Don’t buy American goods

[Davidhowarth29]

Stop buying American goods. The only thing Trump understands is money. Take it away

Yes it’s the attitude, it’s a betrayal really.

International relationships between countries and their peoples are not transactional. They’re about neighbourhood, shared history and culture, mutual respect, principles and values, and caring about each others wellbeing.

You can’t put a price on any of that.

Trump will never understand. Relationships between countries are not like commercial exchanges between companies and consumers. And until America learns the hard way, we have to stand up for this.

the trust is gone.
I get that the us is flat ass broke financially but his approach to tackling the problem is insane.
employess are on paid leave at this point and broken treaties come with financial fines.
can’t imagine anyone will buy military equipment from them.

the solution to being broke is to tax the very rich. he is reducing their tax! insane.

If people want to boycott American goods and also perhaps send a bit of support Ukraines way, take a look at www.dodosocks.com reasonable prices, fun designs and made in Kiev

The buyfromeu subreddit is really helpful for swaps.

I’m being realistic - I know I can’t easily swap out MS or WhatsApp. But I can swap Amazon music for Spotify. I can cancel Paramount and Now TV. I can drink Canadian pike whiskey rather than JD. Australian wines rather than Californian.

as others said - it’s not the tariffs that are the problem. After all, the EU and the UK haven’t been targeted yet. It’s the bully boy approach. The sheer vindictiveness of it all. None of these tariffs are about increasing money in the US - they are all targeting countries who Trump perceived to have slighted him.

Nah, I'm still going to buy goods from the US and Israel too

Thanks for the subreddit tip!

Enjoy.

Ontario took all the US booze off the shelves. 1 BILLION dollars a year. Largest market for alcohol in the world is the LCBO.

You'd better drink quick.

although the liquor that was on the shelves was already paid for there will be no new orders.

What about the small local business that use Amazon to sell? Shops are not an option for this people.

Oh amazing. I will start seeing places in Florida to buy to get a bargain or two. I wonder why they did not go to the Caribbean to begin with? Are we talking Aruba or Barbados?

I must said that is a hell of an amount of alcohol for the population in Ontario?

You can buy from them directly…

Don’t forget to boycott Boots and other ex British companies owner by Americans.
Or don’t your ‘principles’ extend that far?

I am onboard. I will avoid buying products from them as far as possible.
And hoping for European companies to appear in the IT business, so will swap to them.

Not buying from Amazon can harm authors on low pay (average earnings £7k in the UK) and other small businesses who use it for distribution.

Meanwhile, 70% of Amazon’s operating profit comes from its web services.

As used by AstaZenecca, the BBC, some parts of the NHS.

Going to boycott them, too?

Amazing how snippy and sneering people are being about a potential boycott of US goods, whats that about?

Why buy an electric car, I owned one and I got totally fed up with poor range in the winter. Spent my life sitting on charging points..

I've gone back to petrol, 1.8 with 150 bhp and does 50 mpg on the motorway....I love it.

I'm all for reducing pollution but I think if people though more about the journeys they make....ie do you need the car to drive half a mile down the road to drops the kids off, we wouldn't be talking about electric

Seeing a simplistic view of a global economy?

Who says so?

I recall reams and reams of threads about boycotts of Isreali goods, some people as in this thread in fact are still wanting to boycott Israeli goods and no one questions that or gets snippy

People will vote with their money and its good to share ideas about how that can take place, particularly in a climate where lots of our companies have been taken over by massive coorporations who are US based.

A post above queries 'what about Boots' - well what about Boots, other chemists are available, other supermarkets are available, other items are available.

Boycotts can never been 100% as people have set out but if you believe it in as I do for the US, its about being more mindful of what you're purchasing and where your money is going

@dubsie Well some people like them! We have several cars and one is a EV. Does well over 200 miles. We just use it locally though and charge at home. We have solar panels and batteries. This makes running costs cheap. I think setup matters. All I'm saying is that the government has ev targets and don't buy Teslas!

This website is hosted by a US company, AWS. You should probably leave. 😬

Also we live in the country and are not 1/2 a mile from anything we need! No buses. Most people with a ev are not going very far in them. Lots are second cars. Would not use ours for long journeys. Used ones (ours was 8 months old) are a bargain. List price £68,000 - purchase price £46,000. I'm very happy with it. I've never owned a car that did 50 mpg.

Agree, there are a lot of better EV's . People liked tesla due to their charging network as they were one of the first EVs and got this infrastructure correct. I am sure other s have caught up with this now.

It makes full sense, not sure why some people are getting spiky about it.
Europe needs to defend itself now, and that is what Trumps wants, by the way.

So, we need the money, so keep our GDP within Europe. We also need further security away from US- make our own IT, Silicone Valley version, social media companies- it keeps the money in and makes us safer. Maybe we can avoid Russia meddling with our systems that way. Let some IT genius build us an online version of the enigma machine, Europe made for Europe, only.
That will bring this economic growth we need- manufacture our own goods, inuding a lot of software and weapons. Novel ideas.
It is a perfectly sound and reasonable way forward from this.