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
maybe they could try donating more money to him
maybe they can shower him with his obsession with more gold related paraphenelia.
For profit corporations will always support fascism given the chance. It’s no coincidence Mussolini called it corporatism.
Isn’t managing brand awareness and reputation… you know, a fundamental part of running basically just most businesses with large consumer bases?
Gee, its almost like these people with ‘executive’ or ‘president’ or ‘head’ somewhere in their job titles are all fucking morons who are bad at their jobs, by their own description and metrics they use to describe them!
Bonus Anarcho-Syndicalist 'hot take'
The solution isn’t to replace those particular people.
The problem is not those particular people.
The problem is a wildly unbalanced and codified system of power dynamics.
The solution is a radical restructuring of for profit corporations into democratic worker cooperatives of some kind where workers elect their leaders.
Unions, as currently implemented in the US, are generally laughably useless in terms of… you know, actually doing the things they are supposed to do.
This shit will never end and hypercapitalism will drive us all into early graves unless we do something a bit more more radical.
‘Radical’ meaning: To address the root cause, instead of the effects.
… And for any liberals reading, no, no the oligarchs will not just agree to do this after a passionate speech or ‘insightful’ op-ed in the Atlantic.
You need to have what is called leverage.
In this context, that means a credible threat of violence.
One of course hopes this threat has to only ever remain as a threat.
Sorry, I didn’t write these rules, human history did.
We need Luigi #2 and #3 and so on. That is the way.
In any other nation it would have been a domino effect. Alas, a culture raised on vehemently individualistic ideals cannae be arsed beyond vengeful school shootings.
I am in a marginalized group, so I have always been an outsider to some degree. Been here since I was a kid and still do not know what a community feels like.
Maybe other countries should not have trusted america since it’s first illegal war
A natural reaction to their anti-world actions. Non-idiots could foresee this.
So you’re telling me that if we make the world hate us, they might send us less money?
As they say: Welcome to the find out phase!
they think there will be no consequences if they FELLATED trump.
Oh well
That’s fucking adorable bro
If I were a tardigrade?
“Wow, I can’t believe we backed a fascist shitwit and now people hate us???”
Corporations never learn. Literally. They’re incapable of learning.
Personally i hated america since iraq war. If i knew younger about other terrible stop the united snakes did i would hate it sooner
Shareholders do, buy while backing fascist, sell just before launching a “fascism actually back mmkay” message.
- ⭐ Shareholders profit.
- ⭐ Burger go up in price.
- ⭐ Free advertisement.
Wow its like US culture was only held up by goodwill from USAID, NIH, and weapons donations to ukraine and it turns out people think the US is otherwise a bunch of billionaire sex perverts and their wage slaves when you dismantle those things.
This is why that German waffle chain, Luftwaffles went broke in the 1940s.
To be honest a lot of German brands collaborated or directly worked with the Nazis are still in business today like most german car manufacturers for example. Dr. Oetker comes to mind also.
VW was literally founded on Hitler’s orders.
Not only German brands, there are plenty of US corporations that built and supported the German war machine. There were production sites in Germany that were not bombed because they were insured by US companies. WTF!
Holy crap! The IBM one is new to me. Thanks.
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Waffe = weapon
Waffel = waffle
Luftwaffe literally means aerial weapon. But an accurate translation would be air force obviously.
Feels like someone translating “Air Force” into “sky push”
Exactly. Literal translations while sometimes interesting are often misleading.
Waffelwaffe?
armored stroopwafels… in collaboration with the Dutch.
Waffenwaffeln!
Because of the global trade war? Or because of their implication in aiding Israel in committing genocide? Or both?
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.
This. Stop feeding the troll, Murca.
Another reason is because America is lowering their food safety standards and food from them may kill you
And eliminating vaccine requirements. I guess we will bring back iron lungs too.
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to find a comment about this. Their shit will literally kill you
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.
the sabre rattling about Greenland and Panama
Ahem. And Canada.
Our stupid fucking president actually managed to piss off Canada. Canada, we love you all. Sorry.
No, we always knew he was dangerous garbage.
We’re pissed off at the rest of you who are supposed to be doing something about it but instead keep bringing pillows to a gunfight.
Chicago is presently preparing for an invasion. If Texas NG rides through there, you’ll all get to see the Civil War in the US you want so badly.
The half of us that knew he was garbage are holding off war as long as possible.
And mexico and venzuela.
Right, yes, of course. Sorry, there’s so much bullshit to keep track of, and some of it belongs to other presidents, too.
Edit: Oh, and “Department of War” now too, I guess.
Yes.
It’s not either. Public opinion on those topics have not really shifted.
It’s because of US unreliability. Both in an economic and diplomatic sense.
Why would I buy things from a toxic and volatile economy? Why would I stake my future on the unreliability of a republican government?
The only things still holding the illusion of strength together is the AI bubble and the hope that things will be better when Trump dies.
Multiple reasons including those two
Shit, I’m American and even I’m anti-American.
I’m a human before I’m an American and America isn’t acting very humane.
Act like trash, get treated like trash.
I don’t support fascist regimes, I have completely changed the way I do my groceries. and saving money in the process.
Same here. If I don’t want to do research, I just pick the store brand of whatever I’m buying. It’s usually the cheapest anyway and quality varies from exactly the same to passable. So far only the cold-brew tea and the artifical sweetener were really not acceptable, but non-American alternatives exist for both.
Have the day you donated to.
Fuck me for donating to Alzheimer’s organizations, I guess.
Wait, they’re giving people Alzheimer’s?
Maybe. I can’t remember.
For about $3.50.
It’s not glamorous, but somebody has to do it.
The American’t boycotting will continue until they have their own little-engine-that-could revolution, kick the fascism to the curb, and adjust the perception of their own importance and contributions to the world.
It might even last a little longer than all that. The message must be understood.
I will personally never set foot in that cursed country again in my life.
Same same. Absolutely shitty culture and they deserve everything they voted for.
Major US brands are a good chunk of the reason behind rising anti-American sentiment.
AIPAC is the biggest right now. We need to ban and deport the Israeli lobby.
Good, fuck the child rapist trump and his fascist regime.
Good, fuck America in general. The world absolutely needs less reliance on central powers like America and China and hopefully everybody can work on improving.
