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> Most top movies last year [1] were shot outside of the US.

The movies you listed as examples are Hollywood productions (aka Hollywod movies, aka American movies).




That's like saying an Apple iPhone is a US phone and hence shouldn't be tariffed. No, it's made in China. Not in the US. The movies aforementioned are not made in the US either.


> That's like saying an Apple iPhone is a US phone (...)

It is a US phone.

> No, it's made in China.

It doesn't make it any less of a US phone. If you go to Newegg, order a bunch of PC parts from CPU to case, and put them together in your room, how much of the PC was made in your neighborhood?

> The movies aforementioned are not made in the US either.

Ninsense. Do you think that gophers and local caterers are the ones producing and profiting from a movie production?




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