Sucks to suck.
They spent billions of dollars and decades avoiding competition at all costs.
We can’t have good cars or phones or anything really. All our appliances are designed to break so you have to buy another. Planned obsolescence. Enshitification.
Whenever I have a choice I avoid US products and I’m American. Because the products are either designed to fail or just worse. And for a higher price.
…how long until mcdonalds expand their business into the prison food racket??
‘Fighting in the canteen?! That’s a week in the McHole for you!’
i’d starve and die of thirst before i touch mcdonalds or diet fucking coke…
Then stop being American. Easy fix.
I made it as far as figuring out what countries my wife and I could easily get visas for with our respective lines of work and even started filling out forms. Then I realized all my friends are here. My family is here. We both like our jobs, our home. It’s just the people I some associate with that I don’t like.
American here.
While a lot of the ire directed towards America is warranted, a lot of it is just jealousy and envy from people who are coming online in poorer nations and realizing how little influence they have.
“a lot of it is just jealousy”
It is precisely this unreflective, stubborn mindset that fuels the anti-American attitude of the rest of the world.
Good. If anti american sentiment can put a dent in these corp business structures, all I see are two moral goods.
As an American I hate us more and more each year.
Fuck major American brands fuck corporations fuck the bourgeoisie and the patricians fuck CEOs fuck “members of the board” fuck shareholders and the entirety of every Forbes list
This guy fucks
😘
shouldn’t have elected a disgusting cunt of a swine.
I’m pretty happy with the outcome. The more America is weakened, the better for the rest of the world and the easier it will be to rebuild to something better.
To be fair, roughly half the country didn’t vote in the last election, 49.2% to be more precise.
Voter suppression is generally very high so I won’t blame those people who couldn’t vote for any of the many reasons that the US uses, but a choice not to vote is an implicit endorsement.
Even as an American, I’m avoiding American products. Now. Please give me foreign option for 1/2 the price that will still last about as long.
Lol at the thumbnail showcasing McDonalds, which ran TWO separate PR campaigns for the Trump regime, and is thus one of the single most anti-American brands in existence.
Don’t give McDonalds another cent, ever. There are plenty of other option to get your greasy heart attack fix.
There was that franchise owner who invited Trump to pretend to make fries and serve fake guests, but what was the other event?
The other one was less directly McDonalds - it was the focus, but involved other trash fastfood chains as well. Anyway, it was when Trump reenacted that scene from Kingsmen where the villain serves shit McDonalds burgers with a fancy presentation to one of the protagonists. Trump’s target was a college sports team that were invited to the the whitehouse for a dinner event.
In all fairness, this was WAY more driven by Trump specifically, so I didn’t take an issue with McDonalds (for political reasons at least - their food is still shit) until the photo-op event you mentioned, but the latter adds enough nefarious context to the former to go ahead and assume McDonalds supports those terrorists.
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/fast-food-fan-president-donald-trump-chows-fast/story?id=60375831
Their food has gone horrible anyway so I have not been to McDonald’s in months.
Their food was was always horrible, but it was cheap, and that combo worked for me. Now they cost the same better quality restaurants, so I go there instead. I haven’t eaten at a McDonald’s since 2002-ish. Are you saying their food somehow got even worse?
it was cheap, and that combo worked for me.
Are you saying their food somehow got even worse?
Cheap but horrible food has never been worth it to me. When I was a broke teen and up until college, my friends and I would go to McDonald’s for food but I only get the paprika-seasoned twisty fries in my country, chicken wrap, apple pie and the occasional cheeseburger. They were the only good McDonald’s food. Now, cheeseburger has gone shit and so is the chicken wrap. The apple pie is still good but I could get better alternative somewhere else. And the twisty fries had been taken off the menu. The only reason I remained going to McDonald’s until recently was because their breakfast menu was great. But as you guessed it, it became horrible as well.
Same here it’s been a decade or 2. I started making my own version of the McMuffin at home. Cant beat deli ham, brown eggs and real brick cheese with real maple syrup on a whole wheat English muffin. Takes less than 10 mins while the hash browns are also cooking in the air fryer. I noticed when I ate McSmegs I was hungry about 1/2 hr later. 2-3 hrs with home made.
Been years for me, I seen the 7yr old burger when my kids were young, now their adults and I still haven’t well over 10yrs at least
We deserve it
I mean shit as an American I have a rising anti american sentiment lol
I’m mainly purchasing things made outside the US at this point.
if it doesn’t help my local community survive, it should help someone else’s local community survive
Aren’t most things imported tho from foreign corporations?
yes. but there are still ways to shift towards sustainable circular economies. you want to focus on locally produced products, and locally owned businesses. best yet is locally produced products sold by locally owned businesses. for example: it’s good for me to buy local produce from Kroger, it’s better for me to buy local produce from the farmer’s market.
obviously no one can live perfectly given that we live in a nightmare hellscape. it’s not about being perfect, it’s about taking steps to improve your impact and to make it more possibne for others to make these considered decisions
Isn’t that supporting the regime via tariffs?
They’re getting taxes no matter what. If you just purchase American goods because you don’t want to give them money from tariffs, then all you’ve done is demonstrate that tariffs work since now American businesses are selling more.
Ideally, if corporations lose enough business, they’ll actually put pressure on the govt (of course, they might just roll over based on how things have gone so far). In any case, this isn’t even really a sacrifice on my end since a lot of American products are kind of shoddy.
Same. At this point, I’m only buying stuff that’s local to my community from small businesses. I don’t want to help American mega-corps, and I don’t want to contribute to any tariffs going to fund the government.
I bought some supplies from a local business recently…
Then I found out after unpacking that some of the components were made from supplies by Kaiser Aluminum, a company that assists in genocide via military contracts.
Unfortunately I can’t return the things I’ve used, but I will be informing the owner that I won’t be making any more purchases specifically due to their ordering things from KA.
Who would have thought that putting a man-child wannabe (for now) openly fascist dictator child rapist con man in charge and letting them shit all over every document meant to put them in check while the other elected officials cheer him on, picking fights with other nations for no reason other than to make himself look strong to the weakest of people, targeting minorities in state-sanctioned terrorist actions, and generally acting like the Nazi regime was a how-to guide would make us look slightly more negative than usual?
Please avoid our businesses and produces like the plague. Because you’re giving money to pure evil.
Edit: and for my fellow Americans… Stop buying shit you don’t need. Seriously, Christmas and birthdays need to be fucking canceled! Stop buying pumpkins spiced bullshit, TVs, and entertainment. Go cold turkey on all the shit they’ve tricked you into needing and wanting. Voting with our dollar might be our last chance at a peaceful change of values in our country. You don’t need fabric softener, but the oligarchy needs you to keep buying so they can take more wealth. The money you spend on shit you don’t need doesn’t help anyone but the wealthy. Very little of the money everyday America spends circulates in our communities in an additive way. Build community not corporations.
God I wish Americans as a whole would get this message. It would make such a huge difference if we all just bought a little less
If a huge group of people had the discipline to consume less, they could do even more good by not voting for Capitalists every election. Then they could have their cake and eat it too.
Genuine question, how can you not vote for capitalists when they are the only ones running in 90% of elections? Not voting for capitalists just gets people jumping down your throat for not voting for the lesser of two evil capitalists.
I am assuming a theoretical world where we have millions of people dedicated to mass action. In that world if those people were committed to not voting for Dems or Republicans and instead voting for any of the various socialist candidates at every governmental level, we would have a fully socialist (albeit different flavors of socialism) society in 6 years.
Obviously this is fantasy as people are not a collective, and passive participation in society results in “lesser of two evils” voting behavior and neuters any potential boycott pressure. Thus the status quo is propagated.
I think there are already millions of people who would vote for socialist candidates, but they don’t really seem to exist. I know I would, but I’ve never seen one on any of my ballots.
Major US brands can and should die in a fire
A clean burning BURNCOtm fire of course.
Did you say BURNCO or BOOURNSCO?
I was saying boournsco
Burnco is a real company, and I hope one day they live up to the burnco name.
“worsening views of America are rapidly taking a toll on some brands’ health.”
Good.
The only thing the US cares about our understands is money, so fuck every American business supporting this administration.
As a Canadian I have never been so insulted and betrayed in my life, and Americans laugh it off or just altogether do not understand why we’re angry.
And I wouldn’t say my perspective is anti American, I know a lot of good American people. I’m very much anti Trump and also very angry that as a group Americans delegated their votes by staying home or voted republican.
I’ve ditched google, Netflix, etc. I dropped my Apple subscriptions (and bought linux computer). I don’t buy any American food brands, I’ve moved my clothes purchases to Canadian brands.
The only US brand I still support is Costco, and even then I’m checking the labels.
I also have a few holdout things I haven’t replaced, but I am working on it every week.
Maybe what pisses me off so much about the Trump admin is that they forget everything that made America great in the first place.
It isn’t that Americans were chosen by god or anything like that. It’s that America fought for freedom and democracy, and those ideas allowed the people and economy to flourish (I won’t downplay that taking vast swathes of land from natives and slavery also helped build America).
Who could read the poem on the Statue of Liberty and say that America is just for a chosen few? The whole American dream was that you could go there and get a fair slice of the pie.
They forget about how the Irish were treated with the same disdain they throw at Latino people. They forget that their ancestors had to work.
They’re just so fucking spoiled, like a bratty child that has had everything handed to them assuming they’re special and forgetting they stand on the backs of all those before them.
I don’t think he (or his handlers) was ever speaking for Americans as a population when talking about making America great again. He was speaking for the rich and powerful who are yearning for the gilded age, with its company towns and Pinkertons and extreme wealth concentration.
The rise of the middle class and the democratization of rule has been a big bummer for them.
They already were in a gilded age. Look at how many fucking billionaires there are.
But the democrats threatened to make them pay just a little bit more in taxes, like 2.5% more, so BOOM, fascism!
Dems never actually threatened that, though.
They threatened the working class, instead. Kept moving to the right, tossing queer peeps under the bus, tossing immigrants under the bus, etc etc.
Even now, the Dems are attacking progressives harder than they attack the Reich Wing.
Biden did threaten that, though, and his head of SEC actually started to go after a lot of tech monopolies. You are referring to the overarching democratic party. I was referring to the previous democratic admin.
Did he or did he just provide pablum for the plebiscite?
“Nothing will fundamentally change” doesnt sound like a threat to me.
Yeah, but it isn’t great enough yet. The populace isn’t poor and desperate enough and there’s still room for more corruption in government.
Since World War 2 , Americans have been hugely spoiled and they have taken more from the world than anyone ever before. THAT had to run out some time, and Donny 2 Dolls has just hastened that process. I wouldn’t be surprised if America became a third world country tbh, now that the silver plate they had everything served up on, has been stolen by Donny 2 Inches. There will be a small, extremely wealthy class, and then everyone else with shitty employment prospects, no social security or health provisions. Food stamps, gone. TBH there really should be a revolution, but as we’ve seen, despite being the most heavily armed population in history, Americans are sheep and will just bend over and take it some more, no lube.
America has been a third world country for decades now. The only reason that it hasn’t felt like it is because there’s so much money still circulating in our economy from helping the world rebuild after WW2 and selling military equipment and culture during the Cold War (plus the whole American Empire thing, can’t forget that). By all the metrics that are used to rate the quality of health of a country - things like infrastructure quality, wealth inequality, healthcare costs and CoL vs income - the US is much closer to third world countries than to comparable European countries.
As somebody once said, America is a third world country in a Prada belt.
Murican here. We won’t learn our lesson until the stupid really hurts. Elbows up, my friend. If we survive this shit, we’ll owe you big.
You won’t survive. I don’t know what we’ll come but countries can not trust America anymore. You have become unreliable and trump getting tossed doesn’t stop that fact. But saying that I can t believe how much countries are still sucking America’s dick.
Probably not, but that’s still on us. We fucked around, and now we find out.
I can t believe how much countries are still sucking America’s dick. A big military makes that penis look delicious…
