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  • It's mocking Trump and MAGA's fantasy. For the workers it's providing them with work that is unpleasant, poorly paid and painful. For the factory owners it is ending up with staff that just aren't going to be productive.

    As for toiling for a pittance: Trump is trying to devalue the dollar and erode workers rights in a race to the bottom. Apart from the fact that, as others here have pointed out, the endgame would be automation the intermediary stage is pushing those in precarity and poverty into jobs that don't benefit them in any meaningful way.

    But the Chinese, being somewhat keener students of human nature, have distilled those arguments into thirty seconds of comedy gold.

  • Memes @lemmy.ml
    Spendrill @lemm.ee

    Chinese AI meme about American re-industrialisation

  • Mate, there are so many things that suggest I am on the spectrum now that I have given up keeping track of them all. I'm not sure that at my time of life there's anything that can be done for me even if I did get a diagnosis.

  • No, I have very poor hand eye co-ordination. Every time I have tried to play table tennis people have been on the floor laughing at how poor my reactions are. My eyes are just very sensitive to light.

  • I used to be able to tell what refresh rate they were set to because everything below a certain point flickered. I'd ask people why their screens were flickering and they couldn't see it.

  • This seems like burning down your whole neighborhood to get back at the guy down the street.

    Yeah. That's what it is. That's exactly why you've got Trump and I'm being entirely serious here.

  • Hurts the petit bourgeoisie, which is the only ones the working class see. Also, because Trump is a vengeful narcissist, you can bet that certain sections of the liberal elite are going to get a coating.

    Edit: just finished writing this and happened across this meme which probably puts the case to you better than I could:

  • I can't pretend that I know for a 100% sure that they will be. But the signs are not great. Also Tax Cuts for the Rich didn't go all that well when Liz Truss tried it here in the UK.

  • I kind of think that we don't have an argument here. Trump is obviously the worse of two choices. It's just that the Democrat offering is not actually a good choice, just a less bad one. Unless you're a member of the bourgeoisie.

    I am going to have a moderate decline in living standards because I live in the UK. Where our supposedly centre-left government have just decided to cut benefit payments to the disabled rather than raise taxes.

  • UK Politics @feddit.uk
    Spendrill @lemm.ee

    LBC doing its bit to help the economically inactive back into work

    Seriously, did they just go down the Westminster Jobcentre?

    UK Politics @feddit.uk
    Spendrill @lemm.ee

    This gave me a big belly laugh:

    Another Conservative said: “The answer is we need to find a way to appeal to voters we lost to all parties. I don’t know how you do that on policy, but Keir Starmer showed you can do it by looking competent and serious. But I don’t know if any of the candidates we have at the moment can do that.”

    Top View @lemmy.world
    Spendrill @lemm.ee

    Old Sarum in Wiltshire

    The original settlement of Salisbury was known as Old Sarum. The population and cathedral city had moved in the 14th century to New Sarum, at the foot of the Old Sarum hill.

    Two Sentence Horror @sh.itjust.works
    Spendrill @lemm.ee

    Intelligent aliens exist and have made contact.

    Turns out they're capitalists too...

    Two Sentence Horror @sh.itjust.works
    Spendrill @lemm.ee

    The gods are all real and answer all of our prayers.

    To them it's hilarious that all of our suffering was caused by someone else praying for it.

    World News @lemmy.world
    Spendrill @lemm.ee

    A former Conservative MP has asked to be removed from an award-winning academic's research presented in a TEDx Talk that connects her to a slave-owning ancestor