I was planning a holiday in the US this or next year, but decided not to proceed with it. I’d rather go anywhere else now really. Currently for me Russia = India = China = North Korea = USA now. Plenty of european countries I’d rather throw my money at.
Comment on US could cut Ukraine's access to Starlink internet services over minerals, say sources.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Jesus fucking christ. If you do this, and exploit Ukraine while they are literally under the gun, the US will be dead to the rest of the western world.
I cannot express how hard you can go fuck yourselves.
hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Come visit us in Canada! It’s beautiful here. Better come fast before Trump decides to invade us for our oil and minerals though. I expect it’ll be much less beautiful after that, and we won’t have as much time to spend with you while waging a guerilla resistance.
TheBat@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The fuck did we… Oh right, Modi.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I feel this. I would love to see Russia, China and India…but there’s not a chance that I would knowingly give my money to those regimes. Not even through participating in their economy for half a week.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That’s a bit of an extreme take. Surely you can see some differences between them…
OutlierBlue@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
That’s true, the spellings are very different.
But otherwise they’re all countries ruled by petty men trying to project their power and rob their neighbours of their resources, liberty, and lives.
Nima@leminal.space 1 month ago
oh my apologies! I’ll personally see to stopping it myself.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Come on doc, you’ve gotta help us, we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas!
Nima@leminal.space 1 month ago
what? you want more? i can turn the socialized healthcare lever on as well. there it is! right there.
its so simple!
any other changes you think you want? i can grab a magic wand, if that will make you feel better.
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Oh yes of course, the whole world has of course been watching the mass protests and general strike being organized with baited breath, oh wait.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
American here: hard agree. This is all insane, but it’s predictable, and they told us about it ahead of time, and people still fucking voted for it. We shat the bed, now we must lie in it.
I’m probably gonna try to leave the country and renounce my citizenship at some point, particularly if the next few months are as catastrophic as I think they’ll be.
marv99@feddit.org 1 month ago
I understand your feelings, and I share them. Let’s stay strong and united, refusing to let fear or hatred divide us. Remember, we have allies in America who stand against extremism and are working tirelessly to promote justice and equality. There is a growing movement of brave activists, judges, and everyday Americans who are standing up against these challenges. It’s crucial that we support them and let them know they are not alone. Together we are stronger.
You can find an overview of the current resistance in yesterday’s post on Substack: …substack.com/…/ten-reasons-for-optimism
Broadfern@lemmy.world 1 month ago
As someone who didn’t vote for the Cheeto Nazi, thank you for the nuance.
That said, comment OP and anyone reading this - please boycott and sanction the US! Starving the billionaire leeches and smacking government into pretending they have an iota of decorum or sense is necessary, and any outside influence on that is helpful.
brewery@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Exactly. I’m already thinking about pulling my pension pot out of any US investments. It’s a tiny amount but maybe we can start a movement to keep pension investments in countries and systems you believe in, not whatever mix are typically used
thanksforallthefish@literature.cafe 1 month ago
Given there is going to be serious economic disruption there is a lot be said for diversifying your assets. If most of your assets are currently in the US moving your pension fund into assets held outside it is a strong de-risking move, particularly if you can move it out of the country totally using a foreign prover as well as holding non-US assets(not sure if that last is legally possible, don’t know much about your pension system).
Note you may get poorer performance - it’s really up in the air just yet what the short term impacts will be economically (depends what King Mango ends up deciding, it’s mostly speculation right now)
jaemo@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Canadian. I’ve divested 100% of my meagre savings out of us stocks. USA is not a reliable trading partner, or a leader in anything anymore except deceit.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
That does literally nothing though. Buying a share of a company is like buying a used product, none of that money goes to the company. The only benefit to a company is the share price rising, and your contribution to that is effectively zero, and it only matters if the company issues or buys back shares, which is somewhat rare.
It’s the same reason that buying “green” shares does nothing.
Invest based on what’s most likely to give you a good return, even if you don’t agree with their products. And then buy products based on your convictions. If you want to feel like you’re “sticking it to the man,” use the profits to buy from their competitors.
AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m with you. Fuck this shit.
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Well, I certainly apologize. I know that’s pretty worthless.
echodot@feddit.uk 1 month ago
The worst thing about all of this is you have guns, you just can’t aim for shit.
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 month ago
Don’t apologize, organize.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
[deleted]asap@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Sounds like someone who is sensibly voting with their dollar. I’m not from USA or Canada, and I am doing the same.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
They have been imperialist warmongers destroying and looting countries their whole miserable existence.
Now the vasals and bootlickers who profited and joined in get betrayed they feel butthurt and get a conscience.
Not only Canada but also Europe.
Hypocrites.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
the fuck does Galicia have to do with this?
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Not Spain obviously, ukranian SS division Galicia.
I see you’re not familiar with Canadian history and its consequences.uienia@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I see you are not familiar with anything, considering your complete non sequitur nonsense spouting.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
ah i’m familiar with galicia the precursor to poland. i’mma have to do some readind
masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
You sound like Putin supporting little bitch.
overload@sopuli.xyz 1 month ago
I think a global boycott on US-made goods + services is necessary. Trump can only do this because the US is such a powerhouse.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 1 month ago
The US is only such a powerhouse, because they generally have the support of their allies. That makes it the unparalleled biggest economic block in the world.
But without their allies, USA isn’t that much bigger than China. And USA wouldn’t be nearly the powerhouse they’ve gotten used to be.
So China just has to look on and do nothing, while USA is losing their world dominance quickly.
balder1991@lemmy.world 1 month ago
And don’t forget the dollar being used as reserve around the world, or as international currency, which makes the dollar a strong currency. But this has been changing.
a887dcd7a@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yea, buyFromEU is already getting traction. More intense on reddit and a little bit on feddit.org/c/buyFromEU
stardust@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Would be nice to see global sanctions against the US. Not realistic, but I hope all countries are moving towards significantly reducing American reliance. It’ll be a slow process, but needs to be done.
Vipsu@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Honestly sanctions agains companies like these that can be weaponized politically sounds very reasonable.
They are national security threat in the true meaning of the word.
RegalPotoo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ve been looking at getting solar installed, and been talking to a few different companies for quotes. One place only supplies PowerWall batteries, and I said to the sales rep that I wasn’t really interested in buying anything from Tesla and his face made it pretty clear that that was the answer he’d been getting a lot recently
Zeoic@lemmy.world 1 month ago
That is already happening in Canada. Those imperialists threatening annexation was finally what brought us Canadians together on something lol
Barbarian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Has there been any progress on dropping tarrifs between provinces?
Evkob@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Ottawa announced yesterday that they’ll be dropping more than half of federal internal trade barriers.
Sturgist@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
I think I heard something about easing trade barriers between Ontario and I think it was either Saskatchewan or Manitoba.
asap@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I moved all my cloud computing from DO and Vultr to European owned options. It’s a small thing, but it’s about the only thing that I had been purchasing from the USA.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Just relax and let trump continue destroying the USA. He’s doing putin’s work and fucking us all, Europeans and Americans alike.
bss03@infosec.pub 1 month ago
As an American, I’d like the boycott to be more targeted. But yes, every company that licks the boots of this obviously fascist regime should see no more sales. I don’t have a full list, but it includes at least Meta, Alphabet (Google), and Amazon.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
We don’t really make anything though, aside from software I guess.