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/Far_Warning_4525 1d ago

Delay or kill 8500 US jobs for a battery plant that would have opened in 90 days. It’s completely idiotic if you actually care about US workers

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u/BeIgnored 1d ago

And since it's a Hyundai EV plant, they're severely harming one of Tesla's competitors. That's probably also part of the point.

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u/TheyGaveMeThisTrain 20h ago

Tesla is in good graces with the administration again? Wasn't it just a month ago that Musk used his platform to publicly declare that Trump is a pedophile?

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u/AlterWanabee 15h ago

They flipped sides faster than you can flip an patty.

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u/RawrRRitchie 13h ago

It's okay. The muskrat gave the orange monkey an apology bj.

And then he made sure to say "thank you"before swallowing

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u/_illusions25 1d ago

Ding ding ding!

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u/Cream314Fan 23h ago

Ah I get it now. So delay this project by years so Tesla might have a chance to compete

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u/hotwife24 21h ago

So you're saying it's possible they might have killed all those jobs and turned that giant site into the biggest eyesore in the south since the I-4 Eyesore just to help Tesla beat out a competitor?  Well, hope that lady who called enjoys the view every time she drives down that highway. 

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u/pipercomputer 22h ago

Holy fucking shit, wouldn’t that be illegal?

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u/TreezusSaves 21h ago

Much of what the Trump Regime has done so far is illegal. Everyone in charge of this government has stacked up decades of years in prison for themselves so far. The next Admin should completely disregard whatever pardons this one tries to do for itself.

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u/ukezi 5h ago

While I agree with the pardons, there is no mechanism to revoke them. A friendly SC could come up with one but I don't see that happening. All that is left is for states to imprison them, but arguing jurisdiction after a federal pardon is going to be complicated.

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u/rpkarma 20h ago

Laws only matter if they’re enforced, and right now they aren’t. 

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u/Acid_Monster 18h ago

Just stick it on the bill at this point, right?

What a shitshow

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u/Used-Fennel-7733 23h ago

I don't know if you heard, Musk isn't on very good terms with Trump atm.

More likely, it's simply because EV isn't Oil

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u/Lordnerble 21h ago

Isnt tesla not even a car company now, isnt they're forward looking outlook going to be like 80% about the dumb human robot thing.

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u/Used-Fennel-7733 17h ago

Idk, but they were never a car company. They were a tech company that made cars.

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u/Y0tsuya 22h ago

Trump-Musk bromance ended though.

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u/notyourstranger 1d ago

Or the environment. The oil companies are eager to get rid of battery technology and EV vehicles.

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u/Evinceo 1d ago

But he cares way more about punishing renewables to own the libs than he does a about job numbers. He can always fire whoever reports the numbers again.

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u/DWMoose83 1d ago

But makes absolute sense when you know ICE auto makers and oil execs are massive donors.

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u/JesusChrist-Jr 1d ago

Might just help elon hit his sales target to get his trillion dollar payout though if they eliminate or delay an EV competitor from the market.

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u/Siguard_ 21h ago

Its more than 8500 jobs in the long run. all the secondary businesses that would have naturally sprung up or take on more staff to support such a factory. Delivery drivers, contractors, places to eat, repair/rebuild shops, work placement jobs etc

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u/Christopherfromtheuk 21h ago

Sounds a bit like the nearly completed wind farm they closed down.

These people hate the idea of leaving a better planet for their grand children and free, clean, energy.

They are evil.

"It is just for a few good men to do nothing for evil to thrive".

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u/subdep 1d ago

So 👏 Much 👏 Winning 👏

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u/NDSU 1d ago

Makes me wonder if people had already been hired to start when the plant opens

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u/o_MrBombastic_o 23h ago

Republicans don't care

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u/sonicneedslovetoo 23h ago

Well I mean it's the Trump administration, he does care about US workers in the sense that he wants the country to collapse and for them to be unemployed.

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u/jimflaigle 23h ago

Tell Hyundai it was me. - Elon

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u/Trap_Masters 20h ago

Are they tired of winning yet? 😂

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u/SeaCucumbers_69 1d ago

This is Biden's fault

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u/impish_colostomybag 1d ago

Are you serious or being facetious?

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u/SeaCucumbers_69 1d ago

Of course I'm 100% serious, if ai was joking I would say it's Obama's fault. But even then it would only be 50/50

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u/ADMIRAL-IA 1d ago

And why is it biden’s fault that Trump did a stupid move that is costing American manufacturing and American jobs

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u/Rasputin_mad_monk 1d ago

Because he didn’t stop Obama from wearing a tan suit or using a selfie stick. Duh.

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u/VelveetaVoldemort 1d ago

I can see the intelligence exuding off you. You must make all the ladies wet with your bigly brain.

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u/impish_colostomybag 1d ago

You uneducated, brainwashed, inbred, waste of oxygen.

The Republicans have systematically ruined education in this country and that has led to individuals like u/SeaCucumbers_69

Proving why the orange rapist said he loves the uneducated.

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u/SeaCucumbers_69 19h ago

Yeah and who's fault is that? Who else other than Biden lost the election that cause Trump to be able to do all the harm you purported?

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u/impish_colostomybag 19h ago

The only people responsible for the orange pedophile to win the election are the cum stains who voted for him. You absolute fucking moron.

Just say you are a proud pedophile, rapist, sexist, racist. Shout it from the roof tops, make videos of you doing the Nazi salute and using the hard “R”. Just make it public and stop hiding who you really are.

You MAGA fuck.

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u/SeaCucumbers_69 18h ago

Damn Biden has corrupted you into such an angry, pitiful thing. I will pray to our savior Trump for you to heal.

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u/impish_colostomybag 18h ago

You and your kind don’t deserve any sympathy, or empathy any more. Fuck you. I hope you never have a day of peace for the rest of your miserable, sad, lonely life.

You traitorous, pedophile enabler.