Discussion
"Our movie making business has been stolen from the United States of America", says Trump and announces 100 percent tariffs on imported movies.
I am confident the EU will retaliate. France, the UK, Czech, Spain and other movie producing countries will not accept this.
@randahl Captain America is now made in Germany (Marvel) because health care costs in the US are too high.
How ironic that they need to go to a “socialistic” country to make movies about how great capitalistic America is.
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DOysjxqCU-X/?igsh=
@obrhoff good thing Trump replaced the person in charge of the job statistics, because those numbers need to be manipulated quite a bit to keep up appearances. 🤦🏻♂️ #irony
Personally, I think we will see huge mass demonstrations this year, and because of Trump, this will lead to violent confrontations, which has the potential to steer the US towards civil war.
It is like a child playing with matches next to the gun powder keg.
I hope that he will sign this.
Because I’m very curious to know how and where the US Customs are going to collect the taxes on objects that don’t cross the border.
Nevertheless it is time for all EU countries to taxe the digital services , like France , Italy , Portugal , Spain , Austria do.
Portugal and Austria taxe only ads . The others use a Digital Taxe that covers online advertising, selling user data and providing digital platforms.
@randahl Movies and entertainment US industries have been amazing tools of cultural propaganda to sell the US way of life, the so-called American dream. I don't want that world anymore, it's a nightmare. So, let's boycott and protect ourselves by not importing US culture anymore.
@randahl Heck, even Aotearoa/New Zealand is up in arms this time!
@randahl Baby wants his candy back. Awww cute.
@randahl If anime series count as "movies" too, I wanna see the discord furry army raid the white house.
That'll be fun to look at on TV.
@randahl they'll bend over and ask for more
@randahl "President BLT", no wonder they're doing badly.
@randahl US citizens will be very happy to have either their content cut in half or their Netflix, Disney, whatever subscription considerably go up.
@randahl what the hell does a tariff on “imported movies” even mean? I’m not even sure how such a thing can even be assessed.
It’s like announcing a 100% tariff on imported words.
@randahl Who needs Disney anyway … 🤓
We are a network of scientists, developers and organizations building the next generation of digital spaces for open science.
