Can't wait to see some Teslas upside down at the dealership
this post was submitted on 11 Mar 2025
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Teslas are shit quality anyway, just like every other American car. That, and Tesla employees like to jerk off to videos Teslas are recording of naked people in their garages, although every car manufacturer is participating in surveillance capitalism.
We should do that to US foods in the US.
We should do that to US ~~foods~~ flags in the US.
Haha, Don't.
Is there actually any evidence of this happening? Isn't this just a photo of a couple items upside down in a shop?
I haven't seen anything like that in any store or supermarket here in Spain. Nor even hear about this until now. So I say it's just a couple off items upside-down in a shop.
The more people know about this, the mรธte they can do these things themselves
Like, you and I could do this to our local shop for example, although, I'd probably talk with the workers there first haha. If the workers are going to keep flipping them back then there won't really be too much point
A single random picture isn't actual evidence of this happening at all.
is this a court case?
Yes.
I saw this in a Canadian article as well.
People check to see if they're American and then turn them upside down so the next person doesn't have to look it up. Not so much a protest as a warning to others who care.
I donโt believe this. The average Canadian/Eurooean is not aware of associated situation.
Edit: ok so the Canadians seem to have a proper movement going.
With the average European however I stand my ground, most are not aware or gaf
Canadian here, everyone is talking about it and going out of their way to buy Canadian. Fuck the US and all their idiots.
The average European is following this more closely than their own countries politics.
Thatโs just our lemmy bubble I think. The human tends to overestimate societyโs opinion on the topics they are invested in, imo
No. Thats based off people I know and talk to irl.
America: declares economic war vs the entire world.
Americans: "Good thing people don't pay attention to things that directly effect them"
It's like they expect everyone else to be as ignorant as they are.
Its far more entertaining than whats happening here anyway.
Clearly you aren't from around here then. Everyone I've talked to is avoiding American products and I've personally seen upside-down items. Maaaaaaybe you shouldn't make statements about the average Canadian if you're not informed.
Youโre right! Gonna consider that in the future
Much appreciated!
its still fun thing to see :)
We should do this here in the USA too because American food companies make garbage food where everything has high fructose corn syrup and 50 other highly processed ingredients while the European equivalent has 5. Whenever anyone comes to the US, they always put on weight while not changing eating habits. That, along with shrinkflation and a number of greedy practices, Iโd like to see these companies all go bankrupt.
Absolutely!
As an American who has gotten to travel to Scandinavia, the food is so much more fresh and high quality. Even the basic stuff like a hotel breakfast or workplace cafeteria lunch.
It was one difference among a thousand others that I noticed when being there in person. I remember thinking to myself โwhat is this strange vibe Iโm getting from all these cultural differences? Oh, itโs human dignity, respect for others, and in turn respect for oneself.โ
I want to say โEurope, help!โ but I know they have to protect themselves and the world from our shit show first.
I could tell this was Lidl just from the font on the prices.
If I want to boycott American, buying Lidl and Aldi own brands is an easy way to do this, yes? I'm doing this by default because I have an easily navigatable Lidl that I can walk to.
Lidls owner Schwarz is heavily invested in an Israeli "cybersecurity" start-up run by a former Mossad director. As always with Israeli "cybersecurity" that embraces "former" ties to intelligence, you should expect ongoing ties to Israeli and US intelligence agencies.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3923098,00.html
These are the kind of people that helped get Trump elected.
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/security-aviation/2023-02-15/ty-article-magazine/.premium/cambridge-analyticas-israeli-black-ops-team-exposed-at-last/00000186-4b78-da04-a186-7bfa41fe0000
https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-jd-vance-peter-thiel-founded-company-helps-israel-kill-lists-palestinians-gaza
I am American and I am doing all my grocery shopping either at Aldi or from farmer markets now. Fuck Musk, fuck Trump, and fuck the US for falling to fascist oligarchy.
Glory to Ukraine. Glory to Democracy
Hear hear!
All non eu products? Or jus american products
Is there a list somewhere of commonly found American products in European supermarket so that I can definitely not do a bit of this..?
I lose track of all the daughter companies and such that one should watch out for.
minus Nestle (sadly) and Unilever
This picture is going through the net for so long, still German news are trying to convince its readers that there aren't many American products on European supermarket shelves.
This image alone proves that governments only care about monopolies in writing ๐
Edit: Aw fuck, Ms Vickies is Canadian but owned by Pepsi? Fml. So in the end, it's not really Canadian. We can't have anything good...
Old Dutch chip is canadian
I hope so, I'm running out of chips that are real Canadian chips ๐
TIL Garnier is affiliated with Nestlรฉ. And here I thought I found good vegan bleach to dye my hair. Smh my head
Here is a list that may be helpful
And if you were not totally against using AI, then you could load that list to Mistral, take a pic and identify things quickly. As per the photo.
Thanks! I find the method interesting. Are the results mostly accurate in your experience?
I havenโt done any proper validation - was just a very basic PoC, using resources available to anyone (a list of companies and their subsidiary brands + free LLM) to see if it would work in principle.
The file itself is sourced from Wikipedia, so is probably accurate enough if you just wanted to ctrl+f and search manually.
I wouldn't do it because I just don't feel like being that akward (it's already akward for me to be in a store).
But I do appreciate it, I do mostly buy store brand products so don't expect i'll be contributing much to the US brands.