• panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
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    “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.

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      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.

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        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.

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            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.

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        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.

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          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.

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      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.

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        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.