BoycottUnitedStates

Written by u/NoxAstrumis1 on Reddit. True everywhere.

Now is the time for unity, not division.

I've seen several statements from various governments (including my own) along the lines of "we need to ensure we get preferential treatment from trump".

This is the wrong approach entirely. Begging for scraps from a lunatic's table is not the way out of this mess, uniting and leaving the lunatic to babble on his own is.

The free world cannot afford to start jostling each other for advantage, we have to come together and create our own bonds that exclude hostility. The US is one country, regardless of how large their economy is, we can do just fine without them.

Let's not descend into squabbling amongst ourselves. That's precisely what they're trying to achieve.

Written by u/BoycottUSA4Now on Reddit

It's so pathetic, reading how some Americans believe Trump's lies. Trump is doing the right thing, they wonder why a president hasn't done it before. Some Americans obviously are very simple and uneducated. Unbelievable. Nevertheless, we must not forget that there is still another America. Americans who go along with this boycott.

I used to live for about a year in the USA, years ago. None of my friends there voted for Trump, they are as much shocked as me. These Americans do also exist! So what are my reasons and those around me (Germany) for the boycott? Even before the election, Trump only stirred up hatred and spoke of revenge. All opponents would be eliminated. The criminals who stormed the Capitol in Nazi SS style, where there were even deaths, were pardoned. They are free and now the heroes.

Trump is not interested in the victims and their families, just as he is only interested in power and nothing else. Trump denies all scientific knowledge. Climate change is denied. Trump is de facto ending democracy in the USA. He has indirectly announced exactly that: You only have to vote once more, then no more. Trump fights any other opinion. Trump is dissolving important institutions such as the Ministry of Education etc. (Germany is already successfully recruiting good US scientists, just as the USA used to do.) Trump is only interested in money. Trump is not interested in people, not even Americans. He is only interested in himself and power. Trump lies constantly, only a few have the opportunity to contradict him, as Macron skillfully and kindly did on camera when Trump as always gave completely false data about the support for Ukraine. Pentagon deletes images of black World War II soldiers! He changes history.

All together. Trump is a dictator. Right now he is turning the USA into a dictatorship that is not better than China or Russia. These are some of the reasons. It has nothing to do with tariffs. As far as I know, Merz, the next Chancellor of Germany, was the first to say it, albeit indirectly like everyone else: the USA is the new enemy of Germany, of Europe, of the entire Western world, of the free world, to which the USA no longer belongs and can no longer belong in the future after this loss of trust, which cannot be repaired and will continue to put a strain on the relationship between Western democracies for a very, very long time after Trump, also in the case if US democtatie should survive Trump. The relationship between the USA and Western democracies is over for the foreseeable future. The West has already started to move towards a future without the USA. This will continue, and on a massive scale. Politicians from different countries have now said it several times: The West needs a new leading power. Nobody wants the USA anymore, because the USA is the enemy. And that has nothing to do with tariffs.

There are certainly many other reasons that can be added, such as the perverse game with Ukraine, which has shown the full malice of this perverse US government. Many reasons to boycott, but certainly not tariffs. They could simply be reciprocated and that would be fine, no more needed.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/59554422

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27449187

Paywall? https://archive.is/S0oZ4

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27426660

Interest in LibreOffice, the open-source alternative to Microsoft Office, is on the rise, with weekly downloads of its software package close to 1 million a week. That’s the highest download number since 2023.

“We estimate around 200 million [LibreOffice] users, but it’s important to note that we respect users’ privacy and don’t track them, so we can’t say for sure,” said Mike Saunders, an open-source advocate and a deputy to the board of directors at The Document Foundation.

LibreOffice users typically want a straightforward interface, Saunders said. “They don’t want subscriptions, and they don’t want AI being ‘helpful’ by poking its nose into their work — it reminds them of Clippy from the bad old days,” he said.

There are genuine use cases for generative AI tools, but many users prefer to opt-in to it and choose when and where to enable it. “We have zero plans to put AI into LibreOffice. But we understand the value of some AI tools and are encouraging developers to create … extensions that use AI in a responsible way,” Saunders said.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27407923

Summary

Tech leaders who once backed Trump are fed up as his second term descends into chaos.

Venture capitalists and startup founders complain about erratic policies and feel burned by crypto bro schemes like $Trump coin, which tanked after launch.

Appointing David Sacks as "crypto czar" only fueled suspicions of cronyism, while proposed defense budget cuts leave companies like Anduril and Palantir reeling.

Even billionaire allies like Jeff Bezos are souring as tariffs and economic uncertainty hit their bottom line. "Everyone is annoyed," says one disillusioned founder.

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/23647001

from the think-ahead-dammit dept

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Archive: https://archive.is/2025.03.25-052537/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-25/tesla-s-dismal-run-in-europe-continues-with-40-drop-in-february

Tesla Inc.’s sales have fallen in 10 of the last 12 months in Europe, with the carmaker struggling mightily at the beginning of this year.

The Elon Musk-led company registered 16,888 new cars in February, down 40% from a year ago, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association. Tesla’s sales plunged 43% in the first two months of the year, deviating from the 31% rise in industrywide EV registrations.

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