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The community dedicated to boycotting the US until they stop fascism, restore full democracy and start following international law.


Americans have a moral obligation to resist Donald Trump and project 2025 at every turn.


America is a flawed democracy currently being ruled by oligarchs. Stop the backslide! Dont let America become the next Hungary.


America needs to get rid of citizen's united and implement independent district drawing and the single transferable vote so they don't end up having people stay home in life-changing elections because they cannot vote for their favourite candidate.


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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

Music to my ears.

[–] NotSteve_ 34 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I’m glad I got to visit DC in October. My company had a meetup there and it was genuinely a cool city with lots of neat bars.

Like fuck I’m visiting it or the USA again any time again soon though

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Glad you had a good time. I understand. :(

[–] NotSteve_ 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

Are you from DC? If so, I hope to get to visit your city again in more stable times. I’m from Ottawa, CAN so we’re capital bros 🤜🤛.

We're not as big of a city but worth visiting imo

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

They should bring back Transatlantic ferries and cruises where people can bring their cars, trailers, and pallets of personal belongings across the ocean at affordable rates. I guarantee it would be popular at the moment, at least in one direction.

I think currently Freighter travel isn't allowed for such purposes but it used to be in the USA?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Keep your fucking cars to yourself. We don’t want them here.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

They could always send the cars back or leave them behind, I guess, but I was just thinking as a method to make moving to Europe easier for the average american, to load all of their things onto the boat.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 minutes ago

You don't need a car in most of Europe.

Public transit exists in nearly every Eurpean country. It is certainly not great everywhere but it will run miles around anything Americans call public "transit".

Plus if you intend to migrate you will probably need to transfer your driver's license which may require a theoretical and/or practical exam.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 7 hours ago

Want to say good serves them right! But no. America becoming more authoritarian and insolationist is not a good thing for anyone. This situation very scary

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 hours ago

I was there two weeks ago. Expected a huge pain in the ass getting in and out.

It was a ghost town.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 hours ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 43 points 7 hours ago (2 children)

DC voted 90%+ for Harris. There’s almost no chance he voted for this.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 hours ago (3 children)

Sorry, it's been ten years of this. I'm kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.

Harsh? Maybe, but when even the Democrats are caving in to Trump's demands for fuck all reason, I'm just done caring about what the thoughts of people down South are.

Literally been told by "left-wing" Americans that my thoughts and opinions on their politics don't matter even with the bullshit going on, and all I can think of is how I as someone over the border wouldn't have to fucking care if they treated this guy like the fucking threat they supposedly see him as rather than do nothing more than tell people to vote as if that's some big fucking accomplishment.

If getting out to vote is supposedly all that people could have done against this and nothing else (their words and actions, not mine), then yeah, ya get what ya vote for.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

I’m kinda done with giving nuance to Americans.

Exactly the kind of sentiment the people in power making these batshit decisions want. They want people making vapid generalizations, they want people reacting instead of thinking. Acting out against each other instead of working together.

You're sick of this shit? We have to fucking live it. You want to give up? Fine. But don't blame others when things don't get better, while you sit on your high horse and the world burns around you. Cause it sure as fuck isn't limited to the US, it's just easier to ignore everything but because the US when they're falling so far from where most people there thought they were.

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

I'll rephrase it for you: You get what you don't resist. Also known as: History is made by the people who show up. The crux of the issue is that when it mattered, most people in America didn't show up (and no, I'm not talking about election day). Americans collectively share responsibility for not showing up, and nothing is going to change until they decide to show up. It's that simple.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 6 hours ago

I ain't the one giving up, I've hardly bought a single U.S. made product at the store since this nonsense started, and this entire ordeal has invigorated me to get more involved with my community and organizations that stand for the causes I believe in. I take a look at how voters and party members down south act for the most part on BOTH sides of the aisle, and the big conclusion I constantly come to is how Americans just seem to have a knack to give up on anything that supposedly matters to them.

I can go on all day about things that have happened over the years that have led me to that conclusion, but quite frankly it's a lost cause if it takes someone outside borders to explain politics within them, assuming that people will even care or respect what people have to say outside borders to begin with.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 hours ago

Now imagine how much worse it is actually being here and being one of the targeted groups.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

I couldn't read this because I'm done giving nuance to simpletons

[–] [email protected] -3 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

Take a look in the mirror, you literally commented on a post mocking pro-Palestine protestors for not voting for the Democrats and voting for Stein when, as always, it's up to the parties to bring in the voters and not feel entitled to votes because "oh but that person is worse bro!"

But I wouldn't expect an American to know how the right to vote how you want works. Democrats failed in not listening to their base and instead listened to monied interests from Israel, and therefore lost votes from people who dared to think that bombing innocent civilians and toddlers was bad.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Shilling for Stein. You lost 100% of your credibility

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Missing the point entirely, typical American.

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

We get it, you're bigoted and aren't curious. Which I'm sure you'd claim are only American traits.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

oww noooo, am I bewing bigowted to da pow widdle amewican?

Don't you have some Bill Maher anti-woke compilation to watch? Not responding further.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Yes, I’m not saying it shouldn’t be boycotted. I’m contesting the idea that the cab driver got what he voted for.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 hours ago

I haven't gotten what I voted for in twenty years.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 hours ago (2 children)

Did anyone in DC vote Trump?

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

Small point of clarification but Dulles is in Northern Virginia not DC because there's no room for an airport that size in the District.

Now, the Cabbie from OP could easily live in DC, Virginia or Maryland, all of which were won by Harris.