As an American I hate us more and more each year.
Fuck major American brands fuck corporations fuck the bourgeoisie and the patricians fuck CEOs fuck “members of the board” fuck shareholders and the entirety of every Forbes list
shouldn’t have elected a disgusting cunt of a swine.
I’ve been avoiding Catalan products for so long that checking the labels is second nature to me now. I simply added USA to the list. It’s really easy to find alternatives or just not buy something.
Catalan?
Yes, as in from Catalonia.
What is the issue? I am ootl
There’s strong nationalist movement fighting for independence from Spain there. The nationalists took over the local government and a lot of local institutions (police, education, all sorts of associations and clubs). Fortunately so far they didn’t resort to terrorism like the Basques before them but they are often violent and illegally financed (defrauding public money, Russia is also supporting them). They promote internal divisions, discriminate people who don’t support independence and destabilize national politics. In the end it’s all about money. They basically want fiscal privileges at the cost of rest of Spain. They use revenue generated by Catalan businesses as one of their arguments so the best thing you can do is to not let your money flow there.
I don’t understand. Why boycotting then?
Catalonia is a Spanish region, but there’s a movement that really wants the region to be independent. To basically become its own country.
There have been numerous referendums, protests and all manner of political intrigue.
Now, some people will of course be very much against this region separating from Spain for any number of reasons. It would create economic uncertainty, and adds new barriers. Even within the region not everyone is a fan of independence.
So yeah, that poster might feel particularly strongly about wanting to keep that region, or just a particular dislike for them.
… Why ? And what products do they produce in Barcelona anyway?
And what products do they produce in Barcelona anyway?
Less and less fortunately because a lot of companies moved production or at least fiscal residence in recent years. Still a lot of cosmetics are from Catalonia, a lot of food used to be made there (Nocilla, cola-cao), wine… A lot of online stores are based there so I also check were those are located before ordering anything.
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.
Major US brands can and should die in a fire
A clean burning BURNCOtm fire of course.
Did you say BURNCO or BOOURNSCO?
Burnco is a real company, and I hope one day they live up to the burnco name.
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
theres an episode in the “99% Invisible” podcasts series on this case study. I think it was called “Food Deserts”.
…not really. I mean yes limited funds-wise but opportunity-wise you’ve got access to the entire world market at your fingertips. You can buy all Chinese crap straight off the boat, or other places.
Watching your budget? Go to thrift stores, antique shops, and estate sales/auctions. It’s very green & environmentally friendly. And there have been many, many amazing American manufacture things of old that are so much better than their modern crap counterparts. The difference is night & day.
Lol at the thumbnail showcasing McDonalds, which ran TWO separate PR campaigns for the Trump regime, and is thus one of the single most anti-American brands in existence.
Don’t give McDonalds another cent, ever. There are plenty of other option to get your greasy heart attack fix.
There was that franchise owner who invited Trump to pretend to make fries and serve fake guests, but what was the other event?
The other one was less directly McDonalds - it was the focus, but involved other trash fastfood chains as well. Anyway, it was when Trump reenacted that scene from Kingsmen where the villain serves shit McDonalds burgers with a fancy presentation to one of the protagonists. Trump’s target was a college sports team that were invited to the the whitehouse for a dinner event.
In all fairness, this was WAY more driven by Trump specifically, so I didn’t take an issue with McDonalds (for political reasons at least - their food is still shit) until the photo-op event you mentioned, but the latter adds enough nefarious context to the former to go ahead and assume McDonalds supports those terrorists.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fast-food-fan-president-donald-trump-chows-fast/story?id=60375831
Their food has gone horrible anyway so I have not been to McDonald’s in months.
Their food was was always horrible, but it was cheap, and that combo worked for me. Now they cost the same better quality restaurants, so I go there instead. I haven’t eaten at a McDonald’s since 2002-ish. Are you saying their food somehow got even worse?
it was cheap, and that combo worked for me.
Are you saying their food somehow got even worse?
Cheap but horrible food has never been worth it to me. When I was a broke teen and up until college, my friends and I would go to McDonald’s for food but I only get the paprika-seasoned twisty fries in my country, chicken wrap, apple pie and the occasional cheeseburger. They were the only good McDonald’s food. Now, cheeseburger has gone shit and so is the chicken wrap. The apple pie is still good but I could get better alternative somewhere else. And the twisty fries had been taken off the menu. The only reason I remained going to McDonald’s until recently was because their breakfast menu was great. But as you guessed it, it became horrible as well.
Same here it’s been a decade or 2. I started making my own version of the McMuffin at home. Cant beat deli ham, brown eggs and real brick cheese with real maple syrup on a whole wheat English muffin. Takes less than 10 mins while the hash browns are also cooking in the air fryer. I noticed when I ate McSmegs I was hungry about 1/2 hr later. 2-3 hrs with home made.
Been years for me, I seen the 7yr old burger when my kids were young, now their adults and I still haven’t well over 10yrs at least
Tips fingers, excellent.
I can feel the alternate trade routes growing like the force spreading.
It gives me the warm and fuzzies knowing that in a few years people will be going states who and we are all consuming anything but american.
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.
“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.
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.
I can t believe how much countries are still sucking America’s dick. A big military makes that penis look delicious…
Probably not, but that’s still on us. We fucked around, and now we find out.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Aren’t most things imported tho from foreign corporations?
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?
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.
Genuine question, how can you not vote for capitalists when they are the only ones running in 90% of elections? Not voting for capitalists just gets people jumping down your throat for not voting for the lesser of two evil capitalists.
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.
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…!
