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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

[–] imvii@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 week ago

I think it will. China has announced sanctions on particular US companies. I'd like to see more of that on Trump-positive businesses.

[–] 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.

[–] BetaBlake@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago

I'm an American and I appreciate your effort

[–] RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Top 20 US Food Companies and Their Brands

Edit: I'm on mobile and can't tell if this uploaded blurry or not (looks kinda rough to me). Here's the source.

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[–] Itrytoblenderrender@lemmy.world 20 points 1 week ago (2 children)

My Netflix membership is 10 years old. I've cancelled it yesterday. Also my prime membership.

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[–] Saleh@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago (9 children)

If you want to learn how to do successful boycott campaigns, you should look for the BDS Movement, that has worked to spread awareness to boycott companies affiliated with the illegal Israeli occupation and genocide against Palestinians.

And no surprise, you will find many US companies in there. Also it should come as no surprise, that the US wants to outlaw even talking about boycotts in many states, as well as corrupt European politicians like in Germany attacking the notion of boycotting companies involved with brutal crimes against humanity.

We need to join efforts in reducing the economic power of Imperialism, whichever shape it takes.

https://bdsmovement.net/

[–] null_dot@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 1 week ago

Awesome. I hadn't heard of this.

Quick look at their website shows they've actually achieved some pretty great things.

This is a great example. You can't just stop buying everything. Boycotting specific companies with specific demands is the way.

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[–] aldfin@lemm.ee 18 points 1 week ago

Gotten rid of nearly every US digital service I have. Physical stuff I will still probably roll with my Apple devices until they wear out since they're relatively new, but almost all the data and apps are basically European and/or open source services. Work related stuff remains the challenge. Next phone will be HMD.

[–] Lanske@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (18 children)

I know that my country - The Netherlands imports a lot from the US, so i am trying not to. Ditched all my Meta accounts, closed Amazon account/prime and Kindle, moved away from Google to several other services, stopped several streaming services and when we buy products from the supermarket actively check wheter products are from the US, and replace them with local/EU/Canadian products.

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[–] froh42@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities... (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.

Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.

In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.

Btw, I'd have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a "european code review agency" might be a thing.

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[–] mrhenry77@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Our family Netflix subscription ran for over 10 years and yesterday I canceled it. I also canceled my subscriptions for discord, chatGPT, claude and dropbox. BOYCOTT U.S. SOFTWARE

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[–] madame_gaymes@programming.dev 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (5 children)

Fuck yea, keep doing this! People around me in the USA are fucking morons and can't be bothered to do this. Even the liberals that complain about their corporate masters are too chicken shit to do it.

I've been waiting 10 years for this to catch on.

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[–] Placebonickname@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

I’m not saying I want this to happen, but it might just be more effective to have a foreign nation’s intelligence service wipe out Elon Musk . I mean, I don’t want him to die or anything, but if you could just do a Jimmy Hoffa and make sure that nobody ever finds his remains that would be just swell 

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[–] Meowie_Gamer@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

boycott us, please please please please

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[–] mrodri89@lemmy.zip 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wish people would boycott spending on the big holidays. That'll hurt the oligarchs the most.

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[–] WagyuSneakers@lemm.ee 10 points 1 week ago

This would help the American people fight the Oligarchs. Godspeed, friends.

[–] NightShot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Fuck you Orange Clown !

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not just northern europe. In all of europe!

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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 week ago

Boycotts echo louder than speeches; Haltbakk Bunkers leads by example.

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