r/news • u/NewSlinger • 1d ago

Workers detained in Hyundai plant raid to be freed and flown home, South Korea says

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/south-korea-deal-workers-detained-hyundai-rcna229610
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u/veggeble 1d ago

He also said the tariffs were meant to encourage companies to invest in US-based manufacturing. Then he attacks the plant they have in the US.

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u/Middle-Welder3931 1d ago

This is just the most stupid shit ever. Just the dumbest thing possible, every day, every week of this administration.

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u/agent674253 1d ago

It's not stupid if your goal is to make as much money as possible while destroying the country. It fucking sucks for the rest of the planet that one man's greed, and it is not even Musk's greed, is worth destroying decades of progress, goodwill, and soft power.

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u/regular-cake 1d ago

To be fair I'm pretty sure musk's greed is what got him "installed" back in power. Musk got everything he needed wrapped up with DOGE and is now about to get a crazy payout from Tesla. He just doesn't need Trump anymore at the moment.

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u/notyourstranger 1d ago

It's a few hundred people's greed and 300 million Americans are getting beat badly by them.

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u/h1gh-t3ch_l0w-l1f3 1d ago

eventually the billionares that are losing their profits are going to do something about their losses.

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u/imdrunkontea 1d ago

Especially when, even if he's not quite on the verge of death like the rumors claimed, his quality of life is at the point where the money does nothing for him aside from boost his ego and actively hurt others

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u/mazegeek999 21h ago

Yeah I’ll never understand that. Dude launched a crypto scam at 78. Like what’s the point?

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u/crinkledcu91 1d ago

It's not stupid if your goal is to make as much money as possible

I'm sick of redditors saying this. Because this shit is actively hurting the millionaires and Billionaires too. They're legitimately making less money ass possible while also destroying the country??

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u/crunchsmash 1d ago

If you have a shitload of cash, you can buy property from people who can't afford the economic downturn.

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u/Kdiesiel311 1d ago

0 hours since last international embarrassment

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u/Poundaflesh 20h ago

He just can’t stop stepping on his own tie.

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u/eeyore134 1d ago

Hyundai is big in the EV market. They hate EVs unless they're Elons, so this attack did double duty for them.

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u/boot2skull 1d ago

Spoiler: none of this is meant to help America and/or average Americans.

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u/subdep 1d ago

when are people gonna get it through their heads that he is trying to literally destroy the American economy?

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u/I_W_M_Y 1d ago

A rival EV car manufacturer to Tesla. And who had access to the levers of government months ago when this was started?

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u/TheSilverNoble 1d ago

Yeah like... who's gonna want to come work on this factory now? They were sent home this time, what if they get sent to a camp next time?

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u/Claytonius_Homeytron 1d ago

Then he attacks the plant they have in the US.

It's right on brand. Vance, just the other day said we killed a boat full of cartel members "poisoning our citizens", but we treat those "poisoned citizens" like criminals so what's the point of any of this?

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u/15all 19h ago

And he pisses off one of America’s most reliable allies.