Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Related communities:
Boycott:
!buycanadian@lemmy.ca
Activism:
!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
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Well, I was born in the 80s. In the 90s I was a kid, and in the 2000s I became an adult. Since then I've worked for unions, political campaigns and social services nonprofits, along with mutual aid/community organizing in my off time. I worked for young candidates in primaries who got NO party funding with tons of local support get murdered by incuments who got DNC dollars. Most recently it was a food bank, but funding disappeared with USDA's DOGE-ification so I'm out of work, with weird shit going on in my junk and rapidly mounting medical bills. Living in the US can be very rough when you're trying to make it better.
If you want to pin all of these problems on the random American person who happens to be on your side then that's your business, but around my parts we call that being myopic and prejudiced. If I get Canadian citizenship I'm moving next door to you and being a perfectly polite neighbor.
You misunderstand. I don't care about the random American person who is "on my side". All y'all fouled your nest. That's on you and on you to fix. I don't need the kind of people who soil their nests moving into my nest, capiche?
As far as I'm concerned these days, being American is a lethal disease and a highly contagious one at that, as any examination of Alberta would currently show.
Or the UK.
I don't want any of you in my nest. For any reason.
No, check that. Your immigrants? Your black populace? Certain elements of the LGBTQ+ crowd (especially the T contingent)? I'll welcome them, the victims of your increasingly-less-nascent fascism, with arms open wide. But the rest? Get to fucking work and clean up your fucking mess.
And this applies doubly to America's so-called "left". All y'all spent so much time language policing and infighting, to the point that organized labour, the shock troops of the left, started voting right, that you let the Nazis win. And now that the mess you enabled and you didn't properly fight (but hey, at least you got personal pronouns into the conversation ... just in time for the right to use them against you!) has overwhelmed you, you want to move to MY country and do it all over again?
Fuck that noise. Clean up your mess. Stay Down South™.