China trolls Trump with...
Oh damn
Chinese social media users
Eh.
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The 2nd half of the article also mentions an AI generated song released by China's state run media.
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2025-04-03/-Liberation-Day-or-a-price-to-pay--1CgrB0bz7by/index.html
Now we're talking
Yes, capitalism is a miserable slave system. Nobody should be forced to waste their lives in some sweatshop regardless of nationality, weight, etc.
The current version sucks
But that's because everyone needs to just get all their coworkers and make a new company that is a Union used to share all the profits
Another reason moving factory jobs here wouldn’t make any sense is that we don’t have universal healthcare so the employer has to pay the workers insurance costs.
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give them maga hats, made in china.
I swear to sweet little 9lb 5 ounce Baby Jesus...
I have zero idea why China hasn't slapped a 1,000% tarrif on any MAGA goods or anything that supports American conservative movements.
China makes all that shit, it's a no brainer
That would be an export tax, which companies would then pass along.
Tariffs are a gov taxing its own people for things they import, without the involvement of the foreign exporter or country at all.
But yeah.
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This is hilarious except that the factories aren't here, and to every MAGAts' surprise, they can't appear overnight.
But it's more than just that. The factories will never be built if industry leaders aren't sure the situation is stable.
No one will invest a billion dollars building factories and setting up supply lines if the tariffs could go away tomorrow. They would lose their investment. The only way they would commit all that money is if they know the tariffs are here to stay.
And if there's one thing we know about Donny it's that he's a fucking idiot. And it's there's two things we know about him it's that he's inconsistent and will bow to flattery. Only his most stubborn followers believe he'll actually stick to things as they are right now, meaning the desire to invest locally will never materialize.
Trump's stated reason for the tariffs (bringing industry back to the US) will never happen under his leadership. The only thing this will cause is pain and poverty for the American people.
Edit: And to prove this, mere hours after typing it the tariffs have been 'paused' for another 90 days. There's no stability. No one would invest that kind of money into building factories in the US only for this to happen... again.
Even if he would keep things stable for the remainder of his term that is still not even close to enough time for the majority of factories to be built, start production and reach profitability and it is extremely unlikely that his successor would keep the tariffs around unchanged too.
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Playing the long game bro. Things gonna be so dope in the US in 50 years. We will be an isolated Arian labor economy breathing in pure sulfur and working in factories to produce goods for oligarchs on their yachts.
FYI "Aryan" is the word you're looking for. "Arian" is an early Christian sect decried as heretical in the later Roman Empire
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The people unironically calling themselves Aryan are always the most rat faced, degenerate, inbred fucks. It's hilarious. They probably delude themselves into believing they're Aryan so they can ignore the rat faced inbreeding.
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Which is why, generally, taxing wealth and having the state invest it in supportive infrastructure and subsidising is the preferred option for developed economies that want manufacturing (back).
Sweeping, protectionist tariffs are usually a painful measure of necessity, if you have an economy without any developed industrial or service sectors, where initial investments are basically impossible due there being no taxable wealth and no market incentives, because of global players always being more profitable and cheaper, than any beginning industry that has to go through growth processes and learning experiences. (More selective tariffs or outright import/export bans of course also have their place for a multitude of political reasons, e.g. the EU not wanting a lot of artificially cheap and lower-health-standards US meat)
Yeah I don't think Cheeto and Elmo will see it the same. They'll see this and think that this is awesome, this could be the American plebs slaving away to make wealth for the rich few, this is great!
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I mean, if you've ever been in an american factory, this is pretty much what 90% of them look like. No need for lame AI.
I work in a factory in the US, and the vast majority of my coworkers at least don't appear overweight. Granted, a pretty big percentage of them are immigrants, so maybe that skews the numbers compared to the general population.
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The goal is to use AI and robotics to bring manufacturing back, they never promise jobs so much as building it here. The wealthy classes don't need you anymore like a horse after the car was invented.
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