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

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Post by Dumblydorr »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #222
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.

It would be interesting to reshuffle the over 10k spent per child. Pods of 10-15 kids could afford PhD level tutors.

You think a PhD automatically makes someone a better teacher than a school teacher? Shows quite an elitism that assumes knowledge and scholarly ability is the mark of a good teacher. From someone who actually taught in schools, scholarship matters almost zero, classroom management and emotional intelligence are far more important in a school teacher.

And giving away the money? You’d lose all amenities of a school, the building, its land, the social benefits of school interactions, etc. Most importantly, you lose classroom management of a teacher, and the kids lose out big time.

A PhD tutor stood in front of determinedly mischevious children, most couldn’t last two weeks.

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Post by jopsen »

mensetmanusman wrote: post #205
vanjajaja1 wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

its very likely to cause reciprocal tariffs though, and exports of Hollywood way out weigh the imports of foreign films

There already are tarrifs and bans against Hollywood in many countries.

No free country has a ban on Hollywood movies.

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Post by dagw »

KingOfCoders wrote: post #231
fellerts wrote: post #223

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd expect 911 to redirect to one of the emergency services in most/all European countries, no?

Why?

Because if someone is obviously trying to contact the emergency services it's probably a good idea to connect them to the emergency services.

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Post by [deleted] »

fellerts wrote: post #223
alexpotato wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a claim at one point that, due to the popularity of American TV shows in Europe, during household emergencies kids were calling 911 instead of the local version (e.g. it's 999 in some European countries)

I'd expect 911 to redirect to one of the emergency services in most/all European countries, no?

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Post by detaro »

fellerts wrote: post #223
alexpotato wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a claim at one point that, due to the popularity of American TV shows in Europe, during household emergencies kids were calling 911 instead of the local version (e.g. it's 999 in some European countries)

I'd expect 911 to redirect to one of the emergency services in most/all European countries, no?

AFAIK in mobile networks yes (911 and 112 are specified as emergency numbers in the specs and redirected as needed), not necessarily on landlines.

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Post by unsupp0rted »

ch_sm wrote: post #225
unsupp0rted wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, two directors exist, one who's been dead for 29 years, the other who's been dead for 32 years. I stand corrected then.

Look, this is a losing argument. It’s ok if you prefer stuff like Zemeckis (who I might add, made a lot of melodramatic films himself) over international films, but that doesn’t them objectively better or more watchable for everybody. I’m just going to leave this random link here: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls003889355/

Look at all those top non-American films on that list:

1. Once Upon a Time in America

2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

3. The Great Dictator

4. Lord of the Rings

5. Chinatown

If there's one thing you can't associate Charlie Chaplin or Jack Nicholson with, it's Hollywood.

Number 9 on your list is famous non-Hollywood filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.

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Post by richrichardsson »

maeln wrote: post #99
stingraycharles wrote: post #82

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

For now, there is no executive order or anything, so what he means by 'produced in' is anyone guess. Might also be just an announcement that will not end up in anything concrete. Wouldn't be the first time, wouldn't be the last.

There is no rational thought going into Trump's social media output.

I swear he has a set of 6 tiny books just the right size for his hands, each with 6 pages and on each page there are 6 categories of things.

He's rolls a dice 3 times to pick a category then a final one to pick from the list of 6 tariff levels to be applied.

Then when somone wakes up to see whatever unhinged shit he posted "this time" and realises how abjectly stupid it is, the whole things gets unwound. If any journalist dares mention it again then it was just "trolling the fake news media" and was never meant seriously.

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Post by Ralfp »

fellerts wrote: post #223
alexpotato wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a claim at one point that, due to the popularity of American TV shows in Europe, during household emergencies kids were calling 911 instead of the local version (e.g. it's 999 in some European countries)

I'd expect 911 to redirect to one of the emergency services in most/all European countries, no?

Depends on country but in Poland where I live calling 911 also reaches emergency dispatch even if „valid” number is 112.

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Post by jagermo »

jaimebuelta wrote: post #94

Not sure I follow. Biggest real action movie last year was “Deadpool & Wolverine”, a Disney movie which was shot in UK and made a bit over 50% of its revenue overseas[1]. Its main stars were Canadian and Australian. Does this mean that you’ll have to pay double to go watch it to cinemas in the US? Will that make Disney to focus on the international market? [1] https://the-numbers.com/movie/Deadpool-and-Wolverine-(202…

I am not sure they know worth of soft power or how to use it. It's fascinating to watch.

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Post by eqvinox »

dagw wrote: post #243
KingOfCoders wrote: post #231

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why?

Because if someone is obviously trying to contact the emergency services it's probably a good idea to connect them to the emergency services.

You're answering the wrong question. Why would 911 be "obviously trying to contact emergency services"?
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