Major US brands sound alarm over rising anti-American sentiment
www.newsweek.com
A number of all-American companies have noted an uptick in anti-U.S. sentiment linked to ongoing trade and political tensions.
  • Samuelwankenobi@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    79·
    2 months ago

    Yeah well maybe they shouldn’t have blindly followed and sucked up to Trump either they come out completely apposing him (which is not likely to happen) or I will not buy any products from them

  • cyborganism@piefed.caEnglish
    52·
    2 months ago

    Because of the global trade war? Or because of their implication in aiding Israel in committing genocide? Or both?

    • spinnetrouble@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      44·
      2 months ago

      Please don’t stop there. We need people to witness this and do like the boycotters abroad are doing.

      It’s about bullying and exploiting other countries with really high tariffs.

      It’s about our full support of Israel while they commit a genocide.

      It’s about our failure to uphold the deal we made with Ukraine to get them to agree to nuclear disarmament.

      It’s about deciding not to honor contracts made during the last administration, saying that they no longer apply, and allowing the people who benefited from USAID abroad (and tons of federal, formerly dependable paychecks at home) to fall off without even an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, while yelling that anybody who isn’t hand-over-fist greedy isn’t American.

      I’ve been saying this since he first started campaigning: STOP GIVING HIM STUFF. HE GOES AWAY WHEN YOU STOP LISTENING TO HIM AND GIVING HIM YOUR STUFF.

    • FreshParsnip@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 months ago

      Another reason is because America is lowering their food safety standards and food from them may kill you

    • Heavybell@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      Both, plus the sabre rattling about Greenland and Panama, plus the BS with Visa/Mastercard and resistance to the idea of other countries trying to circumvent reliance on American banking, plus probably a bunch of other stuff I’m forgetting or that is too region specific to mention here.

    • hector@lemmy.todayEnglish
      2·
      2 months ago

      30 some states have votor sponsored ballot initiatives, and most of those ammend state constitutions so it takes supermajorities of often 3/4 of state lawmakers to change. Some red ones increased pass threshold to 60 pc though.

      But all those states need ranked choice voting, and giving the drawing of districts to an independant body to ungerrymander. Also voting rights laws. Aforementioned states increasing pass threshold on referendums and making it harder to get on ballot with signatures could themselves be changed back with a referendum.

      Even red states these issues play. There are other ways polits can jam these up though, election commissions that approve initiative after signature verification have been known to improperly throw out them for wording, as michigan’s did on mj legalization 2x before one got through. Or forbidding wolf hunt by vote lawmakers just passed it again coupled with a budget component making it un referendumable.

  • PugJesus@piefed.socialEnglish
    11·
    2 months ago

    “Wow, I can’t believe we backed a fascist shitwit and now people hate us???”

    Corporations never learn. Literally. They’re incapable of learning.

  • FreshParsnip@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    2 months ago

    Fun fact: there are Canadian companies/products named after American cities: New York Fries, Boston Pizza, Philadelphia cream cheese. These companies must be kicking themselves now

    • TheMcG@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      2 months ago

      They all have prominent signs or info in menu basically denouncing any connection to the US now lol.

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 months ago

    I join all others in expressing utter shock, amazement, disbelief and outrage that it took the morons until now to realise what 90% of the Earths population predicted came to be.