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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Boycott:
!buycanadian@lemmy.ca
Activism:
!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
I am boycotting america until the last trump voter is dead. Since I am already quite old it will be a lifetime ban on america for me.
A few days ago I heard an old lady saying this on the bus:
Simply not buying is not enough... If I see a product in the store made by a terrorist state (e.g. Israel or USA), I damage it completely so that nobody buys it. No need to steal it. At some point the store understands that doing business with the terrorist state of Israel and USA is not profitable.
Old ladies can be OG.
Oh, I like her
Some women age beyond wine to pure absinthe
Amazing. Fantastic. If we had more of her the world would be a better place.
Damn right. And forever.
I was already de-USAifying starting around 1999 because I could hear the jackboots hitting pavement around the corner even back then.
2020 was when I started accelerating the process.
2026 was when I completed it (minus my Android phone, which is Chinese and thus de-Googled anyway).
I now look for country of origin on anything I buy and if it's USA, it's back on the shelf.
It is in possible to though. Don't use any computers? That is impossible even if a non American company all parts are american. Credit cards american companies. Your right I could see this kind of coming. What I mean is I don't get why we let one country become so dominate and dependent on them.
Don’t use any computers? That is impossible even if a non American company all parts are american.
[citation needed]
Most of the silicon in a typical PC or phone is not fabbed in the USA. Leading-edge CPUs, GPUs, and SoCs are overwhelmingly manufactured by TSMC in Taiwan (AMD, Apple Silicon, NVIDIA, and increasingly Intel's own tiles). Leading-edge DRAM comes from South Korea and Taiwan. NAND flash comes from South Korea, Japan, and Singapore. The actual PCB boards, capacitors, and assembly are mostly China and Taiwan. Intel does have some US fab capacity, but even their recent desktop chips (Arrow Lake) used TSMC silicon. There simply isn't much of a modern consumer computing device that was physically manufactured inside the USA.
Credit cards american companies.
Haven't had a credit card since 2001. I don't live in a technological backwater like the USA.
It's very easy to live USA-free. You just have to stop drinking the American Kool-Aid and realize that the USA is the consumer of tech innovation, not the maker.
Well, yeah. If you just exclude companies that are too hard to avoid, like Intel, Nvidia, AMD, Qualcomm, and Google (with your Android), suddenly it is really easy. Just because something isn't fabbed in the US, that doesn't mean it's a non-US Product. Some Tech Company in the US still profits through your purchase. That's what the previous commentor hinted at with "Don't use any computers?"
For the most part I am boycotting american products. I was re-caulking my windows and could not find a non-american caulking tube, so I caved.
Home Builder brand at Home Hardware is made in Canada.
Don't you have Sika or Knauf in your local hardware store? Especially Sika is a renown company with very high quality products. They're based in Switzerland and sell worldwide.
Sika makes big fucking money off of US data centers and the AI boom.
They make big fucking money everywhere. I don't quite understand. Where there's construction going on, Sika is there. Would be pretty dumb not to do so, don't you think?
I'm pointing it out, as I know Sika has a US presence that is essentially dedicated to data centers.
It is OK for companies to chase the opportunities they want to, that's capitalism. But some people choose to boycott goods based on where the company chooses to make their money.
In the US, lots of people are choosing to boycott businesses that make money off of Flock -including the installers. Boycotts like this can be effective for raising pricing for Flock, because the businesses left have to raise prices to install Flock, to cover the downsides. Thus making Flock less competitive and making it easier to stop Flock.
In a thread about boycotting over moral issues, there is relevance to painting the full picture. Whether anyone chooses to boycott Sika over their willingness to accept money from the pedophile elite to help build AI surveillance police states, that's up to the individual reader.
Thanks for the background info! I just know of Sika because we use that on our machines as a sealant (sika flex).
I appreciate the insights!
100%
If there is any alternative (Canadian first, but any non-USA), even if it costs a bit more or is less convenient, I get that. If there isn't an alternative, then I think if it's a need or a want. If it's a want, back on the shelf it goes. If it's a need with no alternative, I grugenly buy it. That eliminates 99.9% of purchases from USA companies or products that have a USA connection in some way.
I understand that I'm lucky enough to be able to spend a slight premium or take some extra time to find an alternative. I also lump Israel and Russian products/companies in with the above logic, but they're much easier to avoid.
YMMV.
I think consumables alone makes a huge dent. Like you buy calking like once a decade?
And like who knows how long it sat on that shelf. Retailer might be selling off old inventory before switching to a domestic supplier.
I'm sure you asked an employee but IMO that will go a long way to helping retailers transition their inventories as well.
All in all I think you're doing a great job!
Exactly. Doesn’t have to be perfect and possible won’t be for a long time. We do what we can!
American tech companies are producing and distributing CSAM via AI and their social networks. The US government has incorporated those CSAM producing organisations into its structure, bankrolling them with tax dollars. Therefore buying US goods is funding and promoting child abuse. And tacitly endorses it.
Wait til you hear about their president...
Most of my European acquaintances have also greatly reduced buying US products or using US platforms (like Amazon) and tech. The EU as a whole is working hard on alternatives (eg for credit cards, PayPal, office software etc).
If the EU comes up with its own payment mechanisms I hope they make them available for Canadians to use. It pains me that every credit card purchase makes money for a US company.
Like how the fuck did we get here? Even before Trump I never understood how so many countries where OK being so reliant on America. I did not see how that is not a national threat and now here we are.
Im not speaking on your behalf but I find for a lot of people a big part of it is the culture of using a credit card. 98% of things you can buy with credit card, you can buy with interact, and it punishes the vendors less.
My bank has fees for using interact, so I just use cash. Cash still works.
We moved to a Credit Union. No account fees, no interaction fees
I'm at VanCity and they have fees. I looked hard and the only accounts I have without fees are not Canadian banks (mostly European or Japanese) - and while I use those as often as I can, I still need a Canadian institution for some things (like paying tax)
There are canadian credit unions in BC without fees. Not smart for be to say online where i bank, due to how people can glean info. But check around you will find it
I'm at a credit union. It has fees. I've never seen one in Canada with no fees. That's ok! I use a EU bank and a JA bank that have no fees.
Search more in Canada. I haven't paid any fees in 10 years. But hey EU banks for the win.
I've spent too much pain with credit unions already. No, they didn't work. Too many fees. I've spent literally years looking at different institutions in Canada and I have never found one that doesn't have fees for what I do. It's possible that what I do is different than what you do and that's why you're having a different experience.
I have a VanCity account only to pay tax. That's it.
Other Canadian Credit unions are no fee chequing and savings, no fee interac, no fee transfers berween products. Maybe there is a fee if you are doing something else?
I demand no fees for:
Savings, chequing, Bank to Bank transfers (Inc swift), direct deposit, debit, and credit.
I won't pay fees anymore. I refuse. So it means I mostly can't work with Canadian financial institutions. That's fine, there's other options that work great with no fees.
The only "gotcha" is you basically need a Canadian account to pay tax. But there's ways around that too...
Of have to check our bank to bank policy, but all the rest are free
This right here. When I lived in Ottawa I had a credit card i maybe used five times a year. Everything else was Interac.
This is true!