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[–] [email protected] 239 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (12 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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).

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[–] [email protected] 125 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As an American here, I think I might join them. Start buying more Canadian goods.

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[–] [email protected] 89 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 month ago (1 children)

great! as an American please keep it up. the only thing these assholes understand is money. support us by NOT supporting us!

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Each day now, I don't buy a Tesla or an iPhone or a New York Penthouse.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

That must be difficult, you're going through a lot and I'm here if you need someone to talk to.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (3 children)

As an American I support this action.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Bro, me too, fuck everything about trump, and right now, fuck us. I’m not buying shit unless I have to. Except from local shops.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (2 children)

"Calls for Europe to stop eating garbage food like Americans." Sounds like a good idea to me.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

We have our own garbage food. If you don't go to McDonald's or Burger King, you can go to Hesburger or whatever else your region has. Admittedly still inspired by American garbage food, but profits European companies.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Fuck Coca-Cola drink Irn Bru!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru

lol

"Originally selling it as Iron Brew, the drink's makers, A.G. Barr, were forced to change the name of the drink in 1946 following a change in the law that stipulated that the marketing of products be "literally true". As the drink did not contain much iron, nor was it brewed"

"The brand also has its own tartan"

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Can we collectively decide not to respect American intellectual property laws to really hit the tech sector where it hurts? We don't get that many physical goods over here but most of our software is American owned. I advocate for not paying American tech companies anymore.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (3 children)

EU regulations that can be triggered in response to tariffs include an option to make that completely legal

Edit because I'm getting asked for a source: EU Anti Coercion Instrument that got passed in 2021 and came into effect in December 2023: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ%3AL_202302675

Specifically Annex I, paragraph 7:

ANNEX I

Union response measures pursuant to Article 8

[...]

  1. The imposition of restrictions on the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, in relation to rightholders that are nationals of the third country concerned, which may amount, as necessary, to the non-performance of applicable international obligations with respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights.

This applies to copyright and patents, but not trademarks as far as I know.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (8 children)

We need our own tech stack, that is at least verifyable. It's due time to kick out the American tech giants from government projects etc.

With America possibly becoming the new Russia it is just not safe to rely on Microsoft, Apple, Aws etc.

We need an Europan open source stack.

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago

Good to see major news agencies pick this up.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 month ago (5 children)

I’m American (embarrassed to say that right now) and came to visit this site to get off Reddit. Even we are exploring non-US options.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Here's to hoping trump tariff war makes those stupid American pick-up trucks a lot more expensive to buy in EU. I hope the douchebags that bought them before have to pay way higher prices for parts now.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Petition your governments to drop IP laws for US tech companies like Doctorow is encouraging. If the US isn't going to honor trade agreements, hit us right in our gold plated scrotum.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago

Economic death to America!

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Make a dent on us corp earning report, stock market is actually one of few sources Trump might listen.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This. Today I switched all my investments to Euro/EU only companies and funds, everything that has USD or US companies in the portfolio was a no-go.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I deleted my Disney plus and Amazon prime accounts last week and it felt so damn good.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 month ago (9 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Fuck us up, y'all!

Sincerely,

Ashamed American

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I fully support this movement, but I expect it's mainly an echo bubble and will remain as such. Leave the fediverse and subreddits and most people won't even care.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (21 children)

My gf (who is not on the fedivere or any social media) came to me the other day and wanted to stop buying U.S products. Not that we really did before. Spendrups make better soft drinks than Coca-Cola and Pepsi anyway.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The Canadian one has really taken off. Its not just on Lemmy. Im seeing more Canadian products on the checkout line than ever before and Ive even started seeing rotting American produce at our local store.

Everyone I talk to irl is limiting their US product purchases. Canadians are pissed.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago (24 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Or just stop taking surgary junks

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Good and the Orange Shitstain wants the EU to import more US made goods. Canada should cut the electric power flowing to the USA when the US tariffs commence.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month 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.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

As a Canadian in this shit for a month, go for it!!! My last groceries contained 0% products from USA, if it's doable for us Canadian, you can do it too! And don't forget to cancel netflix, disney+, prime, etc.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

Top 20 US Food Companies and Their Brands

Edit: I'm on mobile and can't tell if this uploaded blurry or not (looks kinda rough to me). Here's the source.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (9 children)

If you want to learn how to do successful boycott campaigns, you should look for the BDS Movement, that has worked to spread awareness to boycott companies affiliated with the illegal Israeli occupation and genocide against Palestinians.

And no surprise, you will find many US companies in there. Also it should come as no surprise, that the US wants to outlaw even talking about boycotts in many states, as well as corrupt European politicians like in Germany attacking the notion of boycotting companies involved with brutal crimes against humanity.

We need to join efforts in reducing the economic power of Imperialism, whichever shape it takes.

https://bdsmovement.net/

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

My Netflix membership is 10 years old. I've cancelled it yesterday. Also my prime membership.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Gotten rid of nearly every US digital service I have. Physical stuff I will still probably roll with my Apple devices until they wear out since they're relatively new, but almost all the data and apps are basically European and/or open source services. Work related stuff remains the challenge. Next phone will be HMD.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (18 children)

I know that my country - The Netherlands imports a lot from the US, so i am trying not to. Ditched all my Meta accounts, closed Amazon account/prime and Kindle, moved away from Google to several other services, stopped several streaming services and when we buy products from the supermarket actively check wheter products are from the US, and replace them with local/EU/Canadian products.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities... (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.

Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.

In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.

Btw, I'd have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a "european code review agency" might be a thing.

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