blinfabianIs anyone even still doing the boycot? I havent seen any news about it in a long while. all i know is im still going
birdwingDef doing so. I stopped using US-owned social media altogether, and no longer buy American products. Friends whom I know also stopped investing in the US and moved to European ESGs and SRIs.
Yup, and to avoid another US 2.0, it’s advisable to invest in worker-owned co-operatives, into independent, investigative journalism, and pro-democratic, antifascist movements. Be critical of algorithms that foster polarisation and right-wing sentiment.
More democracy means better business, better labour, better wellbeing environments. Social wellbeing pays off greatly.
Exactly. Get a subscription on a good newspaper, it helps protect independent journalism. Become a party member, and make sure to vote. Naturally, that is not reeeeally a US boycott, but this is the right time to adjust your personal strategy.
Yup. I can recommend the Jacobin, Follow the Money, Die Tageszeitung (German), and De Correspondent (Dutch).
You can bet I’m still boycotting. But after the big initial sweep (low hanging fruits: email providers, social media, shopping, … this is all continuing), changes are now incremental and/or take a bit longer to implement: reduce dependency on natural gas (eg insulating our house), selling the USA EV… But overall, the dies have been cast. Most crucial now is to convince friends and family, so keep the posts with examples and successes coming.
I like many here left Reddit and found Lemmy because of the boycott. I dropped all my US streaming services and moved to the high seas. I stopped using my ISPs email because they use exchange. I have officially spent my last cent to apple as I self host things, still looking for off site backup of my Nextcloud but that will come soon enough. I started boycotting the google (minus Youtube) years ago, now I use an app that blocks ads. All of my computing that does not happen on my iPad or iPhone happens on raspberry pi’s. I still take this boycott very seriously.
It is less of a true boycott to me as I live in the US that would be hard lol and more of a sustained campaign to convince people not to continue serious relationships with my government until we fix how wildly dangerous shit has become here.
I will keep advocating for moving off dependency on US companies and services because I can see first hand the danger and destruction happening here with my own eyes while the center of this country still clings to the comfort of condescending people like me for being worried…
…as the iceberg that sunk the ship clearly looms over their shoulders with ship paint scraped clear across it.
“Why are you being so alarmist? Nobody can even prove that paint was from our ship yet.” - they say with their arms crossed
IlixtzeBoycotting on most food and household products, also unsubscribe from a lot of online services and sailing the great seas. I even thought my mom how to use steamio to get her to save money on her netflix subscription. I wish there were more alternatives for computers; our Chinese phones are great; I dropped my huawei phone (in a protector case) from a 5 meter roof and not even a scratch.
cool :3 just saying, if youd like a phone thats european/OSS i use fairphone with e os. which is rlly good from my experience.
also linageos sounds good, never used tho so idk
Yes - quite successfully, the only thing I haven’t switched over yet is my Office365 to OpenOffice but thanks to some account sharing we’re down to 1/3 of a family subscription.
I went to Vegas recently. And I plan on visiting Hawaii. But other then that I buy canadian when possible and if something big I need too purchase comes from the states I try to find one made in canada instead, or literally anywhere else.
You’ll spend more money on US goods by each of those vacations than any purchase shk over a whole year.
I mean you do you, please just don’t give yourself an illusion. This is not “boycotting 80%” - if your vacation spending is anywhere close to the median it’s more than you’ll buy in goods throughout the rest of the year combined.
GreenBeardI think we’re getting less loud about it as it becomes less of a boycott and more of a way of life. “Canadian first, but anything but American” is kind of the new normal now.
HamsterRageI totally agree. It has become second nature now…look on the label and if it says, “Made in USA”, then put it back on the shelf.
Its stopped being a boycot for me, and a style of life. I still buy far fewer American products than i used to, and always check where its made.
I boycotted almost everything corporate for years and got to where I physically couldn’t boycott any harder, then when that became not enough to satisfy me I moved out of the country entirely. American owners and government have lost at least six figures of my money due to ghoulish behavior, and I’m just one person. 10,000 of me (only 0.002% of the population) lost this way in the last few years is already a billion dollars lost. It certainly must be adding up even if most people are too blind to see their own power
Definitely doing it. Not travelling to the US until he’s dead. Hasn’t been perfect, but most food staples I check labels for USA origin, and pick anything else.
I’m currently looking for a Canadian alternative for good quality playing cards that aren’t cheap plastic souvenir garbage, I want to give some to a relative that loves Bridge. Might post about it soon.
I like to drink alcohol and I live in a city that is famous for beer. So I am not feeling any pain in choice of alcohol. If anything the replacement of American beer and Whiskey has made more room for Canadian brands I didn’t know existed.
There is at least one craft microbrewery in almost every medium sized city in Canada, there’s so much to try.
Also I find Canadian rye to be superior to most American rye
I am doing my best
It’s kind of hard to boycott American goods when you live in the country, but I’m trying my best.
You can at least favor smaller companies instead of the big corpos. By the way, are there small family-owned businesses still surviving?
It depends on the industry. You’ll see some independent bookstores, a few art supply stores, and other niche things that corpos don’t really do well enough to completely obliterate all human passion in the sector. Otherwise? Nah, the only other area where mom-and-pop stores are doing well is restaurants.
I’m doing my part, but i’ve also been doing it for a few years now
Yep! As much as I can.
Norway checking in. Doing my best. About to be 100% free from Google. No Amazon… no Microsoft… no Apple…
For the most part I buy no American products either. Think everything is going great 🙂👍
No amazon in norway isnt hard tho^^ norwegians should try no coke and tesla.
Sorry not trying to shit on you, just disapointed in many others here, no microsoft google and amazon is a great thing, getting rid of facebook dependency here would also be nice.
I totally agree with you. Tesla sales in Norway is a disapointment. We have a couple of good coke alternatives though - if only more people could buy those… (they’re half the price, even).
Sadly I deleted facebook many years ago. Would love to delete it now instead 😉
Canada here. Still avoiding American produce in the grocery store if possible. I’ve missed citrus fruit, but some Moroccan oranges showed up last week. Mexico is our main supplier these days.
I spend 1-3 minutes to look for the company address. US address? Let’s check the next one. Their fine prints won’t stop me!
You mean like if it’s a product of Mexico or Morroco, but the company is still based in USA?
RouthinatorYep, no money to US billionaires means avoiding all US owned companies, no matter how high up. I dont care if its assembled in Canada, if the profits go to the US… Nope.
Me and my very large extended family are 100% committed to the american boycott for the rest of our lives. I have children in my family who have vowed to never travel to or buy from america. They have lost my family for at least the next 3 generations…
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Corvid_MoonCanadian here: 100%!
I’ve gotten it down to just google products (youtube and android), but will be replacing them as soon as I find the means to do so. Once that’s done, there will be nothing left in my life that’s US, not even entertainment.
This will continue indefinitely, too ♡
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I wouldn’t be surprised if the boycott is the reason Canada has been steady economically so far.
By what measure is Canada’s economy steady? Increasing unemployment, deficit near double from Trudeau. Auto, aluminum, canola, potash in freefall.
AGMCanadian here. As much as possible.
As much as possible
Eu here, doing my part.
Okay so this is something I’ve been thinking about for a while and I found this community. The names you find for DRM-free digital PC games are GOG, itch.io and Zoom-Platform - only the first is Polish, the other two are American. There are smaller stores like the Swedish Fireflower Games, but the three up top are the big names.
I already don’t spend money on the various DRM launchers, of which the majority are American. Don’t get the point of buying a game if I need to use some online launcher connecting to a third party service to even be able to run it (unsurprisingly an idea grown in the US), I like owning my stuff, thanks.
But should I keep not actively spending money on itch and Zoom-Platform as long as the US is not even trying to get rid of its fascism? Not that I’m a big spender in any case, but it’s still worth thinking about.
I seriously fricking hope that you guys haven’t given up the boycott yet. Money is the only language my fucking hellish government speaks.
Moving to linux, 3/5 done. Jordan toothpaste. Meira ketchup. Looking for new favourite jeans. Going to degoogle. Switched fast food chains or rather going to non fast food altogether. Market brand cola. Soda machine, co2 and concentrates not made on stolen land. LV shaving cream. Planning to switch razor blade, electric toothbrushes and buy 3rd party parts until the switch. Changed remote desktop software. European hosting. I don’t think I have need for an American booze bottle ever again. Much more that I forget now. Bit by bit finding the alternatives.
Yes definitely still boycotting in the hopes that supply chains will change and Canada will never again be as integrated with the USA as it once was.
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