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[–] x3x3@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Actually banning Coca Cola would probably mean a lot less people becoming sick and obese

[–] Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de 232 points 1 week ago (10 children)

While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.

This first US company they (and everyone) needs to boycott is Meta.

[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm in Canada and Facebook is huge for my business. We get more bang out of a free social media post than paying for advertisements anywhere.

I fricking HATE IT.

On a personal level, I almost never use facebook. I refuse to put it on my phone and really only use it not to post stuff for the business - which I do through a 3rd party social media app.

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (12 children)

FB is huge in Canada for personal stuff too, me and my friends do not post meal pic or vacation or things like this, but damn marketplace and some hobbies group are strong there. Just the "Made in Canada" FB group grew from 50'000 members to 1.1 million in less than a month.

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 125 points 1 week ago (3 children)

American here: genuinely, go for it. If you want to be even more highly targeted, you can also take a page out of Canada’s book: they’re encouraging people to target things that are produced in red states specifically, in addition to a general push for a boycott. Bourbon (from Kentucky), for instance.

[–] brygphilomena@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As an American here, I think I might join them. Start buying more Canadian goods.

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[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 88 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)
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[–] betahack@lemmy.world 75 points 1 week ago (1 children)

great! as an American please keep it up. the only thing these assholes understand is money. support us by NOT supporting us!

[–] Halcyon@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Each day now, I don't buy a Tesla or an iPhone or a New York Penthouse.

[–] reev@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

That must be difficult, you're going through a lot and I'm here if you need someone to talk to.

[–] this_1_is_mine@lemmy.world 72 points 1 week ago (3 children)

As an American I support this action.

[–] eran_morad@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bro, me too, fuck everything about trump, and right now, fuck us. I’m not buying shit unless I have to. Except from local shops.

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[–] Harvey656@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"Calls for Europe to stop eating garbage food like Americans." Sounds like a good idea to me.

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[–] Elkot@lemmy.world 57 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Fuck Coca-Cola drink Irn Bru!

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[–] Novice_Idiot@lemmy.wtf 52 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Can we collectively decide not to respect American intellectual property laws to really hit the tech sector where it hurts? We don't get that many physical goods over here but most of our software is American owned. I advocate for not paying American tech companies anymore.

[–] tty5@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

EU regulations that can be triggered in response to tariffs include an option to make that completely legal

Edit because I'm getting asked for a source: EU Anti Coercion Instrument that got passed in 2021 and came into effect in December 2023: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ%3AL_202302675

Specifically Annex I, paragraph 7:

ANNEX I

Union response measures pursuant to Article 8

[...]

  1. The imposition of restrictions on the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, in relation to rightholders that are nationals of the third country concerned, which may amount, as necessary, to the non-performance of applicable international obligations with respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights.

This applies to copyright and patents, but not trademarks as far as I know.

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[–] froh42@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago (8 children)

We need our own tech stack, that is at least verifyable. It's due time to kick out the American tech giants from government projects etc.

With America possibly becoming the new Russia it is just not safe to rely on Microsoft, Apple, Aws etc.

We need an Europan open source stack.

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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 week ago

Good to see major news agencies pick this up.

[–] customcombos@lemm.ee 51 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I’m American (embarrassed to say that right now) and came to visit this site to get off Reddit. Even we are exploring non-US options.

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[–] freebee@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Here's to hoping trump tariff war makes those stupid American pick-up trucks a lot more expensive to buy in EU. I hope the douchebags that bought them before have to pay way higher prices for parts now.

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[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 42 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Petition your governments to drop IP laws for US tech companies like Doctorow is encouraging. If the US isn't going to honor trade agreements, hit us right in our gold plated scrotum.

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[–] breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca 40 points 1 week ago

Economic death to America!

[–] thericofactor@sh.itjust.works 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I deleted my Disney plus and Amazon prime accounts last week and it felt so damn good.

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[–] Dimmer@leminal.space 38 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Make a dent on us corp earning report, stock market is actually one of few sources Trump might listen.

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[–] lance20000@lemmy.ca 37 points 1 week ago (9 children)

Good, fuck the USA and it's garbage products. It'd be harder to do if they weren't shit now, but perpetually cutting quality is basically the USA's motto. Now they are experiencing it in the government.

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[–] redlemace@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (4 children)

And so: Hello Lemmy! Here I am! Left 'socials' like reddit, dropped hotmail and google accounts ...... i'ts not much but it's start

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Fuck us up, y'all!

Sincerely,

Ashamed American

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[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 31 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Anyone else in northern Europe noticing that all the US products are the shitty ones you never buy anyway? I think the only American stuff I ever buy is steam games. No food. I was already boycotting Starbucks and MacDonalds over Palestine.

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[–] Markuso213@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 week ago (31 children)

I fully support this movement, but I expect it's mainly an echo bubble and will remain as such. Leave the fediverse and subreddits and most people won't even care.

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[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 week ago (24 children)

Support your local breweries and buy their sodas and not coca cola <3 I do this and ngl Oettinger cola-mix and Riegele Spezi are amazing

[–] greywolf0x1@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Or just stop taking surgary junks

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Good and the Orange Shitstain wants the EU to import more US made goods. Canada should cut the electric power flowing to the USA when the US tariffs commence.

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[–] humourme@lemmy.ca 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

can you imagine if the movement that we are experiencing in canada takes place all over europe? that would be huge

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[–] Magister@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a Canadian in this shit for a month, go for it!!! My last groceries contained 0% products from USA, if it's doable for us Canadian, you can do it too! And don't forget to cancel netflix, disney+, prime, etc.

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