The U.S. boycott remains strong. Why many Canadians are digging in their heels | CBC News
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Good for you! That’s quite the impressive setup.
I encourage others to find ways of getting off of US services and hopefully Carney will not chicken out and put that retroactive DST in and all the major brands will be massively hurt not only by the tax but the drop in Canadian subscribers. I really wish people and companies would get off of Amazon services.
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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.
Thanks for mentioning unwatched. Didn’t know it, trying it out now!
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
Nope. I’m listening to canadian music and watching international films these days.
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Nope. I’m listening to canadian music and watching international films these days.
Can’t go wrong with TPB
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Now imagune the effect if we was building alternstives to anything from the usa
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
I pirate them
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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.
Also why? (You probably said this but wanted to add my words) Unless you want your country to be batted around you need to stand strong. Is it for the best? Maybe not. Can we win? Probably not. But fighting authoritarian despots is needed to be a proper democracy. We can’t bow down to fascism.
I’d rather pay more (or way more) and give the middle finger to the US government, fucking despot ruler. We need strong allies now and not our neighbors.
I do understand how some could not afford this luxury and I hope our government would help them through these times, because I think that’s part of why I pay taxes to help the people who have less. I only wish it was more inclusive to help us grow as a country and tell others we helps others.
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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.
This is not the way things work. I don’t think there is a dislike of the population in general, and in real life, if you’re spending your money, no business is going to refuse or mistreat you.
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
Cutting everything that we can identify as American. UK has better TV. Foreign films are often better than the “blockbuster” junk out of Hollywood.
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Trumpi America can go fuck itself!
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Can’t go wrong with TPB
Fuckin’ right! Trailer Park Boys!
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I’m boycotting them for life. ♾️
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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.
The quarterwit Muricans have no fucking clue how petty and grudge-holding we actually are.
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I’m finding all Americans distasteful these days. They have a taint these days.
Yeah the stench of Trump lingers on 70 million Muricans.
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I totally understand the boycott and cheer you guys on, but do ya’ll not watch/play any American media?
Lemmy is Canadian so there is that. My next phone will be a nothing or fairphone.
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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.
I’m not visiting canada because I’m afraid to come back. American border security gives 0 bucks about citizenship anymore
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Thanks for mentioning unwatched. Didn’t know it, trying it out now!
I believe it was someone on Lemmy that suggested it to me, but no problem in passing it on.
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Now imagune the effect if we was building alternstives to anything from the usa
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When instances block words, I normally see it as “removed”. I think that @lost_faith@lemmy.ca might’ve self-censored?
It’s usually italicised, I.E removed
Lemmy.ml has a long list of no-no words, so a fun way to wind them up is to actually type an italicised removed, and let them think you said something entirely different.
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Can’t go wrong with TPB
I cut Netflix years ago when they started filling it with self-produced content. We don’t watch Disney or Amazon. TPB is fine but there is a lot of other Canadian content that you might not have been exposed to. There’s a ton of great Quebec cinema for instance. In fact Denis Villeneuve is one of the top director’s in the world atm.
We’re going through a backlog of asian movies at the moment. Watched a bunch of Bollywood recently and Tamil cinema. On Hong Kong cinema at the moment. Will be moving on to Korean cinema after that. We don’t watch that much so we’re set for the moment.
When all of this started it became clear that the US media, owned by billionaires/millionaires, was supressing the Canadian identity (just look at how the attacks against Canada are laughed at on Colbert/Kimmel who are supposed to be on the left). We decided to excise US media for the time being. It wasn’t difficult and we’re happier tbh
