| Ryuu96 said: How does this...How do you even...What...I'm...I don't even know where to begin. What's next, a 100% tariff on videogames outside of the USA? Lmfao. I thought the right hated Hollywood too! Holy shit man I can't believe anyone can look at this guy and think he is smart, except fellow idiots. |
These people are dumb as fuck.
The right has spent almost the entire period since World War II ended demonizing Hollywood, and California in general. Reagan was a snitch for HUAC. Dalton Trumbo spent 11 months in a federal prison in Kentucky for refusing to cooperate with HUAC (there's an excellent movie called Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston as Dalton Trumbo, that you might want to check out).
The movie industry is one of the few areas where the U.S. has an overwhelmingly favorable trade balance. There are a few European films that get shown in the U.S., an occasional Japanese or Korean production, and a niche interest in Bollywood. Otherwise, it's mostly the U.S. exporting movies onto the international market. Hollywood also probably the single biggest source of soft U.S. power. Really, Hollywood has been a good source of pro-American propaganda. Republican anger at Hollywood is typically more offended Southern sensibilities. But now that Trump has gone and pissed off over a hundred countries, including the biggest foreign market for American movies, China, that's about to change. China just had a movie gross over $2 billion on its domestic market alone, Ne Zha 2, and they've also put an embargo on American movies. The Republicans are sabotaging one of the best tools the U.S. has for projecting soft power. People in overseas markets certainly aren't going to line up for movies like the dreadful hagiography, Reagan, or God's Not Dead.
