‘Danish Viking blood is boiling.’ Danes boycott US goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too
‘Danish Viking blood is boiling.’ Danes boycott US goods with fervor as others in Europe do so too
Consumers across Europe furious over President Donald Trump’s policies are boycotting U.S. goods. Among the most passionate are Danes, seeking a way to protest Trump's threat to seize the Danish territory of Greenland.
Danish person here. Every single person in my friend group, and even my pretty apolitical parents are actively boycotting American products.
Albuerne oppe, mine venner
Love, Canada.
Make it hurt, Danes.
I'm in the UK, my wife mocks me daily for having a desire to understand what the US now is and to act on that.
I would say not a single friend or family member that I can tell if openly talking action.
It's so disappointing but I'll trudge on and hope they turn on eventually
Also in the UK and nobody I know really cares about anything so I am the only one boycotting things.
American who lives in Denmark: same and same with all my expat friends
I hate to hear that. 1/3 of us voted against this.
But I understand.
Why do you care? The oligarchs never shared their profit with you anyway.
Keep it up. The shit bags in my country only respect one thing the dollar bill.
Will do.
But could you all please like do a general strike, or lock down cities by protesting this shit?
Geographically, you're not asking a country to do a general strike.
You're asking 50 different countries, each with its own culture, filled with a majority population so poor it cannot miss a day of work without risking raising its debt profile.
I'd love it if we could, but I just don't think it's possible.
American ingredients in domestic made stuff is the next target.
I almost bought a Microplane today, but the big "Blade made in 'murica!" stamped on it was very helpful at making me leave it at the store.
Well.. Congratulations on keeping your finger tips
Danes are the sons and daughters of the greatest monster slayer to ever have maybe actually been real, Beowulf. Perhaps they shall come to slay our "Grendel", as their forefather did for King Hrothgar, so long ago.
Pretty sure the rest of the world wishes America would start behaving like some of their forefathers right now
Yes, exactly. To make America great again, Americans first have to take their country back from the oligarchs that are destroying it and sucking it dry. Noone else can or will do it for them.
Welcome to the party.
Signed, Canada
My best friend is visiting Denmark currently to hang out with me for a week and she wanted mcd last night so we drove there and have never seen our mcd this empty before. We were literally the only ones there. I'm so proud of my fellow Danes.
For me, I'm mostly focused on replacing digital services as I believe they are way more important than groceries, but I shop for the star too and avoid american products more actively anyways. I dunno how big of an effect it will have in that regard, but with the tech stuff, I think that is where we can hit them the hardest and protect ourselves the most, so that is where I put in an effort. Went back to buying dvds and blurays and cut off all streaming services except for filmstriben, but that doesn't count. I also left Meta and reddit and have deleted my youtube app and cut significantly down on my youtube "spending" if you can call it that. It feels great.
The next step will be to change my personal email and that is going to be a bigger undertaking that I don't look forward to. Urgh. Eventually I'll have to look into Linux too or something like that despite being a tech illiterate idiot.
We had the first discussion in my company yesterday about how our company is tied up in American tech and what we should do about it, if anything in the near future. A similar discussion has begun about the entire Danish digital system which is also mired in American tech. What do we do about that? It'll be a very long and very slow transition and I don't even know if the alternatives for that beast of a system exists yet.
All I can say is that I'm kind of excited about the future. Worried too. Very. But excited nonetheless. I'm a pessimistic optimist.
If you can't switch to Linux, they won. If we are so helpless and tied up into a single system, we let them own our lives and values. Then they can fuck us over all they want, and we will have to take it up the back without complaining.
I switched to Ubuntu. Took me 2 days to adjusts. Everything I use is in a browser anyway.
I didn't say I would never switch to Linux, just not right now. As for my company, switching to Linux or another operating system + changing emails and other subscription services isn't something you just do over a weekend. That stuff takes time.
I have made that fast and easy changes by now because they cost me nothing and with some of the bigger changes, it takes some more thorough conversations and some research before decisions can be made. I'm not like trump. I don't snap my fingers and make spur of the moment changes without considering the longterm effects. Especially not when it comes to my livelihood.
Time for a raid on South Vinland.
Seems to me that by definition America is more Viking than the Danes as I’ve never seen Danes go raiding in my life while in America that’s a Wednesday.
A danish news organization will have articles about what Danes think of tariffs. The same with a Canadian news organization, a German one, etc. Yet for some reason almost all of what American sources talk about is what citizens of other countries think.
I think the fact that American establishment publications put out more articles about what citizens of other countries think of tariffs than what Americans think of tariffs is part of the reason why Trump won.
The upper 10 percent of liberal America seems to think of themselves as citizens of the world, and seems to spend more time caring about anything other than Americans outside their hyper-specific socioeconomic niche.
The end result of this mentality is that Trump was able to make huge inroads with groups that were historically democrat's bread and butter in 2024. Even if he was lying through his teeth, he and his team made real efforts to appeal to issues that were important for demographics.
I'm willing to bet you could find people from Hawaii to Mississippi altering their spending habits in fear of Trump's tarrifs. Maybe the press should spend more time reporting on them.
Obviously, neither Trump nor MAGA is the answer. However there needs to be a way to talk with how out of touch so much of our establishment is without sounding like a Trump supporter.
This is a news article published in the 'world news' community of a worldwide Internet forum, from one of the oldest and most respected not-for-profit news agencies in the world, whom themselves published the article in their 'world news' section. It discusses Danish people's overwhelmingly negative responses to the American president's tariffs.
And you somehow make this into "ugh why to the liberal elite always only care about what the rest of the world thinks".
Maybe, just maybe, this article wasn't written nor shared solely for the demographic of USA voters?
Quit it with this gaslighting shit.
The AP is headquartered in NYC. They write their articles in American English. They spend a wholly disproportionate time covering US news, and the closest relationships they have are with US institutions. The author of this article has an American education at a state-managed university.
The national language of Denmark is Danish. 15 percent of the nation doesn't even speak English.
This is 100 percent an article meant for US audiences, from a primarily US news organization.
End the concept of billionaires so they can’t buy all the media.
it sort of doesn't matter because the billionaires control the media to the point that they can set up inflation and immigration as the major issues and portray Trump as the solution to them while, in all statistical measures, the inflation and immigration were just fine under Biden and all of Trump's related policies are godawful
The Berserkers were known for their anti-tariff policies
Trump's term is like a ticking clock, berserker!
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