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[–] 215 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I mean shit as an American I have a rising anti american sentiment lol

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  • [–] 39 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I'm mainly purchasing things made outside the US at this point.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    if it doesn't help my local community survive, it should help someone else's local community survive

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    yes. but there are still ways to shift towards sustainable circular economies. you want to focus on locally produced products, and locally owned businesses. best yet is locally produced products sold by locally owned businesses. for example: it's good for me to buy local produce from Kroger, it's better for me to buy local produce from the farmer's market.

    obviously no one can live perfectly given that we live in a nightmare hellscape. it's not about being perfect, it's about taking steps to improve your impact and to make it more possibne for others to make these considered decisions

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Isn’t that supporting the regime via tariffs?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    They're getting taxes no matter what. If you just purchase American goods because you don't want to give them money from tariffs, then all you've done is demonstrate that tariffs work since now American businesses are selling more.

    Ideally, if corporations lose enough business, they'll actually put pressure on the govt (of course, they might just roll over based on how things have gone so far). In any case, this isn't even really a sacrifice on my end since a lot of American products are kind of shoddy.

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