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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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Same. At this point, I'm only buying stuff that's local to my community from small businesses. I don't want to help American mega-corps, and I don't want to contribute to any tariffs going to fund the government.
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Who would have thought that putting a man-child wannabe (for now) openly fascist dictator child rapist con man in charge and letting them shit all over every document meant to put them in check while the other elected officials cheer him on, picking fights with other nations for no reason other than to make himself look strong to the weakest of people, targeting minorities in state-sanctioned terrorist actions, and generally acting like the Nazi regime was a how-to guide would make us look slightly more negative than usual?
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
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.
America is fundamentally broken
"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.
I don’t think he (or his handlers) was ever speaking for Americans as a population when talking about making America great again. He was speaking for the rich and powerful who are yearning for the gilded age, with its company towns and Pinkertons and extreme wealth concentration.
The rise of the middle class and the democratization of rule has been a big bummer for them.
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Murican here. We won't learn our lesson until the stupid really hurts. Elbows up, my friend. If we survive this shit, we'll owe you big.
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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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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
i'm joining the war on rising anti-american sentiment on the side of rising anti-american sentiment
I'm becoming anti-American, and I'm American. I totally understand why the rest of the world hates us. I don't blame them at all.
"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'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.
Yep, the trade war that trump carried out with China in his first term led to China buying a lot fewer soybeans from the US, instead turning to Brazil (now even more with the second trade war). Since this time his trade war isn't limited to China, many more countries are finding alternatives. It's much harder to gain business than it is to retain it and even harder to regain business when lost.
US corporations were happy to support trump because he'd cut taxes and regulations on them, but that won't outweigh all the business lost internationally. Instead US corporations will be relying on squeezing Americans even harder in an attempt to make up for that lost business. I suppose that's the true meaning of "America first".
This American knows the damage is permanent. Unless we implement some stringent election reforms there’s no longer a guarantee that our president won’t completely reverse course.
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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.
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.
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.
I have never felt more alienated in the country that I was born and raised in than I do now. It’s equal parts infuriating and horrifying.
All I’ll say to my European friends is that I hope they keep the science / engineering / skilled worker incentive programs open for the brain drain that is doubtlessly going to accelerate, because I think I’m going to take advantage of that next year.
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Gee I wonder where that could've stemmed from?
I'm american and am so fucking ashamed of this place right now. Hoping for aliens to come down --since they always land in the US-- and just start blasting...
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Sucks to suck.
They spent billions of dollars and decades avoiding competition at all costs.
We can't have good cars or phones or anything really. All our appliances are designed to break so you have to buy another. Planned obsolescence. Enshitification.
Whenever I have a choice I avoid US products and I'm American. Because the products are either designed to fail or just worse. And for a higher price.
Good. If anti american sentiment can put a dent in these corp business structures, all I see are two moral goods.
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.
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Anti-american sentiment is largely justified. There's concentration camps and masked men kidnapping people off the street. People are proudly wearing the maga-hat symbols of trumpism.
As an American, good. We have too many chuckle-fucks here who live in their own bubbles, thinking America can do whatever the fuck it wants without consequence, like we're not all a part of the same global stage. We deserve every ounce of criticism we're getting.
There has been rising anti-American sentiment for decades. (Deservedly in many cases.) What they are sounding the alarm over is that Trump has edged it across the line where they have to care.
The reaction to Mangione was an indicator, and the oligarchs saw it even if the politicians didn't. Same thing here, IMO.
Luigi did nothing wrong.
Not to mention, I’m genuinely unconvinced they even got the right fucking guy. The chain of custody of the supposed evidence alone was absolutely fucked six ways from Sunday.
FAFO.
Keep them elbows up!
These stupid cunts didn't realize he was unpopular when they were doing photo ops during the campaign? Let them suffer.
Keep up the boycott. Make those scumbags pay.
Um gee that's tough to figure out, I'm trying to spend my money wisely now, I'm an American and anything to stop giving it to a wealthy prick that only deserves a curb stomping. I haven't been to Walmart in a month now that's a new record for me. Trying in this economy is tough
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"made in USA" is a warning label
So good to know all my efforts have not been in vain
I hope all these fuckers running the companies get the day they voted for.
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