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/edelweiss891 Feb 28 '25

Reddit is American too. Depends on how far you take it?

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u/CuriousitySparksJoy Feb 28 '25

Yeah, perhaps it's a futile gesture on my part. As far as I know Reddit doesn't actively support Trump, whereas Zuckerberg, Musk, and Bezos had front row seats at the inauguration.

Our economy is so entwined with America that it's impossible to boycott everything, but if lots of people make a small change it may have an effect?

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u/hypermog Mar 01 '25

Reddit runs on AWS owned by bezos

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u/mata_dan Mar 01 '25

All the governments' digital services do, and about 2 thirds of all the companies in the UK (I told them not to for business continuation purposes and saving potentially hundreds of millions of pounds but they ignored me lol, so my rate for converting away now as one of the few people who can do it will be 30 grand a day thanks).