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Is anyone even still doing the boycot? I havent seen any news about it in a long while. all i know is im still going (feddit.nl)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/boycottus@lemmy.ca
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[–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Why start up again after he dies?

This is a serious question.

People keep mistaking Trump as the source of the problem in the USA. He isn't. He's the symptom of a deep cultural rot that was decades in the making. If you had your eyes open very widely you could even spot today's USA in the late '70s. By the '90s even someone with cataracts could have seen what was coming around the bend. (I pledged never to set foot on US soil myself in 1999 after what I saw in Houston.)

Trump's death will solve nothing; indeed it might make things worse: the Redcaps will have their conveniently dead saint, and smarter people will be where Trump is, using his effigy to effectively manipulate his Redcap following. Picture in your head President J.D. "Peter Thiel's Puppet" Vance.

I apologize for the nightmares I've just induced.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    I'm with you. I started boycotting tourism (and shopping) travel to the US when they re-elected Bush.

    I drove through the US a few times to save hours of driving when Obama was president, but otherwise I haven't been south of the border in over 2 decades.

    The Republican Apparatus is the problem, and Trump is one of many symptoms. As much as it will be painful in the short term, I have high hopes for the end of American hegemony. It's been a long time coming.

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago*

    Absolutely agree with you on the fact that America's problems don't start nor end with Trump, and there's a lot beyond that, that needs to be done for the world to lend its trust back to it. I've said my piece on that within this comment.

    I'm just being realistic and thinking ahead of time with what can temporarily suspend or fully call off my boycott. There's a long list of things I need to see before I would even consider incorporating the USA back into my vacation plans. There's a shorter list keeping me from stepping foot there whatsoever.

    Even if absolutely nothing else changes, Seattle will be out in the streets celebrating like crazy. It's one of the few events I'm willing to break my boycott just for a night to share the joy, before I go back to boycotting again.

    ETA: I went to the USA last at the start of 2025 before Trump took office so I could get one last look of a pre-Trump2 baseline... going for a day can give me a another snapshot before things go from bad to worse, if what you're predicting pans out, or better if Americans manage to clean house with a Reconstruction 2.

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