We deserve it
Please avoid our businesses and produces like the plague. Because you’re giving money to pure evil.
Edit: and for my fellow Americans… Stop buying shit you don’t need. Seriously, Christmas and birthdays need to be fucking canceled! Stop buying pumpkins spiced bullshit, TVs, and entertainment. Go cold turkey on all the shit they’ve tricked you into needing and wanting. Voting with our dollar might be our last chance at a peaceful change of values in our country. You don’t need fabric softener, but the oligarchy needs you to keep buying so they can take more wealth. The money you spend on shit you don’t need doesn’t help anyone but the wealthy. Very little of the money everyday America spends circulates in our communities in an additive way. Build community not corporations.
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If a huge group of people had the discipline to consume less, they could do even more good by not voting for Capitalists every election. Then they could have their cake and eat it too.
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I am assuming a theoretical world where we have millions of people dedicated to mass action. In that world if those people were committed to not voting for Dems or Republicans and instead voting for any of the various socialist candidates at every governmental level, we would have a fully socialist (albeit different flavors of socialism) society in 6 years.
Obviously this is fantasy as people are not a collective, and passive participation in society results in “lesser of two evils” voting behavior and neuters any potential boycott pressure. Thus the status quo is propagated.
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You’re assuming a theoretical world where we have ranked choice voting and therefore some third or fourth party can even win. That is the first step.
“Millions” of votes means that at the local level the Capitalist party become the third-party.
I stopped buying as many American products as I could, but food even more so after they gutted the safety checks. I don’t want your unsafe Nazi products here.
“worsening views of America are rapidly taking a toll on some brands’ health.”
Good.
The only thing the US cares about our understands is money, so fuck every American business supporting this administration.
As a Canadian I have never been so insulted and betrayed in my life, and Americans laugh it off or just altogether do not understand why we’re angry.
And I wouldn’t say my perspective is anti American, I know a lot of good American people. I’m very much anti Trump and also very angry that as a group Americans delegated their votes by staying home or voted republican.
I’ve ditched google, Netflix, etc. I dropped my Apple subscriptions (and bought linux computer). I don’t buy any American food brands, I’ve moved my clothes purchases to Canadian brands.
The only US brand I still support is Costco, and even then I’m checking the labels.
I also have a few holdout things I haven’t replaced, but I am working on it every week.
Maybe what pisses me off so much about the Trump admin is that they forget everything that made America great in the first place.
It isn’t that Americans were chosen by god or anything like that. It’s that America fought for freedom and democracy, and those ideas allowed the people and economy to flourish (I won’t downplay that taking vast swathes of land from natives and slavery also helped build America).
Who could read the poem on the Statue of Liberty and say that America is just for a chosen few? The whole American dream was that you could go there and get a fair slice of the pie.
They forget about how the Irish were treated with the same disdain they throw at Latino people. They forget that their ancestors had to work.
They’re just so fucking spoiled, like a bratty child that has had everything handed to them assuming they’re special and forgetting they stand on the backs of all those before them.
I don’t think he (or his handlers) was ever speaking for Americans as a population when talking about making America great again. He was speaking for the rich and powerful who are yearning for the gilded age, with its company towns and Pinkertons and extreme wealth concentration.
The rise of the middle class and the democratization of rule has been a big bummer for them.
They already were in a gilded age. Look at how many fucking billionaires there are.
Yeah, but it isn’t great enough yet. The populace isn’t poor and desperate enough and there’s still room for more corruption in government.
Since World War 2 , Americans have been hugely spoiled and they have taken more from the world than anyone ever before. THAT had to run out some time, and Donny 2 Dolls has just hastened that process. I wouldn’t be surprised if America became a third world country tbh, now that the silver plate they had everything served up on, has been stolen by Donny 2 Inches. There will be a small, extremely wealthy class, and then everyone else with shitty employment prospects, no social security or health provisions. Food stamps, gone. TBH there really should be a revolution, but as we’ve seen, despite being the most heavily armed population in history, Americans are sheep and will just bend over and take it some more, no lube.
America has been a third world country for decades now. The only reason that it hasn’t felt like it is because there’s so much money still circulating in our economy from helping the world rebuild after WW2 and selling military equipment and culture during the Cold War (plus the whole American Empire thing, can’t forget that). By all the metrics that are used to rate the quality of health of a country - things like infrastructure quality, wealth inequality, healthcare costs and CoL vs income - the US is much closer to third world countries than to comparable European countries.
As somebody once said, America is a third world country in a Prada belt.
Murican here. We won’t learn our lesson until the stupid really hurts. Elbows up, my friend. If we survive this shit, we’ll owe you big.
You won’t survive. I don’t know what we’ll come but countries can not trust America anymore. You have become unreliable and trump getting tossed doesn’t stop that fact. But saying that I can t believe how much countries are still sucking America’s dick.
Probably not, but that’s still on us. We fucked around, and now we find out.
I can t believe how much countries are still sucking America’s dick. A big military makes that penis look delicious…
Lol at the thumbnail showcasing McDonalds, which ran TWO separate PR campaigns for the Trump regime, and is thus one of the single most anti-American brands in existence.
Don’t give McDonalds another cent, ever. There are plenty of other option to get your greasy heart attack fix.
There was that franchise owner who invited Trump to pretend to make fries and serve fake guests, but what was the other event?
The other one was less directly McDonalds - it was the focus, but involved other trash fastfood chains as well. Anyway, it was when Trump reenacted that scene from Kingsmen where the villain serves shit McDonalds burgers with a fancy presentation to one of the protagonists. Trump’s target was a college sports team that were invited to the the whitehouse for a dinner event.
In all fairness, this was WAY more driven by Trump specifically, so I didn’t take an issue with McDonalds (for political reasons at least - their food is still shit) until the photo-op event you mentioned, but the latter adds enough nefarious context to the former to go ahead and assume McDonalds supports those terrorists.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fast-food-fan-president-donald-trump-chows-fast/story?id=60375831
Their food has gone horrible anyway so I have not been to McDonald’s in months.
Their food was was always horrible, but it was cheap, and that combo worked for me. Now they cost the same better quality restaurants, so I go there instead. I haven’t eaten at a McDonald’s since 2002-ish. Are you saying their food somehow got even worse?
it was cheap, and that combo worked for me.
Are you saying their food somehow got even worse?
Cheap but horrible food has never been worth it to me. When I was a broke teen and up until college, my friends and I would go to McDonald’s for food but I only get the paprika-seasoned twisty fries in my country, chicken wrap, apple pie and the occasional cheeseburger. They were the only good McDonald’s food. Now, cheeseburger has gone shit and so is the chicken wrap. The apple pie is still good but I could get better alternative somewhere else. And the twisty fries had been taken off the menu. The only reason I remained going to McDonald’s until recently was because their breakfast menu was great. But as you guessed it, it became horrible as well.
Same here it’s been a decade or 2. I started making my own version of the McMuffin at home. Cant beat deli ham, brown eggs and real brick cheese with real maple syrup on a whole wheat English muffin. Takes less than 10 mins while the hash browns are also cooking in the air fryer. I noticed when I ate McSmegs I was hungry about 1/2 hr later. 2-3 hrs with home made.
Been years for me, I seen the 7yr old burger when my kids were young, now their adults and I still haven’t well over 10yrs at least
As an American I hate us more and more each year.
good. that’s patriotism right there
i’m joining the war on rising anti-american sentiment on the side of rising anti-american sentiment
Canada here. In our house we’re still not buying anything American because their president threatened to invade and annex our country, and the government have yet to walk it back or even apologize. And even if the president of America did back off and say sorry, he’s a rapist and a pedophile so he can still go fuck himself.
I don’t think the powers-that-be in the US realize quite how much damage they’ve done to international relations lately. This isn’t the sort of thing they can just say sorry for and expect to go back to normal once Trump is dead and everyone is pretending they didn’t enable him for the last decade.
Please keep it up. It’s the only kind of support we deserve right now.
The issue is legitimately that they’re all a bunch of massively racist fucks and were told for over a decade how the world saw us as a laughing stock (because we had a black man as president), despite being ridiculously popular on the world stage, and so they think just by having a rich white asshole suddenly we’re respected again, even though he’s truly the biggest laughing stock ever.
People don’t remember tariffs from 9 years ago. People will never remember what’s important.
I’m not sure that these companies or Americans in general haven’t considered the notion that the damage will be permanent. They can punt Trump, but that would do zero to alter the machinery in place that gave him the presidency.
There’s about one third or more eligible American voters who will without fail, sit on their asses and not vote. Two Trump regimes won’t inspire these ratfucks to vote. The Democrats seem to be doing anything and everything other than tapping into the obvious stuff that AOC and Mamdani campaign on. And about one third of Americans want to be MAGA! forever, like having herpes.
Meanwhile, the rest of the world has to suffer while fucks like Rupert Murdoch and Peter Thiel run their show for them.
Yep, the trade war that trump carried out with China in his first term led to China buying a lot fewer soybeans from the US, instead turning to Brazil (now even more with the second trade war). Since this time his trade war isn’t limited to China, many more countries are finding alternatives. It’s much harder to gain business than it is to retain it and even harder to regain business when lost.
US corporations were happy to support trump because he’d cut taxes and regulations on them, but that won’t outweigh all the business lost internationally. Instead US corporations will be relying on squeezing Americans even harder in an attempt to make up for that lost business. I suppose that’s the true meaning of “America first”.
This American knows the damage is permanent. Unless we implement some stringent election reforms there’s no longer a guarantee that our president won’t completely reverse course.
I agree the damage is permanent, for much the same reason. A huge chunk of the populace thought Trump was a good idea. Then after that unmitigated parade of disasters, thought he was a good idea a second time, and a third. Those people are not going anywhere, and whatever it is that is causing that catastrophic failure of reasoning, or even self interest, isn’t either.
The US of Trump isn’t a good brand from the outside view. From a European perspective it’s an absolute clown show and it’s unbelievable how long it’s going on and people still taking any of it seriously. I mean the consequences are serious but none of the arguments and things being said. It’s obvious nonsense, a lot of people are calling it out but seemingly an equal number of people just tries to spin it into 4D chess moves with even more bullshit.
Its an absolute clown show from some of us inside the US too, but I’ve been saying “look at the clown!” ever since he entered politics and I don’t know man. People just keep telling me why they like the clown guy and his stupid red nose, and I’m just so tired. So tired and alone.
I have never felt more alienated in the country that I was born and raised in than I do now. It’s equal parts infuriating and horrifying.
All I’ll say to my European friends is that I hope they keep the science / engineering / skilled worker incentive programs open for the brain drain that is doubtlessly going to accelerate, because I think I’m going to take advantage of that next year.
Every election since I turned 18 made me feel more like an alien in my own country. A country my family’s lived in since the 1730s.
You’re not alone, I’ve disliked him for over twenty years and have been saying the same since he entered politics. Unfortunately, 1/3 of our country refuses to have the slightest bit of introspection on the matter and there is probably another 1/3 that’s too uninformed/misinformed to care. He’s managed to gain power at the absolute worst time for a moron like him to have power and our checks and balances that are supposed to prevent what he’s doing we’re all based on there being decent people in power to stop him.
and alone.
It’s because the government had already (via the zoning code) destroyed most “third places” where people used to get together in person, and the billionaire-controlled traditional media and social media have conspired to suppress anti-fascist sentiment online.
Feeling alone is how They want you to feel.
Well sure, but knowing that doesn’t fix the problem
For me personally, I don’t think Trump is the real issue, he is a mere symptom. The cause lies in American society (not all of it or course). And when I say American society, I don’t necessarily mean exclusively Trump supporters.
The shallow polemics about freedom of this and that (used as a signalling device to show how “good” and “independent” one is), broad acceptance of corruption, criminality, oligarchy (especially when marketed in context of freedom and independence etc.), lack of desire to be informed about things outside of the hustle/money and pop culture.
But the real issue that makes the above points so toxic in context of the US (you can of course find these issues anywhere) is that most Americans are simply too well off (on a relative basis) and risk averse to support true reform and powerful anti-crime policies.
And as the US is a defacto two party system, it makes it impossible for any meaningful political movement that opposes criminality and corruption to take hold.
That’s the impression I got from living there for several and visiting somewhat regularly at one point.
Even as an American, I’m avoiding American products. Now. Please give me foreign option for 1/2 the price that will still last about as long.
Sucks to suck.
They spent billions of dollars and decades avoiding competition at all costs.
We can’t have good cars or phones or anything really. All our appliances are designed to break so you have to buy another. Planned obsolescence. Enshitification.
Whenever I have a choice I avoid US products and I’m American. Because the products are either designed to fail or just worse. And for a higher price.
shouldn’t have elected a disgusting cunt of a swine.
To be fair, roughly half the country didn’t vote in the last election, 49.2% to be more precise.
Voter suppression is generally very high so I won’t blame those people who couldn’t vote for any of the many reasons that the US uses, but a choice not to vote is an implicit endorsement.
Choosing not to vote in the last election was a form of voting, imo.
I’m pretty happy with the outcome. The more America is weakened, the better for the rest of the world and the easier it will be to rebuild to something better.
That’s an insult to both cunts & swine.
I would still hate the USA if Blue MAGA was doing a genocide and immigration crackdowns and jingoistic hypermilitarism.
“Blue maga”, what a crock of horseshit. Fuck off.
How are you any better than a neonazi? Either you outright support a modern day holocaust or you are in denial of it. I genuinely don’t understand how a supposed human being can be so low. Americans in general are just disgusting people all around. Your beloved holocaust-loving candidate also ran on being “tough on the border” and having the “most lethal military in the world.” You people are just jingoistic, ultranationalist fascist freaks, completely brainwashed by your state and incapable of having a shred of empathy for others, gleefully cheering at the dismemberment of hundreds of thousands of babies and begging for just more militarization and aggression while your country is falling the fuck apart. Wake up. Normal human beings with a conscience who are not part of your brainwashed jingoistic bubble aren’t fine with industrial-scale genocide and endless war just because the person who does it is blue, but I know you brainwashed Americans cannot possibly even grasp that idea because the ultranationalistic brainwashing has rendered you incapable of conscious thought.
I relish watching US produce rot and slowly get replaced with alternatives from other countries up here in Canada.
Keep it up. The US can fuck right off.
I relish watching US produce rot and slowly get replaced with alternatives from other countries up here in Canada.
It’s like a metaphor or something.
they finally changed the wall of pickles at my local grocer around. used to be 80% bick’s. now it’s 20%
Costco unfortunately still sells bick’s. but they also sell some muuuuch better stuff that isn’t american, so at least it’s not just the one option
Gee I wonder where that could’ve stemmed from?
I’m american and am so fucking ashamed of this place right now. Hoping for aliens to come down --since they always land in the US-- and just start blasting…
As an American, good. We have too many chuckle-fucks here who live in their own bubbles, thinking America can do whatever the fuck it wants without consequence, like we’re not all a part of the same global stage. We deserve every ounce of criticism we’re getting.
I’ve been in Scandinavia since early July and yeah, being American is basically a joke. If you can sit down and have a real chat, they know very well that our politics don’t represent us but quick face to face? Couldn’t give a single fuck about us.
