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[–] [email protected] 25 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

We should do this here in the USA too because American food companies make garbage food where everything has high fructose corn syrup and 50 other highly processed ingredients while the European equivalent has 5. Whenever anyone comes to the US, they always put on weight while not changing eating habits. That, along with shrinkflation and a number of greedy practices, I’d like to see these companies all go bankrupt.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 hours ago

Absolutely!

As an American who has gotten to travel to Scandinavia, the food is so much more fresh and high quality. Even the basic stuff like a hotel breakfast or workplace cafeteria lunch.

It was one difference among a thousand others that I noticed when being there in person. I remember thinking to myself “what is this strange vibe I’m getting from all these cultural differences? Oh, it’s human dignity, respect for others, and in turn respect for oneself.”

I want to say “Europe, help!” but I know they have to protect themselves and the world from our shit show first.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

I could tell this was Lidl just from the font on the prices.

If I want to boycott American, buying Lidl and Aldi own brands is an easy way to do this, yes? I'm doing this by default because I have an easily navigatable Lidl that I can walk to.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Lidls owner Schwarz is heavily invested in an Israeli "cybersecurity" start-up run by a former Mossad director. As always with Israeli "cybersecurity" that embraces "former" ties to intelligence, you should expect ongoing ties to Israeli and US intelligence agencies.

https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923098,00.html

These are the kind of people that helped get Trump elected.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-02-15/ty-article-magazine/.premium/cambridge-analyticas-israeli-black-ops-team-exposed-at-last/00000186-4b78-da04-a186-7bfa41fe0000
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-founded-company-helps-israel-kill-lists-palestinians-gaza

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 minutes ago

One thing at a time. Lidl isn't necessarily in question here, it's the boycott intention. We do the same thing boycotting in Israeli products too.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I am American and I am doing all my grocery shopping either at Aldi or from farmer markets now. Fuck Musk, fuck Trump, and fuck the US for falling to fascist oligarchy.

Glory to Ukraine. Glory to Democracy

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[–] [email protected] 118 points 10 hours ago (2 children)

Can't wait to see some Teslas upside down at the dealership

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 hours ago

Teslas are shit quality anyway, just like every other American car. That, and Tesla employees like to jerk off to videos Teslas are recording of naked people in their garages, although every car manufacturer is participating in surveillance capitalism.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

But first set it on fire to get rid of the excess weight.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 hours ago

No need they will do that themselfs.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

A single random picture isn't actual evidence of this happening at all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (12 children)

I saw this in a Canadian article as well.

People check to see if they're American and then turn them upside down so the next person doesn't have to look it up. Not so much a protest as a warning to others who care.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

its still fun thing to see :)

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 hours ago (9 children)

All non eu products? Or jus american products

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Is there a list somewhere of commonly found American products in European supermarket so that I can definitely not do a bit of this..?

I lose track of all the daughter companies and such that one should watch out for.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (6 children)

minus Nestle (sadly) and Unilever

[–] [email protected] 1 points 24 minutes ago

Nestlé doesn't need to be American for you to boycott it though.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (1 children)

This image alone proves that governments only care about monopolies in writing 😂

Edit: Aw fuck, Ms Vickies is Canadian but owned by Pepsi? Fml. So in the end, it's not really Canadian. We can't have anything good...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago

Old Dutch chip is canadian

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 hours ago

This picture is going through the net for so long, still German news are trying to convince its readers that there aren't many American products on European supermarket shelves.

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