portlock seagull
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Those who are boycotting US goods, are you boycotting pro Republican businesses or just US full stop?
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[Finance] How best to boycott USA goods.
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Anger
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For those still struggling with the concept of reducing consumption as the alternative to eradicating everything (and wearing a hair shirt), the message is...
…drop what you think you can do without and as for those things you really cannot live without, well then don't drop those things. You'll still send a message by taking some action and it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
…drop what you think you can do without and as for those things you really cannot live without, well then don't drop those things. You'll still send a message by taking some action and it doesn’t have to be all or nothing.
dadams2k11
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Once again for the hard of thinking
That is about as simple as I can make it
Fair points well made.
But the topic is boycotting USA goods, not reducing them, and people are using their own definition of the word to suit their cause.
NOT Using, Buying, or being part of something for protest is my definition of boycott, as I have stated.
So you either stop using everything that is made/sold from across the water completely, otherwise you are not boycotting, you are virtue signalling in my opinion.
That's about as simple as I can make it.
dadams2k11
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The topic is not reducing, it's boycotting.
Maybe the thread title needs to be changed to reducing instead of boycotting?
Anger
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BadFish
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So with your definition one has to boycott everything immediately amd remove all related goods and services from their lives?
This is entirely unmanageable and unrealistic. You also have to ask yourself why you have chosen to join a discussion and focus on this aspect and associated semantics?
My guess is that it is you who is virtue signalling and I doubt very much that you'll be able provide a more persuasive reason.
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I’m (personally) trying to reduce my exposure to US businesses across the board. America is incredibly deeply embedded into our country, as @Paulie Gualtieri and others have already pointed out, a lot of it is embedded at a level where you don’t even know it’s there unless you dig, and we can’t (as individuals) do anything about it.
It’s become clear that we need to work with allies in the same geographic sphere, and build our own capabilities rather than rely on America’s.
Doonhamer7
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……..eh ….i work for a US company!!!
BadFish
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Re boycott vs reduction, it is obviously utterly absurd to expect an immediate total boycott of US goods & services, but it is indisputable fact that every single time you quit a Trump-supporting platform, or buy one less item from Amazon etc, you are making a tiny dent in the businesses of the Tech Oligarchs. IT IS ALL WORTH IT
Me too. Have used Amazon once. Use eBay instead. At least most of the money goes to the seller. Amazon made sales of 27 billion in 2023 . Were given 7.7 million. Back in tax credits that year due to Rishi incentives scheme. They feed their income through loss making subsidiaries in Luxembourg to reduce profits. Normally corporation tax on that income would be 20% . However the big companies fiddle the books as best they can and many governments encourage this as they want the big companies employing people in their country . Amazon also paid £932 million to the government in 2023 in NI contributions, pensions etc .
So lots of money However they should pay tax on their actual income which would make them less competitive.
So yes try not to buy from Amazon.. other shops are available.....
Give your money to Brighton businesses
junior
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Have I missed something? Why are we boycotting America all of a sudden?
BadFish
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Because we don't like Diego Gomez, we're virtue signalling until they take him back!!
I just can’t bring myself to boycott this.
https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/thre...endations-please.382186/page-10#post-11457843
https://nortr3nixy.nimpr.uk/thre...endations-please.382186/page-10#post-11457843
Anger
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There’s always someone, I’ll explain…
It’s because they killed off Jennifer Coolidge’s character at the end of The White Lotus season 2 and now there’s a Jennifer Coolidge shaped hole in season 3. Completely unacceptable.
BadFish
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I thought we were boycotting Hawaii for this?
Anger
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I know that’s what we agreed, but then Hawaii is beautiful!!!
It’s so much easier to boycott Ohio and Texas.
BadFish
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I'll go and get the lei out of the bin then!!
portlock seagull
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Indeed, we’ve had a few years more notice than we like to think further to this weeks seismic shift: I’m buying European or Asian (exc. China) and most definitely British from here on. I’ve been increasingly doing this for several years anyway. ABUSA!
I've been doing that for years, Yorkshire's up there with America IMO
I do think ( hope) if Europe boycotts the septics en masse . . . And other nations too, their stocks will tank and change will happen. Hopefully by 'firing' the tango twat. I open to which type of fire. But anything incendiary or extremely hot will suffice.