Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US?

kreskin@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• discocactus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not a boycott of products, a divestment from the dollar and the US stock market. Sell all treasury bonds. It’s possible.

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  • lepinkainen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Using the Euro as the standard currency for oil would do it in a week.

    Either the US invades Europe to prevent it or the country collapses.

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    • BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      EU is America’s bitch. Countries are already using the Yuan to buy oil. Every country trades with China so every country needs yuan.

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• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Yea but to do that you need decent channels to coordinate and you all deleted all your accounts and the network you built with it. It would take 10 years just to recreate it

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  • WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    At this point, I feel tempted to make an MML hallucinate that it is some sort of…allied master computer.

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    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yea, you’re super smart. Special guy. You’re so special and smart.

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• Limerance@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s impossible at the moment. The USA dominates the software industry. No modern economy can run without relying on American software. Replacing that would be hard, maybe impossible.

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  • BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Take the first steps. Here are things you can do right now:

    1. Stop using Microsoft Office especially stop using Office 365 and switch to Libreoffice.
    2. Stop using Windows and switch to Linux.
    3. Stop using Reddit and switch to Lemmy (for other people, not you since you’re already here)
    4. Cancel your OpenAI/ChatGPT/Copilot subscriptions if you have those.
    5. Most importantly stop using Twitter if you use that and urge everyone else to do likewise. Bluesky I really like but it’s technically based in the US too but rewarding non-rightwing companies is like positive reinforcement. I haven’t seen enough people talk about using both the carrot and the stick. There’s also Mastodon which is great but some people feel it’s more for “techy” type people.

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