Major US Brands Sound Alarm Over Rising Anti-American Sentiment

maybe they could try donating more money to him

For profit corporations will always support fascism given the chance. It's no coincidence Mussolini called it corporatism.

Isn't managing brand awareness and reputation... you know, a fundamental part of running basically just most businesses with large consumer bases?

Gee, its almost like these people with 'executive' or 'president' or 'head' somewhere in their job titles are all fucking morons who are bad at their jobs, by their own description and metrics they use to describe them!

::: spoiler Bonus Anarcho-Syndicalist 'hot take'

The solution isn't to replace those particular people.

The problem is not those particular people.

The problem is a wildly unbalanced and codified system of power dynamics.

The solution is a radical restructuring of for profit corporations into democratic worker cooperatives of some kind where workers elect their leaders.

Unions, as currently implemented in the US, are generally laughably useless in terms of... you know, actually doing the things they are supposed to do.

This shit will never end and hypercapitalism will drive us all into early graves unless we do something a bit more more radical.

'Radical' meaning: To address the root cause, instead of the effects.

... And for any liberals reading, no, no the oligarchs will not just agree to do this after a passionate speech or 'insightful' op-ed in the Atlantic.

You need to have what is called leverage.

In this context, that means a credible threat of violence.

One of course hopes this threat has to only ever remain as a threat.

Sorry, I didn't write these rules, human history did.

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Maybe other countries should not have trusted america since it's first illegal war

they think there will be no consequences if they FELLATED trump.

Please don't stop there. We need people to witness this and do like the boycotters abroad are doing.

It's about bullying and exploiting other countries with really high tariffs.

It's about our full support of Israel while they commit a genocide.

It's about our failure to uphold the deal we made with Ukraine to get them to agree to nuclear disarmament.

It's about deciding not to honor contracts made during the last administration, saying that they no longer apply, and allowing the people who benefited from USAID abroad (and tons of federal, formerly dependable paychecks at home) to fall off without even an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, while yelling that anybody who isn't hand-over-fist greedy isn't American.

I've been saying this since he first started campaigning: STOP GIVING HIM STUFF. HE GOES AWAY WHEN YOU STOP LISTENING TO HIM AND GIVING HIM YOUR STUFF.

Another reason is because America is lowering their food safety standards and food from them may kill you

Both, plus the sabre rattling about Greenland and Panama, plus the BS with Visa/Mastercard and resistance to the idea of other countries trying to circumvent reliance on American banking, plus probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting or that is too region specific to mention here.

Yes.

It's not either. Public opinion on those topics have not really shifted.

It's because of US unreliability. Both in an economic and diplomatic sense.

Why would I buy things from a toxic and volatile economy? Why would I stake my future on the unreliability of a republican government?

The only things still holding the illusion of strength together is the AI bubble and the hope that things will be better when Trump dies.

Multiple reasons including those two

Fuck me for donating to Alzheimer's organizations, I guess.

Personally i hated america since iraq war. If i knew younger about other terrible stop the united snakes did i would hate it sooner

Not even Trump crypto? :(

To be honest a lot of German brands collaborated or directly worked with the Nazis are still in business today like most german car manufacturers for example. Dr. Oetker comes to mind also.

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Waffe = weapon

Waffel = waffle

Luftwaffe literally means aerial weapon. But an accurate translation would be air force obviously.

AIPAC is the biggest right now. We need to ban and deport the Israeli lobby.

Same same. Absolutely shitty culture and they deserve everything they voted for.

Good, fuck America in general. The world absolutely needs less reliance on central powers like America and China and hopefully everybody can work on improving.

That's fucking adorable bro

If I were a tardigrade?

Isolationism is no better than fascism

yeah... it's totally the genocide.

Done and done.

Time for a rebrand: North York Fries, Brampton Pizza. Someone help me with Philly

They all have prominent signs or info in menu basically denouncing any connection to the US now lol.

Are you sure Philadelphia cream cheese is Canadian? I googled search on ecosia for Philadelphia cream cheese and it seems to be an American brand owned by Kraft Heinz and Mondelez.

30 some states have votor sponsored ballot initiatives, and most of those ammend state constitutions so it takes supermajorities of often 3/4 of state lawmakers to change. Some red ones increased pass threshold to 60 pc though.

But all those states need ranked choice voting, and giving the drawing of districts to an independant body to ungerrymander. Also voting rights laws. Aforementioned states increasing pass threshold on referendums and making it harder to get on ballot with signatures could themselves be changed back with a referendum.

Even red states these issues play. There are other ways polits can jam these up though, election commissions that approve initiative after signature verification have been known to improperly throw out them for wording, as michigan's did on mj legalization 2x before one got through. Or forbidding wolf hunt by vote lawmakers just passed it again coupled with a budget component making it un referendumable.

Lays are American as well, sorry to burst your bubble.

Just buy some local corn chips and sprinkle cheese powder and msg on em.

But both of those are Frito-Lay (and Pepsi is their parent)

Seriously, who keeps doritos out of the hands of stoners?! It just isn't right

If you're Canadian get old dutch. Their chips are better anyways.

Leave the Lays on the shelves too, that's as American as Doritos. same mother company. Sadly Croky is also American (Pepsico is the owner of that brand)

Seems cruel.

Aren't some flavors made in canada? Or cause the parent company is Yankee?

Hawkin’s cheesies

What a perfect internet comment.

Do you guys not have generics for Doritos? Almost every store in the UK seems to have a comparable store brand, with creative non-copyright names for the nacho dust lol

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.

Its newsweek. Its a tabloid and shouldn't be here.

They hate freedom!

Though that's overused and doesn't sound dramatic enough. Hm This idea needs new wrapping

I'm not making any such distinction... I just go "if brand is USA, then buy = no"

In Germany, Coke has put on a large "Made in Germany by insert funny name" campaign.

They know and are worried

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).

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

Here in Europe I know plenty of people who avoid American stuff where possible.

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 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.

since january

So the American voters aren't the only ones who forgot 2016-2020...

gotta watch out for those .ml peeps ya know

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.