I’ve been thinking about America. How could I do other? I’ve tried to do my bit by going into Google and flagging “Gulf of America” as incorrect – it’s the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve compromised with “Gulf of America/Gulf of Mexico” for now. Should we all just start randomly renaming everything? We could call The Atlantic Ocean “Mexico Ocean”. It’s a tiny thing in the scheme of things but this madness seems to be what he meant by Make America Great Again. Make it look juvenile on the world stage. A man his age… And so many ridiculous proclamations and actions in a short space of time.
Trade has been such that the business of boycotting American products requires serious thought and discernment. It’s not easy at all. They are everywhere. But it’s a good start, rather than giving up, to try and try to leave things on the shelves so mister selfimportant rapeychild realises that these things go both ways. Many companies we think are English have long ago been bought by Coca Cola etc. But I’ve been looking for lists as a starting point.
Apparently all of these were always or are now American:
Microsoft
Apple
Google
Amazon
Netflix
Ebay
Uber
Procter & Gamble
Coca-Cola
Kellogg’s
Colgate
Pepsi
Disney
All USA films
TV shows
Facebook
Instagram
WhatsApp
Twitter
Air BnB
Sky
Hotel Chocolat
AmEx
Cadbury
Walkers
Heinz
HP sauce
OXO
Batchelor’s
Hartley’s Jam
Kraft
Mondelez (Eg Terry’s chocolate orange)
Asda (Walmart)
I copy pasted that from mumsnet (UK company) and it is not by any means exhaustive but… it’s a very good illustration of how impossible it would be to stop using American overnight. WordPress is American for starters so I’d have to stop this blog or migrate it. I’m working on a USA job at the mo and I’m going into work for absolute certain and working hard. But like the vegetarians wearing leather, doing something is better than doing nothing so I’m gonna try and exercise discernment until this calms down. Arrogance pisses me off, even if it is founded.
Ecosia is a German search engine. Environmentally minded too. Citymapper is British and it’s brilliant.
I think the west as we know it though is doomed by this man and his idiocy.
For us in the UK it’s nothing compared to Gaza and Ukraine. There’ll be a lot of him making enemies in the process of seeking this lost sense of American greatness. He’ll be promoting the lives of people who look like him. Putin will be waiting to clean up afterwards, and Iran and China, the traditional enemies. And now we are gonna regret scrapping those ships. He’ll try and finish the NHS health insurance takeover the Tories started. And he might have an itchy finger.
Get your iodine in, to raise your chances if you aren’t in the blast radius. Flood your thyroid with it when you see the mushroom cloud.
The next few months are gonna be really weird internationally as he throws his weight around, and he can do it – he’s got the numbers. Terrifying. I’m just gonna get on with my job. It’s all gonna be fine.
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AlBarclay 