2mo ago

Buy American? No Thanks, Europe Says, as Tariff Backlash Grows.

www.nytimes.com

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https://archive.is/n90bD

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Do not give money to this Nazi country.
- Or to the other Nazi country.
  
  Let's agree to never give money to any nazi counties in the future as well. Sort of a nazi boycott if that's legal.
I don't know why they put tariffs on movies though.
Surely movies are the one thing Americans export more of than they import.
So they tariff them, we tariff theirs in response... American influence wanes around the globe.
I mean, I'm not complaining, half of Hollywood seems to be using shitty AI to write dogshit scripts. It just makes no fucking sense.
- Maybe they dont want Hollywood to film movies in Canada or Mexico. Or maybe Trump is a child that does random stuff, who knows.
  
  How will they film american heroes saving the rest of the world if they can’t film outside of the USA ?
  
  Hanlons razor
- You fon't care for disney marvel movie numver 86 and star wars 23 and 20 year old remakes? How weird.
  
  I watched that last Captain America one, and at one point my wife just went "Why are they in a car? Both of these men can fly!"
  I knew it was going to be shit because Harrison Ford looked bored. Always a good barometer for any movie he's been in the last 20 years or so. He just can't hide it any more.
  
  I took kids to Minecraft movie, one of literally just a few movie outings in the last decades as it's so expensive yet shitty, and during the ~30 minutes of previews, I think there was one preview of many that wasn't a sequel or remake, and all looked so cookie-cutter it was kind of disturbing.
- He backtracked on the movie tariffs.
  
  lol is it even worth tracking what's tariffed today?
As an American, I support this! 👍
The faster he fucks too much with the money, the sooner they get rid of him.
- Oh you European nerds don't want to buy American?
  Well guess what. Neither do we!
  And we now get to pay an freaking fine for buying goods from outside of America.
  
  Tbf, nothing is made in America, so I doubt we will have the opportunity to pay less
- He's just a symptom. The people whose money he's screwing with are the disease
i can't wait for the great depression
- *greatest depression
  
  Bigly depression
  
  Great Again depression
  
  Insert homer and pantsless ashamed Bart meme: "Greatest depression so far ☝️
- You know what comes with a depression right? America is already setting the stage for its fascist phase. I wonder who the good guys will be as America turns heel.
  
  that or the socialists
Just remember all the software (games and apps) and media that is produced in America
- Just remember that Sony (PlayStation) or Nintendo is not American and neither is Ubisoft.
  
  No matter how much I despise the US, I don't think I'd ever pick Nintendo or Ubisoft over American game companies. Those two alone are doing wonders to destroy everything we used to love about video games.
  
  But they produce some of their games in the US.
- Outside of Software, I can't think of anything I buy that's American.
  I can think of American made versions of a bunch of the things I buy and the American made versions as always worse. Even American companies like 3M mostly manufacture in Europe since they can get good quality there unlike USA.
  
  Sadly, a bunch of things people buy are American owned but sold under a more local brand name, especially food or snack items, but also many other things.
  For example: A scary amount of Europeans don't know that Mondelēz International is an American company. It was started by Kraft, famous for their "processed cheese product". And they own brands like Cadbury, Milka, Toblerone, Marabou/Freia, etc.
  Coca-Cola also own a lot of "local" flavoured drinks.
More like Bye America amiright?
This link to the article is paywalled, so I can't read it.
If you post a news article please include a working link, like this one: https://archive.is/n90bD
*west and north eu

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