Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe
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I mean, I'm close, but I'm tech savvy and willing to just not be on the same social media platforms as other people. Even then, Ii I want to watch something without sailing the high seas non-American options are limited, although that of course varies with geography.
Fun fact, a lot of "American" stuff is filmed in Canada anyway.
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Unfortunately there's hardly any American product I use here in Malaysia, so I can't make any sort of impact.
The only American things I use are various software applications I need for work (and no, as an employee I can't simply switch to FOSS).
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Here's one with images (not 100% US specific):
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I'm trying to think, apart from technology, what do I buy from American brands?
- American food doesn't really come here except fast food franchises which I don't frequent anyway.
- Nobody has an American car.
- My car's electric anyway, so no American oil companies fueling it.
- Clothes are probably all from Asia anyway.
- I don't subscribe to any streaming services.
- I'll order 5 or 6 things from Amazon a year. So that's easy to stop.
Sure there might be the odd brand that is unknowingly American, but I'm left asking "What does America export?" because I can't think of much in my life.
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Thank you!
As a Canadian, I have no problem supporting our EU friends.
And to be honest, just looking at the list you can tell that the ethics within those companies are completely different than what you find with the American alternatives.
Even without a dictator leading the States, buying European would still be better. š¤
Pretty wild, actually!
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Like their whiskey!
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The Canadian one has really taken off. Its not just on Lemmy. Im seeing more Canadian products on the checkout line than ever before and Ive even started seeing rotting American produce at our local store.
Everyone I talk to irl is limiting their US product purchases. Canadians are pissed.
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Good and the Orange Shitstain wants the EU to import more US made goods.
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With the exception of nextcloud and firefox, those are all crap.
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I deleted Netflix yesterday. Was a bit more challenging than the other ones. We have sort of always had Netflix here in Norway.
Now we subscribe to a Norwegian service that includes Britbox instead. It has some US shows as well, but mainly European
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It was low res. Thanks for the link. It was high res there
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"Calls for Europe to stop eating garbage food like Americans."
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Facebook makes a certain amount of money per person. It's probably not that high.
If they can easily gather and find simple quick replacements for US goods that probably affects the US economy more.
I don't use Facebook for this myself, but have made lots of changes effectively now moving large sums of money from US companies to EU equivalents. There are still some stuff left, but most things are changed.
I think that has a bigger effect and is a lot easier
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Big holidays? America will be in a recession by Easter at this rate
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We have our own garbage food. If you don't go to McDonald's or Burger King, you can go to Hesburger or whatever else your region has. Admittedly still inspired by American garbage food, but profits European companies.
