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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

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

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

84 per cent

How much is that per dime?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The black guy in the video just does not give a fuck.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, what sort of a psychopath do you have to be to give a single fuck about working in manufacturing?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Are they trying to say it's inherently miserable to work in a factory? So let Chinese workers do it instead of Americans?

It shouldn't be miserable to work in a factory. The overhead pneumatic drill shown towards the end is just like a drill I used when I worked in a factory one summer in Chicago. It was perfectly safe, and the people I worked with were well compensated. (I was not, because I was only 16.)

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.

In 2019, when I visited a Chinese factory for work, the assembly line was tight enough that all the workers bumped elbows constantly. One person had a very loud compressed air tube to clean off components, and wore hearing protection and safety glasses. The person next to them had no hearing protection. Another person was testing blindingly bright LED shop lights, and wore sunglasses, but the people next to them had no protection. This would have been considered totally unsafe in the US.

I doubt much manufacturing will return to the US, but if it does, then even by 2025 standards it wouldn't be as bad as in China. With OSHA gutted by the current Republican administration, it's getting worse, but we still have more worker's rights than workers in China.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Wait until Drumpf throws a fit over this, after he himself releasing his own version of the AI Gaza bearded ladies.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Mocking MAGA is fine with me, but fucking China was once the leader in obesity and cancer growth. I am uncertain if they still lead.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Growth is doing a lot of work in that sentence. I'm not debating the actual numbers of each of these countries, but if 50% of your population is obese it's practically impossible to double while if it's 10% doubling isn't that crazy.

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