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[-] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

It's about survival and resisting the encroachment of a hostile foreign power. Simple as that. Appeasement will not save Canada. Only resistance and dissociation will.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 18 hours ago

Just got a quote for new ac and furnace installation. They sent the quote with both units being American made. I asked them if they can quote with non-US products. If they can't, I'll try another company..

[-] [email protected] 44 points 21 hours ago

Why? Because it got personal. Trump can verbally shit his policies all over the place but once he started talking about annexing (invading) Canada then the citizenry took notice. This is not a boycott hand in hand with the government of Canada. This is a boycott by the people at a grassroots level and it needed no organizing whatsoever.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 1 day ago

Hint: it's not the tariffs, we are used to that from the [redacted] from our southern border, it's the threats against our sovereignty

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 day ago

Not just the threats, but the deafening silence from Americans in general about it (outside Lemmy) is something we will not forget for a generation.

[-] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago

Seriously. I have too many American friends who are confused when I tell them I have and will have no interest in going down to America, even if it's just to visit them, for the foreseeable future and they wonder why.

Could it be because your country was having open public discourse on the merits of annexing us? Or maybe that I don't want to get thrown into an ICE concentration camp for no reason?

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Interesting that they would be confused at all. I have an interest, because Canada is cool, but I won't be visiting anytime soon because I know we are the worst and nobody is going to want us there. I also don't want to deal with assholes at the border, even though I'm a US citizen they have carte blanche to do anything they are in the mood for.

[-] [email protected] 14 points 22 hours ago

Honestly, we're generally fine with individual Americans that are respectful. Not many of us, if any at all, will be rude towards you unless you're an openly hateful Trump supporter.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

I'm finding all Americans distasteful these days. They have a taint these days.

[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago

I certainly don’t judge Americans who come here unless they’re acting MAGAish (wearing the hat, American flag clothes, etc).

[-] [email protected] 13 points 23 hours ago

My inlaws are dual and living in the US. Very surprised and confused why I was still upset about it.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 23 hours ago

What gets me is that no one seems to be mentioning exactly what it means that US is entering their 'Papers please' phase, and that supporting a fascist state isn't a very Canadian thing to do.

Not wanting to be hassled at the border, or having our sovereignty threatened is an understandable reason for avoiding the US, but it's also pretty selfish.

I wish I see more people, and Canadian news media talking about the bigger side of it as in 'We don't support fascism'

That should be an integral part of our identity, especially if we want to ensure the Conservatives stop trying to normalise maple maga ideals.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah even if the US wasn't threatening us, I'm not giving them more money to spend on torturing people.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago

Is lemmy.ca redacting naughty words now?

[-] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

When instances block words, I normally see it as "removed". I think that @[email protected] might've self-censored?

[-] [email protected] 6 points 22 hours ago

exactly, you fill in the word that best fits for you

[-] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

not that I know of, I just rather let the reader inject their own word there

[-] [email protected] 58 points 1 day ago

My boycott is for life. Trust is earned slowly, and broken instantly.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 18 hours ago

Yup. I'm 50 and teaching my 10 year olds all about boycotting murica products and services. They're into it. It will be generational. Good luck getting us back.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago

Good! Stay safe. Stay far away.

[-] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

In related news: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/personal-finance/retirement/article-canadian-investors-us-stocks-sun-life/

Canadian investors divested from U.S. equity funds in the first quarter at the highest rate since the start of the pandemic, moving their money into more conservative investments, according to a new report from Sun Life SLF-T.
 But people aren’t cashing out. Overall withdrawal rates remained stable, suggesting that investors are staying committed to their long-term savings.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

I mean, he is actively cutting the SEC for his own scamy benefit, he is tanking the dollar, he is ruining the economy, he is defenestrating the rule of law and due process, and he is doing his best to overthrow the federal reserve. Also, Republicans kind of hate a lot of the companies in the Mag 7 and are all on board for antitrust suits against woke oligopolies. If equities are investments you hold for the long haul, regardless of how the US has done in the past, how can you see current actions working out well for investment in the future?

Get off the American meme stock market rocket, chances are growing it will do a SpaceX to your investments.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya'll not watch/play any American media?

[-] [email protected] 14 points 19 hours ago

I steal my US media, I have ad blockers blocking ads.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Only for free. Pirating that shit for over two decades now. Fuck em.

Everything else is a no go. Even food. If it's not from somewhere other than murica we don't need it. Period.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago

Only sort of facetiously, it's all filmed up here anyway.

Yes, the tech and media giants are harder to avoid. Ali Express has left a lot to be desired as an Amazon replacement, although I haven't quite given up. For streaming, CBC Gem is publicly funded. The boycott is mainly targeted at physical products.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 18 hours ago

Speak for yourself and being mainly physically targeted, I came to Lemmy to get off of Reddit, I miss the local community as many people do not have the interest in figuring out Lemmy. I have cancelled all of my streaming services from the US, if there is something I want to see that is strickly on a streaming service I put on my pirates hat and sail the high C’s, other wise I watch it on the Canadian Channels app (with my pihole on so that I do not see ads so that it becomes less valuable for the Canadian channel to continue paying for it) I subscribed to CBC Gem+ or whatever it is called and watch Canadian content on there. I us Unwatched to watch YouTube so that I am not paying Google, I feel for the non US videos I watch but they are still getting money from Google but Google is not getting it from me.

One of the first buy Canadian things I did was move my blog hosting from a US provider to hosthero.ca and changed it from .com to .ca then I looked at my iCloud stuff and started finding other options. Sure they are not all together anymore and do not easily communicate together it is however far less expensive than what I was doing before. I was using Apple’s hide my email feature I had 60 some email address (I think). After going through all those addresses and finding out what was dead or not I moved something like 45 addresses to my hosthero email server, and I started moving more things that did not already have their separate email address to my address. I would later find out that my ISP changed to an exchange server, I have no idea if they have to pay Microsoft for that or what but I have been transitioning all of the emails I get from there to there own email address. This is not a short process and I am up to 120 some email addresses, all of the pseudo-random email addresses are forwarded to 1 of 5 email accounts that I check. I can have unlimited free trials for things if I so choose (have not done that with this yet, I had done this a couple of times for things in my iCloud days). I do not trust myself with hosting my own password manager so bitwarden is not really an option for me so I went with 1password, for my cloud storage I just downloaded everything to one of my pi’s but I was having all kinds of difficulties with hosting my own VPN and NextCloud crashed on me a couple of times so I decided to go with sync.com. If there was any real competition for youtube I would not be sneaking in via other apps I would be using the real alternative platform.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago)

Sometimes, though I have been prioritizing CBC originals lately I'm still finishing Handmaids Tale

[-] [email protected] 9 points 19 hours ago

Yup, and I set up a Jellyfin server.

I started it before all the Trump stuff and was using it for stuff that couldn’t be found on streaming services, but since Trump decided to threaten Canada those are all cancelled and it’s a full-on pirate’s life for me.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 19 hours ago

The annexation threats really turned my sea-sailing habit into a spiteful obsession.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago

It's been fun replacing American goods and services with Canadian and not-American alternatives.

In many cases, you end up with better products anyway.

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