• @lance20000@lemmy.ca
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    102 months ago

    Good, fuck the USA and it’s garbage products. It’d be harder to do if they weren’t shit now, but perpetually cutting quality is basically the USA’s motto. Now they are experiencing it in the government.

    • useyourvoice
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      Exactly this. And then try and sell us their shitty stuff that’s doused in diseases and add tariffs to it?!?! Just to suck profit out of formerly allied countries, and force them to suffer for your own gain??!

      Big Fuck you USA.

      • @lud@lemm.ee
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        02 months ago

        Doused in diseases?

        What do you mean by that? That sounds like biological warfare.

        • ℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝
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          72 months ago

          There is a long-running disagreement between the US and the EU because the EU does not allow the purchase of US poultry since it does not meet EU food standards. Put bluntly, they keep too many chickens in a too small coup, and diseases spread between them as a result on top of the sheer cruelty of it all. To compensate, they give them a lot of antibiotics, which has the effect of creating and spreading resistant superbacteria. At least that’s the allegation.

          • Brumefey
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            And US does not allow Camembert, raw meat, etc. From Europe.

  • @mrhenry77@lemmy.world
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    92 months ago

    Our family Netflix subscription ran for over 10 years and yesterday I canceled it. I also canceled my subscriptions for discord, chatGPT, claude and dropbox. BOYCOTT U.S. SOFTWARE

  • Dr. Moose
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    72 months ago

    Cancelled a bunch of subscriptions after trump support for Ukraine. Seems like the only language americans understand is 💸

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    42 months ago

    While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.

    This first US company they (and everyone) needs to boycott is Meta.

    • Lanske
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      12 months ago

      Absolutely! Remove all meta apps and close your accounts. Zuck is a big suckup to Trump and his software collects and sells your data as if there is no tomorrow

    • @Daemonia@lemmy.world
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      12 months ago

      That’s true, but first we need to reach enough people to get the movement going. In the meantime they should just turn on their adblockers.

      • @Galolinn@lemmy.world
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        12 months ago

        It was a private company that decided not to provide their refueling services to the American Navy, not the Norwegian government. What the government is saying is that they will not be not doing the same that Haltbakk Bunkers is doing. But this company stays firm. The practical effects will probably be minimal, since they are an important but rather small actor in the sector. But as a Norwegian, I am proud of them! (And not so much of my government).

        • Lanske
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          12 months ago

          Really awesome what Haltbakk Bunkers is doing! Proud of dutch pension fund ABP selling all their tesla stock

    • @imvii@lemmy.caOP
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      02 months ago

      I’m in Canada and Facebook is huge for my business. We get more bang out of a free social media post than paying for advertisements anywhere.

      I fricking HATE IT.

      On a personal level, I almost never use facebook. I refuse to put it on my phone and really only use it not to post stuff for the business - which I do through a 3rd party social media app.

      • @Jack@lemmy.ca
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        12 months ago

        “All it takes for evil to succeed, is good people to say, “it’s just business.”” - Janet Leahy, Michael Reisz

      • @Magister@lemmy.world
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        02 months ago

        FB is huge in Canada for personal stuff too, me and my friends do not post meal pic or vacation or things like this, but damn marketplace and some hobbies group are strong there. Just the “Made in Canada” FB group grew from 50’000 members to 1.1 million in less than a month.

        • suoko
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          12 months ago

          FB can be easily replaced with Lemmy, it’s just a question of age/generation I guess

          • @WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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            12 months ago

            no not really, its a totally different thing. you cant follow people here, nobody here uses their real name, and you can’t limit visibility of content to just friends. marketplace is also not a thing, and that feature is not just yet another community

            • suoko
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              I said that a Facebook group is like a Lemmy community, not that Lemmy can replace Facebook. You got friendica for that (never used it though) For marketplace replacement, Flohmarkt is coming

          • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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            Aren’t there actually tiktok alternatives I’m the Fediverse, rather than suggesting something that’s use case is different?

            Edit: I meant to say Facebook alternatives…

  • @gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    42 months ago

    American here: genuinely, go for it. If you want to be even more highly targeted, you can also take a page out of Canada’s book: they’re encouraging people to target things that are produced in red states specifically, in addition to a general push for a boycott. Bourbon (from Kentucky), for instance.

  • Goldholz
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    32 months ago

    Support your local breweries and buy their sodas and not coca cola <3 I do this and ngl Oettinger cola-mix and Riegele Spezi are amazing

  • @humourme@lemmy.ca
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    32 months ago

    can you imagine if the movement that we are experiencing in canada takes place all over europe? that would be huge

    • @imvii@lemmy.caOP
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      22 months ago

      I think it will. China has announced sanctions on particular US companies. I’d like to see more of that on Trump-positive businesses.

  • @redlemace@lemmy.world
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    32 months ago

    And so: Hello Lemmy! Here I am! Left ‘socials’ like reddit, dropped hotmail and google accounts … i’ts not much but it’s start