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ICE Karen Sparks Major Backlash After Saying She Tipped Off Feds in Hyundai Raid (www.thedailybeast.com)
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[–] memfree@piefed.social 104 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“So MAGA wanted tariffs to bring manufacturing back to the US. But when a company tries to open a plant here, MAGA undermines it. Once again you proved what an embarrassment your party is to our country,” a user wrote under one of Branum’s Instagram posts.

Branum’s Instagram has since been set to private.

I don't mind the leopards eating HER face, but why do all her would-be constituients have to suffer for her racist idiocy? MAGA or not, people want that factory to run smoothly.

[–] SebaDC@discuss.tchncs.de 86 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's more that it shows the idiocy of the current government.

All those new plants will need foreign workers. Farmers need foreign workers. Big city delis need foreign workers.

But they're dead set on making the USA dangerous for foreigners.

Well... They can go suck a $10 egg.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (6 children)

They don't need foreign workers, just wage slavery... Or better yet just slavery.

All they need to do is expand the law that makes it legal to use inmates as slaves.

Edit: I know that it's happening already. That's in the second half of my comment? Is my english that bad? The key word is expand!

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

I think that already exists. Companies in some states can hire inmates to work for 10s of cents to a few dollars an hour. That is basically slavery wages

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

That's the prison industrial complex. Legal slavery.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

He knows.

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[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Some prisons force workers to work at fast food places my dude

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

What happens if prisoners refuse to work?

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

You lose privileges and won’t be able to afford basic necessities like toothpaste or toilet paper.

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

That's dystopian as fuck.

Note to self: Don't let the cops take you alive.

[–] PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Capitalism + Slavery = American prison system

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[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Those Korean workers in that factory under construction were knowledge workers. Good luck getting a battery factory up and running with random bunch of inmates.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

They can already use minors for unpaid labor that way. And I don't mean community service.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That law is the US constitution.

[–] danekrae@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I know.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Uh, that already exists. A large part of “Made in USA” is slave prison labour.

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[–] spinne@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 week ago

Her potential voters have to suffer for her racist idiocy because that was the choice she made. Her beliefs, her decisions, and her actions took options away from a lot of people. That's the job she's applying for, one in which she makes those kinds of decisions for about 800k people. I wouldn't hire her.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 62 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I served this country and I’ll go down with the ship before someone silences me.

That's fine, but you don't have to drill holes in the bottom of the ship just to get to your last stand quicker.

[–] Bob_Robertson_IX@discuss.tchncs.de 17 points 1 week ago

Right, it isn't honorable to go down with the ship when you're the one causing it to sink.

Maybe she should go on a college speaking tour.

[–] LiveLM@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

before someone silences me

Might not want to say that out loud given recent events...

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I hope Hyundai expands their operations in India. That would be a boost for our employment.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 34 points 1 week ago

Canada would be fine too.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

It is very early in the morning so my memory may be effected, but if i recall correctly, you need to manufacture cars in the US because with little exception, foreign produced cars are subject to the chicken tax.

Adding Trumps tariffs may lead to foreign manufactured Hyundais being unaffordable for Americans. And, as much as I criticize Hyundai and subsidiaries, they did jump into the EV game pretty early. It would be a shame to lose them in the US market

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

Or they can just say fuck the US and it's fascist banana republic sham of a government.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 week ago (3 children)

100% the only people losing are the American people so, yeah. I would pull out of the US market if I was in charge

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[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

When you consider the costs from building new plants, having a more expensive workforce, and that the raw materials are heavily hit with tariffs, it might not actually be more expensive to just keep it elsewhere.

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

It’s not about costs to corporate but about costs to consumer. Infrastructure investments come with a high initial cost but the cost is averaged(?) over time and becomes worth it.

The chicken tax doesn’t go away and is a set percentage for the consumer. If the tariffs are found to be legal, then they too will be a consistent cost addition for the consumer.

Even if it’s cheaper for corporate to build elsewhere, if the consumer won’t buy your car because of a constant added cost per car.

[–] zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I don't agree at all. Cost is cost. Infrastructure cost does partially away over time, but higher workforce cost and higher materials cost will always be there. Not to mention how volatile the situation is politically. Trump hasn't been shown to be one that can be appeased once and you stay in his good graces. He always wants more and changes his mind constantly. I think a long term investing in a new plant sounds highly risky.

[–] hddsx@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 week ago

True on the workforce cost and material cost. Maybe we need actual numbers to figure which way is the correct way as I don't know what % of the vehicle cost labor is.

But yeah, Trump is very tempermental and could always turn on you. I personally would just pull out of the US market and possibly piss off Hyundai owners but that's me. I just don't think importing from abroad is a good long term strategy.

[–] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago (2 children)

She's a marine?

Jesus . . . what . . . nevermind.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think she ate ALL the crayons.

[–] dream_weasel@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Idk, that could be makeup.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Them hips don’t lie.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

She ate the crayons?

[–] Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works 28 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Former marine. And let me point out every branch has admin and support staff too.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Also it's really easy to get fat going from high activity lifestyle to none. If you're 200lbs and muscular as all hell it's way easier to stop being muscular than to stop being 200lbs

[–] architect@thelemmy.club 3 points 1 week ago

More like 👄🍆

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

When ideology replaces logic, people suffer.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This fascist waste of skin & oxygen just cost Georgia about $4b in foreign investment.

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

Ugh, all those filters and Photoshop and that's the best she could do?

[–] MeatPilot@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago

Same smile, hide the pain Karen?

[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 37 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Hey, who am I to stand in the way of Georgia massively fucking over it's local economy by letting discount Bandi Maxx here run Georgia Productions?

It's what they deserve after all and hopefully it'll deter all companies to stop investing into white supremacy.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 30 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They were training Americans to do those jobs. That’s why they were there. She just f’ked the area out of manufacturing jobs.

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[–] JTskulk@lemmy.world 22 points 1 week ago

She doesn't care if Hyundai goes out of business because they don't manufacture her mobility scooter.

[–] psycho_driver@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

Is that ICE Karen or the creature that ate her?

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Gross. Why are maga dorks attracted to these types? They're just so fake and plastic looking. Fake blonde hair and fake tits haven't been in since 1999

[–] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 week ago

Vile

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