We should do this here in the USA too because American food companies make garbage food where everything has high fructose corn syrup and 50 other highly processed ingredients while the European equivalent has 5. Whenever anyone comes to the US, they always put on weight while not changing eating habits. That, along with shrinkflation and a number of greedy practices, I’d like to see these companies all go bankrupt.
Absolutely!
As an American who has gotten to travel to Scandinavia, the food is so much more fresh and high quality. Even the basic stuff like a hotel breakfast or workplace cafeteria lunch.
It was one difference among a thousand others that I noticed when being there in person. I remember thinking to myself “what is this strange vibe I’m getting from all these cultural differences? Oh, it’s human dignity, respect for others, and in turn respect for oneself.”
I want to say “Europe, help!” but I know they have to protect themselves and the world from our shit show first.
“what is this strange vibe I’m getting from all these cultural differences? Oh, it’s human dignity, respect for others, and in turn respect for oneself.”
Oh how peculiar. I live in Finland and have found that a lot of those things missing. Tourists are treated well, yes. Regulations are good, sure. Food, air, water all fresh, good quality. Not too diverse though.
The stories I could tell you, you honestly wouldn’t believe half of them. Things for which I would’ve had hundreds of thousands in compensations and would have had no problem finding a lawyer to represent my case. Here no-one cared that the cops quite literally tortured me, insofar that keeping me locked up for three days in an isolation cell without even a mattress or ever turning out the lights while denying me my prescription medication so that “I’d be ready to talk” is in fact actually torture. Especially because they saw me go fucking nuts there. I ate my own pinky open with my teeth and used it as a magic marker to draw over 300 words in my own blood on the cells. And the guard cackled at me from the comm for pleading for help and my meds.
I told this to my family, my friends. No-one cares. Literally no-one. Not so much as a “I feel bad that happened to you”. No. My mother literally said “well I don’t know what happened there” as in “you may have deserved it.”
At one point, they turned off my water. Everyone should realise how legal it is to keep someone locked up without water, right? No no. Not a peep from anyone here in Finland. No-one fucking cares. Made a criminal complaint. Nothing. Tried getting the video material, as they dared accuse me of “vandalizing the cell”. I said “well it was all filmed let’s check it shall we, for evidence of this crime” and suddenly it didn’t exist anymore. And I didn’t make the request, some just law school finished scaredycat lawyer who I got did. And said the cops were really fucking weird and afraid when he was asking for it.
but no-one cares no justice not even admission that I was tortured, just victim blaming and people literally avoiding me because that broke me and I’ve had huge ptsd for several years, fucking horrible flashbacks and nightsweats of my doorbell ringing and being taken in the night again over a few cannabis bushes.
But I’m thinking you weren’t in Finland, because you did say “Scandinavia”, not “Nordics”. Finnish cops are more authoritarian than the rest of the nordics combined. Quite literally. As in more complaints to EU human rights laws.
No one could predict the ramifications of dumping some tea in a harbour
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.
Make sure it is Aldi Sud not Aldi Nord though
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-gazaOne thing at a time. Lidl isn’t necessarily in question here, it’s the boycott intention. We do the same thing boycotting in Israeli products too.
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
Hear hear!
Yes it is
Can’t wait to see some Teslas upside down at the dealership
Teslas are shit quality anyway, just like every other American car. That, and Tesla employees like to jerk off to videos Teslas are recording of naked people in their garages, although every car manufacturer is participating in surveillance capitalism.
But first set it on fire to get rid of the excess weight.
No need they will do that themselfs.
A single random picture isn’t actual evidence of this happening at all.
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.
I don’t believe this. The average Canadian/Eurooean is not aware of associated situation.
Edit: ok so the Canadians seem to have a proper movement going.
With the average European however I stand my ground, most are not aware or gaf
You’ve already shown your ass I don’t know why you think anybody’s going to take anything else you say seriously
But you’re right, I’m not to be taken seriously because this the comment section of a social media platform… I’m sitting the toilet rn, not writing some paper for a study
How have I shown my ass? To do you mean?
I have friends in Canada that tell me the hatred is so fucking strong there you have no fucking idea.
Canadian here, more than happy to be your friend and also say yes, we’re pissed off. It really doesn’t take much for Canadians to like you: just don’t be a jerk, bonus points if you like hockey, that’s….basically it.
It takes a lot to get us genuinely mad. But if there’s one thing that gets us outta the cabin, it’s the opportunity to dust off our ol’ Nazi-stomping steel toes.
Clearly you aren’t from around here then. Everyone I’ve talked to is avoiding American products and I’ve personally seen upside-down items. Maaaaaaybe you shouldn’t make statements about the average Canadian if you’re not informed.
You’re right! Gonna consider that in the future
Much appreciated!
Canadian here, everyone is talking about it and going out of their way to buy Canadian. Fuck the US and all their idiots.
The average European is following this more closely than their own countries politics.
That’s just our lemmy bubble I think. The human tends to overestimate society’s opinion on the topics they are invested in, imo
No bro, I talked to real people who actually live in Canada. This is a real thing get out of your bubble.
As CC a Canadian, it is absolutely happening. Elbows Up Hosers!!!
No. Thats based off people I know and talk to irl.
America: declares economic war vs the entire world.
Americans: “Good thing people don’t pay attention to things that directly effect them”
Its far more entertaining than whats happening here anyway.
It’s like they expect everyone else to be as ignorant as they are.
is this a court case?
Yes.
its still fun thing to see :)
All non eu products? Or jus american products
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How is the EU becoming fascist?
Thats Germany. Not the EU.
Also, as dissapointing as the results are, the conservative party seems pretty determined not to collaborate with the AfD.
The vote showed that 80% of Germans hate AfD.
But I guess that means Germany is now full fash…
Is it a real question?
I’m interested in what you think at least.
Antiyanks, get a life.
Based
On what
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.
Here is a list that may be helpful
https://files.catbox.moe/jtmcb5.pdf
And if you were not totally against using AI, then you could load that list to Mistral, take a pic and identify things quickly. As per the photo.
Thanks! I find the method interesting. Are the results mostly accurate in your experience?
I haven’t done any proper validation - was just a very basic PoC, using resources available to anyone (a list of companies and their subsidiary brands + free LLM) to see if it would work in principle.
The file itself is sourced from Wikipedia, so is probably accurate enough if you just wanted to ctrl+f and search manually.
minus Nestle (sadly) and Unilever
Nestlé doesn’t need to be American for you to boycott it though.
In this community it kinda does but I still agree in general
This image alone proves that governments only care about monopolies in writing 😂
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…
Old Dutch chip is canadian
I hope so, I’m running out of chips that are real Canadian chips 😂
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.
TIL Garnier is affiliated with Nestlé. And here I thought I found good vegan bleach to dye my hair. Smh my head
Minus Unilever as well.
Thanks, fixed it
People are doing the same in Canada with US products.
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.
“that’s illegal”
— DonaldWe should do that to US foods in the US.
We should do that to US
foodsflags in the US.Haha, Don’t.
Nah. Americans should stop putting unnecessary shit in their food.
Even our grocery store bread is considered cake because of how much sugar we put in it. It’s fucking stupid.
I agree, but that’s a different argument entirely.
Can we start a movement for this? Who’s in?
Is there actually any evidence of this happening? Isn’t this just a photo of a couple items upside down in a shop?
Firsthand accounts of my friend in Canada who I speak to on discord on the daily
The more people know about this, the møte they can do these things themselves
Like, you and I could do this to our local shop for example, although, I’d probably talk with the workers there first haha. If the workers are going to keep flipping them back then there won’t really be too much point
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.
You can be the change.
I asked my friend and in Canada people are doing this as well as other more aggressive tactics to flag American products.
Consider doing this in my supermarket.
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.”
My broke ass:
I won’t buy a Tesla this year. In fact, I won’t buy TEN Teslas.
When I was looking for a new vehicle last year, I had already crossed Tesla off the list because I think they’re butt ugly, and I need buttons to at least operate the climate control. And I’m really glad I did.
I already skipped two/three products yesterday, one only after scanning it deliberately to find out whether I should avoid it.
Skipped products: Milka spread (Mondelez) and Schweppes. Bought European instead.
Direct action time
I wouldn’t do it because I just don’t feel like being that akward (it’s already akward for me to be in a store).
But I do appreciate it, I do mostly buy store brand products so don’t expect i’ll be contributing much to the US brands.
INB4 American companies redesign their packaging.
That shape would arguably be an even clearer indicator of american wares lmao
