Buy European

Eh, I'd rather make it about Europenizing/Europeanizing/However you wanna call it, ourselves. Let's make it about making Europe strong and not about making Trump weak.

Other non-US countries also exist.

Support open-source in general, not just european. Also: contribute code, translations, documentation If you can

I'll tell 'ya...those non-american countries that are not in Europe don't get any respect.

At this point, it doesn't even make sense to refer to Microsoft, Google, etc. as 'American' companies any longer.

The central destructive forces in the world are truly multinational. Multinational corporations, billionaires buying entire governments. Just referring to them as 'American' implies that these organizations, themselves, have some loyalty to the United States.

They don't. They hate U.S. institutions, so they bought them. They hate American citizens, so they take from them and harm them. The genuine threats to all of us, everywhere, are capitalists, and they have no loyalty or regard for anything other than themselves.

You need to fix the typo in the forum title.

So, as an European, the EU is currently the lesser evil, but let's not forget the past, most of its countries had their imperialist or colonial phases, some are still collecting illegitimate debts from poor countries in the global south. It's not a matter of choosing a country, but choosing, us all as individuals, to reject violence, hatred and conflict between ourselves.

Competition among ourselves, instead of mutual aid, is at the basis of all these current ills, someone wants to have more power than others, some companies want to be more successful, some countries more influential, and all those actors do whatever they can to reach their goals, everything else and everyone else be damned.

The EU is sufficiently fragmented that it is forced to look after everyone's wellbeing to a certain limit, but the only way to stay on this course is a constant push from the citizenry.

Well Romania has just ruined the third point

detrumpify myself? So after Trumps out of office its back to business as usual? The problems run deeper than just one guy

If I were to buy a PC in a month, what should i get? There really is no way around American products then. Also, buying a PS5 when they've increased the price in EU to make it more palatable in America. Buying an Xbox when they've also increased the prices to offset tariffs is a no-no.

Would buying second hand be the ultimate fuck you to american corporations?

i want to de deunitedstatify myself, the usa been a world bully for decades

Speaking of voting pro-EU parties, Romanian presidential elections 2: electric boogaloo are today. Hopefully there's enough sane people in the country...

MEGA

I agree in general, but regarding 'buy European products', how do you define a European product?

A lot of American brands are actually produced in Europe, for example Hellmann's or Lays. Not buying them might hurt the American overlord a bit, but it will impact European workers first.

Coca-Cola seems obvious, American right? However, for Europe it's British Coca-Cola Europacific Partners plc which produces and distributes a lot of the Coca-Cola brands. It is partly owned by American investors, but again: it will hurt European workers long before the American investments companies which (partly) own it.

Some European brands are ultimately owned by American companies. Are these European or American?

I absolutely agree with the sentiment we should buy European first. But the web globalism has spun makes it so fucking hard to determine what is European and to buy European without also hurting fellow Europeans.

CD Projekt

Yurop stronk together