Were you aware paying for US goods and services means contributing to Trump's administration?
Apple
Google
Microsoft
Amazon
All the AI pricks
In order to stop funding fascism you probably want to begin avoiding these corporations. Also these are the things that will increase in price if the tariffs regime ever sticks, so best get used to it up front..
It is a massive undertaking to try and strip out US produce from my monthly budget but here are a few things I've already moved:
Video / Films on Demand
Previously I would buy and rent movies on YouTube, nowadays I use Rakuten TV because it's based in Japan.
File Transfer & Storage
WeTransfer replaced with https://www.swisstransfer.com/en
Email
Really difficult because my gmail addresses are 25 years old. However I already rent server space from Cloud Above (Newquay UK) and own domain names so am slowly moving the emails over - mainly the login credentials for shops, services and websites. I need to make a concerted effort to get this done. Once all emails are going to my non google addresses I'll be looking for an non-US email client to replace Outlook.
Footwear
I only wore adidas anyway but no more Nikes for the child.
Food n Drinks
I don't drink coffee, so don't visit Costa or Starbucks anyway, going to get my US food from either vans or make it at home. I did go to a McDonalds recently but I used the visit as a platform to discuss how a man in New York found a decades old Quarter Pounder meal in an old elevator shaft which had basically petrified and not gone mouldy - most probably because it's not natural!
I don't drink American booze, having a small modicum of taste but if I did i'd be swapping the bourbons for actual Scotch Whisky.
Apple
Microsoft
Amazon
All the AI pricks
In order to stop funding fascism you probably want to begin avoiding these corporations. Also these are the things that will increase in price if the tariffs regime ever sticks, so best get used to it up front..
It is a massive undertaking to try and strip out US produce from my monthly budget but here are a few things I've already moved:
Video / Films on Demand
Previously I would buy and rent movies on YouTube, nowadays I use Rakuten TV because it's based in Japan.
File Transfer & Storage
WeTransfer replaced with https://www.swisstransfer.com/en
Really difficult because my gmail addresses are 25 years old. However I already rent server space from Cloud Above (Newquay UK) and own domain names so am slowly moving the emails over - mainly the login credentials for shops, services and websites. I need to make a concerted effort to get this done. Once all emails are going to my non google addresses I'll be looking for an non-US email client to replace Outlook.
Footwear
I only wore adidas anyway but no more Nikes for the child.
Food n Drinks
I don't drink coffee, so don't visit Costa or Starbucks anyway, going to get my US food from either vans or make it at home. I did go to a McDonalds recently but I used the visit as a platform to discuss how a man in New York found a decades old Quarter Pounder meal in an old elevator shaft which had basically petrified and not gone mouldy - most probably because it's not natural!
I don't drink American booze, having a small modicum of taste but if I did i'd be swapping the bourbons for actual Scotch Whisky.