• don@lemm.ee
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    20 hours ago

    As an American, who the fuck even has to be told that, by now? If you know what’s going on, you have an obligation to make American corporations shriek their fucking heads off as they hemorrhage profits.

    As an American:

    FFS STOP BUYING AMERICAN!

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      13 hours ago

      Most people?

      I think sometimes people on here forget we have been filtered out of general society first by joining Reddit and then by moving here we are sort of in a liberal echo chamber.

      When I interact with regular friends IRL, they don’t care and they really don’t understand what’s happening with the world. So it’s a good thing Macron is sayin this as it spreads the message.

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        11 hours ago

        I am in even worse echo chamber, because almost all of my friends are queers, computer scientists or uni students.

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      20 hours ago

      I think it’s a bit hard for most people when there’s such an abundance of goods and services and nobody really knows where everything comes from.

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        13 hours ago

        It wasn’t until all this kicked off that I learned just how many companies that I thought were European were in fact owned by American conglomerates.

        Which makes MAGA’s “the world is taking advantage of America” rhetoric all the more infuriatingly hypocritical. You spent decades using the strong dollar to go on a massive global shopping trip buying up every other country’s companies, and are now crying foul that those companies you own are supplying their local markets instead of importing from the US?

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        20 hours ago

        You don’t have to be perfect, just try your best to avoid anything made in the US. If it’s unavoidable, don’t stress it, just buy the absolute least you can get away with, while looking for EU alternatives.

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          17 hours ago

          It’s true, just a couple of changes reflects on their books. One “this instead of that” per person goes a long way.

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          18 hours ago

          I’m just saying how most of the people I meet outside are. They don’t have these lists handed to them. They only see some Tesla stuff on the news.

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            18 hours ago

            We don’t need everyone to be perfect. We just need a lot of people, each making them earn a little bit less.