I don't want to see you flying your colonial-ass flag Canada, I want to see you supporting small, local, and indigenous owned businesses. Be pro-people, don't be pro-country.
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I boycott products because I'm a freaking cheapskate.
Boycut companies with too much market power. They just happen to be quite concentrated in the US.
I Boycott American products because I'm 3 'once-in-a-lifetime' recessions deep and cannot afford them
As an American..
send help :(
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there is problems with the buy european movement as outlines in other comments here, but as an American: please continue boycotting us, the chances of our government changing for the better are slim, but every bit of protest matters.
I don’t get it
Pro-Euro vs anti-US. The "buy European" movement is generally occupied by a mixture of genuine anti-US protestors, as well as various European nationalists. Kinda like how cottagecore got captured by the far-right, the lack of a cohesive line is leading to some groups pushing Euro-flavored fascism as an alternative to US-flavored fascism, as far right parties increasingly gain ground in the EU.
You can't generalize so much, the reasons are much broader. It is mainly that it is not desirable that a single country controls the largest part of the internet, and until now that the EU depends almost entirely to applications and services of the US, which, especially in the current situation and the policy of Trump, this dependency and subordination will have dire consequences. Is to promote the technology of european, to convert the EU as a sovereign state at the height of the eye with the current giants technologicas that account for all the market, many times abusive. Monopolies are never desirable, because they tend to be destructive..
Generalizations will always miss finer details, I agree, but this is a phenomenon I have noticed.
The main reason, at least for me, is the mencioned. Too long the EU was the Frog, boiled by the US.
Soooo, when will all this anti-US consumerist movement result in those Levis 501 jeans I've been eyeing dropping in price?
I'm hoping for the perfect intersection of price drop and waistline drop.
Never because Levi's still wants to make money.
Still, I'm hoping for a supply glut and they have to sell at a discount to move their inventory.
I don't hate all Americans, I've met some really cool ones over the years. But I do hate its fake democracy, its vulgar, parasitic oligarchs, its deceitful propaganda networks and the lust for war and global domination that drenches all three.
American exceptionalism is basically a circle-jerk.
That's been my biggest problem with the pretty low number of americans I have actually met. They've all been so fucking obnoxious and look-at-me-I'm-better-because-'Murica.
Not just that but the lies? Holy shit the amount of lies I've had to listen to. American dude told me he just kinda woke up in my european city after having been drinking and doing drugs. When he came to he realised he'd bought a house after landing. Told me he was going to be mayor in my city because he thought most danes would really like his american values. Like in what fucking world can a person be so fucking delusional to think anyone would believe that? That's not how any of this fucking works! Thankfully that's the worst one I've met.
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