It's not the "wrong" thing. All Americans need to feel the consequences of their leader's actions, whether they voted for him or not.
As I suggested. Targeted boycotts of companies that openly support Trump. Starting from the low hanging fruit, Tesla and other Muskrat entities.
The rot is so deep I doubt it. The problem is you have a right-wing party and an ever more extreme right-wing party to chose from. Both only have policies that make the average American's life worse by funnelling what wealth they have to the ultra-wealthy. Most of them are owned by the wealthy.
have you heard of a thing called the Free Market ?
Much as it loathes me to agree, I do.
Senator Sanders had a hell of a lot of support during the run-up to the 2016 election (some say he should have gotten the Democrat nomination). And he's as feisty as ever, but he is getting up there in years. Representative Ocasio-Cortez is taking up the mantle, but is still likely too young to gain the support she would need.
I wish you luck!
Danes share advice on social media about avoiding American products
I think there's a more important reason for a boycott than to "punish" Trump or his cronies financially: to spur countries to develop things domestically. The US has proven it cannot be trusted. It will lie, it will cheat, it will attempt to wring one-sided advantages, it will not honor agreements. Every country on earth that can do so should take every reasonable step to become as independent as possible of the US and its trade, its defense agreements, everything. Their security and prosperity should not be reliant in on what has demonstrated itself to be unreliable.
I dunno. I think.we have a generational track record of being solid buds to the world, and maybe the occasional wrong president might be tolerated. I don't hate Germany, if you're feeling me there.
Also in Denmark. Musk is not the only reason:Data show Tesla sales declined sharply in Europe (NPR, Feb 27, 2025)
Data released this week by the European Automobile Manufacturers' Association (ACEA) show that Tesla registrations in the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, Switzerland and the U.K. dropped by 45% in a head-to-head comparison between January 2024 and January 2025. (Registrations are a closely tracked indicator of sales.)
That's a precipitous decline, and it comes even as electric vehicle sales overall were increasing in the region — up 37% in the same time frame.
Data previously released in individual nations covering the same period also showed that Tesla sales were down nearly 60% in Germany, Europe's largest EV market, with large decreases also evident in France and Norway.
Do you know any insane people? I mean actually, literally, medically-diagnosed insane? Whatever they were like before, whatever they were like "really, inside", you have to treat them as they are now. Or they could end up hurt or dead, or you could end up hurt or dead, or other completely innocent parties can end up hurt or dead. It doesn't have to be their fault they've changed, you cannot ignore the change out of politeness, or gratitude for the past, or for love.
If Trump goes through with his plan for blanket tariffs on multiple countries at the same time then that will be very inflationary for the US economy.
Continuing the analogy, for the enjoyment of theprestige: if you have, say, one orange member of the family that has lost it, do you lock up his kids and grandkids and nephews and third cousins twice removed, too?
Donald? Donald Trump? Is that you? Sure sounds like the way you think! And talk! Didn't work on Zelensky and it won't work here.
The orange member of the family controls the family's army of savage dogs, the family's array of nuclear weapons, the family's fortunes of money, the family's legal business, the family's array of lawyers, and has a cabal of cronies who buy into and encourage every bit of insanity the orange one manifests because they benefit. Sorry, rest of the family, you're victims and you cannot be saved.
Yes. Vandalizing Canadian supermarkets is still wrong.
Ok, but I really think we are stretching the analogy a bit if we are suggesting Trump is going to nuke Canada. Or even be in fact the one who let the dogs out.
Perhaps you could discuss real world events along with others in this thread instead of bizarre fantasies.
strawman.
My point was that the neighbors do not have the power to save the others, they can only act to mitigate the damage to themselves.
Tell that to Allied Forces in WWII.
The vandalism in question was described as real and to some extent desirable, in this thread.
It's literally happening. Some of it approved by one or more members here.
Well then I am sure that you will point us to a reliable news article on it. Surely you wouldn't just believe such a bizarre claim. That would be too much like MAGArat behaviour.
A person in this thread admitted to doing it, and said they'd seen others doing it. That's who and what I was replying to.
I think a thread about boycotting is a good place to draw a bright ethical line between boycots and vandalism - if someone is mentioning both in the same breath.
"The US has too much power and influence, and needs to take a back seat!"
Is there an argument there? If so, can you make it without trying to be cute?
I'm sure you'll be credited in the afterlife for all that virtue.
So you say. I don't believe you. See how that works?
Not really. You can follow the conversation back to where I entered.
No...you're flat out lying. I said that some people had resorted to that. I didn't say I approved of it and I explicitly said in a subsequent post that I didn't think it was the best way to punish america.
The same tactics that MAGArats use to get low intelligence Americans to vote for them.
