Boycott US
Overview:
The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.
Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.
America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.
America needs to challenge the court rulings of citizens united v. fec and shelby county v. holder, protect the media, implement independent district drawing, and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.
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Related communities:
Boycott:
!buycanadian@lemmy.ca
Activism:
!antitrumpalliance@lemmy.world
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There’s Interac/Wero/JCB
No Canadian bank or credit union offers JCB cards.
Basically the only option is Interac, but it only works inside Canada. If you want to use your Canadian debit card internationally, it's going to go through an American payment network like Cirrus, Maestro, or the Plus network (ie. MasterCard or Visa's network).
The payment options can expand, JCB was initially only available in the Japanese market and today there affiliated cards issued in Bahrain, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Philippines, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam.
Many canadian terminals here already accept them. They would be a great alternative.
Wero is experiencing massive growth in Europe where more and more banks are accepting them.
Nothing is set in stone.
Isn't JBC acceptance in many countries through partnership agreements with US American Express or Discovery cards? Doesn't that make them the same as using Visa or Mastercard?
I checked and it seems like only JCB is only independently used in Japan without the partnerships. I wonder why not the skip the middlemen and do it themselves?
Amex and Discover do not act as sketchy as Visa and Mastercard so no they’re not the same.
In the US, JCB and UnionPay cards are processed on Discover infrastructure. I suspect it's a matter of instant broad acceptance, which is more appesling than trying to sign up 5 million new merchants.