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What a load of MAGA propaganda. Saying American made products are good quality. Ehm. No, they aren't. They are usually shit quality and aren't allowed in Europe because they are dangerous / toxic. It's overpriced junk.
Also his product looks shit. It's a combination of hard and soft materials. That means there are several weak points. The metal handle is connected with a single screw in plastic. The plastic will break and the sponge will wear really fast.
American producers need to cut costs, otherwise their already overpriced product will be insanely expensive. In China they have cheap labor, in the US they can only cut costs with cheaper materials and importing from China. When they don't import, they will have to be creative by using less material and cheaper stuff. Poorly regulated, toxic material for example. Softer metals / plastics. While in China they don't have to import most of their material, or it comes from neighboring countries. Chinese products are actually of better quality than American ones these days.
I remember buying my first Leatherman, a long time ago. The blade is made of extra hardened steel, it's impossible to dent it. I recently bought the new flagship Leatherman, for 300 euros. The blade got dented while cutting cardboard. The multitool I bought on aliexpress for 20 euros has a hardened steel blade and doesn't dent at all.
Now Trump is angry becssue the EU won't take poor quality American products. Like chicken for example, in Europe American chicken is concidered toxic.
Chinese EV's have surpassed American EV's by a long shot now.
The time of Chinese products being shit has passed. It's a struggle for European companies to compete. The time of American products being shit is now.
The smarter everyday videos do not fit their YouTube name anymore. I used to love his videos but for several years already it has become propaganda junk. He's just a MAGA hillbilly who thinks he's super smart.
Youre just as delusional as MAGA people, just the other direction. Please don't exaggerate and portray someone as way more political than they are, that's what got us into the Trump mess. Try some empathy
Are you aware he's a creationist, a republican and a Trump supporter? And this video about producing locally, the thing Trump tries to do with his tariff wars, isn't political? What got us into this Trump mess is people not seeing the political views in the content they see, believing anything they see and becoming pro Trump as they are constantly being fed MAGA propaganda. You not being able to see what this channel is trying to do is the issue with why fake news is having such an insane success rate.
But who am I, really. I'm only an OSINT analyst specialized in fact checking and analyzing fake news narrative in media and it's effects on the targeted crowd. See this article I was the leading researcher.
Damn, you really hate anyone and everything conservative. Yes I was aware of all of that. But please tell me you understand the difference between supporting something and being a wild fanatic, or did your OSINT training skip that part. Also, what part of the video was fake? Regardless if you agree with it's premise or not, Destin was extremely clear and up front with the struggles of this project. I really get the feeling you are just building your own narrative off his video.
I just see through the "innocent facade" and judge the underlying bias. Propaganda these days can be hard to recognize for most people. Some are obvious AF, like Fox News, although loads of people are unable to even see that. Other sources, like Smarter Every Day, have a finesse and innocence built into it making it hard to recognize it has a strong bias foundation, even making you defend it even though I doubt you are MAGA yourself. Fox is for dumb people. Propaganda like Smarter Every Day is to trick people who won't fall for Fox.
There are news sites with relatively normal news articles. Not much opinions in them, not radical. On the surface it looks like a regular news site. Comparing it's articles to other news sources and it isn't much different. Trustworthy news site right?
But when you look at the web address, you see it is registered in Saint Petersburg. There are no ads on the website and there's no paid subscription plan. What is their source of income? When you check the articles on the website, they are almost all about something negative in the US. The same articles as on US respectable news sites. But only the news pertraying the US in a negative way. All the other articles you see on US news sites which aren't negativity tinted are missing on this website. But the articles there are rather solid.
This is an example of very subtle propaganda. It's not in the extreme form like with Fox News. It's in the absence of anything unfavorable to their naritive, which gives a certain view on the US in general.
It's like the review system on Amazon. When a product has 100 reviews, with 95 five star reviews and 5 is one star reviews. Pretty decent product, right? But when you only show the 5 one star reviews, the product looks like shit.
With Smarter Every Day it works somewhat similar. He scetches a scenario which is favorable to the Trump naritive, but leaves out a lot of other factors which are unfavorable, yet very real. With in the end the effect of people like you defending him and his naritive he tries to push.
Not all propaganda is obvious AF and focused on conspiracy loonies. There's all different kinds of propaganda tailored for everyone.