• jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de
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    19 hours ago

    The more logical choice would be to tax the distribution license sold by non American entities.

    The thing that makes this unenforceable is that what he means is that he wants to tax movies not filmed fully in the US even if they are American movies.

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      16 hours ago

      Sure I’ll accept I got all the details wrong. That doesn’t really matter to my point.
      My point is that this is another example of him saying something so stupid, that it shouldn’t get any media coverage.

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        Point taken, but this isn’t just a “covfefe moment” though. This is newsworthy because Trump just obliterated half of all money in Hollywood. Gone, reduced to atoms.

        Culture is one of the main things that the US exports across the world, and this puts a big old smoking hole in our feet in that regard. This will have tangible repercussions.

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          This is newsworthy because Trump just obliterated half of all money in Hollywood.

          Did he? I thought this was something he just said. Did he sign an executive order or take any action to make it happen?

          He says shit all the time, and actually tries to do less than 5% of it.

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        Sure I’ll accept I got all the details wrong. That doesn’t really matter to my point.

        This made me chuckle.