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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

How about we also slap on a big export tax on any food products being grown in this region that are being sold internationally? Add on a complete ban on foreign ownership of water rights.

See, your problem here is that those ideas ... well...

They make sense.

Because they'd force people to change the way they are doing things, to be doing better things, that make more sense.

MAGA folks are very much not into making sense, nor being told what to do.

You'd have to trick them or scam them.

... maybe we could try to convince them that water is gay, and ... only Satan grows soybeans and alfalfa.

You don't want to grow homosexual devil beans and grass, do you?

?????