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[–] 38 points 9 months ago (10 children)

I'm American. I rarely buy American. Almost everything is Chinese, Japanese, European, or something else.

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  • [–] 18 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    Why buy from the US anyways? Anything quality is expensive as hell, and the rest is either trash consumer grade (read: shitty) products designed by a capitalist more than an engineer, or imported.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    We do have exports that people wanted prior. Bourbon, corn, guitars, etc. We have major brands, agricultural products, and other categories that are purchased abroad.

    Take a look at the export list. Stuff is there.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Oh, I didn't say we had no exports. I said other places make better stuff. (at least for anything that's not ridiculously expensive in order to pay proper American craftsmen a skilled job's wage)

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

    So the corn exports are... Worse?

    Where else can you get Bourbon whisky?

    I was trying to demonstrate that your point is sort of juvenile. American products being expensive? Sure. Are there things you can't get elsewhere? Yes. Is everything produced domestically probably worse? That one is just remarkably stupid.

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  • [–] 10 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Currently trying to get my friends to leave messenger, text message groups do pretty much anything messenger does without putting money in that assholes pocket.

    Fuck if it isn't an uphill battle though

    My other alternative is discord just because they all have accounts there.

    But they still won't let go of messenger.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I don't want to rain on your parade, but Discord is just another closed system that you will not be able to escape when (not "if") it turns into shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    I know, but at least the transition is easier, given a lot of my contacts have accounts already. I already gave up on trying to get people on decentralized platforms.

    Just the lesser of the evils right now

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    [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

    Surprised no one has commented on the juxtaposition with the Alberta license plate yet

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I'm not Canadian, but my understanding is Alberta is basically the Texas of Canada. Maybe even worse, more like the Wyoming or Idaho of Canada.

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

    The rural areas sure. Edmonton and Calgary are not. They’re the stronghold for the provincial NDP. Wasn’t too long ago that Alberta had an NDP government on the strength of their support in those two cities.

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  • [–] 49 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Lol, that highlander is most likely built in Indiana.

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

    I'm gonna take a wild stab in the dark judging by the rust around the badge that this car was made before this person made the choice to boycott the US.

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

    The Toyota Highlander is assembled in the US no?

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago

    For many of us an accurate line would be "I don't buy American products anymore." Yes we used to spend money on American products and still have them. But many of us are now going without if we can't find a Canadian version (or any other country) that makes the product we want. After Trump's repulsive tantrum at Davos, it will be a long time until I willingly spend money that benefits the US.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (20 children)

    So they import everything from overseas!?

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  • [–] 21 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Many things already are, but it's not an environmental choice but a boycott so it's not about being overseas or not anyways. Why support a country that's actively hostile to you, ya know?

    In practical terms it tends to be buying the strawberries from Mexico instead of California for example. The grocery stores literally have little maple leaf symbols on the prices to help, and little tariff symbols as well. Plus people aren't traveling to the US as that's a way of not "buying" from there too, often opting to travel within that country or overseas.

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  • [+] -16 points 9 months ago* (2 children)

    True, but Mexico is in North America, Canada is in North America...

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    I get your point and I find it annoying that US Americans have ended up taking what should have been a more generic demonym for the Americas too but it is generally the accepted term for those living to our immediate south (at least in English-speaking Canada)

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  • [+] -30 points 9 months ago (15 children)

    Right? Like "Screw America!" And then promptly pull your pants down and bend over for China.

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  • [–] 24 points 9 months ago*

    Are you serious? Even ignoring the fact that doing deals with China is not "pulling our pants down and bending over", the fact is we, as a non-superpower, need to sometimes choose the lesser of two evils and only one of the two countries is repeatedly insulting and threatening our sovereignty. Your reduction of our work on diversifying our economy in the face of (active) economic and (potential) military invasion by the USA is so maddening

    edit: I assume you're American?

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  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago* (11 children)

    One of these countries isn't arresting indigenous people for the crime of being insufficiently white.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    I literally just came from Xinjiang. Yeah no I'll trust my own eyes and the Uhigurs I'm still in contact with over some article sourcing people who literally have never been there.

    This is some "Portland is a warzone"-level shit.

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

    Yeah no I'll trust some rando on social media over actually seeing multiple news threads from several trusted sources and has been widely known globally for the last few decades.

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Trusted sources that promoted the same lies that got us into Iraq and Afghanistan.

    As far as known globally, you mean known to America and its vassals. Muslim countries have sent delegations to investigate Xinjiang.

    But I'm sure the guys who've been bombing muslim countries for 50+ years should be trusted to give a shit about the human rights of Muslims.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    No, they arrest or kill millions of them for being insufficiently Chinese, or millions more for being insufficiently Communist

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  • [+] -6 points 9 months ago

    Regarding your first link, lmao.

    I am in China right now, I spent a couple months in Xinjiang and left earlier this week

    Literally anyone can go there, there's no travel restrictions. Theres also a significant Uhigur population in Kazakhstan, whom anybody can talk to.

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  • [–] 7 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Yeah, go ahead and do a Google search of Canada's treatment of indigenous people. I'll wait.

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  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    I like how everyone in this thread is pretending that there are good guys somewhere when in the entire history of humanity there have never been good guys.

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago

    Did you mean to respond to someone else? I'm vaguely aware of the schools, starlight tours, and Trudou letting oil companies poison first nations water supplies, but I don't see where Canada comes into opposing support for America.

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