UdenUSA is currently the fourth most downloaded app in Denmark on the App Store, the American ChatGPT is in fifth place

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    2 days ago

    Europeans will do whatever useless shit instead of actually stop sucking US imperial boots.

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      1 day ago

      The venn diagram people trying to distance themselves from USA and the people with power to distance their country from USA is two eyes.

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      1 day ago

      Meanwhile in the real world we have seen a noticeable drop in how many US products Europeans are buying.

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        is this real world in the room with us? how is that helping in the least degree to produce any meaningful change? you are going to get fucked and experience what the third world has been living for decades. and you deserve it.

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          Sales of American products have fallen in Europe. That is real change. Or did you expect we would cause the US to collapse into anarchy because of it?

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            The point is that random products selling less doesn’t challenge power at all, even with the rise of anti-US sentiment your governments keep bending the knee and the US keeps feeding its army.

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              Do they? The UK has generally been saying what Trump wants to hear where possible and then acting in our own best interests instead. IIRC the trade deal for US meat doesn’t change our food standards so we can export ours and the US can’t send much of theirs back because it’s low grade trash below our standards.

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            To be fair, sales of all products have fallen in Europe as the result of European economies collapsing. And the specific reason for American products selling worse could simply be a result of American products are becoming more expensive in relative terms for the Europeans. with the moralizing being the justification rather than the core reason. Maybe if you want some real change you might want to figure out how to get out from under US occupation first. Don’t see Europeans rushing to dismantle all those American bases.

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        At the bare minimum don’t express joy every time the US forces some stupid policy in your continent, only showing some modicum of disgust when they threat to kill white people. As something moderately intelligent, what about organizing and doing some theory and praxis instead of wasting your time “kicking out” the US with your wallets (spoiler alert: it’s not going to work).

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        The useful shit is the big money deals.

        When the US (or their Ukrainian assets) blew up Nord Stream Europeans cheered and opted to become dependant on US LNG. Turns out that was stupid.

        They sign unfavorable trade deals and accept tariffs.

        They buy extremely expensive F35s and the likes.

        They host US military bases.

        So yeah, not buying from McDonalds isn’t the big middle finger to US you think it is.

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          Yeah, fair, hard to argue that everyone should put in their piece when the governments are still doing business as usual with them. I still think consumer boycotts are a net positive, even if mostly performative, not much else the average person can do, and that’s no reason to give up

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            Ofc it’s a net positive. This guy has a hard on for what-about-ism.

            You and I cant sign trading deals, but we can stop buying US products. Wtf are we supposed to do more?

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
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              15 hours ago

              I love how libs throw around whataboutism as if it was anything other than exposing themselves as having a different set of standards for themselves and others.

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              fr, I dunno what his personal plan is either. I think he probably just doesn’t want to give up burger king or whatever and wants to blame politicians for his addiction lol