While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.
    • unused_user_name@lemm.eeEnglish
      8·
      3 days ago

      Not sure this is correct though. Of course all these companies are multinationals, but not all of these are American companies. For example Unilever is British and Nestle is Swiss (have not checked them all).

      • RidgeDweller@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        3 days ago

        Right, I think it’s maybe representing the 20 highest grossing food brands in the US, whether they’re US companies or not.

      • Tja@programming.devEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        However Nestlé has a whole host of reasons for their own boycott, straight evil stuff they are directly responsible for.

    • Lineman@aussie.zoneEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      Pretty sure Nestle is Swiss and Saputo is Canadian. No doubt they have big US operations.

    • nednobbins@lemm.eeEnglish
      19·
      3 days ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irn-Bru

      lol

      “Originally selling it as Iron Brew, the drink’s makers, A.G. Barr, were forced to change the name of the drink in 1946 following a change in the law that stipulated that the marketing of products be “literally true”. As the drink did not contain much iron, nor was it brewed”

      “The brand also has its own tartan”

    • imvii@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      7·
      3 days ago

      I sell this in my store in Canada.

      I would love an Irn Bru sugar version. I don’t like the taste of Aspartame

  • Dr. Moose@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 day ago

    Cancelled a bunch of subscriptions after trump support for Ukraine. Seems like the only language americans understand is 💸

    • eran_morad@lemmy.worldEnglish
      261·
      3 days ago

      Bro, me too, fuck everything about trump, and right now, fuck us. I’m not buying shit unless I have to. Except from local shops.

    • NotJohnSmith@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      I feel bad that as consumers at best we label all under Trump’s banner, at worst we don’t have the ability to punish only the red states like government tariffs can do

      Stay strong

  • Magister@lemmy.worldEnglish
    23·
    3 days ago

    As a Canadian in this shit for a month, go for it!!! My last groceries contained 0% products from USA, if it’s doable for us Canadian, you can do it too! And don’t forget to cancel netflix, disney+, prime, etc.

  • takeiteasypolicy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 days ago

    the biggest US exports are its software products. Until the time we have a way to avoid Google, Reddit, Meta, Microsoft, ChatGPT etc, we aren’t boycotting anything meaningful.

  • Novice_Idiot@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    511·
    3 days ago

    Can we collectively decide not to respect American intellectual property laws to really hit the tech sector where it hurts? We don’t get that many physical goods over here but most of our software is American owned. I advocate for not paying American tech companies anymore.

    • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      291·
      3 days ago

      We need our own tech stack, that is at least verifyable. It’s due time to kick out the American tech giants from government projects etc.

      With America possibly becoming the new Russia it is just not safe to rely on Microsoft, Apple, Aws etc.

      We need an Europan open source stack.

          • heavydust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            11·
            6 hours ago

            That’s worse. If someone was telling me about “google or microsoft stacks” without explaining what it is, I would laugh.

            Are you talking about OS, mobile OS, GUI, web, SaaS, APIs, services, subscriptions, servers, cloud, VMs, …? What the fuck is a stack? Stack is a term that has been stolen by web devs and means nothing anymore.

              • heavydust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
                11·
                6 hours ago

                You tell me. What is a Google stack? What is a Microsoft stack? The other guy was talking about a “tech stack” which practically means nothing.

                • Fluffery@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                  11·
                  6 hours ago

                  Google’s stack is the services they provide, so google docs is an example, google drive, hangouts, gmail, that bunch

                  And the mirror from microsoft like m$ word, outlook, their cloud i forget the name of, minishit teams

                  That type of shit, what else would i be talking about? It was very clear from the beginning

    • tty5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      3 days ago

      EU regulations that can be triggered in response to tariffs include an option to make that completely legal

      Edit because I’m getting asked for a source: EU Anti Coercion Instrument that got passed in 2021 and came into effect in December 2023: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ:L_202302675

      Specifically Annex I, paragraph 7:

      ANNEX I

      Union response measures pursuant to Article 8

      […]

      1. The imposition of restrictions on the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, in relation to rightholders that are nationals of the third country concerned, which may amount, as necessary, to the non-performance of applicable international obligations with respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights.

      This applies to copyright and patents, but not trademarks as far as I know.

      • beveradb@lemm.eeEnglish
        7·
        3 days ago

        This sounds really interesting, do you have a link or anything I could look for in a quick search to learn more?

        • tty5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          5·
          3 days ago

          Search for Anti-Coercion Instrument, the one that came into effect in December 2023

    • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      43·
      2 days ago

      If we start ignoring the laws, we are no better than Trump and his clowns clan. Go for the alternatives instead. Also, If you keep using the US software they still get all anvertisement and telemetry which is more valuable to them than the software itself anyway.

        • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          You’re entitled to that opinion, and feel free to suggest a change of law, but for now … it’s still the law. And obeying only the laws that suits your goals is very much Trump/MAGA style. Let’s not get down to their level.

  • AidsKitty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    436·
    2 days ago

    Guess they aren’t really our allies after all. The truth always comes out eventually.

  • customcombos@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    3 days ago

    I’m American (embarrassed to say that right now) and came to visit this site to get off Reddit. Even we are exploring non-US options.

    • Spaniard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      3 days ago

      Don’t be embarrassed of being an American, you can be embarrassed of your politicians, of the people that represent you without being embarrassed of where you were born. You can criticize all the bads things in your country (and your country has done) while also being proud of the good things!

      But to be fair, you were warned about political parties from the start of your democracy, and even with the warning having just 2 is terrible.

  • ray1992xd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    2 days ago

    I won’t go as far as to nuke all my accounts just yet but last year I made a big effort to use less of big tech companies. This is my drive to slowly continue doing that this year. I will finish my games that will not run on Linux without tinkering and then I’m quitting the hell that is Windows for good.

  • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
    244·
    3 days ago

    If you want to learn how to do successful boycott campaigns, you should look for the BDS Movement, that has worked to spread awareness to boycott companies affiliated with the illegal Israeli occupation and genocide against Palestinians.

    And no surprise, you will find many US companies in there. Also it should come as no surprise, that the US wants to outlaw even talking about boycotts in many states, as well as corrupt European politicians like in Germany attacking the notion of boycotting companies involved with brutal crimes against humanity.

    We need to join efforts in reducing the economic power of Imperialism, whichever shape it takes.

    https://bdsmovement.net/