Comment by 0xTJ
9 months ago
As a Canadian, "Made in the USA" is currently a mark against, and I would only consider buying that product if it was absolutely the only remotely reasonable option.
9 months ago
As a Canadian, "Made in the USA" is currently a mark against, and I would only consider buying that product if it was absolutely the only remotely reasonable option.
As an American, I’m doing what I can to boycott stuff made in red states. I can and do pay up to 2x more for blue state stuff (which is typically higher quality, to be honest), and go imported otherwise.
What kind of stuff made in red states are you boycotting?
Easy things: Alcohol (beer, whiskey)
Harder things: Food brands that support trump. JB Smucker. Whole Foods (owned by amazon). Apple (look at the recent #appletoo NLRB scandal.)
Really hard things (looking for an alternative): Amazon (not red state, but Bezos is pretty bad).
Also, any big-ticket discretionary purchases are getting delayed, bought from someone else or bought used.
[dead]
This. We're car shopping right now and not only searching for non-US brands but also specific models not made in US factories.
I don't blame you. Our next president is going to have send you a Statue of Liberty or something to patch things up.
I'd rather the next president spends most of their term making sure this kind of crisis can never happen again.
We can send the statue of Shame the term after that.
I will still buy American made stuff for sure no matter who is in power there. It doesn't matter to me. The quality of the product is what matters to me.
You would rather "Made in China" over "Made in the USA?"
Between a trade war, abuse by border services, threats of annexation, economic instability taking a dump on my retirement and cost of living. For sure. I have conferences, memories in Hawaii, family in the US and I ain’t going. I actually hope life in the US becomes more uncomfortable for the average person for a while so the ideology driving MAGA becomes persona non grata for a generation or two. I’ll vote the only way I can: my money. -a slighted Canadian.
China hasn't threatened to make Canada a Chinese province so given no friendly alternative, I'd 100% buy the Chinese model.
and a whole lot of stuff coming from the US to Canada, is just transhipped made in China products, so Canadians could do well from establishing new supply chains......aaaaand reversing that trend:)
China is the Nazi Germany of our time. USA has a long long way to go before that no matter how much you hate the orange man.
Given Tibet, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Xinjiang, that is possibly the worst example you could have chosen.
8 replies →
Nor has the US. One particular person in the US has talked about that. I don't particularly see how it's justified to take it out on a country of 300 million people when the vast majority of them aren't responsible for what you object to.
6 replies →
Well, I mean, China isn't currently threatening to invade Canada, so there's that.
I’m a dual citizen. Either we will never have elections again because America is a theocratic dictatorship, or diplomatic and economic relations will be restored. It is only through gerrymandering and propaganda that the current clownshow is in power. Oh, and racism, that contributed too.
3 replies →
At this point, that is a pretty popular sentiment in Canada.
Not only in Canada but in the whole Western world.
Travel to the US, Tesla (which is very closely associated to Trump, via Musk) are already collapsing at an unprecedented speed. The only comparable period would be Covid lockdowns. The difference is that in 2020 this was expected to be somewhat temporary, even if the duration was unknown at the time, while this time is much more sentimental - it will take decades to unwind it. It's like trust - it takes a long time to build, but you can destroy it all in a second. And Trump did just that.
Yes, 100% absolutely.
Absolutely.
Yes.
I absolutely won't be buying anything made in America, regardless of price. America is now an ideological enemy of the liberal Western order.
[flagged]