What do you boycott? e.g. games, music, shows, food
Yes. It will include american culture. Im starting to “attack” businesses that push american culture. This includes cinemas.
American media told me for decades that the USA is awesome and the people are heroic do-gooders.
Turns out is was always White supremacy.
Fuck the US. Fuck US americans.
I’m really trying, but it’s so hard. So much turns out to be American if you look closely. It looks like a local company, which on closer inspection is owned by a parent company, which is owned by some sort of group entity, which is owned by big US Corp.
Just today I bought some chips/crisps (flat crunchy potato product), they were on promotion and my monkey brain said: “Yes tasty! Buy buy, buy now, eat later, tasty!”. It wasn’t till I was home I looked it up and jup, it’s ultimately owned by PepsiCo. Fuck…
Getting rid of all the digital services that are American or run on American owned infrastructure is hard as well. Even local services often use AWS or Azure. And I found it’s often pretty hard to find that out without actually getting the services, which is exhausting.
For some things it’s morally hard as well. I’ve been supporting a content creator for years now. He has a small community and we like to chat on Discord a lot. He lives in the US and streams on Twitch and YouTube. I would rather not use Twitch and YouTube or support him using PayPal for example. On the other hand, he’s a good dude, he didn’t vote for this shit. I consider him a digital friend and actually met him once. I’m not sure what to do, I’ve got very mixed feelings about it.
You don’t have to cut ties with american people just because their president is an ass to the world
We cut ties with American people because they are annoying, puritanical and self-entitled.
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I know this is a hot take but this would actually just be racism if it weren’t for everyone globally thinking it is funny and warranted to dunk on americans when conveinant.
We don’t need to involve racism, an American pseudo-science, to consider Americans barbarians. That’s what an American would do: to reduce everything about race when it has nothing to do with it.
Also, it’s white guilt, we all know American liberals and leftists enjoy this stuff.
That doesn’t seem to be what they’re talking about
Yes. Yes yes yes yes yes. I cut netflix and will not watch the end of Stranger Things, although I watched the first four seasons. Incidentally-not-coincidentally also because of Zionism on this one. Nor Avatar 3 currently in theatres while I saw the premieres of the first two. I operated a paradigm shift in my mind: despite all the good people in the US, fuck the American way of life forever. I am moving back to Korean polars for entertainment.
Edit: I will cherish my Jeff Buckley discography for life, but he’s long gone so there’s nothing new to boycott.
If Netflix, KFC and MacDonalds is “culture”, then yes.
US americans don’t have culture, the people and nations they oppress do, capitalists then comodify and export that
either way, while usa dominates english language entertainment, I don’t pay for it anything I consume, and I’m exploring more non english language entertainment
Don’t have culture? What about Elvis?
Yeah I tend to boycott genocide, racism, slavery, regime change, that sort of thing. So you might consider me some kind of anti-US .
probably the most directly helpful boycott is one that ensures money is denied to US companies so they are motivated to lobby and change things to protect their bottom line (as a last resort of course, and maybe not at all)
cultural boycott is more extreme and less directly important to bringing about immediate political change, but is nonetheless probably an important part of bringing about rejection of US hegemony and dominance, so it’s not a bad approach in addition to denying the US your money
Yes, I’m boycotting across the board. It ain’t easy!
America has so much to be proud of, and the current shit show the US government is right now should not be allowed to taint the great, music, art, or culture Americans have created. It is just a shame so much of what comes out of the US these days, and most western nations to be fair, is over processed landfill.
I’m hopeful for change, I just worry about my patience for it.
America has given the world such cultural greats as: Jim Carrey, Seth Rogen, Ryan Reynolds, Alanis Morissette, Drake, Keanu Reeves, Ryan Gosling, the Barenaked Ladies, Sum 41, and Rush.
I saw what you did there, Eh.
While I’m not in favor of boycotting culture, I do feel like boycotting products and services that incorporate it.
So I try to buy boycotted cultural products secondhand whenever possible.
This way, I can legally obtain culture, but it prevents American companies from making any additional profits. (Naturally, I avoid using Amazon[.]com when making these purchases.)
The problem then arises when an American artist performs in the country where I live.
Naturally, experiential entertainment cannot be recorded, meaning it cannot be purchased secondhand. This issue determines whether a boycott is feasible based on how individual artists respond to corruption in the United States.
Separately, I also try to avoid cultural dependency on social media platforms such as YouTube and x[.]com by prioritizing domestic alternatives (such as Nico Nico Douga and mixi2).
Why would anyone boycott Native clothes, songs and dances?
When I travel I sometimes get sad seeing how far Western culture as come and changed societies, feels like the McWorld has won (Even as someone who aligns very much with that culture). Would be hypocritical to judge them though
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I love Weimar America as much as I love Weimar Germany. ICE can have jazz, rock’n’roll, the beat poets, David Lynch, Prince, Bikini Kill, Calvin & Hobbes, etc. when they take them from my cold, dead fingers
I will never ever travel there.
My only travel to the US will be done using GTA and Cyberpunk2077. Don’t need more.I generally try to avoid American, but I’m not so strict about it that I check the origin on the games I play (most of the time you can’t find that out anyway). I also buy them on Steam anyway, because Linux support.
I’ve already swapped out basically everything American of mine, but as time goes on I’ve been thinking of narrowing my target. The companies I’m mainly focussed on are below:
- Amazon
- Tesla
- Microsoft
- Apple
- Netflix
- Disney
- Boeing
- The gun companies
- The car companies
- The computer chip companies
- Visa/Mastercard (if that were possible)
- The banks (if they even exist in your country)
- Exxon/Chevron (I’m dubious on promoting a local community oil industry though)
I still use American streaming services (currently Amazon Prime) but I do the thing where you subscribe for 1 month and then unsubscribe for 2 years.
The reason I’m boycotting is to undermine America’s power. I don’t think boycotting indie games made in America does that. It would weaken their currency but the effects are marginal. The real impact comes from buying alternatives until they get to a point where they can compete, and in the arts America already has that competition.
