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.
edit: added youtube link
give them maga hats, made in china.
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.
It’s not quite to this level, but yeah. Being a sedentary worker like this makes it easier to become overweight or obese. It’s not just America, though, I’ve seen it in Mexico too, and I have no reason to believe Canada would be any different.
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
China trolls Trump with…
Oh damn
Chinese social media users
Eh.
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
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.
You do realize that employers do pay a share of the healthcare cost in other countries too? They are just not given as many choices about it as in the US.
Oh boy the choice to pay 450$ a month or have my whole family bankrupted by a procedure!
Oh you have the 450$ a month plan? Enjoy still getting ripped off by the scummiest industry in America.
I imagine a lot of Americans give birth at home to reduce costs.
Perhaps I’m just cheap
Well a quick Google search says an at home birth cost 3000-9000 out of pocket. Thought that was a lot until I saw this. “Giving birth costs $18,865 on average, including pregnancy, delivery and postpartum care, according to the Peterson-Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) Health System Tracker.” (https://www.forbes.com/advisor/health-insurance/how-much-does-it-cost-to-have-a-baby/)
Amazing how our society has found a way to bill us for literally becoming alive.
Officials are like “whys nobody having kids??” Meanwhile I don’t even have enough cash to cover the fucking birth.
😬 not to be smug, but in Belgium and in most of the world it’s 300 euros
You’re not smug. You’re just living in a reasonable country.
That’s cute that you think $450 a month gets you an insurance plan. At that price it’s subsidized by somebody.
My employer sponsored plan costs me $300 a month and they pay $1200 a month. It’s still high deductible. It still covers next to nothing. My wife’s necessary life saving meds still hit the deductible each year, costing me several thousand dollars additionally.
My wife and I have a deductible of 9,000 - It pretty much means I’ll hope a broken toe heals correctly and not see a doctor. . It didnt and now hurts most of the time. I have food and gas money tho.
3300/6600 here. 6000/12000 out of pocket maximum though.
I’m basically dinged for 3300 whenever I need health services other than a yearly physical or an eye exam.
Every january we drop 3300 on meds for my wife and she gets eaten alive with copays for all her specialist visits.
The $1000 deductible plan my employer offers costs $1062/month for family and you still pay $40 per visit as a copay, and the employer is still dropping that $1500/month - so you’re effectively paying $30,744 to insure a family of 3 and that’s not all-in on expenses. Plus since $1000 is a “low” deductible you don’t get to keep basically anything you put into your FSA, unless you know you’re gonna use it all. Why medical expenses are ever subject to taxes is beyond me. The whole thing should be single payer… we could probably operate on a third of the budget we have today without giving any worker providing care to patients any kind of pay cut. The middle men (insurance) do very well.
They can only make profits off of something like 20-25% of overall revenue, the rest must be spent on “providing and improving” patient care. Hiring bean counters to make sure you maximize your revenue and reject as many costly applicants as possible is part of the “providing and improving” part, so they spend substantially less than 75% of their revenue on actual treatment.
Good Lord what a dystopian future we live in. I was born in the 70s when the universe was fairly normal and the dream was still something you could achieve. I’m kinda glad I’m old and won’t see how bad it will get here.
Not my point. Obviously the US system is complete shit but the healthcare cost is still part of the cost of labor for production of goods in other countries too.
Yeah no shit but in other countries you don’t have insurance companies and a laundry list of middlemen skimming half the revenue from your payments before a doctor even sees you.
Difference is you don’t have to worry about medical issues if you lose your job cause it’s not tied to your employment
Lol yeah the choice here is be broke or die
Healthcare IIRC is free in China. I am not sure whether something changed or not but it was free of cost.
I’m sorry, do you genuinely think that free means we don’t pay for it? Taxes
In US you have to pay tax as well as pay extra for insurance. The insurance is not a full insurance as well. There is copay and a certain value below which insurance does not even start. Its a scam.
And the insurance can boot you off, or refuse to cover you if you’re too expensive.
So if you got cancer, and had to spend a million dollars to treat it, your insurance could just go “okay, your treatment is too expensive, we’re not covering that, you’ll have to pay for this yourself”.
It used to be worse. Many years ago, they could outright decide not to cover some medical conditions of yours, deeming them to be “pre-existing”. So if you had diabetes, sorry, that’s a pre-existing condition. We don’t cover those.
Nail in the coffin is that Americans spend more money on healthcare, per capita, than most other countries, without marked improvement in care/outcomes.
Yup. Majority of US lives in 3rd world conditions so the oligarchy can live like literal Pharaohs.
And do you not realize that the private insurance you pay for also pays for others insurance, if others don’t pay their insurance money your premiums go up to compensate for it
“‘Right-to-work’ means freedom and choice,” a Boston Globe op-ed explains. “As housing costs rise, some people are choosing to live on the road instead,” a Fox Business headline states. “If your insurance company isn’t doing right by you, you should have another, better choice,” reads Joe Biden’s campaign platform. We’re told repeatedly that “freedom of choice” is essential to a robust economy and human happiness. Economists, executives, politicians, and pundits insist that, the same way consumers shop for TVs, workers can choose their healthcare plan, parents can choose their kids’ school, and gig-economy workers can choose their own schedules and benefits.
While this language is superficially appealing, it’s also profoundly deceitful. The notion of “choice” as a gateway to freedom and a sign of societal success isn’t a neutral call for people to exercise some abstract civic power; it’s free-market capitalist ideology manufactured by libertarian and neoliberal think tanks and their mercenary economists and media messaging nodes. Its purpose: to convince people that they have a choice while obscuring the economic factors that ensure they really don’t: People can’t “choose” to keep their employer-provided insurance if they’re fired from their jobs or “choose” to enroll their kids in private school if they can’t afford the tuition.
In this episode, we examine the rise of “choice” rhetoric, how it cravenly appeals to our vanity, and how US media has uncritically adopted the framing–helping the right erode social services while atomizing us all into independent, self-interested collections of “choices.”
We are joined by Jessica Stites, executive editor of In These Times.
Yay! We get to choose how to pay a ridiculous price something that’s free in other countries! Yay, choice!
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.
The way capitalism works, the manufacturing won’t return until the conditions are so monstrously cost-saving as to be as bad as China’s.
The conditions will worsen until manufacturing returns.
We also have about a 1/5th of the population. Labors cheap in China comparatively because there’s so much of it.
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.
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.
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
The black guy in the video just does not give a fuck.
I mean, what sort of a psychopath do you have to be to give a single fuck about working in manufacturing?
Yeah, he definitely has the right idea.
Wait until Drumpf throws a fit over this, after he himself releasing his own version of the AI Gaza bearded ladies.
84 per cent
How much is that per dime?
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.
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.
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.
