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“I Didn’t Vote to Lose My Job”: DOGE Destroys $1.2 Trillion Industry as Rural Workers Bear the Cost (thedailyadda.com)

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Terry Zink has spent 57 years building a life in Montana’s backcountry. The 57-year-old third-generation houndsman from Marion—a remote town nestled deep within the Flathead National Forest—runs a small archery target business serving outdoor recreation workers and guides who, until recently, had steady employment managing America’s public lands. Contents

Those workers are disappearing. Their jobs are gone. And Zink, who voted for Trump in 2024, is watching his customer base—and his livelihood—vanish before his eyes.

“You won’t meet anyone more conservative than me, and I didn’t vote for this,” Zink told Politico reporters as he surveyed the damage. “You cannot fire our firefighters. You cannot fire our trail crews. You have to have selective logging, water restoration, and healthy forests” (1).

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[–] Greddan@feddit.org 15 points 20 hours ago (4 children)

Their only connection to the outside world used to be newspapers, then radio and television, now it's the internet. This makes them extremely vulnerable to disinformation.

I can't count the number of times I've been lectured by some yokel on how the city I've lived my entire life in is actually a warzone with shaira law.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago

mostly fox news for conservative milleneals and older, and now with NEWSMAX/OAN right wing grifters, and consistent convincing them into the manosphere.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 11 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Same! They're absolutely terrified of my city and to me it's like, what the place where I walked to get my bagel this morning?

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

its a hellhole and fire, says fox pundits. in hindsight, the homeless problems, drug addicts are brought on by the gop truncating these 2 groups to liberal cities, its not by accident you see an increase every few years, they are being bussed or given a ticket here. MSM/fox will never report on it, because it just makes the gop states look bad.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 2 points 16 hours ago

We were always vulnerable, just to a very selective group of content creators. Now it's open to anyone with the flashiest bullshit.

We should have learned about media in the 80s when everyone was telling us this would happen. But we didn't. Heil Trump.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 0 points 16 hours ago

We were always vulnerable, just to a very selective group of content creators. Now it's open to anyone with the flashiest bullshit.

We should have learned about media in the 80s when everyone was telling us this would happen. But we didn't. Heil Trump.