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[–] 83 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Have the day you donated to.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Fuck me for donating to Alzheimer's organizations, I guess.

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

    Good. Don't buy anything from Nazis!

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  • [–] 117 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    As they say: Welcome to the find out phase!

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  • [–] 162 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Yeah well maybe they shouldn't have blindly followed and sucked up to Trump either they come out completely apposing him (which is not likely to happen) or I will not buy any products from them

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Isn't managing brand awareness and reputation... you know, a fundamental part of running basically just most businesses with large consumer bases?

    Gee, its almost like these people with 'executive' or 'president' or 'head' somewhere in their job titles are all fucking morons who are bad at their jobs, by their own description and metrics they use to describe them!

    Bonus Anarcho-Syndicalist 'hot take'

    The solution isn't to replace those particular people.

    The problem is not those particular people.

    The problem is a wildly unbalanced and codified system of power dynamics.

    The solution is a radical restructuring of for profit corporations into democratic worker cooperatives of some kind where workers elect their leaders.

    Unions, as currently implemented in the US, are generally laughably useless in terms of... you know, actually doing the things they are supposed to do.

    This shit will never end and hypercapitalism will drive us all into early graves unless we do something a bit more more radical.

    'Radical' meaning: To address the root cause, instead of the effects.

    ... And for any liberals reading, no, no the oligarchs will not just agree to do this after a passionate speech or 'insightful' op-ed in the Atlantic.

    You need to have what is called leverage.

    In this context, that means a credible threat of violence.

    One of course hopes this threat has to only ever remain as a threat.

    Sorry, I didn't write these rules, human history did.

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

    We need Luigi #2 and #3 and so on. That is the way.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    In any other nation it would have been a domino effect. Alas, a culture raised on vehemently individualistic ideals cannae be arsed beyond vengeful school shootings.

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    [–] 49 points 1 year ago

    I boycott as much as i can from the US and Israel

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  • [–] 49 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Good, fuck the child rapist trump and his fascist regime.

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

    So you're telling me that if we make the world hate us, they might send us less money?

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago

    If they only hadn't thrown money at Trumps campaign. And what are they doing now? Kissing his ass and throwing money at him to get on his good side. Totally ignoring that he has none.

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  • [–] 36 points 1 year ago

    How can this be. Being Nazi scum has blowback?

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

    This is why that German waffle chain, Luftwaffles went broke in the 1940s.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    To be honest a lot of German brands collaborated or directly worked with the Nazis are still in business today like most german car manufacturers for example. Dr. Oetker comes to mind also.

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

    Not only German brands, there are plenty of US corporations that built and supported the German war machine. There were production sites in Germany that were not bombed because they were insured by US companies. WTF!

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  • [–] 94 points 1 year ago (14 children)

    Because of the global trade war? Or because of their implication in aiding Israel in committing genocide? Or both?

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  • [–] 73 points 1 year ago

    Please don't stop there. We need people to witness this and do like the boycotters abroad are doing.

    It's about bullying and exploiting other countries with really high tariffs.

    It's about our full support of Israel while they commit a genocide.

    It's about our failure to uphold the deal we made with Ukraine to get them to agree to nuclear disarmament.

    It's about deciding not to honor contracts made during the last administration, saying that they no longer apply, and allowing the people who benefited from USAID abroad (and tons of federal, formerly dependable paychecks at home) to fall off without even an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, while yelling that anybody who isn't hand-over-fist greedy isn't American.

    I've been saying this since he first started campaigning: STOP GIVING HIM STUFF. HE GOES AWAY WHEN YOU STOP LISTENING TO HIM AND GIVING HIM YOUR STUFF.

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

    Another reason is because America is lowering their food safety standards and food from them may kill you

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Both, plus the sabre rattling about Greenland and Panama, plus the BS with Visa/Mastercard and resistance to the idea of other countries trying to circumvent reliance on American banking, plus probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting or that is too region specific to mention here.

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

    the sabre rattling about Greenland and Panama

    Ahem. And Canada.

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

    Our stupid fucking president actually managed to piss off Canada. Canada, we love you all. Sorry.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    No, we always knew he was dangerous garbage.

    We’re pissed off at the rest of you who are supposed to be doing something about it but instead keep bringing pillows to a gunfight.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Right, yes, of course. Sorry, there's so much bullshit to keep track of, and some of it belongs to other presidents, too.

    Edit: Oh, and "Department of War" now too, I guess.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    It's not either. Public opinion on those topics have not really shifted.

    It's because of US unreliability. Both in an economic and diplomatic sense.

    Why would I buy things from a toxic and volatile economy? Why would I stake my future on the unreliability of a republican government?

    The only things still holding the illusion of strength together is the AI bubble and the hope that things will be better when Trump dies.

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Fun fact: there are Canadian companies/products named after American cities: New York Fries, Boston Pizza, Philadelphia cream cheese. These companies must be kicking themselves now

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Time for a rebrand: North York Fries, Brampton Pizza. Someone help me with Philly

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

    Are you sure Philadelphia cream cheese is Canadian? I googled search on ecosia for Philadelphia cream cheese and it seems to be an American brand owned by Kraft Heinz and Mondelez.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    I thought Kraft was Canadian. I used Philadelphia cream cheese the other day and the package said it was made in Canada. Maybe Kraft has branches in both countries?

    Edit: just looked it up and Kraft is American but also manufactures some things in Canada

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Made in Canada means that the last substantial transformation of the product was completed in Canada, but the ingredients can be from anywhere, so combining the parts of a pizza into a pizza means it can be called made in Canada.

    If you want true Canadian products it should say "product of Canada" on the label 🙂

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago

    lol didn’t McDonald’s host their own orange clown when he was campaigning? They and their nasty dried burgers can fuck off.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago

    Can't un-ring that bell, even if you chicken out

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Get behind ranked choice voting then. It is in everybody's interest to get out of the doom spiral

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago

    30 some states have votor sponsored ballot initiatives, and most of those ammend state constitutions so it takes supermajorities of often 3/4 of state lawmakers to change. Some red ones increased pass threshold to 60 pc though.

    But all those states need ranked choice voting, and giving the drawing of districts to an independant body to ungerrymander. Also voting rights laws. Aforementioned states increasing pass threshold on referendums and making it harder to get on ballot with signatures could themselves be changed back with a referendum.

    Even red states these issues play. There are other ways polits can jam these up though, election commissions that approve initiative after signature verification have been known to improperly throw out them for wording, as michigan's did on mj legalization 2x before one got through. Or forbidding wolf hunt by vote lawmakers just passed it again coupled with a budget component making it un referendumable.

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

    "Wow, I can't believe we backed a fascist shitwit and now people hate us????"

    Corporations never learn. Literally. They're incapable of learning.

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    [–] 55 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Major US brands are a good chunk of the reason behind rising anti-American sentiment.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    I join all others in expressing utter shock, amazement, disbelief and outrage that it took the morons until now to realise what 90% of the Earths population predicted came to be.

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I don't support fascist regimes, I have completely changed the way I do my groceries. and saving money in the process.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Same here. If I don't want to do research, I just pick the store brand of whatever I'm buying. It's usually the cheapest anyway and quality varies from exactly the same to passable. So far only the cold-brew tea and the artifical sweetener were really not acceptable, but non-American alternatives exist for both.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago

    I have been living and working in Asia for over 20 years. The anti-American sentiment is the highest now compared to any other time in the last 20 years.

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  • [–] 22 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    "Anti-American business upset to find out that after becoming (buying) the face of America people still don't fuckin like them."

    You can't convince me that AI isn't writing these dogshit headlines anymore. These are so formulaic predictable and middle of the road normalization that it makes me physically react.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    I wonder why

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  • [–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    The American't boycotting will continue until they have their own little-engine-that-could revolution, kick the fascism to the curb, and adjust the perception of their own importance and contributions to the world.

    It might even last a little longer than all that. The message must be understood.

    I will personally never set foot in that cursed country again in my life.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago

    Well, electing a strongman politician while abolishing goodwill programs that project soft power tends to have consequences for your economy. Mostly negative consequences, but hey, at least you get to wear a red ballcap that says your country is the bestest ever and all other countries suck mud, right?

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  • [–] 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)
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    Wow its like US culture was only held up by goodwill from USAID, NIH, and weapons donations to ukraine and it turns out people think the US is otherwise a bunch of billionaire sex perverts and their wage slaves when you dismantle those things.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Is there an up to date list of brands and companies that supported trump/maga?

    I tried using publicsquare just now to search again but it seems like they took away the ability to do so, probably to stop people from boycotting fascism. And other searches don’t really bring up such lists (mostly just articles talking about the most prominent companies that are well known to have bent the knee).

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago

    Awwww… I hope they don’t lose any customers. Or profits. Or sleep.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    The test of the word should basically boycott the US entirely. Buy nothing... Sell nothing. Do not visit the USA. I appears to be what the administration wants anyway

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Shit, I'm American and even I'm anti-American.

    I'm a human before I'm an American and America isn't acting very humane.

    Act like trash, get treated like trash.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago

    Those leopards are getting fat n sassy now

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

    Those people are ANTI SEMETIC! Wait wrong Country. Those people need to be SUED!

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    A number of companies have noted this trend. David Gibbs, CEO of KFC and Taco Bell parent Yum Brands, told analysts in late April that the company was closely monitoring the issue and its impact on consumer behavior, but added that there had not been an observable impact on its sales.

    I'm surprised its mild enough for them to claim this so far.

    I know the Canadians are pissed, but are all y'all's peers on other continents mostly... indifferent? I guess it's egotistical to assume people generally follow American news, but some of it really seems hard to ignore.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    The effects are definitely felt in Germany as well. It started (or can so far be traceable in the news) with Tesla. Not sure about any other sentiment, but I genuinely wouldn't be surprised. This is the first time there's news about things other than Tesla.

    But yeah, I personally started going more for European products and that is also the policies pushed by some European countries atm. It might be a coincidence, but I switched away from MAMMA where I could (with Win10 support running out, I went over to Linux, I. e.; or I switched my default browser away from chrome and search engine away from google).

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    lots of folks in my circle also boycotting american products and services. in the cross hairs here are Amazon, Google, any american food, booze, clothing, cars, etc. Most in my circle dont watch american news. its depressing to see a country descend into third world status so quickly

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    My aim is currently at big tech and food conglomerates specifically. I still have a soft spot for small businesses and B Corps from the US. If they go out of business, then all that's left are the corpos.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (1 child)

    I don't think most of the masses in Europe know or give a shit about what happens in the US. Maybe the name of the president, or when the US fucks up some country, like Irak or Afghanistan.

    Now they sort of do, because of the world wide impact of Trump's psychotic world commerce antics, or Russia and Ukraine, which are close enough, which may impact them directly or close enough.

    I think there is an image of Europe in the US of a place where people are generally cultured, which is not really the case. Hicks are everywhere. Millions in Europe are workers in industry and agriculture or fishing, and care jack shit about what happens outside their sphere.

    Europeans do have a higher awareness of what happens outside their borders mainly because they have been invading each other for millenia, so international relations are culturally important, but that's about it. Football is way more important than international news for the majority of Europeans. Bread and circuses.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The news bulletins are filled with news out of the USA. We are very aware of what's happening in that country, because of our history with fascism with our neighbour Germany.

    Football is also going to be affected btw, with the Worldcup being held in Canada, Mexico and tourism-very-unfriendly USA

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