Boycott American goods - everyone outside the US

Would be more effective to boycott companies based in USA. Since many things made in China still benefit US companies. But the attitude also seems to be "I'll boycott it if I don't like it anyway." Which completely defeats the purpose, you'd have to boycott everything or nothing.
Who is really willing to give up PJ, Apple, get a new car (many cars made overseas are still US companies). There'd be very few causes I'd be willing to do that for

Wma31394 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I'm not boycotting American music.
Anything else would be easy - it's getting pretty hard to find anything that is made in the USA these days. When I see that that something is made in the USA here in Canada I'm mildly surprised.

As we are when we see things that were made in Canada..wait is anything made in Canada

Are Canadians really afraid of the dark? How I met your mother claims you are

Your tone suggests that you took my comment as some kind of insult or something? Or maybe you were joking and I'm missing the tone, despite mr. winky, haha.
I was just stating a fact. Boycotting things from the US would be easy in Canada. That is the only point I was making. I wasn't placing judgment... if I were, my statement would actually say more about how way too much shit sold in Canada was made in China. I would way prefer to buy made in the USA products than Made in China products.
And yeah, I don't come across too many things that were made in Canada either, besides food products.

PJ_Soul said:

Wma31394 said:

PJ_Soul said:

I'm not boycotting American music.
Anything else would be easy - it's getting pretty hard to find anything that is made in the USA these days. When I see that that something is made in the USA here in Canada I'm mildly surprised.

As we are when we see things that were made in Canada..wait is anything made in Canada

Are Canadians really afraid of the dark? How I met your mother claims you are

Your tone suggests that you took my comment as some kind of insult or something? Or maybe you were joking and I'm missing the tone, despite mr. winky, haha.
I was just stating a fact. Boycotting things from the US would be easy in Canada. That is the only point I was making. I wasn't placing judgment... if I were, my statement would actually say more about how way too much shit sold in Canada was made in China. I would way prefer to buy made in the USA products than Made in China products.
And yeah, I don't come across too many things that were made in Canada either, besides food products.

I was joking..no beefs with Canada, Canadians, Molson, etc...

Dirtie_Frank said:

vaggar99 said:

stay focused on an Uber boycott. It will hurt Trump.

Really?

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/01/30/uber-boycott-boosts-carl-icahn-lyft-investor.html

has more to do with morale

Dirtie_Frank said:

My morale is great. Maybe you meant your morals?

no, i meant morale.

bootlegger10 said:

So what was the beef with Uber? They helped people get to and from the airport?

Oh the humanity!

As a Trump opposer, I was (and am) disappointed in the Uber ban movement. It was reactionary and thought without consequence, which is the very thing we are opposed to with Trump and his words, actions, and policies.
The New York taxi drivers union joined the immigration ban protests by going on an hour-long strike. During this hour, Uber - whose CEO is on Trump's economic advisory committee - stated they would suspend peak pricing and many took that as a sleight to the taxi union and as support of Trump's immigration ban. Lyft then pledged to donate $1million to the ACLU and everyone started deleting Uber and downloading and using Lyft.
Uber's CEO has since spoke out against the executive order and stated they did not intend to break up the strike. They've also pledged to put $3million into a legal fund to help drivers affected by the ban and are offering immigration assistance to any affected employees.

bootlegger10 said:

So what was the beef with Uber? They helped people get to and from the airport?

Oh the humanity!

The left will use social media to destroy anyone who doesn't even remotely toe the liberal line.

do some research on the company/ceo's past.

Philip_Ireland said:

Bentleyspop said:

Philip_Ireland said:

"What really makes no sense is why you paid to be a Ten Club member if you aren't that into the band??? You can't post here without the membership so what was your motive for joining the fan club? Do you post in the other forums here or is your sole purpose for joining so you can post in AMT to dis the US and Pearl Jam?"

You misunderstand me, I am not dissing the US itself, just their leader and his racist policies. Also, I never said I wasn't "into the band", all I said was I saw them live and in my opinion it wasn't very good.
This was intended as a protest to a right wing government not a discussion on the merits of live shows -there are other sections in the forum for that.

Over the years there have been a handful of people who have paid to have access to these boards but only post in AMT. They are all clearly against all of the values that the members of Pearl Jam have publicly espoused.
They have been racist, homophobic, anti-semitic,xenophobic, mysoginistic, white supremecists, etc etc.

Never understood the people who pay to be here and only post a rhetoric of fear, hate, and ignorance while clearly not being Pearl Jam fans.

You are not referring to me, are you? I am none of these things - in fact my post is against all of those isms that you speak of.

Nope not referring to you.

My point was not that it's wrong to have a differing political, religious, moral, musical, etc opinion. Having differing opinions and being able to espouse them publicly s part of what makes America great.

My point was that there have been, and there are currently, people on here who have no interest or knowledge of Pearl Jam but pay to come on here and stir sit up. I.e. be trolls.