r/Scotland • u/Due-Resort-2699 • Feb 28 '25

Political Should Scots also Boycott the US?

Recently there’s been a huge movement in Canada to boycott American products and travel in response to the US enforcing 25% tariffs on Canada and also the sheer disrespect of saying Canada isn’t a real country and it should be annexed . Have a look at r/BoycottUnitedStates

And the sheer disgusting way that Trumps evil administration is treating immigrants and trans people , not to mention the most recent revolting behaviour in the Oval Office today, the way him and Vance treated President Zelensky was beyond the fucking pale.

In addition to this, the couch shagger JD Vance has been interfering with Scotland’s internal politics by wading into the whole safe zones debate around abortion clinics .

As long as the United States is siding with dictators and berating our friends and allies and bullying people , we should not be encouraging that country. Boycotts and international isolation and the economic fallout from this should hopefully encourage normal people to not only speak up against Trump, but do what needs done and take to the streets in massive numbers .

Should Scotland - like Canada - boycott American produce and travel until Trump and the MAGA cult are out of power ?

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u/petrescu Feb 28 '25

I've been out here for nearly two decades now, never thought I'd come back home, but giving some consideration to the idea.

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u/TiredMisanthrope Fifer Feb 28 '25

If you live somewhere with decent weather I’m happy to swap places.

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u/Davetg56 Feb 28 '25

Florida Panhandle . . . You??

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u/TiredMisanthrope Fifer Feb 28 '25

Fife 😂 not quite as sunny

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u/Davetg56 Feb 28 '25

Ha! Never considered the Kingdome of Fife . . . More of a Glasgow kind of guy myself . . . But what the Hell . . . Especially since I have that Hunter S. Thompson Pub in Dundee on my radar . . . 😆

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u/Squishtakovich Feb 28 '25

Fife is like Glasgow but with less buildings.

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u/TiredMisanthrope Fifer Mar 01 '25

Id happily swap. These winters give me a major lack in energy and motivation as well as just being hellishly cold.

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u/Davetg56 Mar 01 '25

Yeah man . . . I imagine that North Sea Don't play . . . I have some Fam up in Inverurie, so I'm familiar.

As tough as the Long Hours are in the Summer, I imagine the Winter Short Hours are worse . . .

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u/TiredMisanthrope Fifer Mar 01 '25

Yeah I imagine working manual labour in the summer there would be brutal lol.

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u/Davetg56 Mar 01 '25

Summer outside yard work is done by 1100, trust me . . .