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2025-09-06 20:41:22
uziq
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leading hundreds of koreans off to a facility in shackles and chains as part of a giant photo-op really is something.

hyundai using temp workers to build cutting-edge factories for little america is presumably not the MAGA morons biggest problem.

e: wasn't there an obama-era documentary that basically covered this same topic? some chinese or korean company tried to open a factory to on-shore work in america, but quickly ran into issues with labour culture and the indigence/arrogance of the locals. concluded it wasn't feasible or profitable, couldn't deliver to deadlines, etc.

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2025-09-07 02:16:56
Dilbert_X
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Sitting outside the barber waiting for it to open I watch cars going round the roundabout.

Its amazing seeing all the stupid little people wobbling around in the lumbering monster-trucks.
American truck stupidity has infected this country.
You do not need a Ranger or whatever the fuck stupid truck GM makes for going to the shops in 'burbia.

The most stupid vehicle I've seen here is probably the Ranger Raptor Shelby.
Fuck Israel
2025-09-07 02:21:11
Dilbert_X
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uziq wrote:

e: wasn't there an obama-era documentary that basically covered this same topic? some chinese or korean company tried to open a factory to on-shore work in america, but quickly ran into issues with labour culture and the indigence/arrogance of the locals. concluded it wasn't feasible or profitable, couldn't deliver to deadlines, etc.
After decades of tearing their hair out Toyota gave up on Australia with some comments about no-one actually wanting to do any work but still expecting to get paid, the union deal GM signed killed Holden.
Fuck Israel
2025-09-07 03:09:21
uziq
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on the one hand, obviously nobody should be looking to emulate east asia for their work culture. chinese working 12 hours a day, 6 days a week. japan putting in some of the longest working hours in the OECD while boasting pitiful productivity, etc. suicides and low fertility. it's Not Good.

on the other, it's so funny that americans want to 'return jobs to america' but have no fire in their belly to even begin competing with this. a century of forcing capitalism and free markets down the throat of developing countries, gunboat diplomacy, etc., and now they're just whining high-fructose corn syrup man children.
2025-09-07 08:41:44
unnamednewbie13
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really weird thing to pick out of that trailer, but i have zero desire to work underneath an american flag as big as a house. it's an oppressive, monstrous symbol of the state. there are two things it could be imo: 1) ominously intended to overwhelm with scale, as we've seen in history, or 2) tacky decorative choice made by blue collar business.

i should probably refer that trailer to a few people.

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