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Trump announces 100% tariffs on movies ‘produced in foreign lands’

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Post by incomingpain »

n1b0m wrote: post #68
incomingpain wrote: post #28

Vancouver and toronto just had a heart attack. london UK and berlin probably far less impacted. elbows up! Though i dont recommend continuing to antagonize trump even more because it's just triggering his ego and making him retaliate.

China stood up to his tariffs and he was forced to reverse some of them.

In 2020 he reversed some? I dont believe he has reversed anything in 2025.

The de minimis revocation and decoupling level tariffs means china-usa trade is over. There was no standing up.

He did have to reverse on CUSMA protected trade to avoid lawsuits. He's now targeting non-cusma protected trade.

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Post by stingraycharles »

mk89 wrote: post #44

I am so looking forward to the sequel of Rome ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_(TV_series) ), filmed in Georgia ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome,_Georgia ). Or the new Lord of The Rings in the Grand Canyon... :)

It’s about the country it’s produced in, not the country it’s recorded in, though?

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Post by voidspark »

Yoric wrote: post #41
voidspark wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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For context, much of the research that led to microprocessor came from outside the US. In particular, the invention of silicon gates comes from Italy. I don't think that there is much risk of foreign researchers moving to the US in the current climate.

The integrated circuit was invented in Texas and Silicon Valley, California.

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Post by squigz »

seydor wrote: post #11

it s impressive that , despite the US deciding to self-implode there is nobody willing to step in to compete for their place. It's as if the species has culturally peaked after its demographic peak. Europe is already in retirement and US seems to follow. Maybe we'll see African dynamism in a few decades

How quickly do you expect a country to 'step in to compete for their place'? I'm pretty sure America didn't get to where they are overnight.

The world will adjust to this, it just takes longer than a few months...

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Post by stingraycharles »

Aeolun wrote: post #79
pluc wrote: post #5

Defund education then defund culture. Sounds exactly like America First/America Only. Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know. He can flood the media as he's been flooding the government, all the pieces are in play. Still nobody putting up a meaningful fight. Your window is closing.

Look to Idiocracy for a documentary of what happens if this keeps going unchecked?

Gatorade to water the plants? Not a far fetch from injecting bleach to cure Covid.

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Post by nsriv »

Phui3ferubus wrote: post #23
nsriv wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This proclamation and his desire to reopen Alcatraz may be linked to the fact that PBS in Palm Beach aired "Escape from Alcatraz" last night. Presumably the tariffs on foreign movies came from his annoyance at channel surfing. https://bsky.app/profile/garyalexander.bsky.social/post/3lof...

> Sign-in Required > This user has requested that their content only be shown to signed-in users. Oh great, a Twitter replacement that implements worst of it's predecessor features.

I got the warning when I shared, but I think it's ostensibly a security/privacy measure that users can toggle on and off.

Anyways, here's a more direct source that should be publicly accessible, the prior was my first encounter with it.

https://bsky.app/profile/robertandrewp.bsky.social/post/3log...

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Post by jameskilton »

Aeolun wrote: post #79
pluc wrote: post #5

Defund education then defund culture. Sounds exactly like America First/America Only. Next up is propaganda and filling Americans' minds with only what he wants you to know. He can flood the media as he's been flooding the government, all the pieces are in play. Still nobody putting up a meaningful fight. Your window is closing.

Look to Idiocracy for a documentary of what happens if this keeps going unchecked?

Who would have guessed that Idiocracy was an optimistic look at our possible future...

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Post by investa »

jparishy wrote: post #58

The filmmaking industry is constantly flying productions all over the world to avoid paying US labor. Waste of time, money, energy. And the saved money isn't given back to the people making the movie, the unions are still constantly fighting with the industry for basic asks. I don't see a problem here, this is what tariffs are actually for. Broken clock is right twice a day yada yada eta: one can not like the man and…

Right, wait till all other countries tariff US movies. Again it is another US thing is more expensive for the average human on Earth scenario. Good luck with that.

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Post by latexr »

jarym wrote: post #22

Yes this man was democratically elected. There didn’t seem to be a particularly appealing set of options for the electorate. As an outsider it seems a lot like groups pulling the political levers in the US only ensure candidates that can be ‘handled’ are put forward and those that can’t will be rooted out. That’s why the choice was between braindead Biden vs deranged Trump. And when it was clear Biden wasn’t an optio…

> There didn’t seem to be a particularly appealing set of options for the electorate.

I mean, there was one candidate who fawns over dictators, is a felon, always acts in his own personal interest, and had very public plans to try to dismantle democracy and seize ultimate power. Then there was another who would at worst continue the status quo and not try to overthrow the government.

It feels ridiculous to claim there was no appealing option. It’s like being given the option between losing both arms or being slapped in the face and shrugging that none of the options is appealing. At least try to pick the least unappealing.

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