Kathryn Brightbill ✒️

Funny how that works

The lesson here (aside from it somehow looking like I'm wearing a wig): Ladies, never let a makeup artist you've never met talk you into a smoky eye and a nude lip. IT'S NOT FOR EVERYONE.

'Ridiculous': Kristi Noem's 28-year-old aide wasted millions on unusable ICE vehicles A former deputy to outgoing Homeland Security chief Kristi Noem saddled the department with millions of dollars in wasted funding for vehicles that cannot be used.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcem...

A Noem aide spent $3 million on pickup trucks emblazoned with the ICE name & logo, which ICE agents -- notoriously averse to advertising their presence -- will not drive, so they're just sitting in a lot, useless. The contract went to a Trump donor who owns a regional Chevy dealership.

I was burned in my support for the Iraq war, Trump's first presidential campaign, and Trump's second presidential campaign. Here's why I think this time I'm going to kick the proverbial football.

by Bret Stephens

We have successfully bombed a school, gotten 7 soldiers killed, disrupted the world economy, and replaced an 86 year-old supreme leader with his much younger, more hardline son who is more committed to building nuclear weapons. Operation Middle East Wing is all but complete.

by Donald J. Trump

This does, however, show how so many lefties are falling for Graham Platner's oyster hobby farm cosplay.

Yeah it stops being fun fast

People wouldn't have chosen work in factories if subsistence farming wasn't even worse

My family depended on our half acre garden and the orchards of family members to supplement food bought with income from crops and cattle. Mom still cleaned houses to make ends meet. This is not a serious person with serious experience.

My own body broke from farming at about 35. Not from “exploitation” (worked for myself) but because 50# crates of potatoes are heavy, and the only way to avoid demanding physical work in agriculture is to have someone else do it or to automate it.

I am sure this woman who wrote a masters thesis on going to raves had a nice time playing in the dirt on a World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms vacation.

There are tens of millions of people alive today who choose to work in literal sweatshops because it is preferable to real farm work.

Come down off that cross Dr. Hilary Agro, PhD, we need the wood.

With any luck we will one day talk about harvesting vegetables this way.

Labor saving technology is good, actually. I’m glad I own a washing machine and a dryer so I don’t have to spend a full day each week doing laundry.

This is the same woman who was trying to push the idea that the US having insufficient welfare spending was actually worse than subsistence farming. Extremely unserious.

Glad she enjoys farming. A lot of people also enjoy martial arts but societies that required you to do them to live also sucked.

Working conditions being good on a farm means it is, at best, a niche farm that does not produce the quantities of food necessary for our society

Also, was she picking by hand or using A DREADED TOOL?

Did she walk to/from the fields? I sure hope no motors were present anywhere or else wtf?!

Everybody's Amish and Mennonite farmer grandparents pass on their farms to their kids and retire to Sarasota for a reason!

The Highwaymen exist as an art movement in part because selling landscape paintings to tourists by the side of the road as working artists was vastly superior to farm labor, even if the pay was similar.

Yeah, I don't function well in heat, at all, so I'd be screwed

Definitely the anthropologist hobbyist, because PhD trumps experience 🙃

My grandfather had to muck outhouses and draw water from a well. He and his parents and his 9 (surviving) siblings were subsistence farmers and coal miners and lived in a log cabin (no AC).

No, it was not fun. It was not rewarding. It was deeply traumatizing at best and deadly at worst.

That whole Jeffersonian agrarian noble farmer thing was always bullshit propaganda by a guy who relied on slave labor!

You're totally a farmer now!

Even without exploitation, it's still back breaking work, and there's a reason why my grandparents sold their dairy farm and moved to Florida.

This is a straight up lie unless she's done nothing but dabbled in rich person hobby farming or went to a u-pick strawberry place for a fun outing.

*posting on a social media site whose existence only became remotely possible after the Renaissance, when the vast majority of human labor no longer had to be dedicated exclusively to food production*

"when has automation ever translated into more freedom for the working class?"

Oh my gosh, this is the “before private property people had more leisure time then today” person.
Anthropologists not validating my disdain for anthropology challenge: impossible.

Read Robert Caro’s description of the back-breaking labor done everyday by women in the 1930s (my great-grandparents’ generation) in what was already then the richest large economy in the world just to launder clothes and then try to say that again with a straight face.

I know I already posted about this but it bugs me so much. People will be like "I don't want robots that write sonnets so I can work harder, I want robots that work hard so I can write sonnets", or whatever.

Well here's one mfer shut up and eat your incredible cornucopia of cheap, bountiful fruit.

"Companies are trying to automate farming"? Have you checked the share of workforce in farming 100y ago vs now? Epic past battle. Its like amassing your Chariot on the Syrian border to prepare for the attack from Hittite Emperor Suppiluma II