Trump vows to block Nippon Steel's planned purchase of US Steel

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https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241203/p2g/00m/0bu/020000c

[u/StonkSalty]

"Keep manufacturing in America!" says steelworker as he gets into his Toyota.

[u/lumpialarry → u/StonkSalty]

I can't tell if this is a "The working class doesn't vote with their wallets" or "The working class is too dumb to know that foreign companies invest and manufacture things in the US". Something like 65-70% of Toyotas are built in the US. I think all of the trucks are.

[u/GrandePersonalidade → u/lumpialarry]

Which is why Hilux are superior. The weak, hedonistic and pampered American worker can't compete with the strong Mexican ubermensch worker who can climb a wall, commit crimes and steal 12 jobs every single day

[u/assasstits → u/GrandePersonalidade]

This but unironically.

One of my favorite genre of news is US farmers saying how incapable, lazy, unprepared US workers are at doing what Mexican workers do.

Chad Mexicans vs Virgin Americans indeed

[u/GrandePersonalidade → u/assasstits]

The average life expectancy for migrant farmworkers is 49 years. Part of me is finding the possibility of them getting deported for soft American kids to get their jobs entertaining, both for the physical consequences and what would happen to food prices. Schadenfreude, I believe.

When you consider that as LATAM develops the migration influx will diminish (the balance is already under 0 for Mexico), the US is simply throwing the last few decades of access that they have to cheap labour in the trash for racism and stupidity. China is laughing all the way to the bank

[u/JohnStuartShill2 → u/assasstits]

The farmers know that they are essentially protected from labor (and any other) shocks by decades long government paternalism/subsidization.

As we saw, the democracy-loving patriots of the US are willing to change a whole lot when egg price go up.