Spreading the word all over the Netherlands!

I want to stick this up in the US, too.
- You can boycott us companies that donate to the political parties. Big money has no place in politics.
  !goodsuniteus@lemmy.ca
- Same. I'm printing some up right now 😁

The sentiment really needs to shift to buy non-american. As a canadian i am totally happy to buy EU, AuS, NZ, even China over USA.
- even China over USA.
  Beg to differ. This feels a bit like those republicans voting to abolish the social security they rely upon just to "own the libs".
  China is in no way better than the US and needs to be stopped just as much.
  We should act in our own interest (furthering manufacturing in Western/democratic countries) and not in spite ("owning" the us-americans)
  
  There is no part of me that supports the chinese government. But they arent threating to anex my country so i will, if necessary, buy chinese over USA. Its basically a sliding scale of bullshit 🤮
- Agreed. Though I'd welcome Canada into the EU cordially.
  
  🫶

also buy canadian pls
- And Australian
  
  no, thats too far
- Canadian maple suryp is gone in an instant always
- Which Canadian goods do you recommend?

If this drives ppl off of WhatsApp to Signal and they remain there post this US administration, I think that's another win
- Signal is based in america though, and its non-profit organisation is american.
- But Signal is hosted in the US and a US company. And it is probably still tied to the CIA after its initial funding by Radio Free Asia (through its subsidiary Open Technology Fund)
  This is an interesting read about this issue by Dessalines (creator of Lemmy): https://github.com/dessalines/essays/blob/main/why_not_signal.md

Where could I get some of those?
- It’s a USA sticker company
  …kidding, kidding

If 2000 me saw this picture I'd be infuriated. 2025 me understand and supports.
- You should probably still be infuriated.
  
  I meant because of the sticker.
  Now I'm infuriated for the opposite reason.

While I approve of the message i dont approve of littering and vandalizing items by putting stickers on everything on public areas. I see sticker on everything outside every day and it is so ugly and after a few days they fade and get scratched up washed by the rain and will stay ~~unreasonable~~ unreadable for multiple years and just be an ugly eyesore.
Please stop vandalizing and use better means of spreading the word or place the stickers on your own property like your laptop, notebook or backpack.
I'll probably downvoted but I really can't stand stickers everywhere even when I approve of the message.
- What? I think you commented on the wrong thing. I have no idea what you are talking about.
- Agreed. I'm so tired of every single light pole, electrical equipment, and wall being covered in ugly stickers (most often about football in some way).
  I think I actually prefer conventional ink based vandalism like tagging. At least it takes some effort and the municipality will likely remove it eventually.
  
  I love stickers, grafitti, murals, posters, street art and everything making the world a bit less grey and depressing and boring (except for ads, they should be outlawed, fuck ads). And you can always put a nice sticker on top of any fasch-terf-conspiracy bs.

Do we even import much? The only thing I have seen are harley motorcycles, but that seems like a minuscular market…
- If the Netherlands imports American goods and services?
  They do; lots of junk food such as Coca Cola and McDonald's, confectioneries such as Snickers and KitKat, vehicles from Ford and Tesla, subscription services such as Netflix and ~~Spotify~~ Amazon Prime, social media from Meta and X, and so on and so forth...
  It's hard to avoid American goods and services, really.
  
  Apple is also a notable company here
  
  Mc Donald's
  Good point. It is hard and somewhat confusing at times what one should boycot. While some brands like Tesla and Coca Cola are clearcut,others like Mc Donald's are franchised (or frenchfried) enterprises. Usually they use >90% local ingredients afaik .
  Some other big conglomerates do some of same, using locally sourced ingredients.
  Also, one could focus on just sanctioning the RED States for example. At least that was also a POV that was interesting. Some might argue, that Dems are also responsible for this mess, but that's something everyone needs to decide for themselves.
  Also there is Mondalez International is a USA corp. with a range of cookies & chocolates,
  Brands like Milka, Cadbury, Côte d'Or, Toblerone, Freia and, LU, Oreo, Belvita, TUC, Prince en Liga
  And Pepsi ( with many brands like Lays.
  
  Spotify is European no? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spotify?wprov=sfla1
- https://buy-european.net/ is a good site to see which products are/aren't!
- Id bet that the energy companies there resell american gas, oil, diesel, etc...