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trump puts 25% tariffs on Aussie steel and aluminium (www.msn.com)
submitted 2 days ago by TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone to c/australia@aussie.zone
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I hope we respond by putting tariffs on American pickups. Democratic nations need to cut the US out of the global economy entirely until they learn how to act right.

Apologies if there's any weirdness in this post, it's my first one.

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[โ€“] kudra@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 days ago (11 children)

I think we can all do something. I know our economy is tiny, but Australia buys way more from the US than they buy from us... and you know what a big chunk of that is? Services. Some of those are hard to shift but others are easier.

I've hosted all my websites and registered all my domains in the US for over 20 years.

That changed yesterday and I'm transferring everything over to Australia.

For Fedi, look at Australian servers where you can. Subscriptions? Fuck off Netflix et al. Get out of Google as much as you can. If you're here you are probably already out of FB and Reddit, but leave anything else you can that is US based and try to support AU or EU.

Don't buy US foods, cars, or technology where possible (let's face it, most of those are crap anyway).

And you know what, most of the US based internet is shit now too. It was fun 20 years ago, but consistent enshittification has been the worst in the US. At least the EU is trying to fight it.

Yes our economy is tiny, but we can change more than you might think, and as the rest of the world probably will do similar, the US won't be quite as well off as it thinks it is.

[โ€“] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 12 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Never been on Facebook, just got a lifetime ban from Reddit for being mean to magats. ๐Ÿคฃ

[โ€“] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I got one over the weekend for making an off the cuff joke about punching members of a hate group for 'inciting violence'. Context and nuance is too hard for them, I guess. I spent too much time there anyway. Happily deleted my entire account, as I have also done for Facebook. This place seems ok, if a little underpopulated right now.

[โ€“] TheCriticalMember@aussie.zone 2 points 1 day ago

Haha, I'm just operating under the assumption that we're all Reddit rejects and this place is likely to get quite a bit busier in the near future. ๐Ÿคฃ

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