r/neoliberal • u/Saltedline Hu Shih • Dec 03 '24

Trump vows to block Nippon Steel's planned purchase of US Steel News (Asia)

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241203/p2g/00m/0bu/020000c
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u/lumpialarry Dec 03 '24 edited Dec 03 '24

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.

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u/GrandePersonalidade nem fala português Dec 03 '24

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

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u/assasstits Dec 03 '24

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

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u/JohnStuartShill2 NATO Dec 03 '24

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.