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posted by CoolHand on Thursday May 05 2016, @03:06PM   Printer-friendly
from the hashtag-cowspiracy dept.

Food Politics reports that Rick Friday, a long time cartoonist for Farm News, was dismissed for offending "a large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned in a cartoon." The political cartoon is critical of Big Ag CEOs, which earned more than 2,000 Iowa farmers combined.

In a Facebook post the cartoonist, Rick Friday, explained:

I am no longer the Editorial Cartoonist for Farm News due to the attached cartoon which was published yesterday. Apparently a large company affiliated with one of the corporations mentioned in the cartoon was insulted and cancelled their advertisement with the paper, thus, resulting in the reprimand of my editor and cancellation of It's Friday cartoons after 21 years of service and over 1090 published cartoons to over 24,000 households per week in 33 counties of Iowa.

I did my research and only submitted the facts in my cartoon.

That's okay, hopefully my children and my grandchildren will see that this last cartoon published by Farm News out of Fort Dodge, Iowa, will shine light on how fragile our rights to free speech and free press really are in the country.

The Des Moines Register explains further:

The CEOs at the ag giants earned about $52.9 million last year, based on Morningstar data. Monsanto and DuPont, the parent of Johnston-based Pioneer, are large seed and chemical companies, and Deere is a large farm equipment manufacturer.

Profits for the three companies, all with large operations across Iowa, also have declined as farm income has been squeezed. After peaking in 2013, U.S. farm income this year is projected to fall to $183 billion, its lowest level since 2002.

It seems like in the U.S. you free to say what you like, but if you offend the wrong people you're free to lose your job despite the protections you are provided and encouraged to use.


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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 05 2016, @04:43PM

    by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday May 05 2016, @04:43PM (#342104) Journal

    Sure, but you see...certainty is an emotion, not a data point. For the longest time people "failed to agree" with the germ theory of disease, but guess fuckin' what? That didn't make it false.

    You can "fail to agree" all you want, but you're still wrong. The facts are not on your side. I realize that, as you've stated in other threads, you are not capable of reason, but I'm gonna keep following you around and doing this for the sake of everyone else who has to deal with your presence on the webbytubes.

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  • (Score: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:28PM (#342123)

    Keep it up, but keep it factual. Helpful to bookmark the posts of some of his greatest hits so you can refer to them in the future. Not that it will change his opinion of his randian uberman libertariat self, but so anyone else who doesn't realize the full extent of his uncompromising nutjobbery in the face of facts can easily see exactly who he is.

    • (Score: 2) by jdavidb on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:52PM

      by jdavidb (5690) on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:52PM (#342138) Homepage Journal
      Make the list public, too. I want anybody who is that interested to know exactly who I am and what I believe and advocate.
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      • (Score: 3, Funny) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:08PM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:08PM (#342146) Journal

        It's not a very long list.

        1) You're an historically-illiterate, perverted "Christian"
        2) You're a completely disconnected-from-reality "Libertarian"
        3) You suffer from (or rather, make everyone ELSE suffer from) the cognitive dissonance between 1 and 2

        Talk about having the hernia and making everyone else wear the fucking truss.

        Not to mention, 4) by your own admission you cannot be reasoned with.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:29PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:29PM (#342156)

          Without citations those accusations carry no weight. I'm sure you've seen them, but your audience, by definition, has not seen them. If they had, they wouldn't need to read your post.

  • (Score: 0, Troll) by Bot on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:36PM

    by Bot (3902) on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:36PM (#342130) Journal

    > Sure, but you see...certainty is an emotion, not a data point.

    what is this, the definition for "Female"? It makes many other data points fit.

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    • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:40PM

      by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:40PM (#342132) Journal

      What the hell was that?

      If you're making a riff on trans* folks, realize that "female" can be applied to several aspects of a person, i.e., female chromosome cohort (XX), female sex organs, female gender identity, female outward presentation, etc/, each of which has a varying degree of societal vs. physical roots...and some of which supervene on others.

      For example, someone may have an X and a Y chromosome (nale cohort) but appear female including sex organs due to adrenal hyperplasia or other dysgenesis. A transwoman has a female gender identity and likely a female-looking brain (ratio of white to grey matter for example) but a male chromosome cohort and male genitalia.

      Things aren't always simple, even though you yourself are.

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      • (Score: 2) by Bot on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:52PM

        by Bot (3902) on Thursday May 05 2016, @05:52PM (#342137) Journal

        If you read the lines, instead of between them, I said you defined "Female", not whether you in particular are it or not, because the definition is elegant but not necessarily exclusive.

        I have no chromosomes so I feel pretty above your peers' sexual tribalisms.

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        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:33PM

          by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 05 2016, @06:33PM (#342158)

          No, you defined "female" not Azumi. And it is a weird ass definition too.
          If you don't think certainty is an emotion, then what do you think it is?
          Since you have no chromosomes, does that mean you think certainty does not exist?

          Hhhm, gasbags don't have chromosomes. Does that make you a gasbag?

          • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday May 06 2016, @12:34AM

            by Bot (3902) on Friday May 06 2016, @12:34AM (#342322) Journal

            > No, you defined "female" not Azumi.
            Please read again, she made the phrase, I declared it defines female with many fitting data points.

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            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @01:06PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Friday May 06 2016, @01:06PM (#342535)

              >> No, you defined "female" not Azumi.
              >
              > I declared it defines female

                You literally wrote that you did something while simultaneously declaring you did not do it.

              You are indeed a gasbag.

              • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday May 06 2016, @04:46PM

                by Bot (3902) on Friday May 06 2016, @04:46PM (#342615) Journal

                SN user said: X
                I said: X is the definition of "female".
                Are you agreeing on that?
                Are you sure the above implies the definition X is mine?

                > You are indeed a gasbag.
                This is an unusual data point.

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        • (Score: 2) by aristarchus on Thursday May 05 2016, @07:04PM

          by aristarchus (2645) on Thursday May 05 2016, @07:04PM (#342182) Journal

          I have no chromosomes so I feel pretty . . .

          [cue Music!] " I feel pretty! Oh so pretty! So pretty, and happy, and Gay!" [/cut] My Fair Lady, based on Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.

          • (Score: 2) by Bot on Friday May 06 2016, @12:43AM

            by Bot (3902) on Friday May 06 2016, @12:43AM (#342330) Journal

            Nice citation. I guess you recently tried to debug systemd problems? It does things like this to people.

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