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Eh I just don't see it.. There are just too many ideological conflicts between being nationalist/myNation and being motivated in participating in the avoid USA movement in the first place. The way I see it, they are direct opposite crowds.
For example, do you think Canadians are in danger of going full nationalist because they are avoiding usa products now because Trump wants to make them 51st state?
If anything, it's mostly a liberal movement.
I think that's very naïve, to be honest. Ideological conflicts? I think conservatism is hypocrisy, and nationalism is inherently contradicting and artificial. "No hate like Christian love" is a saying for a reason. Those "crowds," as you put it
and by the way, it's very easy for anyone to be roped in to any ideology, so I don't think it's really a kind of person that believes any given thing, more so a person that happened to have been exposed to this and that at some point or another
are hypocritical, contradicting, and malleable. Well, that's my take, anyway.
Yes!
Do you mean liberal as in American liberal, progressives? That does seem to be the case, for now. I'm not saying the movement is nationalist yet, I'm saying I think the rhetoric is a little iffy, and I'd rather avoid going down those routes!
No I don't mean american liberals, i mean its more liberals in general (canada, EU..) supporting this kind of movement, american liberal leaning people seem to be supportive of it too as far as I can tell.
I can't speak for others, but at least I am trying to avoid USA products, not because suddenly I feel like local products are superior (in many cases they are not, often there is no alternative at all), I just don't want to support this corporate capture bullshit in USA. That's it. There's nothing conservative about it. I really don't know why they called it buyfromEU or buyeuropean or whatever, but what i'm noticing is that if you want to avoid USA products, almost every alternative is from EU (as long as you want to avoid China too). And it's not really about EU anyway, people promote Canada or UK stuff all the time.
Please be careful with quoting! You need to add a a double-paragraph after the >, otherwise it all gets joined in a single quote block.
I suppose that's true, but there's levels to this. AfD is fascistic, no? You're going into ultra-nationalism there. It's not that you're either not a nationalist or AfD. I know that's not what you said, but what you did say just doesn't really mean much, IMO. Nationalists can easily support the idea of rejecting foreign products! That's something very nationalistic. I don't think we should mistake nationalism, in general, with the worship of capital; they are often connected because conservatives are hypocrites, but they are not the same. AfD, from my understanding as an outsider, is just another fascist party rising in the EU with the strict goal of furthering capital and their own interests, using populism as a tool to get people on their side. I hope I'm making sense here...
Uh, no, I disagree. I don't see a lot of liberals supporting this at all. Then again, I'm on Lemmy where seemingly every other person is a leftist. I mean, a big part of the movement, from what I've seen, is a critique and rejection of American free-market capitalism, which is not a particularly liberal position at all. You see people clamouring for state adoption of decentralized social media, and the idea has been pushed (on Reddit, and I believe here as well) of an EU-funded public social platform for EU citizens. I don't think that sort of position aligns with liberal policy; rather, it aligns with a leftist, socialist perspective. I'd say.
It does have the EU flag, but it's about Europe as a whole. Even when they say EU, it's shifted to include the UK and other non-EU countries. It's just that the EU has better regulations, so it's usually a better choice, as a consumer.
Also, I'm pretty sure it got called Buy From EU because they wanted to create some sort of tribal attachment and appeal to a broader cultural connection, therefore highlighting the cultural divide between Americans and "Europeans." Culture, culture, culture... Huh, I wonder what ideology has such a focus on culture... Bingo!
And please, the goal is not to "avoid USA products." That's not what this is about, and if you make it about that then it's not a question of if nationalism will creep in; it's a certainty. Make it about supporting EU-businesses, about strengthening the regional economy, and about showing that great products and services can be produced outside of monopolies!