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[–] Bebopalouie@lemmy.ca 242 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yup they won’t be coming back and why on earth would they do anything else with them in the future.

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[–] TuffNutzes@lemmy.world 97 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

"We're acting exactly like Nazis in Nazi Germany and I just don't understand why no one wants to do business with us!"

[–] MDCCCLV@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Also the guy from Ireland who had his subdermal piercings involuntarily cut out without anesthetic.

[–] indomara@lemmy.world 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] bear@lemmy.blahaj.zone 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ice also abducted all of the adults out of a minivan, leaving two small children behind, who had to be rescued from the heat by bystanders.

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[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If we’re going off history, it’s bad news because fucking EVERYBODY still did business with the Nazis.

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[–] CptOblivius@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Holy $&#+ that's horrible.

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[–] Marshezezz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 191 points 1 week ago (2 children)

He’s an incompetent child rapist

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 110 points 1 week ago (6 children)

You don't know that. Maybe raping children is the one thing he's good at?

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 64 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Maybe questioning his child-raping prowess is the key to make him admit it? 🤔🤔

[–] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] whiwake@lemmy.cafe 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, he’s doing a great job getting away with it!

[–] fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 20 points 1 week ago

Only because we refuse to arrest rich people. He got caught red handed

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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 142 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Trump backs off

The damage is already done. He got to stuff hundreds of Korean workers in one of his torture prisons while extorting the company and the country for their release. He's not backing off. He's pulling his fist back for another swing. Fucking headline journalists are too "TACO" pilled to see the next blow coming.

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[–] IHeartBadCode@fedia.io 107 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hyundai already announced a two to three month delay on this plant after this whole thing. They aren't walking away, but this isn't an event they are forgetting.

It won't matter what President comes after this one, this whole thing is going to influence investment from South Korea for some time.

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 105 points 1 week ago (3 children)

If you were a foreign company considering investing a substantial amount of money to build a plant in the U.S., and then the unstable authoritarian dictator of that country pulls a stunt like this, you're going to reconsider putting any more capital at risk.

[–] moncharleskey@lemmy.zip 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I've seen this plant, and it's massive. I don't know how close to completion they are, but billions have been spent. If they pull out they are going to take a hell of a loss. Hopefully that means they'll work to weaken Trump and the GOP in order to help their bottom line.

[–] davidagain@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (2 children)
[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

Indeed.

The actuarial calculation must be the billions more that will potentially be lost when exposing themselves to further harassment and extortion from Trump and his cronies versus the definite billions lost if they were to cancel everything now.

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[–] leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 week ago

An unstable authoritarian dictator who, as way of a supposed apology, has literally told you that he's going to do it again as soon as he's stolen your technology, with the stated intention of putting you and your whole country out of business.

Only reasonable course of action seems to write the factory down as a loss and never set foot in the USA again.

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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 93 points 1 week ago (8 children)

When Foreign Companies who are building extremely complex products, machines, and various other 'things,' come into the United States with massive Investments, I want them to bring their people of expertise for a period of time to teach and train our people how to make these very unique and complex products, as they phase out of our Country, and back into their land," the president posted on Truth Social, adding “I don’t want to frighten off or disincentivize Investment into America by outside Countries or Companies. We welcome them, we welcome their employees, and we are willing to proudly say we will learn from them.”

You know what's missing there?

An apology.

[–] trublu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Also several inappropriately capitalized letters. Trump didn't write this.

[–] cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago

You know what's missing there?

The unredacted Epstein list!

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[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 79 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Divest from America! Shrink their economy!

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Statesian here. I fully support this. Some people don't learn unless it hurts.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 74 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Lowest IQ president in U.S. history.

Also a literal traitor to our nation, its Constitution, and democracy in general.

[–] b161@lemmy.blahaj.zone 42 points 6 days ago

Don’t forget degenerate pedophile and co-conspirator of Jeffrey Epstein.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 49 points 6 days ago (4 children)

To any foreign entities, companies, individuals who haven’t caught on to the obvious truth: You are not safe here, your investments are not secure here, any visas, treaties, contracts are all 100% revocable despite any perception that they are legally binding. Do not come here. Despite the fact that there are good and rational people fighting to change this, the hard fact is that we are flaming out, and there is no telling what destruction and chaos is coming.

Just look at the destruction and chaos we perpetrated around the world when our society was at its height and our population had the most accommodating economic conditions in history.

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[–] comador@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 42 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This was such a preventable suicide, lol

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

This entire train wreck was preventable.

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[–] Mamdani_Da_Savior@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago

Its too late, damage is already done you dumbass

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Y'all acting like Trump personally ordered the raid and is suddenly backing up, TACO.

Trump told ICE, "You're weapons free, you got a quota." And they went for it. Because of course they did.

This is Trump screaming, "Not like THAT!" Which is somehow hilarious and horrifying at the same time.

[–] Railing5132@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Well, the desk in the oval office used to have a simple plaque on it that said: "the buck stops here".

[–] shalafi@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

Mother was a narcissist, not on Trump's level, but I've never known another person so eat up with NPD. Impossible to overstate that these people cannot understand personal responsibility for their actions. Their failures are always someones else's failures. They cannot fail.

I was well into my 40s before it occurred to me, mother never once admitted fault or said she was sorry. Sure, some people act like that, sometimes, but you can tell they have a sense of guilt, a sense of wrongdoing. Sure, we've all know people who misdirect blame. A true narcissist cannot feel those emotions, cannot be wrong.

Telling a lie is a falsehood you know is false. Trump has never lied. He believes every word that has ever come out of his mouth. It tears my brain apart every time he's accused of lying or bending the truth. Anyone having a hard time with the notion I just described is suffering cognitive dissonance. Have fun with that, he can't feel it. You can because you're sane.

Trump isn't playing games. He isn't a tactical or strategic genius. He's simply a wealthy narcissist who struck political gold. He got dumb luck, like some of us do, and ran with it.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 32 points 6 days ago (5 children)

He really has got porridge for brains. It amazes me he can manage simultaneous walking and talking.

Why on earth would foreign companies want to invest in the US right now? He is the one that's making it less likely, there was plenty of foreign investment in the US under previous administrations then this moron came along and ruined it all.

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[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 30 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Pretty sure this is how racists determine a suitable client race. Abuse them & see if they come back for more.

South Korea needs to tell the USA to pound sand & open those factories elsewhere.

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[–] D_C@sh.itjust.works 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

He chickened out again?
Pfft, a proper real man and leader would've gone down to that concentration camp and punched each one of those Koreans himself!!!

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Quintessential loudmouth chickenshit performs as expected

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[–] rekabis@lemmy.ca 23 points 6 days ago (1 children)

At this point, I wouldn’t blame any company that immediately ceased expansions in America and started to consider moving existing production facilities to adjacent countries, like Canada.

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[–] rayyy@piefed.social 22 points 1 week ago

Epstein's Taco chickens out again.

[–] plz1@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

TACO Don...

[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 20 points 6 days ago

Canada, on the other hand, would be happy to host a Hyundai plant once again.

[–] Blumpkinhead@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days ago

A rare case where the AI slop is less repulsive than the actual person. Still repulsive, of course.

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 1 week ago

Another unsurprising TACO Tuesday.

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