i'd starve and die of thirst before i touch mcdonalds or diet fucking coke...
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that was always a bad idea.
Good. If anti american sentiment can put a dent in these corp business structures, all I see are two moral goods.
Then stop being American. Easy fix.
I made it as far as figuring out what countries my wife and I could easily get visas for with our respective lines of work and even started filling out forms. Then I realized all my friends are here. My family is here. We both like our jobs, our home. It's just the people I some associate with that I don't like.
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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
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
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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
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shouldn't have elected a disgusting cunt of a swine.
To be fair, roughly half the country didn't vote in the last election, 49.2% to be more precise.
Voter suppression is generally very high so I won't blame those people who couldn't vote for any of the many reasons that the US uses, but a choice not to vote is an implicit endorsement.
Choosing not to vote in the last election was a form of voting, imo.
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I'm pretty happy with the outcome. The more America is weakened, the better for the rest of the world and the easier it will be to rebuild to something better.
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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?
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"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.
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.
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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.
I stopped buying as many American products as I could, but food even more so after they gutted the safety checks. I don't want your unsafe Nazi products here.
Americans don't want them here either, but Fascists have taken over. They are a minority of the population but have manipulated the dummies and our very flawed election process to impose their will on the rest of us.
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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.
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The US of Trump isn't a good brand from the outside view. From a European perspective it's an absolute clown show and it's unbelievable how long it's going on and people still taking any of it seriously. I mean the consequences are serious but none of the arguments and things being said. It's obvious nonsense, a lot of people are calling it out but seemingly an equal number of people just tries to spin it into 4D chess moves with even more bullshit.
For me personally, I don't think Trump is the real issue, he is a mere symptom. The cause lies in American society (not all of it or course). And when I say American society, I don't necessarily mean exclusively Trump supporters.
The shallow polemics about freedom of this and that (used as a signalling device to show how "good" and "independent" one is), broad acceptance of corruption, criminality, oligarchy (especially when marketed in context of freedom and independence etc.), lack of desire to be informed about things outside of the hustle/money and pop culture.
But the real issue that makes the above points so toxic in context of the US (you can of course find these issues anywhere) is that most Americans are simply too well off (on a relative basis) and risk averse to support true reform and power anti-crime policies.
And as the US is a defacto two party system, it makes it impossible for any meaningful political movement that opposes criminality and corruption to take hold.
That's the impression I got from living there for several and visiting somewhat regularly at one point.
Its an absolute clown show from some of us inside the US too, but I've been saying "look at the clown!" ever since he entered politics and I don't know man. People just keep telling me why they like the clown guy and his stupid red nose, and I'm just so tired. So tired and alone.
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"Why do they all hate us?" wailed the guy literally pissing on a bunch of people snarling at him for some odd reason.
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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.
they finally changed the wall of pickles at my local grocer around. used to be 80% bick's. now it's 20%
Costco unfortunately still sells bick's. but they also sell some muuuuch better stuff that isn't american, so at least it's not just the one option
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