lead time on making the hundreds or thousands of combinations of our niche products, and we were once well placed having a monopoly of designs and a fast delivery by way of stocking the raw materials and the half worked blanks that could be made into anything the customer wanted. Same with regularly scheduled preventive maintenance…the New Way® was to run the machines and tools until they actually fail, sometimes spectacularly. Then, instead of either hiring OEM service techs or competent equivalent, or loosening the leash to let us inhouse greasy monkeys fix it, months of delay as customers scream to have their orders filled and the domestic artisans lose motivation.
The entire system is necrotic. It cannot be fixed. To try is to be destroyed by systemic macrophages that only exist to protect the next higher system. This was fine when the higher system was somewhat healthy. Now….not. Even if the whole structure is smashed to atoms, which atoms can one use to rebuild, even if one has a plan and the intent? The foregoing system was already sick, but its strength was used to mis-shape the building blocks. Rebuilding with those would be exceedingly difficult. There have been many iterations of shaping and breaking and rebuilding, with one goal in mind. There are two opposing wills at work here. One will win.
Steve S6 · January 5, 2025 at 3:58 pm
They probably killed their house cactus.
Boba O'Really · January 5, 2025 at 4:28 pm
Lordy, where to start?
There are (at least) two things wrong with the assertions of the idiot who wrote that fantasy.
1. They have never tried to grow anything in their life
2. They have never, ever been “hungry for a little bit”
The stupid, it burns
Anonymous · January 5, 2025 at 4:31 pm
It might be true that most farmers were born into farming and in some manner inherit land but that does not mean it is easy.
For those who do inherit land and start farming they have decades of experience before they take over the family farm. A twenty year old farm kid has been out working and LEARNING since they were preschoolers. Learning about raising crops, raising livestock, weather awareness, mechanical skills to keep equipment running, finance to keep their farm afloat, aspects of the international markets they are part of plus other skills of which I have no idea.
Depending upon what the farmer raises, there is a physical aspect. The term “farm boy strong” has truth behind it. It is not the same as the office dwellers thirty minutes on the stair master or lifting weights to look pretty.
Farmers also need to have self discipline to work long hours when needed and the ability to accept and emotionally handle the unknowns of weather and markets. A Google search won’t give this mental stamina.
Henry · January 5, 2025 at 4:49 pm
That lefty is spectacularly ignorant. He has no idea what it’s like to actually grow enough food to feed a given population. Weather, pests, seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, yields, and the list goes on. The smugness conveyed by his college degree deserves to be rewarded with a few years living on an Amish farm ….
Michael · January 5, 2025 at 5:03 pm
I hear the same nonsense about farming and water purification and power production and power linemen.
Oddly all the above in my area are being mostly done by folks at or near retirement age. Their replacements are by and large from their own kids who decided to follow Dad’s career. Yep, these folks are ALREADY running short handed.
Not going to be funny when the power grid is down and all those “Internet Experts” and “influencers” are going to be in the dark with the rest of us.
GOT BITCOIN? LOL. Got EBT and or credit cards and banking? LOL.
Same issue when safe water isn’t available, or water is simply not being pumped for everybody’s homes and businesses.
Shits getting real in the base bones of society.
mike · January 5, 2025 at 6:38 pm
All this guy is going to snatch away is his own piece of some roadside ditch where his unburied carbon will be repurposed by the carrion eaters.
like we found out with the little people in the funny hats and black pajamas, if you burn out the farmers they will only take to the hills and fight on.
Anonymous · January 5, 2025 at 6:45 pm
How naive and clueless. Go ahead and “Google” it and try to “live off the land”, Grasshopper. You’ll soon learn that success in farming depends upon more than knowing how to plow and plant. Additionally, most city dwellers don’t have the stamina to work the fields all day. If a nationwide catastrophe actually happened, these types would be the first to perish.
jimmyPx · January 5, 2025 at 7:52 pm
The saying “You don’t know what you don’t know” is applicable here.
At a 50,000 foot view everything is easy but the devil is in the details.
This moron has obviously never been near a modern farm, oh and most farmers today have college degrees in agriculture science. The specialized equipment needed along with knowledge of weather, growing seasons, soil fertility, crop rotation, market fluctuations, etc requires someone to know WTF they are doing to be a farmer.
The funny thing is that his meaningless paper pushing job doesn’t really require alot of skill and I’m sure as we speak someone is planning to replace his job with an AI and/or robot.
KurtP · January 5, 2025 at 8:58 pm
Paging Dr. Dunning, Dr. Kruger-
You’re needed in the agricultural zone.
Sailor Paul · January 5, 2025 at 9:14 pm
… farming is so easy that Zimbabwe went from Africa’s Bread Basket to Save The Children in 3 years.
The problem as I see it is that when Brittany and Brayden move to the Upper State and start selling apples and jam at the craft fairs, using the bushes planted by 18th century settlers, they think they are farmers. They are not. They are grave robbers.
I’d love to see some inbred NY WASPs try to run fencing and fix a combine. A combine is a great substitute for a woodchipper for city people.
Trailer For Sale Or Rent · January 6, 2025 at 1:49 am
Simply put, that’s not how farming works.
Anonymous · January 6, 2025 at 8:04 am
Even if farming was “simple” and “unskilled”, getting that diesel to run farm equipment – or for that matter, fuel for heating/cooling and charging EVs – is not simple, unskilled, nor available in cities.
Tom235 · January 6, 2025 at 8:04 am
Even if farming was “simple” and “unskilled”, getting that diesel to run farm equipment – or for that matter, fuel for heating/cooling and charging EVs – is not simple, unskilled, nor available in cities.
Anony-mouse · January 6, 2025 at 9:21 am
I am a farmer. Today is was -4 F, with high winds….I was out the door by 04:30 to tend livestock, and I am a 64 year old female with arthritis. Yesterday two of us women rode horses for an hour through the woods and fields when it was 9F with 10-20 mph winds, for sport. I have broken my arm before during farm chores and finished chores before going to get it set. And the men do the harder stuff! They are under the tractor changing implements and doing repairs in freezing cold or mud and heat, or butchering bulls. My husband is 4 years older than me and I can’t keep up with him. We have had city folk here before and they don’t keep up, to put it mildly.
Tsgt joe · January 6, 2025 at 9:28 am
I’ll have to pass that on to my cousin who is a 4th generation farmer. He learned to farm at his father and grandfathers feet, they in turn learned at great grandfathers feet. Mixed in with that are a couple of degrees in agriculture earned at Mississippi colleges.
J J · January 6, 2025 at 9:39 am
Another thing this leftard doesn’t understand- if it gets so bad that you have to produce your own food you will also have to defend your crops from other leftards who want to eat without having to do the work.
JC · January 6, 2025 at 9:49 am
“Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bad Dancer · January 6, 2025 at 9:56 am
Because that worked out so well at CHAZ/CHOP
Banzaibob · January 6, 2025 at 10:17 am
You would be lucky to get within a hundred yards to take out those folks in the country. One other skill not mentioned here is the farmer/rancher ability to use a firearm. It is necessary to use firearms to hunt for game or take out predators so I’m sure they will have skills.
As Inspector Callahan would say; Do you feel lucky, do you punk.
SoCoRuss · January 6, 2025 at 12:10 pm
So maybe its time for a real Reality show to prove a point. We could get this fucktard on a show and call it the “The Socialist Farmer”. We put him and any commie friends on a farm and they grow their own food and if any surplus they can sell it or give it away, their choice. BUT they MUST stay on the farm and can only eat what they grow and store. NO outside support of any kind will be allowed.
The ratings viewing totals will be unbelievable as they turn from farming into full mad max.
Don in Oregon · January 6, 2025 at 12:46 pm
Unless you grew up on a farm, there’s a 1% chance you have the work ethic needed for farm work. It’s not just working hard, it’s doing what needs to be done, when it needs to be done, without exception.
favill · January 6, 2025 at 4:45 pm
The author probably grew some green onions inside his home after re-planting the stems. Thinks he can grow acres of food for his family. “Because anybody can do it.”
Aesop · January 6, 2025 at 8:51 pm
If just all the farmers in the U.S. disappeared, the resulting global famine that resulted would be biblically epic.
Leftard dipshit doesn’t realize that most people farming aren’t families, they’re corporations, and that the business is not running a pumpkin patch, it’s precisely controlling watering, fertilization, and harvest, using machines that cost more than houses do in L.A., relying on GPS positioning to plow, plant, and harvest, and that he couldn’t get the hang of it with 10 years’ headstart and intensive handholding by the state and federal agricultural department experts.
Dunning-Kruger at play here, with all the subtlety of Krakatoa erupting.
What a maroon.
TRX · January 6, 2025 at 9:32 pm
> Soviet’s agriculture was such a spectacular failure that the US had to sell them wheat every year.
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…which they mostly didn’t bother pay for. When it wasn’t an outright gift. Though the entire existence of the Soviet Union, Soviet bread was subsidized by American taxpayers.
Because charity is great, when you’re doing it with stolen money.
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