Def doing so. I stopped using US-owned social media altogether, and no longer buy American products.
Yep, many are divesting in USA companies, and bringing their money to the EU.
Yup, and to avoid another US 2.0, it’s advisable to invest in worker-owned co-operatives, into independent, investigative journalism, and pro-democratic, antifascist movements.
More democracy means better business, better labour, better wellbeing environments.
Exactly. Get a subscription on a good newspaper, it helps protect independent journalism. Become a party member, and make sure to vote. Naturally, that is not reeeeally a US boycott, but this is the right time to adjust your personal strategy.
Yup. I can recommend the Jacobin, Follow the Money, Die Tageszeitung (German), and De Correspondent (Dutch).
I think we’re getting less loud about it as it becomes less of a boycott and more of a way of life. “Canadian first, but anything but American” is kind of the new normal now.
I totally agree. It has become second nature now…look on the label and if it says, “Made in USA”, then put it back on the shelf.
100% and it’s fully normalised now, I’ve even switched to UK English spelling myself and on all my devices.
My parents’ iMacs are running Linux and everyone is drinking local Kola. My focus is now on encouraging friends and family to join in and helping where I can. (mostly the tech stuff) I also like to throw US and Israeli products to the back of the shelves in supermarkets. Even made some ‘Buy European’ stickers to put over barcodes.
Definitely doing it. Not travelling to the US until he’s dead. Hasn’t been perfect, but most food staples I check labels for USA origin, and pick anything else.
I’m currently looking for a Canadian alternative for good quality playing cards that aren’t cheap plastic souvenir garbage, I want to give some to a relative that loves Bridge. Might post about it soon.
I like to drink alcohol and I live in a city that is famous for beer. So I am not feeling any pain in choice of alcohol. If anything the replacement of American beer and Whiskey has made more room for Canadian brands I didn’t know existed.
There is at least one craft microbrewery in almost every medium sized city in Canada, there’s so much to try.
Also I find Canadian rye to be superior to most American rye
I’ve never really found a rye I actively liked. For me it’s best as a mixer at best.
I’m going to miss bourbon.
But I will be missing it. There’s no going back to it ever again. The world is full of good hooch. I’ll make do.
I was never a bourbon guy. As for rye, when I tried lot 40 rye I was impressed by just how good it tasted. Canadian club rye was good, but not as good. I got a different brand to try out this Friday.
These days for the hard stuff I drink almost exclusively baijiu.
I never tried Chinese liquor. Maybe next time.
Why start up again after he dies?
This is a serious question.
People keep mistaking Trump as the source of the problem in the USA. He isn’t. He’s the symptom of a deep cultural rot that was decades in the making. If you had your eyes open very widely you could even spot today’s USA in the late '70s. By the '90s even someone with cataracts could have seen what was coming around the bend. (I pledged never to set foot on US soil myself in 1999 after what I saw in Houston.)
Trump’s death will solve nothing; indeed it might make things worse: the Redcaps will have their conveniently dead saint, and smarter people will be where Trump is, using his effigy to effectively manipulate his Redcap following. Picture in your head President J.D. “Peter Thiel’s Puppet” Vance.
I apologize for the nightmares I’ve just induced.
I’m with you. I started boycotting tourism (and shopping) travel to the US when they re-elected Bush.
I drove through the US a few times to save hours of driving when Obama was president, but otherwise I haven’t been south of the border in over 2 decades.
The Republican Apparatus is the problem, and Trump is one of many symptoms. As much as it will be painful in the short term, I have high hopes for the end of American hegemony. It’s been a long time coming.
Absolutely agree with you on the fact that America’s problems don’t start nor end with Trump, and there’s a lot beyond that, that needs to be done for the world to lend its trust back to it. I’ve said my piece on that within this comment.
I’m just being realistic and thinking ahead of time with what can temporarily suspend or fully call off my boycott. There’s a long list of things I need to see before I would even consider incorporating the USA back into my vacation plans. There’s a shorter list keeping me from stepping foot there whatsoever.
Even if absolutely nothing else changes, Seattle will be out in the streets celebrating like crazy. It’s one of the few events I’m willing to break my boycott just for a night to share the joy, before I go back to boycotting again.
ETA: I went to the USA last at the start of 2025 before Trump took office so I could get one last look of a pre-Trump2 baseline… going for a day can give me a another snapshot before things go from bad to worse, if what you’re predicting pans out, or better if Americans manage to clean house with a Reconstruction 2.
I am doing my best
It’s kind of hard to boycott American goods when you live in the country, but I’m trying my best.
You can at least favor smaller companies instead of the big corpos. By the way, are there small family-owned businesses still surviving?
It depends on the industry. You’ll see some independent bookstores, a few art supply stores, and other niche things that corpos don’t really do well enough to completely obliterate all human passion in the sector. Otherwise? Nah, the only other area where mom-and-pop stores are doing well is restaurants. I had to drive four hours to purchase a lenovo computer from an official retailer (a mom-and-pop joint in the middle of nowhere in Massachusetts), since I refused to use Amazon.
That’s sad, but at least a few sectors persevere. I hope the anti corporate movement gives them a new breath
I boycotted almost everything corporate for years and got to where I physically couldn’t boycott any harder, then when that became not enough to satisfy me I moved out of the country entirely. American owners and government have lost at least six figures of my money due to ghoulish behavior, and I’m just one person. 10,000 of me (only 0.002% of the population) lost this way in the last few years is already a billion dollars lost. It certainly must be adding up even if most people are too blind to see their own power
Norway checking in. Doing my best. About to be 100% free from Google. No Amazon… no Microsoft… no Apple… For the most part I buy no American products either. Think everything is going great 🙂👍
No amazon in norway isnt hard tho^^ norwegians should try no coke and tesla.
Sorry not trying to shit on you, just disapointed in many others here, no microsoft google and amazon is a great thing, getting rid of facebook dependency here would also be nice.
I totally agree with you. Tesla sales in Norway is a disapointment. We have a couple of good coke alternatives though - if only more people could buy those… (they’re half the price, even).
Sadly I deleted facebook many years ago. Would love to delete it now instead 😉
Again i didn’t mean you personally, but love to hear someone else doesn’t have facebook in this country ^^
I’m doing my part, but i’ve also been doing it for a few years now
Yep! As much as I can.
Its stopped being a boycot for me, and a style of life. I still buy far fewer American products than i used to, and always check where its made.
Canada here. Still avoiding American produce in the grocery store if possible. I’ve missed citrus fruit, but some Moroccan oranges showed up last week. Mexico is our main supplier these days.
I spend 1-3 minutes to look for the company address. US address? Let’s check the next one. Their fine prints won’t stop me!
You mean like if it’s a product of Mexico or Morroco, but the company is still USA owned?
Yep, no money to US billionaires means avoiding all US owned companies, no matter how high up. I dont care if its assembled in Canada, if the profits go to the US… Nope.
I learned Equifruit, the fair trade banana company you see at Costco and Sobeys, is Canadian owned
FUCK yes!
If an American company is making “product of <country>” what’s happening is that the Americans are exploiting the labour of <country> while rolling in the profits in the USA.
Fuck American companies. No matter where they’re exploiting their labour.
Me and my very large extended family are 100% committed to the american boycott for the rest of our lives. I have children in my family who have vowed to never travel to or buy from america. They have lost my family for at least the next 3 generations…
Greece here, doing my best! nothing change and nothing will. FUCK USA.
I can write as many as fuck usa I want, cause fuck usa. Kids died, and their complain was their fucking oil!Yes - quite successfully, the only thing I haven’t switched over yet is my Office365 to OpenOffice but thanks to some account sharing we’re down to 1/3 of a family subscription.
