I say if America wants to go it alone the rest of the world should let them.
As an American I try not to buy American
Macron’s government to every administration and projects : Keep buying MS Azure, Google Cloud, and AWS, don’t look at all the providers in Europe (and France).
USian here, stop buying American, buy European.
I worked for Google’s contractors doing GIS work, I have ZERO respect for US companies in terms of the value they bring to the table or the fundamental indecency with which they will try to rip you off or force you into shitty subscriptions. In the past 10 years large U.S. corporations have completely gutted what made them agile and valuable in the first place, these are just dead husks wobbling over totally termite ridden foundations, and the current economic crash completely makes sense to me for the value of these companies crashing.
There are many smart people here, I don’t want to condemn the labor of all of the good people here in the US, but we the average people of the U.S. barely get any share of the money you pay to large corporations for our labor, we don’t control our politicians, our economy, our largest corporations, our military, our immigration enforcement…the list goes on and on. DO NOT SUPPORT large US corporations that are holding our futures hostage, DO NOT BUY US PRODUCTS until the U.S. stops heading towards violence and fascism.
If there is any way you can obtain the fruits of U.S. labor without paying large U.S. corporations, now is a great time to do so.
As a dude in a red state don’t buy jack shit from here. The MAGA needs to suffer.
Where do you buy your panties and your douche supplies?
How is Macron so based? I, as a German, used to hate on France, but they are holy based the last months
You only see the PR stunts. And probably only the good ones.
In France macron is (or at least was) quite unpopular for what he’s doing within the country. But in foreign affairs he’s really based already for years I would say. One of the few persons who had visions for the EU before putin and now trump reminded everyone to be happy we have it.
So a bit like germany’s merkel huh?
Haha didn’t think of it so far but actually yes.
Why would you hate France ? We spent years building a strong friendship, sharing TV programs, sending our kids to each other, learning each other languages, making good deals… Let’s stay friends
European countries are ruled by queens. When PRC invades there’s going to be a lot of shrieking and crying! Poor little cowards.
I guess you took it too seriously. I love all my european brothers and sisters, its just an insider joke. you surely know that internet phenomenon. But im not even able to say it anymore! May we succeed in our countries friendship as we did in the last decades ❤️
Why would you hate France ?
Probably because of the same reason people are hating america in this sub: nationalism.
Another German here. I love France. And arte is the best TV Programm. :) just that you don’t feel alone.
My theory: Many germans just had really Bad French teachers and honestly its not very easy to learn the spelling, so since their youth they are a bit mad at France. I personally know 3 people that had to redo a year because of bad french grades. Nothing More behind it usually. I noticed its the same with French people that had to learn German. Some love Germany now , the rest projecs their dislike of learning the language on the whole country. However, at least in my bubble, people that like France are in majority. Even those that don’t speak french love to visit.
How is Macron so based?
He’s the ceo of a government who spend billions on “security” and propaganda, he gets advice from professionals on how to fool the average person too lazy to remember all the evil shit macron has done in its presidency.
He just continued the basedness that is de Gaule with his stance that US will turn on eurpoe some day.
As an American, who the fuck even has to be told that, by now? If you know what’s going on, you have an obligation to make American corporations shriek their fucking heads off as they hemorrhage profits.
As an American:
FFS STOP BUYING AMERICAN!
Most people?
I think sometimes people on here forget we have been filtered out of general society first by joining Reddit and then by moving here we are sort of in a liberal echo chamber.
When I interact with regular friends IRL, they don’t care and they really don’t understand what’s happening with the world. So it’s a good thing Macron is sayin this as it spreads the message.
I could not have said it better myself!
This and the subreddits I frequent are dangerously filled with people whom I agree with and that agree with me. Back in the “good” days when Forums were all the rage I was exposed to a lot more variety and got to talk to people who were worth having a discussion with. Too bad I was a young idiot and the forum I spent the most time on was paintball forum. (TechPB if anyone’s curious)
I am in even worse echo chamber, because almost all of my friends are queers, computer scientists or uni students.
I think it’s a bit hard for most people when there’s such an abundance of goods and services and nobody really knows where everything comes from.
You don’t have to be perfect, just try your best to avoid anything made in the US. If it’s unavoidable, don’t stress it, just buy the absolute least you can get away with, while looking for EU alternatives.
Or Canadian alternatives! Those are good too!
It’s true, just a couple of changes reflects on their books. One “this instead of that” per person goes a long way.
I’m just saying how most of the people I meet outside are. They don’t have these lists handed to them. They only see some Tesla stuff on the news.
We don’t need everyone to be perfect. We just need a lot of people, each making them earn a little bit less.
It wasn’t until all this kicked off that I learned just how many companies that I thought were European were in fact owned by American conglomerates.
Which makes MAGA’s “the world is taking advantage of America” rhetoric all the more infuriatingly hypocritical. You spent decades using the strong dollar to go on a massive global shopping trip buying up every other country’s companies, and are now crying foul that those companies you own are supplying their local markets instead of importing from the US?
I am an American and agree with this headline. Don’t cave in to the bully.
Coming from this authoritarian idiot this is straight nationalist propaganda. Don’t buy from evil corporation including french ones.
Hey @EU: don’t forget to buy Canadian. We have sweet sweet sugary beavers….and pornhub.
Mindgeek have been linked to multiple affair of human trafifcking, non consensual actress who acted under duress and not taking video down when requested by the said actresses
Pornhub is Canadia? TIL.
I been supporting you guys for so long.
And sometimes those beavers are on PornHub.
I don’t get it. Let me do a quick search…WWOOOWW!
and if you reeeeaaaaallllyyyyy like beavers, there’s a lil site called e621 I hear has got you covered…
Facts 👆
Can you please internally push to enter the EU in record time?
Thank you. Your bacon is better.
Wouldn’t want to be accepted in Europe under any circumstance.
Thats good, no one want to invite any Americuck to Europe in the first place. Stay in your country like a good boy
You do the same and we will both be happy. Eurocunts belong just where they are. Were it not for the USA you pansies would be speaking German.
Ghebt geen flauw idee wa ge over zevert manneke
jij bent een volslagen idioot
Bist du richtig in deinen kopf mein freund
ganz und gar, kleines Mädchen. Was dich betrifft, nehme ich an, nicht.
Mais non, maintenant je dois utiliser un langue d’une autre groupe :(
I personally spit on every American I see lmao. They’re mostly idiots
You spit, we shit. Eat shit You’re a peein’! 😂😂
That’s some straight up 4chan rhetoric, coupled with boomer-emojis. What an embarrassment.
'ant 'ahmaq 'ahmaq tamaman
France has a sneaker brand called Le Coq. Why would anyone buy Nike when they can show off their Le Coq is beyond me.
Wait Le Coq Sportif? I used to wear that as a kid then it went from the UK.
I love the Sporty Rooster.
Is it “coke” or “cock”?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWhTaK4nmgI
coq = cock = rooster they are pronounced basically the same, but coq doesnt mean cock as in penis afaik
I always pronounced it cock
You know which one 😏
The French have been avoiding dependence on Americans since de Gualle. The only reason the entire country hasn’t died of schadenfreude poisoning is because “schadenfreude” is a German word.
For anyone like me:
schadenfreude /shäd′n-froi″də/ noun
Pleasure derived from the misfortunes of others. Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else's misfortune. Delight in another person's misfortune.You’re what makes the fediverse great
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In case you agree but don’t know where to start: [email protected] [email protected]
Google translation of a few paragraphs
You have a one in seven chance of seeing your health data migrate to the Microsoft cloud and fall under American law, and therefore under the good will of its president, Donald Trump, and the Doge’s boss, Elon Musk. So, happy? Yes, you may be among the 10 million French people randomly selected as part of the Darwin EU project, coordinated by the European Medicines Agency and led, in France, by the public interest group “Plateforme des données de santé,” better known as the Health Data Hub (HDH).
In a decision published on March 11, the French National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL) gave the HDH the green light to select a random sample of 10 million people representative in terms of age, sex, and department of residence from the main database of the National Health Data System, the vast majority of which is issued by the National Health Insurance Fund. The objectives are certainly laudable: to determine the prevalence and incidence of drug and vaccine use in France using a standardized methodology.
Less laudable, the host chosen to store this data is Microsoft. In 2020, as part of a summary procedure, we already warned that sensitive health data of the French population hosted by Microsoft fell under American law due to the company’s domicile in the United States. In October 2020, the Council of State recognized this risk of extraterritoriality of American law. A month later, in a letter dated November 19, 2020, the Minister of Health, Olivier Véran, urged the government to completely eliminate, within two years, the risks posed by the hosting of health data by an American operator.
Five years have passed: the technical solution is still Microsoft. The US authorities, now represented by Donald Trump, will therefore be able to issue subpoenas to Microsoft to disclose the health data of 10 million French citizens. In its opinion of March 11, 2025, the CNIL (French Data Protection Authority) warns of the risk of “disclosure to foreign powers of data stored with a host subject to non-European law” and regrets the lack of a sovereign solution.
Are the very people in government who boast of defending our country’s “sovereignty” leading us up the garden path for over five years? Hand on heart, we are told that a call for tenders is being prepared to select a European host. Words, words.
Macron is a hypocrite, all talk no action
