I am an American and agree with this headline. Don’t cave in to the bully.
As an American, who the fuck even has to be told that, by now? If you know what’s going on, you have an obligation to make American corporations shriek their fucking heads off as they hemorrhage profits.
As an American:
FFS STOP BUYING AMERICAN!
Most people?
I think sometimes people on here forget we have been filtered out of general society first by joining Reddit and then by moving here we are sort of in a liberal echo chamber.
When I interact with regular friends IRL, they don’t care and they really don’t understand what’s happening with the world. So it’s a good thing Macron is sayin this as it spreads the message.
I am in even worse echo chamber, because almost all of my friends are queers, computer scientists or uni students.
I could not have said it better myself!
This and the subreddits I frequent are dangerously filled with people whom I agree with and that agree with me. Back in the “good” days when Forums were all the rage I was exposed to a lot more variety and got to talk to people who were worth having a discussion with. Too bad I was a young idiot and the forum I spent the most time on was paintball forum. (TechPB if anyone’s curious)
I think it’s a bit hard for most people when there’s such an abundance of goods and services and nobody really knows where everything comes from.
You don’t have to be perfect, just try your best to avoid anything made in the US. If it’s unavoidable, don’t stress it, just buy the absolute least you can get away with, while looking for EU alternatives.
Or Canadian alternatives! Those are good too!
It’s true, just a couple of changes reflects on their books. One “this instead of that” per person goes a long way.
I’m just saying how most of the people I meet outside are. They don’t have these lists handed to them. They only see some Tesla stuff on the news.
We don’t need everyone to be perfect. We just need a lot of people, each making them earn a little bit less.
It wasn’t until all this kicked off that I learned just how many companies that I thought were European were in fact owned by American conglomerates.
Which makes MAGA’s “the world is taking advantage of America” rhetoric all the more infuriatingly hypocritical. You spent decades using the strong dollar to go on a massive global shopping trip buying up every other country’s companies, and are now crying foul that those companies you own are supplying their local markets instead of importing from the US?
Hey @EU: don’t forget to buy Canadian. We have sweet sweet sugary beavers….and pornhub.
And sometimes those beavers are on PornHub.
I don’t get it. Let me do a quick search…WWOOOWW!
and if you reeeeaaaaallllyyyyy like beavers, there’s a lil site called e621 I hear has got you covered…
Facts 👆
Pornhub is Canadia? TIL.
I been supporting you guys for so long.
Can you please internally push to enter the EU in record time?
Thank you. Your bacon is better.
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France has a sneaker brand called Le Coq. Why would anyone buy Nike when they can show off their Le Coq is beyond me.
Wait Le Coq Sportif? I used to wear that as a kid then it went from the UK.
I love the Sporty Rooster.
Is it “coke” or “cock”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWhTaK4nmgI
coq = cock = rooster they are pronounced basically the same, but coq doesnt mean cock as in penis afaik
I always pronounced it cock
You know which one 😏
The French have been avoiding dependence on Americans since de Gualle. The only reason the entire country hasn’t died of schadenfreude poisoning is because “schadenfreude” is a German word.
For anyone like me:
schadenfreude /shäd′n-froi″də/ noun
Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune. Delight in another person's misfortune.You’re what makes the fediverse great
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How is Macron so based? I, as a German, used to hate on France, but they are holy based the last months
He just continued the basedness that is de Gaule with his stance that US will turn on eurpoe some day.
You only see the PR stunts. And probably only the good ones.
How is Macron so based?
He’s the ceo of a government who spend billions on “security” and propaganda, he gets advice from professionals on how to fool the average person too lazy to remember all the evil shit macron has done in its presidency.
USian here, stop buying American, buy European.
I worked for Google’s contractors doing GIS work, I have ZERO respect for US companies in terms of the value they bring to the table or the fundamental indecency with which they will try to rip you off or force you into shitty subscriptions. In the past 10 years large U.S. corporations have completely gutted what made them agile and valuable in the first place, these are just dead husks wobbling over totally termite ridden foundations, and the current economic crash completely makes sense to me for the value of these companies crashing.
There are many smart people here, I don’t want to condemn the labor of all of the good people here in the US, but we the average people of the U.S. barely get any share of the money you pay to large corporations for our labor, we don’t control our politicians, our economy, our largest corporations, our military, our immigration enforcement…the list goes on and on. DO NOT SUPPORT large US corporations that are holding our futures hostage, DO NOT BUY US PRODUCTS until the U.S. stops heading towards violence and fascism.
If there is any way you can obtain the fruits of U.S. labor without paying large U.S. corporations, now is a great time to do so.
In case you agree but don’t know where to start: !buyeuropean@feddit.uk !buyfromeu@feddit.org
As an American I try not to buy American
I guess it would be nice if you supplanted that by economic policy, wouldn’t it.
As a dude in a red state don’t buy jack shit from here. The MAGA needs to suffer.
Where do you buy your panties and your douche supplies?
Jupiter, the emperor of Europe…
Macron’s government to every administration and projects : Keep buying MS Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, don’t look at all the providers in Europe (and France).
I say if America wants to go it alone the rest of the world should let them.
Yes don’t go to Disney Land Paris. Got it.
Also everyone should stop watching US movies in the theater, just pirate American movies. Or watch Les Vengeurs made by Marvelle. Or Le Batman by Les Frères Warner.
