These are the kind of memes currently circulating on Chinese social media. Trump bringing manufacturing back to America… - ThreadSky

newseye.bsky.social • 6 days ago

These are the kind of memes currently circulating on Chinese social media.

Trump bringing manufacturing back to America…

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pamswelluk.bsky.social•6 days ago

Here in the UK, after Brexit and the end of free movement for jobs, there weren't enough people to do the agricultural jobs that the indigenous population didn't want to do!

sarahseaforth.bsky.social•5 days ago

Why is everyone obese? If I were going to do a meme for this I would have everyone 65+ to show what would happen if no Social Security and companies can pay less than minimum wage because the elderly would be desperate.

jonyeasterby.bsky.social•5 days ago

40% of Americans over 20 are obese.
74% are overweight.

sarahseaforth.bsky.social•4 days ago

79% of Americans have a sense of humor, 14% do not, 7% are undecided.

kakesbykeith.bsky.social•4 days ago

aging69ca.bsky.social•5 days ago

Unfortunately, they're right. I don't think Americans have thought through bringing manufacturing back to the country and what that means for workers.

iangarside1.bsky.social•5 days ago

They're not wrong

jwebb1970.bsky.social•5 days ago

@drharmony.bsky.social NUTLICK sees this as a godsend for middle class workers. If you cannot manage tiny iPhone screws, this is another great low paying career job ! Say thank you to the orange fat ass!

bcorr.bsky.social•5 days ago

All for $7.25 per hour*

*subject to change

zimadood.bsky.social•6 days ago

Nike jobs for Vietnamese wages?
Hell no!
Let the migrants do it for next to nothing.
Hang on, didn’t we just deport them?

Migrants were the last bastion of U.S. manufacturing before outsourcing abroad became economically cheaper with modern communications.

Do you want to Make Americans Earn Less?

jvarrige.bsky.social•5 days ago

Great yet?

johngage1.bsky.social•5 days ago

“So you’re asking me to accept an indeterminate of economic pain and in return I get to work in a sweatshop?”

anothercinna.bsky.social•6 days ago

It might help America & China to read this from @dieworkwear.bsky.social. #Tarrific stuff! https://bsky.app/profile/dieworkwear.bsky.social/post/3lmb6xzsahk2w

hifilarry.bsky.social•6 days ago

I seriously think that America Made will be a disaster for the US economy. People have bought well designed, well made, reliable products from elsewhere for too long now.

Soviet economy beckons.

jasonemry.bsky.social•5 days ago

it’s like telling people that going to the store is bad and you should be self sustaining

he is describing farmers. none of us are fucking farmers.

jasonemry.bsky.social•5 days ago

correction SOME of us are farmers

krellomat.bsky.social•5 days ago

It will be simply nothing. There are no factories to begin with. Building the infrastructure would take years, and then there are no workers.

beerrex.bsky.social•6 days ago

35 USD/hour instead of 5 USD in China...

maliwaka.bsky.social•6 days ago

our new feudalism is nigh; serfs cost $0/hour.

rikki-lea.bsky.social•6 days ago

I know this isn't the point, but man I hate AI videos.

catebridget.bsky.social•5 days ago

i also hate how they’re fat shaming Americans too. they can make their point about labor without implying that these people are *even worse* for being large. has a whiff of shapist-eugenics bigotry.

jonyeasterby.bsky.social•5 days ago

Not sure this is eugenics it’s more likely you ask AI to show Americans it will come up with fat people.
With 74% of Americans over 20 overweight it’s hardly gross stereotyping.
This has been inflicted by US food corporations and UP food manufacturing.
America destroying itself again.

catebridget.bsky.social•4 days ago

i know the statistics, but someone had to put this into the AI prompt. lots of AI depicts thin people. choices were made.

ckriesi.bsky.social•4 days ago

When correct statistics are shaming, facts become fake news.

catebridget.bsky.social•4 days ago

ckriesi.bsky.social•4 days ago

The vid is unfortunately statistically correct.

If we start calling the truth "shaming" then we can stop complaining about "fake news" and "alternative facts".

newseye.bsky.social•6 days ago

Yup, me too.

kathihoke.bsky.social•5 days ago

Watch the hands 🫣

suziewonder.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hahaha more true than not!

wrathburn78.bsky.social•5 days ago

captainhober.bsky.social•5 days ago

And robots. Don’t forget the robots.

johncraighammond.bsky.social•5 days ago

Lutnik went to Haverford and clearly learned nothing. Let's get Lutnik's children and grandchildren in these jobs.

baileyville112.bsky.social•6 days ago

Except half of them would also be on their cell phones! 🤳

johnaddams2024.bsky.social•5 days ago

Trump bringing manufacturing back to American teenagers
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2025/03/25/florida-child-labor-law-bill-2025/82657143007/

cerishields.bsky.social•6 days ago

And yet…

zerogravityy.bsky.social•5 days ago

That’s not wool and acrylic.

zerogravityy.bsky.social•5 days ago

I mean the image is fake.

rainbowcollective.bsky.social•6 days ago

The Chinese are great prophets!

nicew.bsky.social•6 days ago

Poets

rainbowcollective.bsky.social•6 days ago

Instant karma

robmac1223.bsky.social•5 days ago

They should be wearing MAGA Hats

berg8311.bsky.social•5 days ago

One, China just dunked on us hard. Two though, are they saying “no no no let’s US abuse OUR people”?

miaganga.bsky.social•3 days ago

Making the king his %100 cotton Nappies.

guyfawkestoo.bsky.social•5 days ago

More like... make Americans slaves again!!🤨😡🤬

jimc5.bsky.social•5 days ago

You know a lot of them want that.

And Louisiania didn't pass the amendment to outlaw slavery for prisoners.

https://lailluminator.com/2022/08/23/slavery-is-on-the-ballot-in-louisiana-and-4-other-states/

thevoidvvitch.bsky.social•6 days ago

I hate this administration.

elliskatz.bsky.social•5 days ago

In Florida they should show children at the machines

iamunknownuser.bsky.social•6 days ago

Do they all state;
Dear Bubba,
Ya Broke, Suckah, Good Luck With That!

indianalbino.bsky.social•6 days ago

China is to expensive now (even before tariffs) it’s Laos and Bangladesh now

theseer1983.bsky.social•5 days ago

I think there is bigger chance of coal returning than factories returning.

janicereynolds.bsky.social•5 days ago

WTF??? Does he even see this shit??

wee1rn.bsky.social•6 days ago

All fat Americans

bryvegbry.bsky.social•5 days ago

Holy shit that's funny and not at the same time. I say let this happen so these ungrateful fucks realize how they should vote and consider everything immigrants bring to their privileged lives.

dd73.bsky.social•5 days ago

The truth hurts. Americans won't do these jobs .

lizzius.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sure they would... for the right price.

djsubterrain.bsky.social•5 days ago

Only $70 for your $20 t-shirt !

Step right up !

lizzius.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yeah, that's kind of the point.

moipolloi.bsky.social•5 days ago

You, too, can work in a sweat shop for the newly lowered minimum wage of $6.50 an hour, sewing elastic into underwear. A days' wages will net you a dozen eggs and a carton of unpasteurized milk from unregulated farms. You will not get housing on a campus with meals because freedom. Any takers?

lizzius.bsky.social•5 days ago

That would be the wrong price.

Unless and until we are in a true depression.

The problem right now is that we're continuing to enable exploitation by exalting corruption as "business". It has nothing to do with the work itself and everything to do with class.

followthesun.bsky.social•5 days ago

You pay an average American a LIVING wage, 8 hour shift, good benefits and throw in a pension and you would have millions of applicants to do this job! The snobbery that has been oozing out of these posts lately as though people would be "too good for this". Nope. Lots of people would be happy!

globug48.bsky.social•5 days ago

Then why are we doing it? As long as immigrants will do these jobs at low wages, why does anyone care. I don't see these "snobs" at pushing for higher wages for these people.

ninainhorto.bsky.social•4 days ago

How much do think that hat would cost? Who you gonna sell it to?

bicerin.bsky.social•5 days ago

You missed out the last bit: And see the price of these goods they make rocket. There’s a reason this stuff is outsourced to other parts of the world.
Studies also showed decades ago that mindless repetitive blue collar jobs had higher rates of stress & depression than white collar ones. Snobbery?

r1100rt.nafofellas.com•5 days ago

Would you encourage your children and grandchildren to aspire to these careers? The reality is that if these kind of jobs get re-shored, it’s robots who will do the work, not Americans.

sneekypie.bsky.social•5 days ago

You can't afford goods made in the US

timetomakejam.bsky.social•5 days ago

But the point is they don’t WANT to pay workers a living wage AND workers can’t afford to buy living wage things made in the us because they don’t receive a living wage. That’s why the owners moved off show to begin with. More profit!!

bedigger.bsky.social•5 days ago

And produce mega inflation, that would make that living wage instantly obsolete. It does not make economic sense for an advanced economy to manufacture many basic goods, that could represent a real opportunity for jobs and development in an economy developing from subsistence agriculture to mixed.

jcsteen.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's not slobbery. We know it will be slave wages. The era of union factory jobs you can raise a family on is over abd the oligarchs won't let it come back.

dd73.bsky.social•5 days ago

Like I said, "The truth hurts"

adrame.bsky.social•5 days ago

A robot will do it better, for cheaper. These jobs are a dead end.

erinslick.bsky.social•5 days ago

Sweat shops are world renowned for their high wages

lipstickscribbles.bsky.social•4 days ago

Arakawa Group did it much funnier.

https://youtu.be/iBqwZsV1V0g?si=tIXhJjb0WAXU-peP

comesatime.bsky.social•5 days ago

That really brings it home

madebyzombies.bsky.social•5 days ago

None of these AI companies have ever heard of the Uncanny Valley.

dannyhabsmufc.bsky.social•5 days ago

You have to ask yourselves what stands behind that weird fantasy of the GOP wanting to bring manufacturing jobs back.

1) automation is set to kill those jobs anyway.

2) older workers earned money so their kids wouldn't do this type of job.

3) younger and more educated won't do those jobs.

1/2

dannyhabsmufc.bsky.social•5 days ago

4) There is a high (roughly 23% or more) level of unemployment among youths in China because they are more educated and won't work in sweatshops.

The future of any top-tier nation must go through more white-collar jobs. Japan understood that after they did the same mistake 3 decades ago.

2/2

karakoy.bsky.social•5 days ago

The owner class that offshored industry for low cost labor calculates that with AI and automation now they can manufacture for even less here. The jobs won't be coming back, that's baloney.

dannyhabsmufc.bsky.social•4 days ago

One more reason why the job market needs to change in America. A steep increase in the number of white collar jobs are the only way to go forward.

paulamarieyoung.bsky.social•5 days ago

That is quite something. In Qatar, the national goal was "a knowledge-based economy." No Qatari ever expected to work in a factory.

hirosh7.bsky.social•6 days ago

The notion that we would bring this type of work back to America and have Americans do it for the same wages as overseas labor is laughable. The economics never worked. That's why the work moved offshore.

China is having a good laugh at our expense tho.

antrei.com•6 days ago

These jobs could be undertaken by immigrant, who aside from enabling local manufacturing could contributing with taxes and spending power.. oh wait…

smurthys.bsky.social•5 days ago

China, and Vietnam, and Cambodia, and Thailand, and Bangladesh, ...

judithkh1951.bsky.social•5 days ago

hannahbara84.bsky.social•5 days ago

And all the kids and grandkids of the maga administration....they have to set an example...

hannahbara84.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's the maga's going to do these jobs, right?

kelake.bsky.social•5 days ago

Their school age kids.

richo98119.bsky.social•5 days ago

Now show the price tag of that iPhone...

whlibby.bsky.social•5 days ago

Worked in shirt factory 50 years ago it was below minimum wage and paid by completed task usually measured by the dozen expect the same☮️

deliriumbob.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yep, this is it. Can’t wait.

n83z01qbui.bsky.social•5 days ago

@nick-carmody.bsky.social

desertdude317.bsky.social•5 days ago

I resemble that remark.

magadauthan.bsky.social•5 days ago

rddarkco.bsky.social•5 days ago

God, the "Make America Great Again" at the end just friggin' killed me

nmwilkinson.bsky.social•6 days ago

Snap!
https://bsky.app/profile/nmwilkinson.bsky.social/post/3lm677jsutk2t

pink-tourmaline.bsky.social•5 days ago

American dream.

adrame.bsky.social•5 days ago

They're not fat enough.

thepudgylife.bsky.social•5 days ago

This highlights just how advanced China’s AI is.

ssubedi.bsky.social•5 days ago

So Americans will work in sweatshops and won’t be able to afford Ozempic anymore.

uncertainworld.bsky.social•6 days ago

Manufacturing American chins.

ll7177.bsky.social•5 days ago

The Chinese must not be aware of recent changes to some states’ child labor laws, otherwise they would’ve added video of kids screwing in tiny parts with a small window where the moon and stars are visible.

pauldwyer.bsky.social•5 days ago

It's very amusing but the frame - memes currently circulating on Chinese social media - isn't supported by this example. The creator is a wedding photographer in Brooklyn.

keepitsane3.bsky.social•5 days ago

Put a fork in me. I’m. Done.

hipfish.bsky.social•5 days ago

Ouch

jocelyndrolet.bsky.social•4 days ago

They forgot to put US kids in there.

lishang.bsky.social•5 days ago

A million screws later

hammer456.bsky.social•5 days ago

Alabama hillbillies

sammyog1694.bsky.social•5 days ago

Hey they need jobs down there, they have no state economy besides football. Let’s put those cotton gin’s back to use and make the south great again

ron-speaks.bsky.social•5 days ago

A lot of comments here missing the point. Chinese are into robotics. They're actually shaming us not for fat people sitting at machines, but the fact that they're using high technology instead of "peasants" as JD Vance said so stupidly

ron-speaks.bsky.social•5 days ago

In fact, if years down the road, if we do resume manufacturing in the United States, it will not be employing hundreds of thousands of workers. We will be using robotics as well.

karakoy.bsky.social•5 days ago

That's why the same ppl that offshored industry are eager to bring it back now. The well paid, unionized industrial jobs that disappeared won't be coming back tho.

ravenna321.bsky.social•5 days ago

Kind of awesome, they should do one with Trump sewing. Seriously though, their point is valid. Americans are not going to flock to these factories to work. Make Americans Grind Again.

tgfe.bsky.social•5 days ago

Get back to work boomers

sailorjourno.bsky.social•5 days ago

😂😂

wenallt.bsky.social•6 days ago

Newest Trump slogan,
“Work sets you free!”
😔

frausherri.bsky.social•5 days ago

Please delete this post. It’s - as you probably know - the slogan that was put by the Nazis above the entrances to the concentration camps, where 6 mill people were murdered. In Germany it’s illegal to use this. Thank you from my grandfather who knew one of these camps from the inside.

bethjacksonlb.bsky.social•5 days ago

Elon did a Nazi salute. They are disappearing people who disagree with them. This is how it starts. Americans need to wake up and see the history trying to repeat itself.

frausherri.bsky.social•5 days ago

True, but posting illegal nazi propaganda is just disgusting and wrong and an insult to all the people murdered in concentration camps.

locatecate.bsky.social•5 days ago

This administration is copying the nazi playbook. They are building concentration camps at this moment. Is it an insult to the people murdered in concentration camps to try to prevent that happening in this country? To call it what it is?

frausherri.bsky.social•5 days ago

No, it’s an insult to use these words and to trivialize them. They belong to the original Holocaust in their time. Use your own words and sorry but Americans don’t seem to understand the significance of the Holocaust at all.

soapachu.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes, that was the point. Trump's direction of travel is directly towards fascism.

frausherri.bsky.social•5 days ago

Still that’s no reason. It’s for a reason these words in this context can put you in jail here in Germany.

eightroundsrapid.bsky.social•5 days ago

Does the use of the words, even translated to English, imply support for the Holocaust?

frausherri.bsky.social•5 days ago

Yes, because it’s nazi propaganda and used here in Germany by the neo Nazis to deny and ridicule the Holocaust. You could google these words, to learn, you know.

catrinette.bsky.social•5 days ago

I understand your point, but we are not in Germany, Americans have a hollywood version of ww2. MAGA, are poorly educated, and don't have a clue about history, geography, or geopolitics. You can't compare a very tragic event like the holocaust perpetrated by German nazi to US citizens of XXI century

catrinette.bsky.social•5 days ago

My grandfather perished also in the camps. I understood exactly what the meaning of the post was. This abominable slogan is an image of what to come in Trump America. Exploitation of the vulnerable masses and elimination of anyone not white, Christian , rich, or powerful that's what coming

wenallt.bsky.social•5 days ago

Without meaning to cause offence, I am aware of the meaning and I was implying that it’s use would be an unsurprising next step for an administration which is spiralling down into fascism and has already adopted the ‘Roman’ salute and detention camps.

shuffles416.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://www.yahoo.com/news/gop-rep-quotes-infamous-nazi-234240109.html

Your ironic use of the slogan from aushwitz and Dachau is appropriate, given Maga's proclivity to emulate nazi ideology.

El salvador is the Dachau of the christofacist movment.

shuffles416.bsky.social•5 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3lmcmzwygw42m

More evidence of your very astute observation @wenallt.bsky.social

wenallt.bsky.social•5 days ago

Considering they have already tried to label people who boycott Tesla as “domestic terrorists” and the Chief Justice has had his spine, testicles and any remaining vestiges of morality removed, I fear things are going to get very dark, very quickly for Americans.
😱

catrinette.bsky.social•5 days ago

I agree and understood exactly what you meant

dorindaroche.bsky.social•5 days ago

No lie I worked in a belt shop stitching leather belts when I was a young'n. Made it three days. Thought I was gonna die. But a few of my friends lasted for a time, the mundane work was what they liked.