cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/49310400

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[–] 125 points 2 months ago (32 children)

Maybe being a bag of dicks to the rest of the world wasn't such a great idea.

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  • [–] 35 points 2 months ago (31 children)

    It's not California being a dick. But the boycott is justified all the same.

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  • [–] 64 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (15 children)

    Californian here, and I would agree that US-CA isn’t really the problem that, say, Kentucky is and that’s why the bourbon boycott is effective. But, hurt US-CA and you’re hurting the US, so I support that. And the elephant in the room is that are more Republicans in US-CA than any other state, and I’d wager a high percentage of winery owners skew Republican.

    It’s a shame, but the boycott is warranted. I just hope that when we get back to sane times, other countries remember that California largely tries to do the right thing. The way you look at the US, us Californians look at the rest of the US the same way.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    It's not a la carte dicks of America. It's United States of America. At a certain geopolitical level there is no good vs evil. Just politicians vs politicians.

    This is why having normal human beings in the driver's seat is important and not just entertainment.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago*

    Well it's not Mr. Peterson from Wyoming either. But we can't individualize how we treat USA. USA is making threats and has started a trade war, so we have to respond to USA as a whole. Both Canada and EU.

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  • [–] 54 points 2 months ago

    Not only will I not buy us booze if back on the shelves but I actively avoid buying any american products if possible and I will never travel there again in my life time. Fuck the pedophile and all who support him and the others who are full of apathy and avarice and sit idly by.

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  • [–] 47 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (8 children)

    This like all the other trade that is disappearing to the EU is going to become a permanent change. Prior allies now view the US as an enemy and aggressor and are forming alternative routes of trade. This will not be returning just because the president is changed in the future. The relationship is over.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I can only hope that the US snaps back hard managing to show the world that there are still good people here...maybe after civil war 2 electric boogaloo

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Unless there is a Nuremberg style trial for the current administration, I don't know how America can gain back it's trust.

    Even if Americans elect a president that is super helpful/generous to allies, there is always the chance that they elect another Trump in the following election who basically has almost free reign to do anything they want with no consequences.

    The constitution that Americans beat over everyone's heads has been revealed to be republican toilet paper.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Most of the good people that don't just flee would be dead after a Civil War 2, leaving only proficient killers and crooks, or just cowards who keep their noses down. Large swathes of the country would be, for decades at least, one of "those places" that you never travel to and hear tales of barbarism from every now and then. Civil war would be a degradation, not a redemption arc.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Yeah that's what I think as well, because Trump is just a symptom of a larger issue, he represents a large percentage of americans, especially amonght the rich, he did not get to this position without the backing of these greedy fascist pigs who know they can use him to make a lot of profit at the expense of the common people, even when he's gone, these foreign nations still have to deal with these greedy sociopaths and their meddling in foreign affairs, not to mention the dumb voting public who might just back another little Nazi who makes them feel good about themselves

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    [–] 42 points 2 months ago (15 children)

    Aw, are Americans sad that they're being collectively judged and punished as an indistinct collective group?

    ... first time?

    Maybe we should actually get our own house in order?

    Just, you know, that?

    That first?

    No whining, no conditional explanations of layers and degrees of ... nah, just... actually geting our shit together?

    Actually taking some accountability?

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    [–] 41 points 2 months ago*

    Good. Boycotts work. If any of you Americans out there are wondering how you can fight...boycotts work.

    My neighbourhood grocery store and liquor store have both decided to stop stocking US goods.

    I don't miss anything. As a Canadian, this is more important to me.

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    [–] 27 points 2 months ago (8 children)

    I'm from Maine and took a road trip to Halifax, Nova Scotia recently. I stopped in a licquor store (the LC) and jokingly asked the cashiers where the bourbon was. They got a good chuckle out of that one.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    Rideau Whiskey may not say it's Bourbon on the bottle, but there's bourbon in the bottle. Because of some dumb laws you can't call it bourbon unless it's made a certain region in the US, sort of like champagne. So we actually do have bourbon, even if it's not called that.

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    [–] 27 points 2 months ago* (3 children)

    Good, that’s the point.

    Fuck Gretzky wines in particular.

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    [–] 24 points 2 months ago

    "Put our booze back on your shelves! Also we don't care and we don't need you."

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    I'm trying to use as few american products as I can. It is nit easy as they have infected everyday life too much.

    Not buying Nestlé is much simpler

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    [–] 19 points 2 months ago

    Then stop being a shitstain of a country

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    false. the US administration is on record saying they don't need us.

    do you doubt dear leader?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago

    Canada’s boycott of U.S. wines ‘causing devastating harm,’

    That's the point, dumbass.

    If you want it to stop, talk to the clown in the white house.

    This boycott wouldn't be happening if he didn't decide to threaten, insult and attack Canada.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Who could have foreseen this?

    Oh, wait, we all could I'm sorry I have stroke nice doggy

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    [–] 15 points 2 months ago* (4 children)

    California senators don't get to tell me what to buy. Framing it as a "boycott" is just wrong, at least where I live. We have American booze on the shelves. I just don't want to buy American garbage anymore so I'm not doing it.

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    [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Canada did not cause anything..the usa did.

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  • [–] 14 points 2 months ago

    Oh no, the boycott we initiated with the explicit intention of causing DEVASTATING HARM is causing devastating harm. Fie on intended consequences!!!

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Oh, nice glad it's working! ps fuck you

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    [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I'm a Californian and support the boycott. But the majority of comments in here are misguided.

    This is like commenting on an article you haven't read about the First Minister of Scotland saying how negative Brexit is for Scotland, and responding "You shouldn't have voted Brexit then, dumbass!"

    No shit. Probably why they didn't overwhelmingly.

    Also kinda like how California has consistently, overwhelmingly, voted against Trump, and is one of the most oppositional states in the country against his fascist regime.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I feel bad for Americans who didn't have much choice in Trump being elected. However that is tempered by the fact that they are not inudating their congressmen and senators to get rid of Trump. They are timidly waiting for the next set of elections hoping that will change things although Trump has already meddled enough that even a landslide vote against him may not change a single thing. Write, email, text and phone your elected officials and tell them to get rid of him.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    It's pretty simple. No complicated economic theory here. If you fuck around...

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