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

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

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Post by seydor »

squigz wrote: post #84
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...

America got there pretty swiftly with bretton woods. Maybe the competing threat of ussr helped

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

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Post by willvarfar »

earthcreed wrote: post #92
habosa wrote: post #77

The MAGA people attacking Hollywood is such a big mistake. Yes I know the average celebrity doesn’t share their views, but that doesn’t change the fact that Hollywood projects American culture around the world in a way that the government could never do itself. Movies and music made here are so often cited as the reason why young people around the world idealize America and want to emulate us (buy our clothes, speak…

You do understand this is a move to protect Hollywood, Right? It is for the very reasons you cited.

The modern popularist says exactly the opposite to what they mean. Again and again. They talk about freedom as they remove it, free speech as they suppress it, the arts as they defund it, manufacturing as they gut it etc. And all this while claiming a state of emergency and necessary for national security.

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

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Post by cpursley »

jdiff wrote: post #121
cpursley wrote: post #111

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why does American drinking water need fluoride - for the few seconds people brush their teeth? Other developed nations seem to do get by just fine without it (i.e, most of Europe). Does modern tooth paste not contain the components for proper cleaning? I feel like I'm missing something here, because I don't swallow my tooth paste but I drink my tap water. But if fluoride is fine in water that we drink, why not just a…

"For the few seconds people brush their teeth"? That's not how fluoridated drinking water works. Fluoridated water works all of the time, not just when brushing teeth, and it's not a vital chemical that the body craves. You are missing something. If you're this confused about a topic, you should at a bare minimum read the Wikipedia page.

I've read it and am not convinced we need to be ingesting fluoride water. Nor is Europe or most other countries and their dental health is fine.

Said another way - brush yo teeth, brush yo GD teeth: https://youtu.be/GlKL_EpnSp8?si=NeKJWKNlcHxtDUYD&t=112

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

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Post by jpambrun »

solumunus wrote: post #7
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.

What would a meaningful fight look like?

If this happened here in Canada, I would go to weekly protests against this administration. When I was younger I went to dozens of daily protest for something insignificant in comparison [1] and it did lead to a change of gouvernement.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Quebec_student_protests

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

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Post by voidspark »

fofoz wrote: post #98
voidspark wrote: post #56

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I suggest to read the entire story. In the meantime you can admire his signature in 4004 processor. http://intel4004.com/

I have read his story many years ago. He also designed the Z80.

The point is, if he arrived in Bangladesh instead of California, he would have accomplished nothing notable.

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

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Post by cool_dude85 »

datavirtue wrote: post #36
cool_dude85 wrote: post #8

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It's something that I think has been bubbling up for a while. I've heard a lot of complaints from people in and around the industry, and the complaints are a lot less about Ne Zha 2 and more about stuff that used to be filmed in Hollywood being filmed in Canada instead for cost purposes.

Cool, whatever organic market activities need to take place to make products cheaper is ok by the real gods of sacred capitalism. Trump is acting more and more like an irrational communist dictator each day.

I think tax credits in other countries have a lot to do with the consideration here, so it's not like a free market paradise situation as-is.

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

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Post by HPsquared »

habosa wrote: post #77

The MAGA people attacking Hollywood is such a big mistake. Yes I know the average celebrity doesn’t share their views, but that doesn’t change the fact that Hollywood projects American culture around the world in a way that the government could never do itself. Movies and music made here are so often cited as the reason why young people around the world idealize America and want to emulate us (buy our clothes, speak…

Isolationism is a key MAGA tenet. It's not accidental.

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

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Post by mort96 »

jasonjayr wrote: post #127
anonu wrote: post #101

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I think thats exactly the point though. There is a perception that "left wing ideals" are represented in art and media and that this must end. This explains the executive order to defund NPR and PBS last week.

But isn't this the "free market" at play? Media with so-called "leftist" themes tend to do well commercially than "rightist" themes, so Hollywood just follows the money?

MAGA is not a free market fundamentalist movement. The old-school neoconservative Republicans are no longer in charge of the party.

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Post by genocidicbunny »

a2tech wrote: post #65
genocidicbunny wrote: post #39

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Vancouver and Toronto were very often used as stand-ins for shows based in places like Chicago, Seattle, NYC and many others. Might still be, but I barely consume that sort of media nowadays. It made watching TV shows like Stargate SG1 additionally amusing though -- every planet they visited was basically some location near Vancouver. Me and friends used to joke about how much like carcinisation is a thing in evoluti…

An argument could be made that the Ancients built Stargate's in places they wanted to go/were comfortable for them, and those areas were like BC

Iirc, either Carter or Daniel Jackson pretty much said something along those lines in one of the later seasons. Not the BC part specifically, but about why stargates were usually on planets pretty comfortable for humans.

But the overarching point is that even shows where at least one of the actors (RDA) were given an award by the US Air Force for their depiction of the branch, were largely filmed outside the US.

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

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Post by jdiff »

cpursley wrote: post #133
jdiff wrote: post #121

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"For the few seconds people brush their teeth"? That's not how fluoridated drinking water works. Fluoridated water works all of the time, not just when brushing teeth, and it's not a vital chemical that the body craves. You are missing something. If you're this confused about a topic, you should at a bare minimum read the Wikipedia page.

I've read it and am not convinced we need to be ingesting fluoride water. Nor is Europe or most other countries and their dental health is fine. Said another way - brush yo teeth, brush yo GD teeth: https://youtu.be/GlKL_EpnSp8?si=NeKJWKNlcHxtDUYD&t=112

The questions you posed are not questioning fluoride, they're asking what the basic premise even is. If you don't understand that, you are far from the position needed to be evaluating and analyzing the necessity or benefits of it.

The Wikipedia page you mentioned reading also points out that it's not only a US thing. Or even a water-only thing.

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