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Boyfriend asked me to buy detergent yesterday. Ariel specifically, and I looked up the company owning Ariel to make sure they weren't American, but they were, so I went with the local discount brand instead.
There are very few exceptions I have made where I still use American products, but for the most part, I avoid murican.
We had a comical example of the boycot over the weekend. In my city Burger King is right next to Sunset, which is a Danish owned fast-food restaurant. We were going on a longer trip and needed some fast and easy food along the way. We arrive. Not a single car in burger king's drive in. A caravan in Sunset's drive in. We were - no joke - stuck in that line for 40ish minutes. Not a single car gave in and switched to burger King. We all just waited patiently for our orders to come through.
Before new years it would have been opposite. There were always cars waiting outside of burger King while sunset was largely ignored. It's not that their food is bad. Actually, I have been pleasantly surprised after trying some of the items on their menu, but they were just seen as not a real fast-food brand before. McD and Burger King were the ones people trusted because they were the real deal.
But not anymore.
Good on ya, mate! This should terrify corporate America. We aren't "the only game in town," anymore. It's high time we learned some damn manners.
Us boycotting products in stores is more of a consumer protest done to signal our distaste towards our former allies. I don't think any of us are kidding ourselves into thinking that boycotting Burger King or M&M's is gonna make a change in the American economy. But it is a visible protest done to showcase how we feel and that is why we do it.
Where the individual can affect America is to delete themselves from American platforms and stop using American tech all together.
On a nation level, our leaders have to (and are in the process of) look into replacing American military equipment and American tech. Many of our systems are entirely based on Microsoft today and we must find alternatives and we must reject all American tech moving forward.
But that shit takes a very long time and it is very expensive and complicated.
It is similar to when Russia invaded Ukraine. Back then, there was also talk about boycotting Russian products in stores, but we all knew, that it was the gas we needed to boycot and that was and still is a long, slow and expensive process.
Russia and America feel confident in their current behavior because so many of us have become so dependent on their gas/tech that all Russia has to do to hurt us is turn off the gas and all America has to do is to shut down Microsoft and turn off our military gear with a press of a button.
When we have freed ourselves of both of them and have found ways to sustain ourselves, we will stand on more equal footing with them.
We made the big mistake of thinking that America and Russia had learned the same lesson from WW2 that we did. They didn't. Of course they didn't. It wasn't them who had bombs and guns raining down their backyards. It wasn't them who felt the loss of life up close, witnessed atrocities or had to carry the guilt of them for decades afterward.
WW2 to them is like a computer game. A fun little anecdote where they declare themselves the badasses - especially the Americans. They have absolutely no idea what WW2 was. It was just an action film to them there they get to cast themselves as heroes.
It's one of the reasons why I always preferred German and Eastern European War movies. They have always kept that shit real.
It's not unlikely that Sunset's Boulevard (which I didn't realize was Danish) and Burger King are closely placed in other cities, but certainly sounds like it could be where I live. Is there a Roll 'n Eat, McD and Bilka nearby by chance?
It's in the area, yes, but tbf, I have seen Sunset and Burger King next to one another in at least one other city in Denmark so maybe it's just something they do? I dunno. Bilka and McD - in the city where we were waiting for our order - are a few km away, so not right next to it, but nearby. Relatively. Roll n Eat is not something I'm acquainted with, though. Doesn't mean it isn't there, I just don't know about it.
I haven't really tried Roll 'n Eat either, just that it's right next to burger king here with the same drive thru arrangement as McD and Burger King. But I suppose we don't live very close then, because those franchises are all practically on top of each other here. Even has a Carl Jr. burger place inside the Bilka.
Switched from Ariel to Persil recently for the same reasons. Persil is a German brand marketed by Unilever in the UK. Unilever being a UK based company. It all helps.
Yeah, I switched to Salling. I also just like Salling in general because they make discount versions of almost everything. It's cheaper and the quality of the product is often either as good or better than the brand products. When it comes to detergent I like Salling better because it has a relatively neutral smell and my skin doesn't itch when I wear my clothes after washing.