A shifting perception of the United States amid President Trump’s trade war is prompting Europeans to pivot decisively away from U.S. goods and services.
  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    26·
    14 hours ago

    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.

    • NIB@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      13 hours ago

      Maybe they dont want Hollywood to film movies in Canada or Mexico. Or maybe Trump is a child that does random stuff, who knows.

    • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
      61·
      13 hours ago

      You fon’t care for disney marvel movie numver 86 and star wars 23 and 20 year old remakes? How weird.

      • jabeez@lemmy.todayEnglish
        4·
        9 hours ago

        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.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        7·
        13 hours ago

        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.

        • slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.orgEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          I can’t even bring myself to hate watch these movies. I don’t care for Harrison ford, he’s so old he doesn’t care anymore. He looks bored in every movie.

  • blakenong@lemmings.worldEnglish
    34·
    19 hours ago

    As an American, I support this! 👍

    The faster he fucks too much with the money, the sooner they get rid of him.

    • VitoRobles@lemmy.todayEnglish
      121·
      17 hours ago

      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.

        • shawn1122@lemm.eeEnglish
          4·
          10 hours ago

          America sells a ton of services. Netflix, Amazon, Uber, Visa, Mastercard etc. Its possible to cut most out but very difficult to cut it all out in Canada. Perhaps it’s easier in Europe.

          This is the part of the ‘trade deficit’ story he and his supporters intentionally leave out. America has a massive trade surplus when it comes to exporting services.

  • palarith@aussie.zoneEnglish
    121·
    16 hours ago

    Just remember all the software (games and apps) and media that is produced in America

      • Susurrus@lemm.eeEnglish
        81·
        15 hours ago

        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.

    • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      16 hours ago

      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.

      • mriswith@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        15 hours ago

        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.

        • Annoyed_🦀 @lemmy.zipEnglish
          2·
          14 hours ago

          At least coca-cola have the courtesy of making the ownership known so brand loyalist can support the billionaire they like, while i can easily identify who to boycott.

        • BruceLee@sopuli.xyzEnglish
          33·
          14 hours ago

          Mondelēz might be international but productions are local. They have plenty of manufactures all accords France, Belgium and Netherlands, to stick with the ones I know.

            • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
              3·
              8 hours ago

              Often not, no - it’s a big problem that these huge multinationals have is repatriating their foreign cash.

              Apple used to have somewhere around 5x more cash in Ireland than they did in USA, because taxes.

              • GregorGizeh@lemmy.zipEnglish
                2·
                6 hours ago

                Interesting, I hadn’t thought of that.

                Although I would argue that such “unrealized” profits would still count as being given overseas, since the money is not available to the european economy any more, no?

                They just keep it parked in some kind of inflation proof financial construct until needed (at which point they might have to pay taxes on however much of it they need to withdraw, but still).

                • ms.lane@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  6 hours ago

                  They just keep it parked in some kind of inflation proof financial construct until needed

                  Sometimes, othertimes they use it to just buy out european/australian/japanese/etc entities - since it’s hard to repatriate, they can use that as a sort of justification where some shareholders (Hedge Funds that want dividends now) might object.

    • Trihilis@ani.socialEnglish
      6·
      17 hours ago

      Yeah. The countries that can choose to not do trade with America and not suffer too much because of it.

      That’s basically Trumps politics, making people suffer. Imagine voting for someone just because you want others to have it worse than you do. Like there is nothing to gain and everyone loses.

      It’s not even stupidity, it just pure hatred and disdain for other people that fuels MAGA.

      “Some of you might die, but that’s the price I’m willing to pay for it”. Literally Shrek-like cartoon villainy.

      • trepX@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        21·
        15 hours ago

        The US slowly turning into Russia. Already a propaganda driven oligarchy, and the bitterness will follow as those with a brain start to leave.