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[–] 100 points 2 months ago (9 children)

It is so incredibly frustrating and embarrassing to be a us citizen right now.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    It’s never not been embarrassing. As a Native American I get asked questions like “do you live in a teepee?” The portrayal by white Americans of their fellow citizens to the rest of the world has been a profound source of embarrassment for my entire life, just as one for instance.

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  • [–] [S] 34 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    We had a brief reprieve in the Biden years, but pretty much ever since 2015 it's been this way for me.

    I always knew conservatives were way worse than the likes of David Brooks like to pretend they are. I grew up in a rural area, very very red, years before donnie came along. I moved out after college. But prior to that, I lived every day, surrounded by The Tribe That Rubs Shit In Their Hair, with very few exceptions.

    And even I was surprised by them going for the washed-up never-was and complete con-man that is donnie. Pretty much anyone that was paying attention at the time knew he was an asshole back in the 80s and 90s. Hell, he's featured prominently as someone to worship by the protagonist in American Psycho. That's no accident, and that book was written in 1991.

    Even I thought the rubes might not go for this effete fake "businessman" that has a lengthy hair-and-makeup routine and is mostly known for trying to climb the social ladder as a Manhattanite...but nope, they were completely fooled by this guy. Probably because of the racism.

    This country has gone from one embarrassment to another during his two failed terms, though.

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    At this point I’ve come to understand that he enables their racism and that is all that matters to them. The world could burn, but as long as they could let their racism feel accepted they’ll do whatever it takes.

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  • [–] [S] 13 points 2 months ago

    I think you are right. I saw them absolutely besides themselves over "PC" back in the early 90s. Even with all the so-called "tyranny" of political correctness, you'd still see some dickhead say something egregiously racist, homophobic, sexist, whatever, and then say, "oops, I guess that's not PC!" and think that was delightfully cute or something.

    And then I saw their bullshit grievances reach fever pitch when they bitched and whined about conservatives being "censored" or "cancelled" in more recent years - lol, yeah, right. And then they cheered when Elon bought Xitter for the "free speech", roftlmao.

    But they really just want to be able to say the n-word. To tell racist jokes again, in public and without anyone giving them side-eye. I'm sure they were positively giddy when Pete Hegseth used the word tr__y.

    But this really, really, really seems to be the primary motivator for them, and none of them have ever really been "censored" or "cancelled".

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46tpqFxfomI

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    I’ll tell you what’s at the bottom of it. If you can convince the lowest white man he’s better than the best colored man, he won’t notice you’re picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he’ll empty his pockets for you.

    • LBJ
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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I really really hope pushes like this will continue. Reading about European pushes to give up big tech also has me really hopeful.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    What we saw with Israel was a bunch of Israeli firms rebranding as American companies.

    I suspect any attempt to de-couple from Big Tech in Europe will go the same way. You'll have Øræcle in Sweden and µSoft in Greece and Paulintir in the UK. But the financies will all tie back to the Usual Suspects - Marc Andressen and Gary Tan and Masayoshi Son.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It's not always about big Sometimes the little things add up. I've ditched my company's Dropbox accounts for Sync, which to the best of my knowledge is Canadian, and done away with my personal free Google drive backup storage to actually pay to use Jottacloud which is Norwegian.

    No Facebook or Instagram, or Reddit now that went to shit. Just figuring out my way on here.

    No more apple TV, netflix or paramount or purchases from Amazon etc. I'll go into town now and buy all the screen covers and cables and shit from actual FKN shops instead.

    Stopped eating at anything American - never did Macdonald's anyway but KFC, Popeyes, and all your shite coffee chains have gone out the window.

    Gone back to using cash instead of visa and MasterCard debits. Waiting for Wero to come to the UK.

    So I expect it to make no difference to how many billions all the US Tech cunts have in their pockets, but at least I get to have a little, warm , fuzzy feeling every time I see a Tesla and shout 'nazi' at them, knowing I'm contributing as little as possible to the us economy.

    I get that someone, somewhere, up the chain from whatever I buy is a US conglomerate or whatever, but the less I feed in at the bottom the less they get out at the top.

    So yh. 'Big' tech probably won't notice. Not for a while anyway. But the shift began when Trump started to wave his fists around and stain the US in his orange shit. And then they voted him in for a second term. So fk 'em.

    Reap what you sow.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 months ago

    Shit, I live in the US and I'm boycotting their whiskey.

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    As a canadian, yep. Can’t say my shopping has got any harder or more expensive because of avoiding US made products.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The grocery stores around here rarely have produce from the US anymore - not that we were buying it. Funny thing, after they started bringing in produce from other countries, the prices came down.

    Suits me just fine.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago

    I've got four grocery stores in town. Two are owned by Canadian companies, two by American companies.

    I shop at three of them (two US and one Canadian) but pretty much just buying the marked down 50% off meats and veggies.

    When given a choice I will buy the Canadian produce even if it is more.

    I won't shop at the fourth place because the markup is so high even markdown goods are more expensive. The owner is a giant asshole, I used to work for that company in my teens and avoid it as much as possible.

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  • [–] [S] 23 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Wait until donnie the dotard gets a load of this. He's gonna get out his sharpie and scribble more shit on maps and executive orders about how he's "renaming" things.

    Maybe he'll threaten sending ICE into Canada to tackle and kidnap people who aren't buying American goods.

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    They can try... but the only thing they're gonna accomplish is a whole new list of no-no's added to the Geneva convention.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago

    We've been boycotting US products in our house for a year or two now, since the last time Trump decided to be removedy towards Canada. However, reading about all the veggies and sketchy beef the last couple of weeks, it might become less a matter of ideology and more just about basic safety TBH.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    I hope Canada goes so far as to seeking other countries to import from and export to, where possible, as part of this uncalled for and needless trade war.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Oh, great. Fuck you, Trump

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago (9 children)

    Meanwhile all the apps and subscriptions Canadian pay for goes into the pockets of U.S. executives and shareholders.

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  • [–] 12 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    That’s a much harder thing to boycott.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Harder, but not impossible. I canceled apple music, Amazon prime, Netfilx, audible, and Youtube premium. The hardest thing to replace has been audible, but I go to the library more.

    Edit: i also canceled NYTimes for the Guardian and the Atlantic for the Walrus.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I don't know where it's operated out of, but I use libro.fm instead of audible. You can download the audiobooks you purchase so you get a drm free copy, but they do also have a subscription model. An added bonus is that some of the profits are donated to libraries. I believe you maybe can specify which library your money goes to.

    Even if it's US based, at least there's that benefit.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Far more of us than you realise, have never touched that shit to begin with. I have exactly 0 subscription services and the only apps I've ever paid for was to directly support independent developers (some of that's been facilitated by google play, but even that's been less and less over the years).

    That was before we collectively said 'fuck America' and started actively seeking non-american solutions.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    As an American I draw the line at US corporations.

    Great stuff by great people here, but all small scale, and often local.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    Its the absolute least you can do. Everyone can atleast avoid some US products.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I wouldn't buy it either, if it had a 50% tariff slapped on it

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    The only made in us products I buy are food, and that's because I live in statesia. Also musical instruments and that's because some musical instruments are made nowhere else.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    It sucks that it took Trump's shenanigans to do this, but Canada is a big place and should be reasonably self-sufficient. Someone else already said tech is going to be hard to source. I thought I heard that Canada was dealing with China for some tech, so you could build a computer and put Linux on it. While the Linux distro might be built by an American or a European, it's not sold for profit, so you'd just be using it. If there's a Canadian distro, I don't know. Sorry, I'm a Mac user and quite happy with my Macs. But if I were forced to use an Intel/AMD machine, I would 100% be a Linux user. I don't care for Microsoft at all (except for gaming, they're the slightly lesser evil between them and Sony).

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't remember Microsoft giving Trump chunks of gold as a gift and flowing a ton of money his way like Apple has. Apple has been pretty blatant with their Trump bribes.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Yeah, Tim Cook has made a lot of questionable choices over the last year or two. It's speculated that they are necessary for Apple and he's just taking the heat so the next guy, John Ternus, looks better. Ternus takes over as CEO on 1 September. Tuesday.

    Doesn't excuse much. Meanwhile insert whataboutism with Microsoft and Google here (I mean really, no one is good here).

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Quite a bit to choose from: Arch is Canadian, and two very nice and user-friendly derivatives are Dutch and German, respectively: EndeavourOS and Cachy. Debian is “global” - no headquarters, with contributors from all around the world. Ubuntu is backed by British-based company. OpenSuSE is German, with Swedish financial backing.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I think the takeaway here is that Linux isn't the work of just one person, even Linus Torvalds. So to expect an entirely Canadian Linux isn't really the goal — it should be enough that Canadians are working on Linux, it's being contributed to by lots of people.

    I'm sorry, I don't mean to move goalposts or seem like I'm pulling the football out from Charlie Brown's kick... I suppose I was wrong to ask after a "Canadian Linux" in the first place, when the point of Linux is international collaboration without a mega corp in any one region profiting. Though, some companies do profit from Linux (e.g. Red Hat, I think that's American), the end-user doesn't pay for it.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Having a huge variety of distributions does allow you to be more selective though, based on whatever criteria is important to you. Re: RedHat - they are now an IBM subsidiary, so yeah- rather US-based.

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  • US American here. Good Christ, thank you. But this is not enough

    I expected the day after Trump stole the election that the world would issue sanctions on US. When the US started indirectly supporting a genocide in Palestine, I was sure economic sanctions would come. When we directly committed war crimes in the gulf of Mexico, Venezuela, and Iran, my mouth was wide open as nobody did anything. When we targeted ICC judges, still nothing.

    Guys, boycotting US isn't enough. Trump had never had popular support. Almost all of US hate him here. The US is a rogue terrorist state without a democracy. We need international solidarity and sanctions to end this tyranny.

    Please, sanction the US until we eliminate the electrical college single party system and establish Parliament with as many parties as Canada had at your debates, and rank choice voting. That will end this fascism.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    And PlayStation.

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