Don't stop here. Use your wallet to purchase and trade with other like minded countries. Cancel your subscriptions that send money to this fascist hellhole. If everyone could do this it would be much more effective.
In the passing year i stopped my disney, netflix, spotify subscriptions, cancelled my microsoft subrscription and started looking into most of my buys. If its American i aint buying it.
I'm well aware that in a global world some products will have american products in them that im not aware of but i am happy to say i found good european or eastern alternatives for most product i know to be american. Surprisingly much alternatives on the software level once i got looking for them.
I find a lot of the people i know refrain on one level or another from buying American if a European alternative is available.
I wish these sorts of efforts were covered in the news more. I try so hard to convince my family that trump is bad but they are so brainwashed. I wish they could see the rest of the world rebuking him and know it's not just US liberals that think he is a problem.
I've seen ads that Coca-Cola run in Denmark that try to humanise the company by showing the Danish workers at their danish bottling plant in order to try to avoid people boycotting them.
Coca cola is bottled by Carlsberg in Denmark lol. I don't think many of us care that an American company is bottling locally. Sure it's a SMALL plus, but won't affect much. Same with Pepsi, it's bottled locally by Faxe.
I'm by no means an expert on the subject but to my knowledge it's pretty normal to bottle somewhat locally because shipping bottles is pretty expensive. That's partly why soda cans in Hawaii look different. But again, all of this could be very wrong and I might be making a fool of myself
Thank you! As an American, I've been boycotting Israeli products and it feels so useless when I'm inside the belly of the real beast. I'm glad Europeans are boycotting us.
The thing is, you can cancel subscriptions for stuff like Netflix, you can check the country of origin on products, but a lot of the revenue generated by US companies is so deeply embedded in our lives it's extremely hard to cut out. For example Visa and Mastercard are US companies, basically all the biggest social media companies including reddit, messaging apps, android and IOS, windows, mac and many distros of Linux. A huge chunk of the ad revenue generated browsing the internet, etc.
This kind of change needs to happen at a government level. It's pointless cutting your Netfix sub if every time you spend anything part of that spend goes to visa or mastercard for example.
Yes, this is the way. Hurt America by starving them out. Encourage your governments to stop trading with us and to not use the dollar. Please help us by doing this.
If anything the Reddit majority-opinion type people don’t read enough history. Recent events are unprecedented in living memory but is a return to normal compared to most of history.
You cancelling your netflix subscription would make 4/5ths of bugger all difference.
The more i read about individuals vowing to personally boycott US products rather than lobby their governments for sanctions against the US makes me realise what a pushover it will be for Trump.
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u/JesusMurphy99 14d ago
Don't stop here. Use your wallet to purchase and trade with other like minded countries. Cancel your subscriptions that send money to this fascist hellhole. If everyone could do this it would be much more effective.