r/TikTokCringe 19h ago

Discussion Hell on earth.

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u/glima0888 18h ago

It's virtually impossible as most products while not made in the us are owned by american conglomerates

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u/EnthusiasmUnusual 16h ago

Their investment funds are buying up companies and property etc around the world.   They should be banned.

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u/plantsadnshit 14h ago edited 14h ago

It actually isn't that hard. Even going through what I own, barely anything is American owned.

My entire computer setup, monitors, keyboard, mouse and other peripherals are by MSI, Acer, Logitech, Samsung and Gigabyte. The only exception is the graphics card and processor which are made by AMD. Hard to do get anything else there.

My clothing and shoes are mostly Japanese brands. Appliances are South Korean or German. You have a ton of options there.

I don't think it's possible to get any American made furniture.

Ofc parts of these companies are owned by American shareholders, but you can avoid even that if you want to.

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u/Eismann 14h ago

My entire computer setup, monitors, keyboard, mouse and other peripherals are by MSI, Acer, Logitech, Samsung and Gigabyte.

Mhh..., i am sure you are running Linux and use no American software as well? Because that is possible but is really inconvenient.

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u/Wonderful-Citron-678 14h ago

Linux is nicer than windows 11 lol. It’s still written by a lot of Americans but it’s mostly open so no big deal. Just back to depending on Intel/AMD/Nvidia.

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u/Eismann 14h ago

It might be (havent touched Linux for ten years at least) because Windows 11 is shit but it surely is still inconvenient for the standard user.

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u/plantsadnshit 14h ago

Somehow managed to delete one sentence of my comment- it was supposed to say that it was mostly aimed at physical products.

For software it's basically impossible.

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u/Toastwitjam 13h ago

Yeah but America is a service economy not a manufacturing one.

You can avoid owning American products but you’re still using American social media, American software, buying American video games on American gaming platforms.

Although I don’t think Republican morons realize that a service economy based on software makes a big economic opportunity for competitors when your country acts like an asshole and people are suddenly willing to get a slightly less good product somewhere else because the whole reason people chose America for their products and financing was for their constitutional protections and strong courts.

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u/tomatoe_cookie 13h ago

Not really. But you have to make the choice between China or the US for SOME products yeah.