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nycfan said:
[Angola is so named because it is on a former immense plantation that had thousands of slaves from Angola and other parts of Africa. Slavery was effectively continued at Angola with a prisoner lease system of Louisiana state prisoners leased to the landowner as workers over whom the owner had complete authority. People continued to be effectively enslaved (and be beaten and worked to death) there for the remainder of the 1800s after the end of the Civil War. Once the state took over the land and built the prison there, it was considered to be effectively continued slavery conditions until reforms were forced in the 1950s when dozens of prisoners slashed their own Achilles tendons to protest the gruesome work demands and conditions there. Angola prison is an American Horror Story.]
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I did not know it was that bad. I knew it was really bad but damn. Slashing your achilles is fucking hard core.
 
superrific said:
My son is aghast that they raided the Hyundai plant. He did an internship at Hyundai USA this summer and was deeply impressed. Says this raid is just forcibly taking out the competition. I think it's just xenophobia but in any event . . . gee, I wonder why American manufacturing is falling apart
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OMG! Trump has no idea what he has done. The blowback from Republicans in Georgia will be substantial. This plant is the crown jewel of the Republican Governor who already keeps his distance from Trump, but I doubt he will be able to keep quiet on this one. Detaining 475 South Koreans at this South Korean Plant? Obviously, Trump world doesn't think.
 
BlueSmoke said:
OMG! Trump has no idea what he has done. The blowback from Republicans in Georgia will be substantial. This plant is the crown jewel of the Republican Governor who already keeps his distance from Trump, but I doubt he will be able to keep quiet on this one. Detaining 475 South Koreans at this South Korean Plant? Obviously, Trump world doesn't think.
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Trump owns stock in Hyundai’s biggest competitor
 
BlueSmoke said:
OMG! Trump has no idea what he has done. The blowback from Republicans in Georgia will be substantial. This plant is the crown jewel of the Republican Governor who already keeps his distance from Trump, but I doubt he will be able to keep quiet on this one. Detaining 475 South Koreans at this South Korean Plant? Obviously, Trump world doesn't think.
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Republicans won't do or say shit. Not one fucking thing of note or value. Collectively the pushback of every Republican voter in the country is worth less than tits on a board hog. They are the most spineless and morally untethered collection of Americans to ever exist.
 
BlueSmoke said:
OMG! Trump has no idea what he has done. The blowback from Republicans in Georgia will be substantial. This plant is the crown jewel of the Republican Governor who already keeps his distance from Trump, but I doubt he will be able to keep quiet on this one. Detaining 475 South Koreans at this South Korean Plant? Obviously, Trump world doesn't think.
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Eh, maybe. Or they might just shrug. The likelihood that Hyundai was employing undocumented workers at its manufacturing facility is less than Trump being able to assemble an EV by himself.
 
superrific said:
I did not know it was that bad. I knew it was really bad but damn. Slashing your achilles is fucking hard core.
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“… In 1943, former prisoner William Sadler published “Hell on Angola,” a series of articles in The Angolite—the prison’s inmate-operated newspaper—exposing abuses at the institution. Just a decade later, a group of 31 inmates known as the “Heel String Gang” cut their own Achilles tendons to protest conditions at Angola. In the 1960s, the prison was dubbed the “bloodiest prison in the South.” Women were permanently removed from the premises in 1961. And in 1971, prisoners brought a lawsuit against the state of Louisiana, alleging that the level of medical care provided at Angola violated the “cruel and unusual punishment” clause of the Eighth Amendment, in addition to the rights of disabled inmates covered by the Americans with Disabilities Act and the Rehabilitation Act.

Today, Angola maintains several enterprises. Prisoners cultivate 38 types of vegetables, including corn, cotton, soybean, and wheat crops; herd 3,000 cattle (the prison has an annual rodeo); manufacture license plates (all Louisiana and Puerto Rico plates are made there); and operate a metal shop, silkscreen shop, and a factory that produces mattresses, brooms, and mops. As of 2021, Louisiana sentences prisoners to life without parole more frequently than any other state in the U.S. And as of 2022, 73% of all inmates serving life sentences at Angola are Black—more than twice their proportion of the state population.…”

Hell on Angola

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Despite Black people making up about one-third of Louisiana’s population, they make up about 80% of those incarcerated at the facility most commonly called Angola, named after the West African nation where most of the enslaved people who once worked the land hailed from. Today, those incarcerated at the prison remain tilling the land for as little as 2 cents per hour under brutal working and environmental conditions that the United Nations human rights office has condemned.

The vast majority of people incarcerated at Angola, a maximum security prison where two-thirds of people are serving life sentences, are expected to never step outside the farm again. In August, the state eliminated all chances of parolefor people convicted of crimes and dramatically reduced early release opportunities for those who demonstrate good behavior — a move long championed by Republican Gov. Jeff Landry….”

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'The Wildest Show in the South': Spectacle and Suffering at America's Biggest Prison

The annual Angola rodeo offers both a rare glimpse of humanity and a sobering reminder of the racism driving America’s culture.
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ZenMode said:
So, someone believes that TESLA is the PRIMARY competitor for HYUNDAI?

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I very much doubt Trump’s ownership of stock in Tesla impacted this operation, TBH, but Hyundai is considered a major could Tesla IN THE IS MARKET for EVs.

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South Koreans Are Swept Up in Immigration Raid at Hyundai Plant in Georgia

They were among nearly 500 workers apprehended at a construction site for a South Korean battery maker, officials said. The episode prompted diplomatic concern in Seoul.
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South Korea’s Foreign Ministry confirmed on Friday that South Koreans were among those in custody, without saying how many.

Mr. Schrank told reporters at the plant on Thursday that some U.S. citizens and lawful permanent residents had been detained initially and were being released.

Charles Kuck, an immigration lawyer in Atlanta, said two of his clients who were in the country under a visa waiver program that enables them to travel for tourism or business for stays of 90 days or less without obtaining a visa were caught up in the raid.

“My clients were doing exactly what they were allowed to do under the visa waiver — attend business meetings,” he said on Friday, noting that one of them “had just arrived on Tuesday and was leaving next week.”
 
So basically that Hyundai plant just got absolutely crippled and will be for a long time because Bubba Joe isn't trying to do that job
 
ZenMode said:
The people who are the damned fools are the ones who think that Tesla and Hyundai are trying to appeal to the same customer demographic.
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They’re only quite literally direct competitors. The ev6 and ionic5 are prime model3 competitors.
 
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