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Name 10.
I wasn’t sure there would be 10, but nearly all the big countries add extra taxes on Hollywood movies to fund their own competitors. It’s effectively a tariff.
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But do you understand it will harm Hollywood? This is the economic, country scale equivalent of saying "fuck your movies", do you think the answer will be "oh sorry, I'll keep buying yours" or "fuck your movies too"?
It will reduce the profit margins of Hollywood studios. Maybe reduce the bonuses of their CEO. It'll help thousands of Americans that used to be employed by said studios but were fired not because they couldn't do the job but because the greed of studio execs made them move production outside of the US, playing financial arbitrage games against the interest of the US. Trump is trying to reverse this by making movies…
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You do understand this is a move to protect Hollywood, Right? It is for the very reasons you cited.
He actually cited it being a National Security threat
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Trump has proven time and time again that he didn't understand soft power.
I wish people would stop with the “Trump doesn’t understand $thing” stuff. It doesn’t matter whether Trump understands $thing. Pretending that he’s acting in good faith to make things better, but is somehow failing because he doesn’t get X, Y, or Z falls right into the trap. He’s trying to destroy American “soft power”. It doesn’t interest him. Neither does a good economy, schools, NATO, etc. All of these things are…
"It's just temporary pain"
"We need to consume less"
"I don't understand tariffs"
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There are clear factual errors in the underlying assumptions of what was stated about water fluoridation. Those are simply table stakes for having a discussion about anything at all. If one thinks that water fluoridation is useful "just for a few seconds," that it's not done outside of the United States, that it's a replacement for toothpaste, that it's a vital chemical, or that we don't fortify other foods, then the…
Just brush your teeth after every meal, you will be fine like the Finns. And prob a higher IQ like them, as well (without all the unnecessary floride in the water).
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Look to Idiocracy for a documentary of what happens if this keeps going unchecked?
Gatorade to water the plants? Not a far fetch from injecting bleach to cure Covid.
Actually, ironically, you end up being wrong here, though in less of an Idiocracy way and more of a Orwellian "news propaganda machine tricked you" way.
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Just brush your teeth after every meal, you will be fine like the Finns. And prob a higher IQ like them, as well (without all the unnecessary floride in the water).
PSA: brushing your teeth directly after eating is actually detrimental, because the acids in food soften the enamel on your teeth. That layer needs to harden first (wait 20-30 minutes), otherwise your toothbrush will strip it away: https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/brushing-immediately-aft...
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Or just address the actually cause instead of the "problem". Get the shit like food coloring and corn syrup out of our food. Other nations do just fine with their food situation without all these made up excuses and nonsense and like "fortified" food. And stop subsidizing the garbage food and cultivation of it via SNAP.
> Or just address the actually cause instead of the "problem". Again, you’re asking for behavioral change in humans by fiat. Fortification extends well beyond just adding vitamins to chips or junk food. It’s added in many basic building blocks (milk, and most flours and rice) because it literally is solving nutritional deficiencies caused by poverty. Nobody is somehow making purchasing decisions on junk food based on…
They absolutely are. Food marketing and other tricks work, even on edjamahcated people. Think terms like “150% more antioxidants” and “100% natural fruit gummies!”