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

Post by KingOfCoders » Tue, May 06, 2025, 4:32 AM UTC

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KingOfCoders wrote: post #379

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"anytime the other two are involved the police need to respond too" This is not the US, the police does not show up to a fire or an emergency, why would they? They show up to an accident, and when you need an ambulance they will bring one. The will also not stop and interrogate you when you walk to the side of the road. People usually have no interaction with the police outside of speeding tickets. "get that first ca…

> the police does not show up to a fire or an emergency, why would they? Because they're trained first-responders, who have medical first aid training, vehicles with lights and sirens to move quickly through traffic, knowledge of the local area to navigate around road closures or ambiguous location descriptions, etc. There are many situations where multiple sub-specialties of first-responders (police, firefighters, E…

Post by KingOfCoders » Tue, May 06, 2025, 4:35 AM UTC

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You want whoever is time closest to respond as well. While the ambulance is better, the police should have first aid training and a good sized first aid kit. When seconds are counting you are better off with someone partially trained who can get there fast over someone better trained who takes longer.

> You want whoever is time closest to respond as well. If you require the police to respond to all medical emergencies, then you have to fund the police at a level which allows them to do that, often at the expense of funding the people who actually should be responding to a medical emergency. Taking the attitude that the police must respond to all emergency calls even if the only indication of what capacities are ne…

Post by tdiff » Tue, May 06, 2025, 5:59 AM UTC

KingOfCoders wrote: post #160

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…

Growing up in the 70s and 80s in Germany, I've been brainwashed by US movies and sitcoms, 90% of the things I've watched was from the US - Magnum P.I, Simon & Simon, The Fall Guy, Kojak, A-Team, Golden Girls, Mary Taylor Moore, Lou Grant, MacGyver, Knight Rider, Night Court, Family Ties, Miami Vice, The Wonder Years, Facts of Life, Love Boat, and on and on and on. I know the US better than many parts of Germany.

Post by AlecSchueler » Tue, May 06, 2025, 6:23 AM UTC

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To be fair, Americans have the same problem. The US justice system does not perfectly mirror the Hollywood justice system and jurors are constantly reminded of this when they're called to serve on US juries.

It's hilarious to watch police body cam footage where an arrested person is screaming that they haven't been arrested properly because it didn't happen the way it happens in movies.

Post by littlestymaar » Tue, May 06, 2025, 7:46 AM UTC

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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…

> but you can't even apply “tariff” to movies as it is IP, not physical goods (on which tariffs apply A government can apply tariffs to any exchange it chooses, but movies are explicitly excluded from the law on which Trump has relied for tariffs, so short of getting a new law passed to authorize movie tariffs, there is no legal authority.