Chinese social media users have mocked Donald Trump with an AI-generated video showing overweight Americans working in factories.

A viral 30-second clip shows a series of miserable-looking rotund Americans slowly sewing garments and building smartphones on crowded shop floors.

The video, which is set to Chinese music, is called “make America great again” and has been viewed hundreds of thousands of times.

https://archive.ph/IMju4

edit: added youtube link

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=elfkzkNqCuQ

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I think people in China might have this attitude because to them, it usually is unsafe, miserable, and underpaid. There is no proper unionization in China, and no OSHA, so it’s always bad.

    Do you really think Trump won’t be shipping union organizers off to CECOT? “Next they came for the trade unionists,” after all.

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      5 days ago

      Yes, I think he will (except the ones that fall over to threats, and give in to 47’s demands).

      But that’s not the point. It’s possible to have a safe factory staffed by happy, well-paid workers. If it were actually true that manufacturing would return to the US as a result of the tariffs, that manufacturing shouldn’t be considered an inherently bad thing.

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        4 days ago

        And the thing is, when magats talk about manufacturing, that’s what they’re envisioning.

        That said, sewing is generally understood to be shit work in manufacturing