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Found in the article How will European consumers react to US tariffs? where they detail sentiment of Europeans towards US products:

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The article reports on sentiment of European toward US products

Overall, around 44% of respondents expressed a willingness to shift their spending away from US products, irrespective of the tariff rate and primarily due to a preference to switch away

A little ironic that the ECB uses a link to a US tech giant in such an article.

Upside is that the form has a final section "Is there any other feedback you would like to give us?" Maybe we should suggest they use Nextcloud or an opensource solution for their surveys.

There are so many meme templates from USAian media, but there are lots of European movies, series, and art and it's not being used. The closest I found was https://framamemes.org/ but it's just USAian memes redrawn.

It's great that Pierre lost and he probably lost to someone better, but were there better candidates for the common people on the ballot? How are liberals as a whole for Canada? Would another party have been better - greens for example?

I've seen a community about better vote counting system, so it seems Canada is still a first past the post country?

Some of those channels have videos complaining quite loudly about youtube, some are tech channels that do talk about the fediverse sometimes, some aren't even aware of the fediverse but might be interested.

It might be worth drafting a message that explains that it won't cost them anything to just sign up to an instance mirror their videos to peertube as a first step. For more technical channels, they can setup their own peertube instance and mirror there - together or alone.

There might be more incentives, but that's for the community to discuss. What do you think?

Europeans are thinking of replacing the F-35

The long read: Working for Hope Not Hate, I infiltrated an extremist organisation, befriended its members and got to work investigating their political connections

The important part o the article to me is this quote

For more than a year, I went undercover in the British far right. Using the pseudonym Chris, I spent time with nine different groups of extremists. Among them were a political party, a circle of Holocaust deniers and an organisation backed by an American tech tycoon that sought to prove black people are genetically less intelligent than white people.

Most "Buy European" initiatives that I've seen are quite uncoordinated and disorganised. It's very grassroots. That's not bad, but maybe we could do better.

What do I mean by better? Well, imagine if there were ads in public transport, flyers in your mailbox, stickers, t-shirts and other merch, awareness campaigns on social media, a common database for European alternatives, outreach to businesses, partners, and even political affiliations.

I made a sticker, but I'm not a graphic designer. I asked about translations, but we don't have a place to really store that information. We don't have some kind of platform where we can organise stuff without the algorithm just hiding it after a day.

When a US company starts selling stuff in Europe, many people will know about it because of these things. It'll generate chatter and translate into action or purchases. This doesn't just count for products, but political campaigns, and so on. There's a directed, concerted effort, which we lack and probably waiting on some company or politician to get their lips off of a big tech donor's buttcheek will take a while.

Most people I know are barely aware of the Buy European movement. It's either not translated or it's in media they don't follow, but getting a flyer in your mail, seeing an ad on TV or while standing at a bus station, hearing a politician or influencer talk about it, will make people more aware.

Is this something we want? If so, how can we do it? Do we start an NGO? Reach out to a political party like Volt Europa (Although they don't seem to be on the fediverse)

These are what LLMs spit out .

1. Bulgarian: Купете европейски (Kupte evropeyski)
2. Croatian: Kupite europsko (Kupite europsko)
3. Czech: Koupit evropsky (Koupit evropsky)
4. Danish: Køb europæisk (Køb europæisk)
5. Dutch: Koop europees (Koop europees)
6. English: Buy European
7. Estonian: Osta euroopa (Osta euroopa)
8. Finnish: Osta Eurooppalainen (Osta Eurooppalainen)
9. French: Achetez européen (Achetez européen)
10. German: Kauft europäisch (Kauft europäisch)
11. Greek: Λάβετε ευρωπαϊκό (Lávete evropeíko)
12. Hungarian: Vásárolj európai (Vásárolj európai)
13. Irish: Ceannigh Eorpach (Ceannigh Eorpach)
14. Italian: Acquistare europeo (Acquistare europeo)
15. Latvian: Iegādāties eiropeisks (Iegādāties eiropeisks)
16. Lithuanian: Kupite europietišką (Kupite europietišką)
17. Maltese: Ħallas Ewropew (Ħallas Ewropew)
18. Polish: Nabyj europejski (Nabyj europejski)
19. Portuguese: Compre europeu (Compre europeu)
20. Romanian: Cumpărați european (Cumpărați european)
21. Slovak: Kúpite evropsky (Kúpite evropsky)
22. Slovenian: Počasi evropajški (Počasi evropajški)
23. Spanish: Compre europeo (Compre europeo)
24. Swedish: Köp europeisk (Köp europeisk)

I have it on good authority that these translations are better/OK for some languages:

1. Dutch: Koop europees
2. French: Achetez européen
3. German: Kauft europäisch
4. Greek: Αγοράζετε Ευρωπαϊκά
5. Lithuanian: Pirkite europietišką

I don't know about the others. Please help my fellow Europeans :)

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