Major US Brands Sound Alarm Over Rising Anti-American Sentiment
a year ago by resipsaloquitur to c/leopardsatemyface
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/35540870
maybe they can shower him with his obsession with more gold related paraphenelia.
Isn't managing brand awareness and reputation... you know, a fundamental part of running basically just most businesses with large consumer bases?
Gee, its almost like these people with 'executive' or 'president' or 'head' somewhere in their job titles are all fucking morons who are bad at their jobs, by their own description and metrics they use to describe them!
Bonus Anarcho-Syndicalist 'hot take'
The solution isn't to replace those particular people.
The problem is not those particular people.
The problem is a wildly unbalanced and codified system of power dynamics.
The solution is a radical restructuring of for profit corporations into democratic worker cooperatives of some kind where workers elect their leaders.
Unions, as currently implemented in the US, are generally laughably useless in terms of... you know, actually doing the things they are supposed to do.
This shit will never end and hypercapitalism will drive us all into early graves unless we do something a bit more more radical.
'Radical' meaning: To address the root cause, instead of the effects.
... And for any liberals reading, no, no the oligarchs will not just agree to do this after a passionate speech or 'insightful' op-ed in the Atlantic.
You need to have what is called leverage.
In this context, that means a credible threat of violence.
One of course hopes this threat has to only ever remain as a threat.
Sorry, I didn't write these rules, human history did.
We need Luigi #2 and #3 and so on. That is the way.
In any other nation it would have been a domino effect. Alas, a culture raised on vehemently individualistic ideals cannae be arsed beyond vengeful school shootings.
I am in a marginalized group, so I have always been an outsider to some degree. Been here since I was a kid and still do not know what a community feels like.
As they say: Welcome to the find out phase!
they think there will be no consequences if they FELLATED trump.
Because of the global trade war? Or because of their implication in aiding Israel in committing genocide? Or both?
Please don't stop there. We need people to witness this and do like the boycotters abroad are doing.
It's about bullying and exploiting other countries with really high tariffs.
It's about our full support of Israel while they commit a genocide.
It's about our failure to uphold the deal we made with Ukraine to get them to agree to nuclear disarmament.
It's about deciding not to honor contracts made during the last administration, saying that they no longer apply, and allowing the people who benefited from USAID abroad (and tons of federal, formerly dependable paychecks at home) to fall off without even an acknowledgement of wrongdoing, while yelling that anybody who isn't hand-over-fist greedy isn't American.
I've been saying this since he first started campaigning: STOP GIVING HIM STUFF. HE GOES AWAY WHEN YOU STOP LISTENING TO HIM AND GIVING HIM YOUR STUFF.
Another reason is because America is lowering their food safety standards and food from them may kill you
And eliminating vaccine requirements. I guess we will bring back iron lungs too.
Can't believe I had to scroll this far to find a comment about this. Their shit will literally kill you
Both, plus the sabre rattling about Greenland and Panama, plus the BS with Visa/Mastercard and resistance to the idea of other countries trying to circumvent reliance on American banking, plus probably a bunch of other stuff I'm forgetting or that is too region specific to mention here.
Our stupid fucking president actually managed to piss off Canada. Canada, we love you all. Sorry.
No, we always knew he was dangerous garbage.
We’re pissed off at the rest of you who are supposed to be doing something about it but instead keep bringing pillows to a gunfight.
Yes.
It's not either. Public opinion on those topics have not really shifted.
It's because of US unreliability. Both in an economic and diplomatic sense.
Why would I buy things from a toxic and volatile economy? Why would I stake my future on the unreliability of a republican government?
The only things still holding the illusion of strength together is the AI bubble and the hope that things will be better when Trump dies.
Have the day you donated to.
Fuck me for donating to Alzheimer's organizations, I guess.
For about $3.50.
It's not glamorous, but somebody has to do it.
Good. Don't buy anything from Nazis!
Not even Trump crypto? :(
Only if you want to buy regulations, laws, or any other favors. However, I assume that's not exactly cheap.
This is why that German waffle chain, Luftwaffles went broke in the 1940s.
VW was literally founded on Hitler's orders.
Not only German brands, there are plenty of US corporations that built and supported the German war machine. There were production sites in Germany that were not bombed because they were insured by US companies. WTF!
Holy crap! The IBM one is new to me. Thanks.
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Waffe = weapon
Waffel = waffle
Luftwaffe literally means aerial weapon. But an accurate translation would be air force obviously.
Feels like someone translating "Air Force" into "sky push"
Exactly. Literal translations while sometimes interesting are often misleading.
Waffenwaffeln!
Major US brands are a good chunk of the reason behind rising anti-American sentiment.
AIPAC is the biggest right now. We need to ban and deport the Israeli lobby.
The American't boycotting will continue until they have their own little-engine-that-could revolution, kick the fascism to the curb, and adjust the perception of their own importance and contributions to the world.
It might even last a little longer than all that. The message must be understood.
I will personally never set foot in that cursed country again in my life.
Good, fuck the child rapist trump and his fascist regime.
That's fucking adorable bro
If I were a tardigrade?
The test of the word should basically boycott the US entirely. Buy nothing... Sell nothing. Do not visit the USA. I appears to be what the administration wants anyway
Boycotting a country isn't isolationism.
I think he's talking about the US
All the gigantic tech corpos I have to deal with are American. I was having anti american sentiments before the orange dictator, but they sure are at an all time high.
STOP SUPPORTING GENOCIDE
yeah... it's totally the genocide.
Done and done.
Wow its like US culture was only held up by goodwill from USAID, NIH, and weapons donations to ukraine and it turns out people think the US is otherwise a bunch of billionaire sex perverts and their wage slaves when you dismantle those things.
Fun fact: there are Canadian companies/products named after American cities: New York Fries, Boston Pizza, Philadelphia cream cheese. These companies must be kicking themselves now
Time for a rebrand: North York Fries, Brampton Pizza. Someone help me with Philly
I think they should rename it Montréal Fries
I tried searching for "Brotherly Love Cheese" to make sure the name was available, but all the results want me to verify my age/identity before I can go on their website
I thought Kraft was Canadian. I used Philadelphia cream cheese the other day and the package said it was made in Canada. Maybe Kraft has branches in both countries?
Edit: just looked it up and Kraft is American but also manufactures some things in Canada
Made in Canada means that the last substantial transformation of the product was completed in Canada, but the ingredients can be from anywhere, so combining the parts of a pizza into a pizza means it can be called made in Canada.
If you want true Canadian products it should say "product of Canada" on the label 🙂
lol didn’t McDonald’s host their own orange clown when he was campaigning? They and their nasty dried burgers can fuck off.
Get behind ranked choice voting then. It is in everybody's interest to get out of the doom spiral
30 some states have votor sponsored ballot initiatives, and most of those ammend state constitutions so it takes supermajorities of often 3/4 of state lawmakers to change. Some red ones increased pass threshold to 60 pc though.
But all those states need ranked choice voting, and giving the drawing of districts to an independant body to ungerrymander. Also voting rights laws. Aforementioned states increasing pass threshold on referendums and making it harder to get on ballot with signatures could themselves be changed back with a referendum.
Even red states these issues play. There are other ways polits can jam these up though, election commissions that approve initiative after signature verification have been known to improperly throw out them for wording, as michigan's did on mj legalization 2x before one got through. Or forbidding wolf hunt by vote lawmakers just passed it again coupled with a budget component making it un referendumable.
I'm high and I'm craving Doritos. But I can't have Doritos because they're American (yeah, yeah, technically I can but I won't). Fuck Trump for taking away my Doriotos. At least I have Lays
Just buy some local corn chips and sprinkle cheese powder and msg on em.
But both of those are Frito-Lay (and Pepsi is their parent)
If you're Canadian get old dutch. Their chips are better anyways.
Seems cruel.
Hawkin’s cheesies
Do you guys not have generics for Doritos? Almost every store in the UK seems to have a comparable store brand, with creative non-copyright names for the nacho dust lol
What a perfect internet comment.
Same here. If I don't want to do research, I just pick the store brand of whatever I'm buying. It's usually the cheapest anyway and quality varies from exactly the same to passable. So far only the cold-brew tea and the artifical sweetener were really not acceptable, but non-American alternatives exist for both.
"Anti-American business upset to find out that after becoming (buying) the face of America people still don't fuckin like them."
You can't convince me that AI isn't writing these dogshit headlines anymore. These are so formulaic predictable and middle of the road normalization that it makes me physically react.
Its newsweek. Its a tabloid and shouldn't be here.
I have been living and working in Asia for over 20 years. The anti-American sentiment is the highest now compared to any other time in the last 20 years.
Those people are ANTI SEMETIC! Wait wrong Country. Those people need to be SUED!
They hate freedom!
Though that's overused and doesn't sound dramatic enough. Hm This idea needs new wrapping
They're just jealous of our freedom. Our freedom to ban books.
Well, electing a strongman politician while abolishing goodwill programs that project soft power tends to have consequences for your economy. Mostly negative consequences, but hey, at least you get to wear a red ballcap that says your country is the bestest ever and all other countries suck mud, right?
Shit, I'm American and even I'm anti-American.
I'm a human before I'm an American and America isn't acting very humane.
Act like trash, get treated like trash.
Is there an up to date list of brands and companies that supported trump/maga?
I tried using publicsquare just now to search again but it seems like they took away the ability to do so, probably to stop people from boycotting fascism. And other searches don’t really bring up such lists (mostly just articles talking about the most prominent companies that are well known to have bent the knee).
in every coke. A number of companies have noted this trend. David Gibbs, CEO of KFC and Taco Bell parent Yum Brands, told analysts in late April that the company was closely monitoring the issue and its impact on consumer behavior, but added that there had not been an observable impact on its sales.
I'm surprised its mild enough for them to claim this so far.
I know the Canadians are pissed, but are all y'all's peers on other continents mostly... indifferent? I guess it's egotistical to assume people generally follow American news, but some of it really seems hard to ignore.
lots of folks in my circle also boycotting american products and services. in the cross hairs here are Amazon, Google, any american food, booze, clothing, cars, etc. Most in my circle dont watch american news. its depressing to see a country descend into third world status so quickly
My aim is currently at big tech and food conglomerates specifically. I still have a soft spot for small businesses and B Corps from the US. If they go out of business, then all that's left are the corpos.
The effects are definitely felt in Germany as well. It started (or can so far be traceable in the news) with Tesla. Not sure about any other sentiment, but I genuinely wouldn't be surprised. This is the first time there's news about things other than Tesla.
But yeah, I personally started going more for European products and that is also the policies pushed by some European countries atm. It might be a coincidence, but I switched away from MAMMA where I could (with Win10 support running out, I went over to Linux, I. e.; or I switched my default browser away from chrome and search engine away from google).
I feel like the people who would avoid those brands were already avoiding them because they're crap. A lot of people don't care, don't understand, or generally support trump. ~ England
I don't think most of the masses in Europe know or give a shit about what happens in the US. Maybe the name of the president, or when the US fucks up some country, like Irak or Afghanistan.
Now they sort of do, because of the world wide impact of Trump's psychotic world commerce antics, or Russia and Ukraine, which are close enough, which may impact them directly or close enough.
I think there is an image of Europe in the US of a place where people are generally cultured, which is not really the case. Hicks are everywhere. Millions in Europe are workers in industry and agriculture or fishing, and care jack shit about what happens outside their sphere.
Europeans do have a higher awareness of what happens outside their borders mainly because they have been invading each other for millenia, so international relations are culturally important, but that's about it. Football is way more important than international news for the majority of Europeans. Bread and circuses.
The news bulletins are filled with news out of the USA. We are very aware of what's happening in that country, because of our history with fascism with our neighbour Germany.
Football is also going to be affected btw, with the Worldcup being held in Canada, Mexico and tourism-very-unfriendly USA
MAYBE if some of the brands is being pro-nazi, supporting trump. duh
Huh, weird. who could have guessed acting like a douche would make people hate you? It's almost as if everyone could see this coming.
Easy solution: Don't be a dick to regular humans and human rights and the Anti-American Sentiment will fade.
You were always the front-runner for democracy and peace, but making a 180 since january all of a sudden is, yeah, not chillaxt at all... Youknow?
And for the SECOND time indeed... lmao
LW Americans love anti-Americanism yet the other day people were really trying to convince me that being anti-China as an Indian is basically a war crime
gotta watch out for those .ml peeps ya know
I really hope this doesn't become the norm.
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Yeah well maybe they shouldn't have blindly followed and sucked up to Trump either they come out completely apposing him (which is not likely to happen) or I will not buy any products from them
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