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
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.
Americans don’t want them here either, but Fascists have taken over. They are a minority of the population but have manipulated the dummies and our very flawed election process to impose their will on the rest of us.
America is fundamentally broken
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.
Who would be pro this, right now?
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
We’ve always hated you
I never actually met an American I didn’t like, until the internet, but by God, their version of democracy is fucked right up. I’ve always hated how they worship money, how militaristic their police are when dealing with poors, and how much their rich and famous get away with (a la Epstein, Donny 2 Inches, Matt Gaetz…), because “one day I’ll be rich too”…! Now, the thing I have come to loathe in Americans, is that NO, you will NOT be rich one day too, and you’re so fucking slow realizing that…!
it was always a side eye situation, at times with some disgust, and a bit of hate, yeah
now it’s just contempt, strong hatred
Um gee that’s tough to figure out, I’m trying to spend my money wisely now, I’m an American and anything to stop giving it to a wealthy prick that only deserves a curb stomping. I haven’t been to Walmart in a month now that’s a new record for me. Trying in this economy is tough
Reports out about how a new walmart in a region fucks the entire locality up in around 6 years. It’s a good read. I can’t find the article I read, but I think this is a good summary: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/w/walmart-effect.asp
cutting out Walmart a decade ago was one of the best decisions I’ve made that I almost never think about
it’s just such a shit experience all around. I’ve been in one maybe ten times on the past ten years, and only exactly three of those to try and buy something (only was successful once). the others were all to access a McDonald’s (which has since been cut out as well) when it was the best option for food on a trip
theres an episode in the “99% Invisible” podcasts series on this case study. I think it was called “Food Deserts”.
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This country sucks. Hopefully it splits up soon.
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.
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.
Oh no, are profits in danger? Finally something the DNC can actually be bothered to care about.
gotta learn somehow
“made in USA” is a warning label
As an American I say fuck’em. I have hated on America since Reagan.
