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The pirate bay raid is a good example of the kind of soft power the US has lost with their recent behavior. Hard to imagine Stockholm police being as receptive
by tokai 5mo ago
The pirate bay raid is a good example of the kind of soft power the US has lost with their recent behavior. Hard to imagine Stockholm police being as receptive nowadays.
edit: I'm very sorry for making a relevant comment that extrapolate on the content of the shared article.
- everyone 5mo agoYes! thank fuck!
- han1 5mo ago[dead]
- dmos62 5mo agoParadoxically, it's also a good example of the kind of soft power the US still has: we're all watching their movies.
- ffsm8 5mo ago[flagged]
- MajorTakeaway 5mo agoU.S. population pyramid graph is sobering enough.
- gverrilla 5mo agoSpeak for yourself.
- redsocksfan45 5mo ago[dead]
- RankingMember 5mo agoAnecdotally, the people I talk to outside the U.S. see the film industry there as stuck in a Disney/Marvel pattern for the most part. Sure, there are good films, but there's a lot of cynical slop being turned out too and it's become so prevalent that it's a bit of a joke at this point. I blame the stagnation on the extreme consolidation of media companies.
- esskay 5mo ago"Their movies" Meanwhile a huge portion of them are filmed in other countries, edited by brits, staring europeans, etc. There's a good reason major studios have spent billions on film studios in the UK instead of the US. Take something like Andor. Filmed in the UK and Spain, with a team of staff almost exclusively from the UK and EU. With a Mexican lead actor, 1 American co-lead, and then tons of British Actors, a few Australians, Swedish, German, Irish, etc. Very few big movies or tv shows can be classed as "American" these days. They require people and facilities from all over the place.
- marysol5 5mo agoStill US studios who put their money behind projects. In reality they're just off-shoring costs, but it's still "American".
- nitwit005 5mo agoYou can always ruin your advantages. People seem to currently like a lot of US culture and dislike the US (or, it's government at least).
- orbital-decay 5mo agoEven if that's true, the influence is on the decline. It's a combination of factors: fewer and fewer era-defining works and simply novel messages to tell, franchises sucked dry, games and youtube replacing movies.
- lII1lIlI11ll 5mo agoLess and less though. New-ish Hollywood movies started feeling like a slop before ChatGPT was released with all their endless "Batman vs Pikachu"-likes.
- carlosjobim 5mo agoAmerican troops have been granted full immunity against Swedish law when they are in Sweden, according to the most recent military treaties. I don't know if you consider such a deal to be soft power or hard power. But it is a lot more than any server room raid.