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Oct 10Liked by William Hunter Duncan

They like the fields as flat, featureless and sterile as the spreadsheets they live their lives by.

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The mystery is, which I didn't get into with this piece, is how in hell do they make any money purchasing mono-crop ag fields at $15,000 per acre? I suspect the answer to that is, cash. With no debt, and federal subsidies such that you can make more money with a bad crop, it is a guaranteed passive income stream , aka plundering the Treasury.

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Oct 10Liked by William Hunter Duncan

It's the taxpayer funded subsidies. I don't know if I mentioned this to you, Hunter, but last summer on my road trip, I saw hundreds of fallow fields. This is not typical for these behemoths. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm happy that there were no GMO crops in those fields, haha. But something stinks worse than the CAFOs they operate.

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Oct 10Liked by William Hunter Duncan

The second most profitable crop in the system is a crop failure that you collect govt subsidized crop insurance on.

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Oct 10Liked by William Hunter Duncan

There will be a tiny percentage of folks who care about these issues and take action to change to a more rural, close-to-the-land lifestyle. However, from what I see just in my small-ish town, most people are completely wrapped up in their post-modern lives of carting their children around to organized sports 5-6 days a week (I only get them for 30 minutes once per week), and constantly being entertained, whether through their food, tv, live concerts, or "vacations." I have grave concerns about how these people will behave if there is any kind of full-blown crisis, whether it is real or it is machinated by the psychopathic tyrants.

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Oct 10Liked by William Hunter Duncan

Alexandra Fasulo says these farm owners want to sell to people who respect the land but that hasn't been the case in my experience. Along the I-95 in VA people can't wait until the HoV lane gets to them so they can sell their farmland for top dollar to move to Florida. Same goes here in Western PA, farms sell left and right to turn into subdivisions within commuting distance of Pittsburgh. They too want the big $$ to move away to somewhere gated to get fat on margaritas and eat out every night.

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True probably for most of them.

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Oct 25Liked by William Hunter Duncan

There is another “enclosure” happening currently in most heavily Neoliberal societies. wealth has accumulated at the top rapidly , accelerated by the “free money” printed to bail banks out of 2008. During and after Covid investors had nothing to spend their cash money on but they could buy assets. Land is the ultimate asset - once owned by huge investment bodies they are free to create agricultural shortages and surpluses as they see fit to ensure they get the returns they think they deserve.

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Oct 10Liked by William Hunter Duncan

They have learned to split the tasks up that subvert our rights to our property: ridiculous building codes will make construction cost prohibitive, if you can't build to code you can't insure. This will be employed in North Carolina, and people will be forced to leave. The agencies basically prepare the way for the elite / globalists / billionaires to buy on the cheap, only they can conform to the expense. It's same as the consolidation that happened during the Depression in many industries.

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Whatever progressives can do to drive those dirty MAGA off the land. Maybe Appalachia is where the rebellion begins?

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Oct 10Liked by William Hunter Duncan

It should be. Many of these actions dissolve the “contract” between the governing and the governed. We have forgotten that.

https://culturalcourage.substack.com/p/helene-a-post-constitutional-world

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Oct 10Liked by William Hunter Duncan

The irony here is that big ag now hates fences. When they acquire a new property the first thing they do is tear down the fences, level the hedgerows and fill in every ditch they can get away with.

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Fences are for feed animals, ditches interfere with combines, and both potentially interfere with profiting off the feed animals called human.

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excellent, but please stop using the word "fossil fuels". they are hydrocarbons. there is no

such thing as a "fossil fuel". ridiculous! the idea that plants and animals somehow bury themselves

50,000 ft (or more) underground and magically turn into petroleum is preposterous.

The Great Taking (Webb) is coming!

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Most “fossil fuels” are the result of plants, fish and animals settling in the bottom of seas, which over a long time get subducted underground. Much of North America was underwater 60mil years ago, which is why we have so much oil, natural gas and coal.

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