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 becoming anti-American, and I’m American. I totally understand why the rest of the world hates us. I don’t blame them at all.
You and me and a legion of other American citizens.
Anti-american sentiment is largely justified. There’s concentration camps and masked men kidnapping people off the street. People are proudly wearing the maga-hat symbols of trumpism.
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…
If I was an alien I would stay the fuck out of America, lol.
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.
Oh no, are profits in danger? Finally something the DNC can actually be bothered to care about.
We deserve it
I mean shit as an American I have a rising anti american sentiment lol
I’m mainly purchasing things made outside the US at this point.
if it doesn’t help my local community survive, it should help someone else’s local community survive
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yes. but there are still ways to shift towards sustainable circular economies. you want to focus on locally produced products, and locally owned businesses. best yet is locally produced products sold by locally owned businesses. for example: it’s good for me to buy local produce from Kroger, it’s better for me to buy local produce from the farmer’s market.
obviously no one can live perfectly given that we live in a nightmare hellscape. it’s not about being perfect, it’s about taking steps to improve your impact and to make it more possibne for others to make these considered decisions
Isn’t that supporting the regime via tariffs?
They’re getting taxes no matter what. If you just purchase American goods because you don’t want to give them money from tariffs, then all you’ve done is demonstrate that tariffs work since now American businesses are selling more.
Ideally, if corporations lose enough business, they’ll actually put pressure on the govt (of course, they might just roll over based on how things have gone so far). In any case, this isn’t even really a sacrifice on my end since a lot of American products are kind of shoddy.
Same. At this point, I’m only buying stuff that’s local to my community from small businesses. I don’t want to help American mega-corps, and I don’t want to contribute to any tariffs going to fund the government.
I bought some supplies from a local business recently…
Then I found out after unpacking that some of the components were made from supplies by Kaiser Aluminum, a company that assists in genocide via military contracts.
Unfortunately I can’t return the things I’ve used, but I will be informing the owner that I won’t be making any more purchases specifically due to their ordering things from KA.
Who would have thought that putting a man-child wannabe (for now) openly fascist dictator child rapist con man in charge and letting them shit all over every document meant to put them in check while the other elected officials cheer him on, picking fights with other nations for no reason other than to make himself look strong to the weakest of people, targeting minorities in state-sanctioned terrorist actions, and generally acting like the Nazi regime was a how-to guide would make us look slightly more negative than usual?
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.
I hope all these fuckers running the companies get the day they voted for.
The absolute worst day.
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.
God I wish Americans as a whole would get this message. It would make such a huge difference if we all just bought a little less
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.
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.
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These stupid cunts didn’t realize he was unpopular when they were doing photo ops during the campaign? Let them suffer.
Keep up the boycott. Make those scumbags pay.
As an American I hate us more and more each year.
good. that’s patriotism right there
Any good American should despise what America represents right now.
The founding fathers certainly would.
the founding fathers would probably have a heart attack seeing that women and black people have some rights
Some would. But many were progressive even then. They recognized the dangers of slavery, but felt that the southern states joining war against the north was unwinnable. So they pushed the problem off for another generation to handle.
George Washington was extremely respectful of women. He held his wife’s opinion in high regard, and one of his closest personal advisors was a a lifelong female friend. I don’t think he would have minded the idea of women voting.
This is proof that individuals do have power. Together we have a voice. Keep speaking.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
“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.
But the democrats threatened to make them pay just a little bit more in taxes, like 2.5% more, so BOOM, fascism!
Dems never actually threatened that, though.
They threatened the working class, instead. Kept moving to the right, tossing queer peeps under the bus, tossing immigrants under the bus, etc etc.
Even now, the Dems are attacking progressives harder than they attack the Reich Wing.
Biden did threaten that, though, and his head of SEC actually started to go after a lot of tech monopolies. You are referring to the overarching democratic party. I was referring to the previous democratic admin.
Did he or did he just provide pablum for the plebiscite?
“Nothing will fundamentally change” doesnt sound like a threat to me.
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’d say the issues can be fixed, but who knows if it happens really. I’d say a major problem is the same issues can appear elsewhere if other countries don’t take proactive steps to avoid the our issues. Things K-12 education needs to be well funded and free to all, even college education should be publicly funded. Implementing government restrictions on social media influencers and media companies that don’t adhere to something like the Fairness Doctrine. Splitting up monopolies or big conglomerates that try to take hold. Willingness for the government to go into debt to fund the future via more public transit options, nuclear power plants, and more public housing.
I can t believe how much countries are still sucking America’s dick. A big military makes that penis look delicious…
