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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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Look at Georgia, look at Serbia, look at the Arab Spring. Look at your constitution! There is a part in there about resistance to oppression you seem to only use to defend the wrong things.
Did you look at Georgia and Serbia yourself? Protests have been ongoing for months, government doesn't care.
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It's about the production of movies, not the distribution of movies. I don't think people in this thread are reading the article. The original title of this submission didn't help.
But you agree that EU should tariff any movie produced in US, right?
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…
But I presume that the major effect of this tariff will be to force large media conglomerates (aka news agencies) to think very carefully about how their news divisions cover Trump.
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…
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Isolationism is a key MAGA tenet. It's not accidental.
MAGA has several mutually exclusive tenets: - Isolationism - Increase US influence worldwide - Exploit US influence worldwide Each one will have a negative effect on the other two.
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The United States is not a state party to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court so there is exactly zero percent chance of anyone from the GOP appearing at The Hague.
They are not, yet . Assuming there will be a free and fair election in which the Democrats win, it would be a sensible move to repeal the Hague Invasion Act, ratify the Rome Statute and refer all of the 47th's admin's key figures there - that avoids any possible issues with the Supreme Court. Additionally, it would restore a bit of global confidence in the ICC and America's credibility on the global stage as well...…
2.Even if it did pass, retroactively referring 47 there doesn't scream "law and order" to me, especially when there are actual laws being broken.
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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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You may have missed that Idiocracy is a pro-eugenics film, in which the populace got stupider by way of being fecund. It's not about this problem, really.
> You may have missed that Idiocracy is a pro-eugenics film I kinda see how you got there, but man. This is the same guy behind Office Space and Bevis and Butthead. He's poking fun at out of touch intellectuals and consumption. Calling it pro-eugenics though...
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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"?