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[โ€“] Railcar8095@lemm.ee 150 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can't wait to see some Teslas upside down at the dealership

[โ€“] modus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But first set it on fire to get rid of the excess weight.

[โ€“] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

No need they will do that themselfs.

[โ€“] SirMaple__@lemmy.world 117 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People are doing the same in Canada with US products.

[โ€“] soupy_kid@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

American here, good.

The rest of the world needs to start competing with the US instead of suckling its teat.

Everyone will be better off for it except for the conmen taking America for a ride right now.

[โ€“] Zachariah@lemmy.world 91 points 1 year ago

โ€œthatโ€™s illegalโ€
โ€” Donald

[โ€“] JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We should do that to US foods in the US.

[โ€“] CubitOom 56 points 1 year ago

We should do that to US ~~foods~~ flags in the US.

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[โ€“] Monzcarro@feddit.uk 52 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I could tell this was Lidl just from the font on the prices.

If I want to boycott American, buying Lidl and Aldi own brands is an easy way to do this, yes? I'm doing this by default because I have an easily navigatable Lidl that I can walk to.

[โ€“] Sauerkraut@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am American and I am doing all my grocery shopping either at Aldi or from farmer markets now. Fuck Musk, fuck Trump, and fuck the US for falling to fascist oligarchy.

Glory to Ukraine. Glory to Democracy

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[โ€“] Saleh@feddit.org 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lidls owner Schwarz is heavily invested in an Israeli "cybersecurity" start-up run by a former Mossad director. As always with Israeli "cybersecurity" that embraces "former" ties to intelligence, you should expect ongoing ties to Israeli and US intelligence agencies.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923098,00.html

These are the kind of people that helped get Trump elected.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-02-15/ty-article-magazine/.premium/cambridge-analyticas-israeli-black-ops-team-exposed-at-last/00000186-4b78-da04-a186-7bfa41fe0000
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-founded-company-helps-israel-kill-lists-palestinians-gaza

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[โ€“] maikelthedev@programming.dev 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

A single random picture isn't actual evidence of this happening at all.

[โ€“] Blackmist@feddit.uk 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (18 children)

I saw this in a Canadian article as well.

People check to see if they're American and then turn them upside down so the next person doesn't have to look it up. Not so much a protest as a warning to others who care.

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[โ€“] biscuit@lemdro.id 46 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Is there actually any evidence of this happening? Isn't this just a photo of a couple items upside down in a shop?

[โ€“] kint 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I haven't seen anything like that in any store or supermarket here in Spain. Nor even hear about this until now. So I say it's just a couple off items upside-down in a shop.

[โ€“] Maggoty@lemmy.world 48 points 1 year ago

You can be the change.

[โ€“] betternotbigger@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

I asked my friend and in Canada people are doing this as well as other more aggressive tactics to flag American products.

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[โ€“] nodiratime@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consider doing this in my supermarket.

[โ€“] TrueStoryBob@lemmy.world 37 points 1 year ago (3 children)

As an American I implore you to start.

People are telling me to boycott Tesla and I'm over here like "I wasn't about to buy a $65k vehicle spontaneously but I guess won't now anyways."

[โ€“] LillyPip@lemmy.ca 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

My broke ass:

I wonโ€™t buy a Tesla this year. In fact, I wonโ€™t buy TEN Teslas.

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[โ€“] Tiger_Man_@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 1 year ago (9 children)

All non eu products? Or jus american products

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[โ€“] JasminIstMuede@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is there a list somewhere of commonly found American products in European supermarket so that I can definitely not do a bit of this..?

I lose track of all the daughter companies and such that one should watch out for.

[โ€“] Venus_Ziegenfalle@feddit.org 40 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

minus Nestle (sadly) and Unilever

[โ€“] AceStructor@feddit.org 23 points 1 year ago

This picture is going through the net for so long, still German news are trying to convince its readers that there aren't many American products on European supermarket shelves.

[โ€“] CherryBullets@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This image alone proves that governments only care about monopolies in writing ๐Ÿ˜‚

Edit: Aw fuck, Ms Vickies is Canadian but owned by Pepsi? Fml. So in the end, it's not really Canadian. We can't have anything good...

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[โ€“] v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 year ago

TIL Garnier is affiliated with Nestlรฉ. And here I thought I found good vegan bleach to dye my hair. Smh my head

[โ€“] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nestlรฉ doesn't need to be American for you to boycott it though.

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[โ€“] grue@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[โ€“] expatriado@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

all non-EU or just made usa?

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[โ€“] europeanfan122@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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