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gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-11-26 2:23:47 PM  
Lol. New Republic?
 
mjjt [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-26 6:10:02 PM  
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OMG_ItAteEveryThing
2020-11-26 6:55:35 PM  
If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats
 
phrawgh [BareFark]
2020-11-26 6:59:23 PM  

OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats


The next two weeks will get ugly. X-mas? Good luck.

As far as agriculture, well, who's been running shiat the last 4 years?
 
mrparks
2020-11-26 7:00:55 PM  

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I laughed pretty hard at that one. Rare to see that level of edgelording in major print media.
 
Tarl3k
2020-11-26 7:04:22 PM  
Gee, it's almost like factory farms that have no incentive to grow good food is a bad thing...whoulda thunk it?
 
gar1013 [BareFark]
2020-11-26 7:04:26 PM  

OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats


Reading your post made me love it even more, sparky.
 
OMG_ItAteEveryThing
2020-11-26 7:10:53 PM  

gar1013: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats

Reading your post made me love it even more, sparky.


That's on you.
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:10:57 PM  

OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.


I enjoy Thanksgiving. Aside from covid, I meet up with family and eat tasty food, drink wine, and play euchre.

What should I read to dissuade me from enjoying these things? Why should I ruin something I like? Would the world be improved if we had our feast a week earlier or later? Called it something different?

The origin point of this day is irrelevant to the present. Let people have a day of enjoyment for farks sake. Life is shiatty enough without trying to turn turkey day into a day of mourning.
 
The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:12:44 PM  
Makes me feel even better for killing and consuming deer and ducks. Far more ecologically sound.
 
whatshisname [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:14:16 PM  

phrawgh: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats

The next two weeks will get ugly. X-mas? Good luck.

As far as agriculture, well, who's been running shiat the last 4 years?


Trump has had little to do with the highly subsidized American industrial farming system.
 
OMG_ItAteEveryThing
2020-11-26 7:14:38 PM  

Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

I enjoy Thanksgiving. Aside from covid, I meet up with family and eat tasty food, drink wine, and play euchre.

What should I read to dissuade me from enjoying these things? Why should I ruin something I like? Would the world be improved if we had our feast a week earlier or later? Called it something different?

The origin point of this day is irrelevant to the present. Let people have a day of enjoyment for farks sake. Life is shiatty enough without trying to turn turkey day into a day of mourning.


Awesome. Good for you.
 
aleister_greynight
2020-11-26 7:19:26 PM  

gar1013: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats

Reading your post made me love it even more, sparky.


Also gar1013: Giuliani was the best mayor NYC ever had.
 
phrawgh [BareFark]
2020-11-26 7:21:42 PM  

whatshisname: phrawgh: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats

The next two weeks will get ugly. X-mas? Good luck.

As far as agriculture, well, who's been running shiat the last 4 years?

Trump has had little to do with the highly subsidized American industrial farming system.


Trump blames politicians for not "fixing things" while they were in office all the time. Trump has been in office almost four years, so by his own metrics...

The thing with the Chy-na might have been less than helpful as well.
 
Bovine Diarrhea Virus
2020-11-26 7:26:33 PM  

phrawgh: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats

The next two weeks will get ugly. X-mas? Good luck.

As far as agriculture, well, who's been running shiat the last 4 years?


The agricultural industry didn't turn to sh*t in 4 years.  Clear cutting land. Overuse of water. Overuse of pesticides and herbicides. Disease vectors. Poor working conditions. We've been hearing about this for decades.
The agricultural industry has well-paid lobbyists to persuade (bribe) our politicians.  None of this is getting any better until we experience a collapse of our food supply. And by then, it'll be too late.
I'm just glad I'll be long dead before we experience the negative impacts of our farming industries.
 
LarryDan43 [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:26:34 PM  

phrawgh: whatshisname: phrawgh: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

Air travel is up this week. Thanks, plague rats

The next two weeks will get ugly. X-mas? Good luck.

As far as agriculture, well, who's been running shiat the last 4 years?

Trump has had little to do with the highly subsidized American industrial farming system.

Trump blames politicians for not "fixing things" while they were in office all the time. Trump has been in office almost four years, so by his own metrics...

The thing with the Chy-na might have been less than helpful as well.


Farms (actually the banks holding ag loans) had to be bailed out the last 3 years because of Trumps failed trade war. Only one of those was during Covid.
 
king of vegas [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:30:53 PM  
16 messages in this thread and no one has mentioned tariffs.
 
MattytheMouse [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:32:16 PM  
I ain't farking reading New Republic-as if I actually read articles anyway, lol-but I'm gonna guess that they don't have anything to say about tariffs, or the fact that we live in an economic system where farmers would rather urge excess produce than give it away for free to maintain market value.
 
gameshowhost [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:32:23 PM  

king of vegas: 16 messages in this thread and no one has mentioned tariffs.


You just lost The Game.
 
quatchi
2020-11-26 7:32:27 PM  
OK. I thought that was gonna be about how Trumps tariff war BS screwed America's farmers.

Turned out to be a rant against industrialized farming including the fear of a new bird flu and a plea for a revitalized EPA replete with banning of various chemicals.

Standard stuff.
 
MattytheMouse [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:32:46 PM  

king of vegas: 16 messages in this thread and no one has mentioned tariffs.


Hey, I posted about tariffs just as you posted this! What do I win?
 
snowshovel
2020-11-26 7:36:40 PM  
this is why i voted for trump. boy liberals are willing to take god given american holidays and turn them into political statements.
 
JesseL [BareFark]
2020-11-26 7:38:02 PM  
One nice thing about Thanksgiving, it emphasizes a lot of foods that you can source locally almost anywhere in the US.

Getting your holiday produce and meats from a nearby co-op is a good start on reversing some the mess our food supply is in.
 
mikalmd
2020-11-26 7:45:28 PM  
Put the blame where it belongs .. 60,00,000 idiots thought it would be a good idea to put another idiot in the white house to run one of the most complex economies in the world when he couldn't even make money from a casino .. And to top that off , the same idiots thought he did such a great job , they voted for him again ..
 
MattytheMouse [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 7:45:48 PM  

snowshovel: this is why i voted for trump. boy liberals are willing to take god given american holidays and turn them into political statements.


I bet you're the kind of person that the rest of the family quietly rolls their eyes at whenever you cluelessly go off at Thanksgiving dinner.
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 8:05:56 PM  

OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

I enjoy Thanksgiving. Aside from covid, I meet up with family and eat tasty food, drink wine, and play euchre.

What should I read to dissuade me from enjoying these things? Why should I ruin something I like? Would the world be improved if we had our feast a week earlier or later? Called it something different?

The origin point of this day is irrelevant to the present. Let people have a day of enjoyment for farks sake. Life is shiatty enough without trying to turn turkey day into a day of mourning.

Awesome. Good for you.


Huh. I expected you'd actually have some justification for shiatting on a holiday.

Guess you just wanted to play donald trump and shiat out a "nobody knows this but me, but did you know the pilgrims were assholes?"

Well, we all know that. And we don't care, because gravy is delicious.
 
Churchy LaFemme
2020-11-26 8:19:06 PM  
We gotta get them farmer folks off the welfares!
 
OMG_ItAteEveryThing
2020-11-26 8:19:48 PM  

Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

I enjoy Thanksgiving. Aside from covid, I meet up with family and eat tasty food, drink wine, and play euchre.

What should I read to dissuade me from enjoying these things? Why should I ruin something I like? Would the world be improved if we had our feast a week earlier or later? Called it something different?

The origin point of this day is irrelevant to the present. Let people have a day of enjoyment for farks sake. Life is shiatty enough without trying to turn turkey day into a day of mourning.

Awesome. Good for you.

Huh. I expected you'd actually have some justification for shiatting on a holiday.

Guess you just wanted to play donald trump and shiat out a "nobody knows this but me, but did you know the pilgrims were assholes?"

Well, we all know that. And we don't care, because gravy is delicious.


Argue with an American about traditions? I'm good.
 
OMG_ItAteEveryThing
2020-11-26 8:33:13 PM  

Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

I enjoy Thanksgiving. Aside from covid, I meet up with family and eat tasty food, drink wine, and play euchre.

What should I read to dissuade me from enjoying these things? Why should I ruin something I like? Would the world be improved if we had our feast a week earlier or later? Called it something different?

The origin point of this day is irrelevant to the present. Let people have a day of enjoyment for farks sake. Life is shiatty enough without trying to turn turkey day into a day of mourning.

Awesome. Good for you.

Huh. I expected you'd actually have some justification for shiatting on a holiday.

Guess you just wanted to play donald trump and shiat out a "nobody knows this but me, but did you know the pilgrims were assholes?"

Well, we all know that. And we don't care, because gravy is delicious.


And honestly, fark you for comparing someone who points out your holiday is built around white washing the murder of a continent of people, to an authoritarian.

Have a great weekend.
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 8:44:35 PM  

OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: If you enjoy Thanksgiving, maybe you should read about it a little more.

I enjoy Thanksgiving. Aside from covid, I meet up with family and eat tasty food, drink wine, and play euchre.

What should I read to dissuade me from enjoying these things? Why should I ruin something I like? Would the world be improved if we had our feast a week earlier or later? Called it something different?

The origin point of this day is irrelevant to the present. Let people have a day of enjoyment for farks sake. Life is shiatty enough without trying to turn turkey day into a day of mourning.

Awesome. Good for you.

Huh. I expected you'd actually have some justification for shiatting on a holiday.

Guess you just wanted to play donald trump and shiat out a "nobody knows this but me, but did you know the pilgrims were assholes?"

Well, we all know that. And we don't care, because gravy is delicious.

And honestly, fark you for comparing someone who points out your holiday is built around white washing the murder of a continent of people, to an authoritarian.

Have a great weekend.


My comparison was apt.

If you can't separate Trump's penchant for doing "nobody knows x but me" on common knowledge with his authoritarianism, that's your problem.

I didn't call you a fascist. I didn't say you had bad hair. I didn't say you raped your ex or put kids in cages.

I said you crapped out a runny pile of verbal diarrhea on Thanksgiving and presented it as some kind of informative post.

Reread your op. You are literally telling people they shouldn't enjoy a holiday and that if they do they are ignorant. I disagree. One can fully understand the history of Thanksgiving and still enjoy it without guilt. And fark you right back for trying to be a Debbie downer.

Life is shiatty enough. Let people have a farking day here and there to enjoy it. I consider myself a negative, glass is half empty kind of guy, but jfc.
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 8:58:59 PM  

OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Argue with an American about traditions? I'm good.


An american on an american website?

Who would have predicted that?

I don't go to german websites and tell them lederhosen are terrible and they should burn their accordions.
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 9:11:15 PM  
Not many people know this, but if you aren't a miserable fark every day of your life, you should do some research into how homo sapiens treated neanderthals.
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 9:24:02 PM  
In fact I have neanderthal dna, so if you don't have any you owe me 10% of your income for raping my great great great (etc) grandma. You're scum and should feel bad forever. And you can't have holidays or celebrations. They're all cancelled.
 
OMG_ItAteEveryThing
2020-11-26 9:25:40 PM  

Smackledorfer: Not many people know this, but if you aren't a miserable fark every day of your life, you should do some research into how homo sapiens treated neanderthals.


Funny enough, we don't even know definitively if we existed at the same time. Or if there was interbreeding, warfare, etc.

We do know that Thanksgiving was invented to white wash genocide and colonization though. Sorry that touches such a nerve. Enjoy your weekend. Don't farking travel.
 
JesseL [BareFark]
2020-11-26 9:30:33 PM  

OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: Not many people know this, but if you aren't a miserable fark every day of your life, you should do some research into how homo sapiens treated neanderthals.

Funny enough, we don't even know definitively if we existed at the same time. Or if there was interbreeding, warfare, etc.

We do know that Thanksgiving was invented to white wash genocide and colonization though. Sorry that touches such a nerve. Enjoy your weekend. Don't farking travel.


Everyone loves a good rationalization for being a dick, don't they?
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 9:43:02 PM  

OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: Not many people know this, but if you aren't a miserable fark every day of your life, you should do some research into how homo sapiens treated neanderthals.

Funny enough, we don't even know definitively if we existed at the same time. Or if there was interbreeding, warfare, etc.

We do know that Thanksgiving was invented to white wash genocide and colonization though. Sorry that touches such a nerve. Enjoy your weekend. Don't farking travel.


First of all, Ive never seen anything claiming we didn't coexist for a period.

Second, you miss the point. Feeling like shiat because of shiat your ancestors did is stupid.

I don't have a nationalist bone in my body. Attack americans all you want. What is your nationality, and how much do you mourn what your own ancestors did?

I'm german and polish. Afaict everyone came here after 1800 and before 1930.

I don't give a fark what happened with my ancestors before 1800, or what those countries did after 1930. Or what some of my homo sapien ancestors did to my neanderthal ancestors.

Why should I? I've got 99 problems but what my ancestors may or may not have done isn't one.

If you've got an actual argument to make, farking make it. Or go off somewhere to self flagellate for the sins of your grandparents. You do you. I'm going to eat gravy slathered turkey and play cards.
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 9:43:41 PM  

JesseL: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: Not many people know this, but if you aren't a miserable fark every day of your life, you should do some research into how homo sapiens treated neanderthals.

Funny enough, we don't even know definitively if we existed at the same time. Or if there was interbreeding, warfare, etc.

We do know that Thanksgiving was invented to white wash genocide and colonization though. Sorry that touches such a nerve. Enjoy your weekend. Don't farking travel.

Everyone loves a good rationalization for being a dick, don't they?


I can't tell which of us you are supporting :)
 
JesseL [BareFark]
2020-11-26 10:11:08 PM  

Smackledorfer: JesseL: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: Not many people know this, but if you aren't a miserable fark every day of your life, you should do some research into how homo sapiens treated neanderthals.

Funny enough, we don't even know definitively if we existed at the same time. Or if there was interbreeding, warfare, etc.

We do know that Thanksgiving was invented to white wash genocide and colonization though. Sorry that touches such a nerve. Enjoy your weekend. Don't farking travel.

Everyone loves a good rationalization for being a dick, don't they?

I can't tell which of us you are supporting :)


It's always good to step back for a moment and ask yourself "Am I being a dick?"

I'm this case though, you're not (IMO) the dick.
 
Smackledorfer [TotalFark]
2020-11-26 10:38:11 PM  

JesseL: Smackledorfer: JesseL: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Smackledorfer: Not many people know this, but if you aren't a miserable fark every day of your life, you should do some research into how homo sapiens treated neanderthals.

Funny enough, we don't even know definitively if we existed at the same time. Or if there was interbreeding, warfare, etc.

We do know that Thanksgiving was invented to white wash genocide and colonization though. Sorry that touches such a nerve. Enjoy your weekend. Don't farking travel.

Everyone loves a good rationalization for being a dick, don't they?

I can't tell which of us you are supporting :)

It's always good to step back for a moment and ask yourself "Am I being a dick?"

I'm this case though, you're not (IMO) the dick.


Cool. I agree on thinking about whether I'm a dick and whether I can justify it.

My goal here is nothing more than "fark what happened centuries or more ago, it's ok to have fun with family"

:)
 
electricjebus
2020-11-26 10:40:59 PM  
Yeah, that article read like something a teenage vegan communist would write.

The main thing to remember about US agriculture is that we're probably the most blessed people in the history of the human race when it comes to the ratio arable farmland vs population density.

We built cities on soil that would make farmers in other countries weep in envy.  We grow a ridiculous amount of food in the desert because, aside from the lack of water, California has a perfect climate to sow crops.  The Midwest has better soil and more water, if climate change causes us to shift agriculture back there we'll live with it.

Currently an entry level factory worker makes enough money in a week to feed himself, or herself, for a year if they're willing to cook their own food and live on rice, potatoes and a healthy amount of chicken/pork.  Some of that is due to subsidies... but the underlying fact is that we've got a ridiculous amount of good farmland for our population.

Remember, as a country the US wastes more food than most nations grow.  The meatpacking industry works on razor thin profit margins because they're selling a common commodity in the US, as such every single factory is close to going out of business at all times.
 
baron von doodle [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-26 10:56:41 PM  
Turkeys may be traditional, but US breeding has rendered them less flavorful and drier than modern US chickens... Which says a lot. My advice, ham.

Ideally, bone-in Frick's ham. Best ham ever.

Just a bit West of St. Louis, missouri.

https://fricksqualitymeats.com/produc​t​-category/bone-in-ham/

Their shiat is amazing.
 
gameshowhost [recently expired TotalFark]
2020-11-26 11:33:12 PM  

Smackledorfer: OMG_ItAteEveryThing: Argue with an American about traditions? I'm good.

An american on an american website?

Who would have predicted that?

I don't go to german websites and tell them lederhosen are terrible and they should burn their accordions.


Now that you mention it that's not a bad idea. I'm only trying to ~help~ My People.

/i prefer to identify as swiss but i've got too many german genes to get away with it
//damned accordions
 
electricjebus
2020-11-27 1:26:43 AM  

baron von doodle: Turkeys may be traditional, but US breeding has rendered them less flavorful and drier than modern US chickens... Which says a lot. My advice, ham.

Ideally, bone-in Frick's ham. Best ham ever.

Just a bit West of St. Louis, missouri.

https://fricksqualitymeats.com/product​-category/bone-in-ham/

Their shiat is amazing.


My assistant used to work at that factory.
 
AlgaeRancher [TotalFark] [OhFark]
2020-11-27 6:41:58 PM  

electricjebus: Yeah, that article read like something a teenage vegan communist would write.

The main thing to remember about US agriculture is that we're probably the most blessed people in the history of the human race when it comes to the ratio arable farmland vs population density.

We built cities on soil that would make farmers in other countries weep in envy.  We grow a ridiculous amount of food in the desert because, aside from the lack of water, California has a perfect climate to sow crops.  The Midwest has better soil and more water, if climate change causes us to shift agriculture back there we'll live with it.

Currently an entry level factory worker makes enough money in a week to feed himself, or herself, for a year if they're willing to cook their own food and live on rice, potatoes and a healthy amount of chicken/pork.  Some of that is due to subsidies... but the underlying fact is that we've got a ridiculous amount of good farmland for our population.

Remember, as a country the US wastes more food than most nations grow.  The meatpacking industry works on razor thin profit margins because they're selling a common commodity in the US, as such every single factory is close to going out of business at all times.


The key is to farm smart, not just cheap.

That requires some government involvement. Difficulty getting farmers to work together is like herding cats.
 
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