"It's not perfect so it's a failure"... What a stupid take..
this post was submitted on 10 Dec 2025
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Every extremist everywhere makes the exact same mistake.
Well, you certainly seem to be an asshole.
Besides, you're missing the point - ALL of the points.
- There are unfortunately a lot of things that cannot be done without US companies. You call people losers for having an Apple or Android phone or using a credit card, but what other options are there right now?
- We may not be doing perfectly - hell, we're probably not doing as well as we should - but not getting everything perfect right away doesn't negate what we've done.
- The point isn't to hurt the US - we're not big enough to really accomplish that. The point is to avoid the US as much as we can for our benefit and sovereignty.
Weird. It's 100% successful in my household, and I just told my employer in won't be traveling to the conference they wanted me to next year because I won't spend time or money on fascism.
OP must live among weak willed people.
We all live amongst weak willed people. I too am the only one I know truly and faithfully engaged in the boycott.
Go to a Walmart or Costco.
But we don't. Don't you get it?
Lighten up Francis.
For this we need Canadian alternatives, but the tech monopolies having a stranglehold on the supply chain. For all the tough talk, all this American tech was built with Chinese labour, and with chips made in Taiwan.
To get Canadian alternatives we'd probably need a crown corporation, simply because under the current market conditions there isn't going to be a way for a Canadian tech company to enter the market now and compete with the likes of Apple or Google.
I'm all for this, but it's going to be a very hard sell in the current political climate.
The biggest issue is where are they going to get chips or RAM specifically right now. The supply chain is in shambles again. Starting to think it is how they like it.
All crying no suggestions.
I will not be buying another iPad or iPhone, I have “De-Appled” most of the things. I have moved almost all of my web services to Canadian hosts, and I look at all my purchases to make sure they are Canadian first or not US second. I use a pi-hole setup to block ads, and Unwatched to block youtube ads. I have raspberry pi’s to do the computer things.
I moved to Lemmy, an open source social network I am on a Canadian host, to get away from Reddit.
The government of Canada is constantly looking for trade deals that are not centred on the US. I think the boycott is working.
Things take time, jackass.
You can't walk into a store and buy a non Google off some phone yet, so yeah, people aren't magicking then into existence.
I love the user tagging system on Lemmy apps. A nice bright label for this one.
Keep avoiding MAGA.
That's because the government is not doing enough to finds alternatives to us products
Neither are you.
How am i going to buy non existant canadian products as alternstives?
So if the products are nonexistent how would the Canadian government find them?
I'm not expecting for a quick fix, but the government's current plan shows little desire to reindustrialize and begin making investments in new industries. To ensure that the value, jobs, and decision-making remain in Canada, we need completely Canadian businesses that design, own, and manufacture those items here rather than just foreign companies assembling them here.
And, How would you propose that The Canadian government force these new Industries to produce Canadian products that rival well established American products, like the iPhone? And manufactured them…
Where do you think that money is going to come from?
Instead of licking trump boots and accept his request to increase our "defense" to 5% of GDP of non eminent threats we can use that money for reindustrialization or maybe taxing the rich more like the NPD suggest which could generate $24B annually of revenues
Oh okay, so things that aren’t going to happen.
You do know $24b/y isn’t enough right? An entire self sustaining manufacturing country, with software and hardware design to rival the biggest tech companies on earth, who have decades of experience, intellectual property, and partnerships?
You’re out of your mind. This is pure fantasy.
For $24b, you can get… one car manufacturer, but the electronics are coming from China.
Like I said, I do not expect us to be able to do so in the short term, and we don't even need to be as good as China and the USA to have a viable option. You have a loser mentality of saying things are too difficult to do, so let's not even try anything. The government plan is to sell our natural raw resources with low-profit margins in exchange for high-profit manufactured products from the rest of the world. If a country like Taiwan was able to do so, Canada can too, and it wouldn't happen with a lot of people with a mentality like yours.
Mentality like mine? A realist? And I never said it was too difficult. I said it was too costly. But you don’t want to talk about realistic ways to improve things, you’d much rather live in an unobtainable world so you can complain about how bad things are.
A realist identifies potential pitfalls and challenges but does not assume they are insurmountable like you do.
$24b CAD/y is not enough. That’s reality.
Just admit you’re wrong, the math literally does not add up.