Farmers Uprising Megathread - Started in The Netherlands. Germany and soon the rest of the world joins to protest against environmentalist taxes.

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Alex Hogendorp

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Much like the Convoy in Canada, The mainstream media refuses to televise the ongoing protests against taxes imposed by farmers. I noticed there doesn't appear to be a thread here on the farms despite being shared all across twitter. To give you a perspective on how big these uprisings are. Thousands upon thousands are protesting against the fuel taxes and tax increases imposed on them. Here's a good example of one.

 
God bless the French. They may be stinky, but they sure know how to throw a party.

Shit's going down in Germany as well, as I understand it. Dutch farmers are also still in a low-key revolt over the way their government is fucking over the sector. Things are getting mighty interesting.
 
government fucking the farmers

farmers are protesting

government putting on the suprised pikachu face

many such cases.
 
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One other farmer protest that has been going on and off is the blocking of the Polish-Ukrainian border. This is actually a joint effort by both Polish truckers and farmers.
The truckers are pissed about Ukrainian truckers getting special privileges to work without adhering to standards that Polish truckers have to comply to and thus outcompeting them. Farmers are protesting against tax hikes and Ukrainian grain flooding the market.
 
The culture and regimes in the US would use force to stop protests like this very quickly.

teriyakiburns dijo:
Dutch farmers are also still in a low-key revolt over the way their government is fucking over the sector.
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Don't the Dutch farmers protest at least every other year?

Corn Syrup Connoisseur dijo:
Ukrainian grain flooding the market.
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It was sold to the middle east via ship but, with the war, it can't safely be transported and the shipping agreement fell apart. Now it's being transported by rail and barge up river.
Also your avatar is incorrect. Corn syrup is just glucose syrup that's present all over the world. The "corn syrup" that's unhealthy is the high fructose corn syrup. It's the excessive fructose that potentially causes health issues.
 
Kendall Motor Oil dijo:
Don't the Dutch farmers protest at least every other year?
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Nah, that's the French. The Dutch are pretty new to the whole protesting game, but they've caught up fast due to how fucking retarded the dutch state has become. They're all but forcing farmers off their land, ostensibly to reduce nitrate pollution, but in reality so they can re-purpose the land to build their gigantic "tristate city", which will be an almost unbroken urban hive, stretching from Amsterdam, into Belgium, France, and Germany. All the land that has been designated as having too much nitrate just happens to be right where they want to build the major intersection points of the project.
 
Perfectly timed thread, since Germany is kicking off some fairly major ones next week starting on Monday the 8th.
The reason is the removal of a bunch of tax-reductions for farmers, including one on gods chosen fuel, diesel. Protests are planned across the country.
The city of Hamburger for example is facing registrations of 15 convoys and one stationary protest totalling an estimated 2000 agricultural machines. (german source)
Similar numbers can be expected for other cities. In addition to this, highways are also being targeted, with one group planning to completely lock down all 62 on and offramps of one.
Later in the month, there will also be protests blocking some logistics hubs and a more centralised one in the capitol of Berlin.
The farmers are accompanied by various other groups, including some truckers, a group representing hotels and an unknown number of small businesses.
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Unrelated to this is also a planned strike by railway folks later that week, to the great dissatisfaction of German autists.*sigh*

There was some smaller protest action during the past few weeks, including one where the leader of the green party was prevented from exiting a ferry by farmers.
The police there (allegedly) needed to use pepperspray to prevent a firery but peaceful storming of the ferry by the farmers and made some arrests.
The ferry had to return to unload the unloved politician somewhere else. Regrettably, he was not thrown overboard and made it home safely.



As many a great philosopher has said before, "Get between a man and his diesel and thou shall see true evil."
 
"Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country."

-William Jennings Bryan
 
FiveStarAce dijo:
Nothing will change, because Farmers don't even produce our food anymore (all imports)
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Germany still produces more food per capita than much of Europe. France and Austria are much bigger producers I think, and the UK is marginally smaller, but Germany is hardly a wastrel in that regard. Every country in Europe has to import food simply because their populations are so much larger than the land can sustain.
 
Does this have the same oompf behind it to get up to similar levels that the Canadian trucker protest had? Im worried this could be a flash in the pan but numbers this large bode well
 
Didn't see it mentioned, but this all kicked off because they need to balance their budget after a court ruled their government's spending practices were unlawful. They have to find some places for the cash (60 billion Euro) to appease the Green party, but they also are trying to appease the FDP who are against new taxes, so I suppose ending some subsidies seemed like the next best thing.



The government’s disarray was on full display after Germany’s highest court ruled Wednesday that the centerpiece of the alliance’s environmental strategy — a plan to repurpose €60 billion left over from an emergency COVID-19 fund to finance the coalition’s climate agenda — was unconstitutional.

The decision blew a massive hole through the middle of the coalition’s signature legislative agenda, in particular a plan to remake the German economy root and branch by weaning it off of fossil fuels. If the parties fail to find a new way to finance those plans, the coalition itself could quickly collapse, some analysts warn.
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Some of the money was going towards stuff like charging stations for electric vehicles, but I imagine the bigger deal money-wise was stuff like fixing up the railway system. It was going to be costing some €40 billion so that's really the bulk of the problem. Apparently 1/3 of passenger trains had a delay of some 15 minutes so makes public transport there sound pretty shitty. So while this does sorta fall under "climate change" spending, it's not really as silly as it sounds.

They also had stuff like subsidies for chip makers, supposedly €10 billion for Intel which would go towards helping construction of a wafer fabrication facility. On top of that you also had a Taiwanese company that was going to get some subsidies. Guessing they counted this as climate spending because chips are used for stuff related to electric vehicles, but I doubt it was just for that.

So bulk of the money they're trying to find is for their railway system and chip manufacturing.
 
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