Trump Adviser / White House Releases Insane List of Demands for Tariffed Countries. USA is using Cringe behavior against the world, active measures technique of deliberate Cringe Nation behavior
Miran said that these factors had led to a “decline of our manufacturing workforce by over a third since its peak and a reduction in our share of world manufacturing production of 40 percent.”
I strongly suspect they do not consider manufacturing of Twitter, manufacturing of Bluesky, manufacturing of video games, manufacturing of Apple iPhone apps, manufacturing of Android apps, manufacturing of videos sold on Patreon, manufacturing of Netflix streaming platform, manufacturing of Bitcoin, manufacturing of websites for selling goods.
Somehow they think since the USA no longer manufactures RCA 13" television sets in Bloomington, Indiana, on South Rogers Street... which was not nearly the profit that we earn from manufacturing an Apple iPhone application software ("app"), that we "no longer make things" in the USA.
The people who own the cinema with the big parking lot don't make the kind of profit the Hollywood actor like Ryan Reynolds, and Kevin Hart earns. The big money jobs since 1985 have been in software and films and creating ideas.
The "developed world" desires high-profit high-margin goods.
The White House year 2025 is all under the influence of Kremlin simulacra. !HybridWarLost@lemm.ee to Russia.
That's because none of that is manufacturing. Programming, producing, inventing, yes. Manufacturing, no.
If we manufactured something, there world be jobs doing the assembly, performing random quality tests on units, packing units, operating the warehouses, shipping them to stores, plotting them on shelves. Manufacturing involves a lot of people getting paid money to do things. (The ones that aren't done by robots, anyway) Programming a new piece of software, even a wondrous one, completely skips most of those jobs, and minimizes the rest.
Understand, when they say "manufacturing," what they are talking about is decent paying jobs with steady hours, and minimal requirements. You can learn what you need in the factory, without having to go to school for 4 years.
Those jobs mostly don't exist anymore, and they mostly will not exist again. But that's what the Trump base remembers, either from their past, or from their parents. That's what Trump is promising them.
The democrats have a bad case of "mostly telling the truth," so wet can't promise them very much.
That’s because none of that is manufacturing.
of course they are not. Which is my entire point.
In 1989 I worked for a steel factory in Fort Wayne, Indiana. I worked for a plastics factory in 1990 in Grabill Indiana.
Many Americans do not desire these jobs. Especially the way that management ran them. They dream to be like Donald Trump and Elon Musk, and Hollywood film stars. They are so stuffed full of marketing and advertising "trickle down marketing" from billionaires that they don't want to work in a factory.
The democrats have a bad case of “mostly telling the truth"
Lemmy users and Reddit users and Bluesky users since year 2013 have a horrible ability to tell Russian simulacra from reality. People who think hiding real identities and accepting any information in decorated "meme" form is a good idea have wrecked the USA since the year 2007 introduction of the Apple iPhone. "our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true".
The democrats have a bad case of “mostly telling the truth"
And you somehow think the Republicans political party members do not? it's the ENTIRE POPULATION of 0.34 billion people. It isn't just a single political party. It is the whole entire social media society of North America. A "Clown Population" of anonymous no-identity Lemmy, Reddit, Twitter, Bluesky users. !ClownPopulation@lemm.ee
The problem of year 2025 USA is cult of ignorance. Celebration of ignorance. As Carl Sagan predicted about manufacturing in year 1995.
“Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30-second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance. As I write, the number-one videocassette rental in America is the movie Dumb and Dumber. “Beavis and Butthead” remain popular (and influential) with young TV viewers. The plain lesson is that study and learning—not just of science, but of anything—are avoidable, even undesirable.” ― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1995
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"I have read about many historical periods. But not one in which you can talk to young people the way you can at the college level today, and find out that they believe… nothing. Want… nothing. Hope… nothing. Expect… nothing. Dream… nothing. Desire… nothing. Push ’em far enough and they’ll say: “Yeah, I gotta get a job. Spent a lot of money at Duke.” That’s not what I am talking about here. They hope nothing. Expect nothing. Dream nothing. Desire nothing. And it is a fair question to ask whether a society that produces this reaction in its young is worthy of existence at all. It really is. It’s worth asking that. Whether it’s worth being here at all. And my criticism of this society couldn’t get more bitter than it is in that case. It couldn’t possibly be. Remember, I am talking about the young I have encountered at Duke. These are privileged youth. At an elite southern school. Mostly white, mostly upper-middle to upper class." - Rick Roderick, 1993
Miran said that these factors had led to a “decline of our manufacturing workforce by over a third since its peak and a reduction in our share of world manufacturing production of 40 percent.”
"As the Nazi emphasis on nonintellectual virtues (patriotism, loyalty, duty, purity, labor, simplicity, “blood,” “folk-ishness”) seeped through Germany, elevating the self-esteem of the “little man,” the academic profession was pushed from the very center to the very periphery of society. Germany was preparing to cut its own head off. By 1933 at least five of my ten friends (and I think six or seven) looked upon “intellectuals” as unreliable and, among these unreliables, upon the academics as the most insidiously situated."― Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, published 1955
“Ours is the first age in which many thousands of the best-trained individual minds have made it a full-time business to get inside the collective public mind.” ― Marshall McLuhan, The Mechanical Bride : Folklore of Industrial Man, year 1951
Leadership of Nations by using Cringe behaviors. Exploiting the minds of the audience, the citizens of nations, with cringe antics. Using cringe as a method of control and exploitation against a population.