A natural reaction to their anti-world actions. Non-idiots could foresee this.
I don’t support fascist regimes, I have completely changed the way I do my groceries. and saving money in the process.
Same here. If I don’t want to do research, I just pick the store brand of whatever I’m buying. It’s usually the cheapest anyway and quality varies from exactly the same to passable. So far only the cold-brew tea and the artifical sweetener were really not acceptable, but non-American alternatives exist for both.
Easy solution: Don’t be a dick to regular humans and human rights and the Anti-American Sentiment will fade.
You were always the front-runner for democracy and peace, but making a 180 since january all of a sudden is, yeah, not chillaxt at all… Youknow?since january
So the American voters aren’t the only ones who forgot 2016-2020…
MAYBE if some of the brands is being pro-nazi, supporting trump. duh
Wow its like US culture was only held up by goodwill from USAID, NIH, and weapons donations to ukraine and it turns out people think the US is otherwise a bunch of billionaire sex perverts and their wage slaves when you dismantle those things.
LW Americans love anti-Americanism yet the other day people were really trying to convince me that being anti-China as an Indian is basically a war crime
Lemmy has a lot more Chinese tankies than other social media platforms (proportionately), plus a lot of people who think that being anti us must mean being pro china.
I’m just anti-fascist, which include the US and China. You can tell who’s a boot if they come to the defense of these two
I really hope this doesn’t become the norm.
Lemmy’s developers are tankies. There are unfortunately a lot of them on the platform.
gotta watch out for those .ml peeps ya know
Well, electing a strongman politician while abolishing goodwill programs that project soft power tends to have consequences for your economy. Mostly negative consequences, but hey, at least you get to wear a red ballcap that says your country is the bestest ever and all other countries suck mud, right?
So you’re telling me that if we make the world hate us, they might send us less money?
I have been living and working in Asia for over 20 years. The anti-American sentiment is the highest now compared to any other time in the last 20 years.
Oh well
If I were a tardigrade?
lol didn’t McDonald’s host their own orange clown when he was campaigning? They and their nasty dried burgers can fuck off.
Is there an up to date list of brands and companies that supported trump/maga?
I tried using publicsquare just now to search again but it seems like they took away the ability to do so, probably to stop people from boycotting fascism. And other searches don’t really bring up such lists (mostly just articles talking about the most prominent companies that are well known to have bent the knee).
I’m not making any such distinction… I just go “if brand is USA, then buy = no”
A number of companies have noted this trend. David Gibbs, CEO of KFC and Taco Bell parent Yum Brands, told analysts in late April that the company was closely monitoring the issue and its impact on consumer behavior, but added that there had not been an observable impact on its sales.
I’m surprised its mild enough for them to claim this so far.
I know the Canadians are pissed, but are all y’all’s peers on other continents mostly… indifferent? I guess it’s egotistical to assume people generally follow American news, but some of it really seems hard to ignore.
The effects are definitely felt in Germany as well. It started (or can so far be traceable in the news) with Tesla. Not sure about any other sentiment, but I genuinely wouldn’t be surprised. This is the first time there’s news about things other than Tesla.
But yeah, I personally started going more for European products and that is also the policies pushed by some European countries atm. It might be a coincidence, but I switched away from MAMMA where I could (with Win10 support running out, I went over to Linux, I. e.; or I switched my default browser away from chrome and search engine away from google).
Here in Europe I know plenty of people who avoid American stuff where possible.
lots of folks in my circle also boycotting american products and services. in the cross hairs here are Amazon, Google, any american food, booze, clothing, cars, etc. Most in my circle dont watch american news. its depressing to see a country descend into third world status so quickly
My aim is currently at big tech and food conglomerates specifically. I still have a soft spot for small businesses and B Corps from the US. If they go out of business, then all that’s left are the corpos.
I don’t think most of the masses in Europe know or give a shit about what happens in the US. Maybe the name of the president, or when the US fucks up some country, like Irak or Afghanistan.
Now they sort of do, because of the world wide impact of Trump’s psychotic world commerce antics, or Russia and Ukraine, which are close enough, which may impact them directly or close enough.
I think there is an image of Europe in the US of a place where people are generally cultured, which is not really the case. Hicks are everywhere. Millions in Europe are workers in industry and agriculture or fishing, and care jack shit about what happens outside their sphere.
Europeans do have a higher awareness of what happens outside their borders mainly because they have been invading each other for millenia, so international relations are culturally important, but that’s about it. Football is way more important than international news for the majority of Europeans. Bread and circuses.
The news bulletins are filled with news out of the USA. We are very aware of what’s happening in that country, because of our history with fascism with our neighbour Germany.
Football is also going to be affected btw, with the Worldcup being held in Canada, Mexico and tourism-very-unfriendly USA
I feel like the people who would avoid those brands were already avoiding them because they’re crap. A lot of people don’t care, don’t understand, or generally support trump. ~ England
I think that Coke know that, that’s because in Mexico there is a logo
in every coke.All the gigantic tech corpos I have to deal with are American. I was having anti american sentiments before the orange dictator, but they sure are at an all time high.
