Calls for boycotting US products spread in northern Europe

While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.

This first US company they (and everyone) needs to boycott is Meta.

American here: genuinely, go for it. If you want to be even more highly targeted, you can also take a page out of Canada’s book: they’re encouraging people to target things that are produced in red states specifically, in addition to a general push for a boycott. Bourbon (from Kentucky), for instance.

https://www.buy-european-made.eu/

https://european-alternatives.eu/

And for us Canadian, there is always https://madeincanadadirectory.ca/

great! as an American please keep it up. the only thing these assholes understand is money. support us by NOT supporting us!

As an American I support this action.

"Calls for Europe to stop eating garbage food like Americans." Sounds like a good idea to me.

Fuck Coca-Cola drink Irn Bru!

Good to see major news agencies pick this up.

Can we collectively decide not to respect American intellectual property laws to really hit the tech sector where it hurts? We don't get that many physical goods over here but most of our software is American owned. I advocate for not paying American tech companies anymore.

I’m American (embarrassed to say that right now) and came to visit this site to get off Reddit. Even we are exploring non-US options.

Here's to hoping trump tariff war makes those stupid American pick-up trucks a lot more expensive to buy in EU. I hope the douchebags that bought them before have to pay way higher prices for parts now.

Economic death to America!

Petition your governments to drop IP laws for US tech companies like Doctorow is encouraging. If the US isn't going to honor trade agreements, hit us right in our gold plated scrotum.

I deleted my Disney plus and Amazon prime accounts last week and it felt so damn good.

And so: Hello Lemmy! Here I am! Left 'socials' like reddit, dropped hotmail and google accounts ...... i'ts not much but it's start

Make a dent on us corp earning report, stock market is actually one of few sources Trump might listen.

Good, fuck the USA and it's garbage products. It'd be harder to do if they weren't shit now, but perpetually cutting quality is basically the USA's motto. Now they are experiencing it in the government.

I fully support this movement, but I expect it's mainly an echo bubble and will remain as such. Leave the fediverse and subreddits and most people won't even care.

Fuck us up, y'all!

Sincerely,

Ashamed American

Support your local breweries and buy their sodas and not coca cola <3 I do this and ngl Oettinger cola-mix and Riegele Spezi are amazing

can you imagine if the movement that we are experiencing in canada takes place all over europe? that would be huge

Good and the Orange Shitstain wants the EU to import more US made goods. Canada should cut the electric power flowing to the USA when the US tariffs commence.

As a Canadian in this shit for a month, go for it!!! My last groceries contained 0% products from USA, if it's doable for us Canadian, you can do it too! And don't forget to cancel netflix, disney+, prime, etc.

Edit: I'm on mobile and can't tell if this uploaded blurry or not (looks kinda rough to me). Here's the source.

If you want to learn how to do successful boycott campaigns, you should look for the BDS Movement, that has worked to spread awareness to boycott companies affiliated with the illegal Israeli occupation and genocide against Palestinians.

And no surprise, you will find many US companies in there. Also it should come as no surprise, that the US wants to outlaw even talking about boycotts in many states, as well as corrupt European politicians like in Germany attacking the notion of boycotting companies involved with brutal crimes against humanity.

We need to join efforts in reducing the economic power of Imperialism, whichever shape it takes.

https://bdsmovement.net/

I know that my country - The Netherlands imports a lot from the US, so i am trying not to. Ditched all my Meta accounts, closed Amazon account/prime and Kindle, moved away from Google to several other services, stopped several streaming services and when we buy products from the supermarket actively check wheter products are from the US, and replace them with local/EU/Canadian products.

Gotten rid of nearly every US digital service I have. Physical stuff I will still probably roll with my Apple devices until they wear out since they're relatively new, but almost all the data and apps are basically European and/or open source services. Work related stuff remains the challenge. Next phone will be HMD.

My Netflix membership is 10 years old. I've cancelled it yesterday. Also my prime membership.

Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities... (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.

Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.

In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.

Btw, I'd have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a "european code review agency" might be a thing.

Fuck yea, keep doing this! People around me in the USA are fucking morons and can't be bothered to do this. Even the liberals that complain about their corporate masters are too chicken shit to do it.

I've been waiting 10 years for this to catch on.

I’m not saying I want this to happen, but it might just be more effective to have a foreign nation’s intelligence service wipe out Elon Musk . I mean, I don’t want him to die or anything, but if you could just do a Jimmy Hoffa and make sure that nobody ever finds his remains that would be just swell 

Our family Netflix subscription ran for over 10 years and yesterday I canceled it. I also canceled my subscriptions for discord, chatGPT, claude and dropbox. BOYCOTT U.S. SOFTWARE

People should focus on boycotting evil corporations in favor of open, sustainable and fair alternatives. Picking a fight against another nation is only taking people away from that objective

I wish people would boycott spending on the big holidays. That'll hurt the oligarchs the most.

Not just northern europe. In all of europe!

Fuck you Orange Clown !

This would help the American people fight the Oligarchs. Godspeed, friends.

Kind of ironic that the people joined facebook groups for that...

boycott us, please please please please

Boycotts echo louder than speeches; Haltbakk Bunkers leads by example.

🐱🐱🐱🐱

Want to really hurt them?

Stop importing their oil.

I'm down, anyone have a great list with images I can use so I know which groceries to avoid?

Cancelled a bunch of subscriptions after trump support for Ukraine. Seems like the only language americans understand is 💸

I imagine that would be very easy, outside of software and digital services.

Even in Canada I've nearly managed.

I'm boycotting everything. Shopping local if I have to have something. Cash only. I only carry my bank card and one credit card for emergencies.

What exactly does the US produce that is imported into the EU? Consumer market, of course, where one person has choice in the matter.

As always: the power of the working class resides in work. Organize your workplace. It doesn't matter whether you stop buying cola, real impact will come if your workplace stops buying the overpriced 100k€ machine imported from the US tech sector. THAT'S where you really hurt them. Consumer expenditure is a minuscule amount of relevant key US exports.

Organize your workplace, join a union and create a local branch. Join an existing revolutionary socialist party. Create mutual aid networks in your neighbourhoods.

Actually banning Coca Cola would probably mean a lot less people becoming sick and obese

I won't go as far as to nuke all my accounts just yet but last year I made a big effort to use less of big tech companies. This is my drive to slowly continue doing that this year. I will finish my games that will not run on Linux without tinkering and then I'm quitting the hell that is Windows for good.

the biggest US exports are its software products. Until the time we have a way to avoid Google, Reddit, Meta, Microsoft, ChatGPT etc, we aren't boycotting anything meaningful.

soda is disgusting

yup call the KETTLE black, wake up kids. USA is much better than other countries

Call for boycotting US products spreads across America