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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 Yoric »

voidspark wrote: post #33
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.

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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.

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

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Post by ujkhsjkdhf234 »

hagbarth wrote: post #19
solumunus wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What would a meaningful fight look like?

Impeachment. There have been multiple clearly impeachable offences by the current administration. The congress GOP should take responsibility for getting the US out of this.

The GOP is completely mask off and is fine with Trump turning the country into Mussolini Italy if it means they get a seat at the table. They are traitors and I hope every one of them has their day in The Hague.

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

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Post by latexr »

asib wrote: post #12
xz18r wrote: post #9

I live in Belgium. It feels like 95% of all films I ever hear about are American. Opponents counter MAGA with 'America was never great', but here they'll say 'Movies have never left America'?

Movies are overwhelmingly made _by_ American studios but I don't know if they are overwhelmingly _made_ (shot) in the US. It's very common to shoot in a location that gives tax incentives. E.g. Vancouver used to be (potentially still is) a common production location.

> E.g. Vancouver used to be (potentially still is) a common production location.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ojm74VGsZBU

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Post by fofoz »

voidspark wrote: post #33
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.

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The italian Federico Faggin invented the microprocessor at Intel. He studied physics at Padua University in Italy.

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

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Post by notTooFarGone »

ur-whale wrote: post #25
misja111 wrote: post #16

Was the USA's movie industry really under threat from abroad? In my local cinema here in Europe the great majority of popular movies is American .. To me this move seems more a kind of cultural censorship. Similar to how many foreign movies can't be shown in Russia or China.

That's not what this is about. Most American movies are shot outside of the US these days because among other factors Hollywood unions have made it way more expensive to shoot in the US.

Finally: movie adaptions of paris are done in vegas.

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Post by 7thaccount »

gus_massa wrote: post #31
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

China?

China is in a similar problem to South Korea where pretty soon they'll be in a rapid population decline. Or so some have been saying. I believe their official census data supports this.

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Post by datavirtue »

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…

This. Some things are going very wrong for the body politic.

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Post by iszomer »

littlestymaar wrote: post #15

Not only are the US the biggest film exporter in the world by far, with Hollywood being a pillar of American soft power, but you can't even apply “tariff” to movies as it is IP, not physical goods (on which tariffs apply). Sure you can imagine schemes to tax these anyway, but that's a huge can of worms to open for the US, are they are net exporters of everything IP related. The EU has been struggling with base evasio…

What about the context of IP content piracy between countries?

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Post by lotsofpulp »

bananapub wrote: post #3

It bodes very badly for everyone that the entire Republican Party is fine with having an entire federal government policy based on the random TV-driven whims of a bitter, broken and clearly ailing old man. Would they even try to stop him pushing the button?

I don’t understand why we (in the US) were taught about separation of powers and checks and balances in elementary and high school.

Apparently, the president has had the power to change the price of anything at anytime.

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