Boycotting the US as in people are buying local rather than USian in order to weaken US hegemony. What do your think?
There already is a Buy Canadian and Buy European online movements going on.
Boycotting the US as in people are buying local rather than USian in order to weaken US hegemony. What do your think?
There already is a Buy Canadian and Buy European online movements going on.
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Havent seen anything yet. But im 100% for it. Fuck the orange obese
It’s happening the opposite here, but i guess it’s because the people are desperate about it after spending years on a restrictive economy.
*sigh..* and also because of Milei…
This is more of a thing for naive countries that went from “trusting the US” to suddenly realizing the US is full of bullshit lol. That means Europe and Canada.
We never trusted the US like this down here, for obvious reasons. And thank God the US is not Brazil’s main commercial partner. We see no reason to play this “revenge game” all of a sudden or boycott anything.
That being said, I personally will not involve myself with anything/any product Elon Musk related. I don’t even have an X. I think this guy is one of the biggest pieces of shit to ever exist.
Not going to happen really, the leftists probably will/would want/care about something like that, but not like 95% of the population
With the exception of a few people mostly on the internet, the brazilian people isn’t really rabidly anti-US and either has a positive or neutral view on the Americans
Ok, because China is so much better! To begin with, they are real human rights champions… I live around Chinese people in the US and they want to stay here; I wonder why.
I’m just amused that people from developed nations are just now realizing that the US is a hostile power and was never on “their” team.
I’m all for it. It’s happening to an extent in the cities, but honestly I find it hard to believe that people will completely divest from US brands after a century of them being rammed up everywhere (Disney, Starbucks, Apple, Coca Cola). What I do see happening and it’s probably going to be much more crucial is that the state and local businesses will increasingly prefer establishing long-term commercial relationships with Asia and Europe rather than the USA.
I mean the tariffs we put on every country are insanely stupid, I can’t blame people at all lol. If I lived outside the U.S. I’d probably boycott it too.
I don’t think it is going to happen here, the population is more focussed on local issues like the insecurity and the incoming election.
Personally I try to buy things that are made locally but we also import a lot of goods from other countries and some local industries have sells shares to US companies if not they are partially owned by US coorporations.
It is very much happening and it’s already had quite significant impacts.
I’m all for it. We should have started cultivating other trading partners back in 2016, when it became clear that the USA had become highly unstable.
Of course, there’s a good chance the USA will use the results of its ridiculous trade war as an excuse to do some infinitely worse things.
“The whole world’s turned against us for some reason, our economy is crashing and we’re getting short on resources! For national security reasons, we have no choice but to invade Groenland, Panama and Canada!”
Not really, I feel like we never really trusted the US to start with, so the way it’s going rn hasn’t been surprising at all. Besides that the US government has yet to take specifically adversarial stances in regards to Brazil.
I dislike the United States, geopolitically speaking, just like anyone else. But this really seems to be one of those things that only matters to people who are deeply consumed by first-world online politics. If I see something at a good price and I like it, I’ll buy it like anyone else, regardless of whether it is from China, Russia or the United States.
I’m not going to get involved in a useless crusade because the gringos decided to vote for the big, bad orange guy.
Most dont care and we buy chinese anyway cause american products are expensive
I live in Canada, so yes, it’s happening here. I’m fully on board too, except on things where there’s no easy substitute. The idea is to cause hurt but not to myself.
I was going to buy a Gulfstream but now I’m totally on an Embraer Phenom
American made goods are too expensive for most of the population, which is why cars from Japan, Korea and even China are the norm. Everyone likes an iPhone but few can afford it so Android phones are more popular
I’m all for it, but I can’t say if it’s happening here or not.
No, I’m not going to do as Trump would do.
Many of those pushing for retaliations are the same people shilling in other threads about “free-trading” under their terms. Lovely double standards.
I don’t think that’s happening here. Business as usual: there is the eternal sentiment of distrust over the Americans that always had existed. It’s not “hate” or “boycott”, just distrust, distrust based on historical acts.
At most, it’s funny to look at Canada and the EU grasping their pearls, now that they took the american treatment. So delicate folk.
I buy things based on quality not where they were made so no
I have not seen it as big of a movement as in other countries and specially not as big as in canada which is the other USA partner in the USMCA.
But even if we are still consuming US brands most of the stuff is usually made elsewhere or here.
Take as an example cars, the most popular car models in mexico are Mexican, Brasilian and even chinese made.
Nissan versa (made in Aguascalientes)
Chevrolet aveo (used to be made in mexico but now is chinese)
Kia K3 (made in Pesquería Nuevo Leon)
VW Virtus ( made in Brasil)
Nissan March (made in Aguascalientes)
MG 5 (made in china)
Nissan Sentra ( made in Aguascalientes)
VW Jetta (Made in Puebla)
Mazda 3 (Made in Salamanca)
Chevrolet onix (Made in my city SLP aswell as in Brasil).
Regarding clothes most of those are either made here or in South east Asia.
The imports that we rely most coming from the USA are usually fuels, food and speciallized technology, aswell as car parts and components since most of the northamerican supply chains are strongly integrated.
The general public has little to no say in how many american products they consume since they are not directly sold to them or don’t have a direct local substitute
Edit: we were afected by the insane tariffs orange man arbitrarily put on the whole world, but I guess we got off lightly compared to other countries
But this was not out of the godness of his black heart, it was because if he went through with his original plans the whole northamerican economic region would have collapsed at even a faster rate than it is now.
If the government is intelligent they have a golden opportunity to capitalize on this mess.
The US basically closed their borders to every country not in the USMCA, so mexico becomes a bit more attractive to manufacture goods.
We could start looking elsewhere to diversify our commerce.
But that’s just my take as an armchair analyst
Brazil is naturaly doing that years before this events….
I mean, it exists and some people do it, but not even close to the scale Canadians and Euros are doing it, like I myself may not buy american if there is another option of the same quality at the same price in the store I’m in, but not going through the trouble of going to another store to find one
I feel like a big part of it, at least in Mexico, is the part that we can’t say that a good part of what Trump has said is true, like, we are not stupid, it may only be part of the issue but it is true that illegal migrants and fentanyl pass in mass through our border, while if I was Canadian I would be offended if Trump said that we pass fentanyl and migrants, etc or if I was European I would be offended if Trump said that we are cowards not contributing to “peace” in Ukraine, and the xenophobia/racism card is kinda weak to create outrage since many latinos already saw the US in general as having those opinions but not voicing them in public before, and now they are just voicing what many already expected from them
In Nicaragua we already buy local 🤷🏻♀️ anything you guys have we have our own version que es igual de buena y barata, acho, en Nicaragua compramos tan local a veces que cuando voy a puerto rico compro medalla y toña porque pues no todos los días podes decir que compraste cerveza de tu país en otro país JAJAJAJAJA😅
Ahora que mis amigos ya trabajan y hacen su dinero pueden darse el lujo de comprarse unos Cheetos en el super 7, pero para qué vas a hacer eso si los quesitos Diana que se hacen en El Salvador son buenísimos y no cuestan un huevo y la mitad del otro?
Pues al menos en mi casa todo el grocery se compraba en el mercado y solo ciertas cosas las comprábamos en el súper, en parte porque vivía en un pueblo pero también porque el supermercado es más caro, en general muchas de esas cosas solo están disponibles para el que ya se las pueda pagar y pues esa gente suele tener fever dreams donde son gringos blancos y rubios to cope with the fact que viven en el kilómetro trece carretera a Masaya.
Políticamente no se que vaya a pasar, estos dos meses y medio han sido una pesadilla de la parálisis del sueño, pero pues, mucha gente no está en una posición (económica o de seguridad) para hacer ningún tipo de activismo. Realmente tenemos otros problemas por acá 😅
This will probably happen pretty naturally with the combination of retaliatory tariffs on the US and products that were formerly US bound now seeking customers in other markets.
There simply isn’t a “boycott the us” movement around here. A good number of people seems extremely unaware that there is a tariff war going on
Apple, starbucks, Nike, etc… are status symbols and this will likely not change. Of course no-one will be canceling their netflix anytime soon, or stop using google, microsoft products, much less whatsapp and instagram. These software products are monopolies and they have no competitors.
Even dropping X in favor of “bluesky” is hard.
It’s not like our supermakets are full of american goods, because they aren’t. American cars haven’t been competitive for many years now (except stellantis, but is it even american?).
One thing that is definetly happening (or maybe has happened already) is a complete change in perception of chinese products. BYD for example is seen as the superior brand for EVs and totally a status symbol to have one. After BYD, the second most common brand is GWM, which is also chinese. Even 5 years ago buying a chinese car was seen as a terrible decision.
Eso aquí no existe
Some will probably end up doing it. But I think most people have always known that the US isn’t a country to be trusted and that they’ve always tried to take advantage of others. So it’s not something that really surprises or upsets people here enough to lead to a boycott, like it might in other countries that thought they were on the same side and now feel betrayed. Plus, they’d also have to stop using online platforms like YouTube and Netflix, and I really doubt people will do that because there aren’t many other options right now.
I know it’s a thing only because of Reddit. And no, it’s not happening in Argentina. I don’t think anyone really cares, honestly.
The governing elite of Venezuela can’t live without their apple products and Teslas, so no, it’s all spiel.
Really, feels like a thing Europeans do to virtue signal to themselves, seems very naïve. Not buying ketchup from an American brand is neither going to hurt that Elon Musk fellatio enthusiast who is in power in the US nor anyone else involved in his bullshit. The issue shouldn’t be against all and every thing coming from the US, this makes no sense and can hurt people who have nothing to do with all this.
But I do understand their sentiment, Trump is a piece of shit and it is normal to feel enraged by him. But, unfortunaly, there are some ultranationalistic morons from Europe that are using this issues to spread even more of their disgusting bullshit around, which is a shame. It is still a minority and I hope it never gains more fuel, for the sake of both Europe itself and the whole world, we don’t need these terrible ideologies.
>weaken US hegemony
PFFT
I buy where it is convenient. I’m starting to eye some chinese freight forwarders because jesus those wild cheeto tariffs are gonna be the end of me
We didn’t trust USA initially, so I don’t feel a “let’s boycott USA because they betrayed us” sentiment.
USA has been financing dictatorships and testing economic systems in LATAM for a long time, so we never trusted them, that’s why we don’t really care about making a boycott like countries who did trust USA.
I have hear some of my co-workers talking about it (and I encouraged it), but as a movement? no way jose.
Este sub me confunde jajaja
Too many imports from the US and exports to the US
Hmmm… TBH I don’t think most brazillians are buying directly from americans lol Even more with the have taxation laws and customs we have to pay when importing from abroad. So in a way, we already doing that for quite a while. As for other american multinationals that exist here… That depends. We will buy from whoever offers the better deal, so that’s why Coca-Cola, Amazon, Burguer King, Outback and McDonalds are huge. Usually a great deal and service for your buck. I don’t see that habit just ceasing to exist. Boycotting onyl works when you have better prices for products and services, and athough there are national alternatives to all of the stuff I mentioned above, usually we will lean towards the first group – at least in big urban centers like Rio, São Paulo or Belo Horizonte.
I don’t think there will be a boycott in Brazil, I think most Brazilians simply don’t care. They can replace something that is more expensive with something cheaper, but for price reasons. And I doubt that popular brands will lose popularity.
It won’t work. Never the less you should do it.
I am married to american we live in the border of Mexico,she cross the border to work 5 days,we dont buy nothing from Coca Cola,Amazon,Target and any shit that back up Trump,she vote for Kamala….her dad for Trump 🙄