I'M QUITTING AS LOUD AS I CAN.
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Feeling this at my company.
The amount of time I have spent working with European customers has dropped a lot. They are doing whatever they can to buy European instead.
Crazy compared to how freely things worked out years ago. Early 2000s I worked at a company basically doing stuff with all sorts of folks from USA to Europe to Russia to China.
Ah, i do love me some silly horizontal progressbar that steals me limited reading space.
Quiet?
It doesn't really look to me like a photo taken in Europe.
not from israel though.
Even from Israel considering the movement is buy from EU.
But I do wonder what common brands/products are from Israel?
Some products that are commonly used throughout the world that originate from Israel that you should boycott immediately:
- Babylon (digital dictionary)
- Unilever (does not originate from Israel but does manufacture many food products in Israel)
- Amora
- Amora
- Aromat
- Best Foods
- Bovril
- Brooke Bond
- Colman's
- Continental
- Hellmann's
- Knorr
- Lady's Coice
- Maille
- Marmite (As in Marmite branded Marmite)
- Robertson's
- Salsa Lizano
- Sir Kensington's
- Turun sinappi
- Unox
- Klik
- Maizana
- Pfanni
- Pot Noodle
- Pot Rice
- Sealtest
- Buavita
- Horlicks
- Jif (lemon and lime juice, not the peanut butter)
- All laundry detergent (the brand, not literally all laundry detergent)
- Breeze laundry detergent
- Breeze
- Cif
- Comfort fabric softener
- Dixan laundry detergent
- Persil
- Rin
- Rinso
- Skip laundry detergent
- Snuggle fabric softener
- Sunlight dish-washing detergent
- Surf laundry detergent
- Wheel detergent
- Axe/Lynx products
- Brylcreem
- Camay
- Clear beauty products
- Close-up toothpaste
- Dove soaps
- Glow & Lovely
- Lifebuoy rubbing alcohol
- Liril
- Linic
- Lux
- Mentadent
- Noxzema
- Pears transparent soap
- Pepsodent
- Pond's
- Radox
- Rexona (AKA Degree, Sure, Shield, and Rexena) deodorant
- Schmidt's naturals deodorants and soaps (WHAT?! GODDAMMIT!! My wife will be displeased to learn of this)
- Seventh Generation (My wife will be unshocked to learn of this)
- Shea Moisture (WHAT!? GODDAMMIT!! I AM DISPLEASED TO LEARN OF THIS)
- Signal toothpaste
- Simple skin and body care
- SR toothpaste
- St Ives lotion
- Suave
- Sunsilk (AKA Sedal, Seda, and Elidor)
- Toni & Guy
- TRESemme
- Vaseline (AKA Vasenol)
- Vim (not the text editor)
- VO5
- White Beauty
- Zendium
- Noblesse cigarettes
- Sabra
- SodaStream
- Pepsi (American, but heavily involved in Israeli politics)
- Coca Cola (American, but heavily involved in Israeli politics)
- IWI
- Uzi
- Desert Eagle
- Waze
- Google Maps (mostly through its relationship to Waze)
- Yokohama tires
Hey, speak for yourself I ain't quiet about it!!!
I'm both quiet and loud about it
I was pleasantly surprised to learn recently that a bunch of my friends have also removed most american products from their lives. one friend just buys whatever suits his needs, and moves on. but most of the rest of us in that group have made a conscious choice to not buy american products and/or choose Canadian products instead, without it impacting our lives in any noticeable negative way (cost, availability, quality, etc)
I think the largest impact this has had on me is that the closest grocery store to me has a shitty selection of pickles, it's still half Bick's and I'd rather not have pickles than buy american pickles
This is a shift Europeans are having to make reluctantly
Yes it was reluctantly at first, but I don't think it is so much anymore.
EU has shown to be better at handling a crisis situation than we ourselves expected, and unity in EU and Europe on the issue, has resulted in way less reluctance as programs are decided upon in unity, like the EU SAFE program that for instance Canada and Japan have joined.
The strong cooperation in EU and Europe in many areas has shown us that we can act with decisiveness in unity when it counts. And when pressured from outside, the EU countries can stand together.
More than at any previous time, European policymakers are having a crisis of faith in the American system itself
Abso-fucking-lutely!
The problem is not just Trump, it's the American population and the Republicans and the American dysfunctional democracy.
The two Franco-British-led coalitions of the willing, formed to organize European action in the Ukrainian and Gulf theaters, are cases in point.
Exactly, the success of the European determination to help Ukraine without USA is amazing. π π
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Gods, I wish this was the case here in Sweden. Our nazi government is happy to bring us closer.
Nazi government... snΓ€lla, sΓΆk hjΓ€lp.
What?! Sweden was supposed to be the progressive country. You were the chosen ones!
We're alright in a lot of ways, and incredibly conservative in others.
We have a war on drugs; it's the one thing all our politicians agree on. We also have some of the highest death from overdoses in Europe. Meanwhile, they're all in parliament coking it up. See, drugs were measured in the wastewater from parliament, and none of them want to be tested.
Chat Control? It was spawned by the Social Democrats, a lady called Ylva Johansson. You have Sweden to thank for that.
Our current goverment is vowing to double the amount of surveillance cameras by 2030, and our police is expanding their use of Palantir.
Nazis? The Norwegians still are a bit sore about the fact that we let nazi Germany use our railroads to invade them. Fair, I feel.
Speaking of the nazis! We were super into eugenics until around the time Germany lost WWII. Back in 2013 we got rid of the eugenics law that required trans people to be sterilised. Oh yeah, the second largest party in parliament right now, Sverigedemokraterna, were against that.
Sweden was nice because we had a solid welfare bought by the blood shed when the military shot demonstrating workers during the great depression, and the ensuing decades of pro-worker social democratic politics. The modern social democrats are abandoning their roots in favour of sucking up to the bourgeoisie, and as such the entire left block is losing out.
That or a vast portion of Swedes are actual nazis because they keep fucking backing the nazi party.
Sweden also just voted in a law that allows the police to use AI for face recognition in real time.....
Source: Artikel The Actual Law Who voted for it and Against it.
The other month, when me and my dog went home from the vet, we took a path we haven't done in a while. Passed through an area where we used to live some years back, after I fled an abusive family member.
It's a miljonprojekt, not a massive one though. It is one of the larger ones of the area, and because it's historically been cheap, that's where a lot of immigrants have ended up. It's a nice area though, and some money has been put into improving both the buildings and the surrounding area past few years. It's also where a fairly large elderly care home is located.
When passing by the nearby church, there was a large fuckoff mobile surveillance tower right on the opposite street. I froze in my tracks, seeing it was incredibly uncomfortable. I've lived in the area for well over a decade, and never felt as unsafe as when I saw that.
As usual, I like the understated tone and visibility of European long term policy. No big announcement, no statement, just small decisions that change the landscape over time. Once you see the full picture, everything is already in place.
Makes sense. You can't win by announcing anything because Trumps ego is too easily bruised, any deal you do make with him can be null and void a week later and if, at some point, there are adults in the room again, you will be in a better negotiating position.
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Everyone is maneuvering away from the US and Americans are going to find themselves very alone in the world one day, their only partners being those who are also without allies or friends, just like Donald Trump's personal life. America, rebuilt in the image on DJT.
It's not as if the US gave them any semblance of a choice in the matter. They need to in order to survive.
Normal reaction current US admin policies.
Almost too quietly.
TBH, that's the best way to deal with the Trump administration. Try to get away as far as possible. Try to get out of those dependences. But do not talk loud about it, because if so, the demented orange will totally attack you.
I was going to say, not so quietly. Everyone everywhere is walking back from the US. The relationship is, at best, a salvage operation.
I agree it hasn't been entirely quiet, the Greenland affair definitely wasn't quiet, with many countries stating publicly that they supported Greenland, some of them even sending troops.
Also the Iran war has been criticized by many European leaders as illegal, and USA has at best limited access to airbases controlled by European countries.
Also on trade, when Trump threatened to increase tariffs on EU again, the response from EU was swift, that in that case EU might resort to the Bazooka, a political "weapon" designed to be used against China id necessary, but that could be used against USA too.
It has been so clear that Europeans have lost patience with Trump, that Trump has literally raged against it at times.
Theres been nothing quiet about it
You guys can do that? Quiet Quit? That's...our thing for our own government? Get your own rubbish Europeans!
Thank you to President Donald Trump, without him it would have never happened with this determination nor speed.
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