I was at the grocery store the other day and there was a bin of American broccoli completely full and untouched. The Canadian broccoli bin? Empty. Canadians would literally rather give up broccoli than buy American.

I for one picked had broccoli on my grocery list but opted for cauliflower instead.

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    For food, buying locally often means buying with the seasons, which isn’t a bad thing either. I’ve started trying to do this more and enjoy how much more flavour there is in the produce I buy. I have been used to always being able to buy anything I want in any season, but adapting to what is available is kinda fun.

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    I love how we are all setting aside our modern day individualism and desire for convenience, and joining together for a good cause! This country is worth defending. It isn’t perfect but it sure as hell is a better place to live than America. Let’s make it a country where mutual aid and empathy are central to our values.

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    The grocery stores have even added little maple leafs next to the prices for Canadian goods, which makes it a lot easier.

    I’m curious to see the numbers on this after a while.

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    Greetings from Austria! I’ve just discovered this lovely post in /all and just wanted to say I love it how you managed to get a critical mass to avoid US-american products, you really are restoring some of my faith in humanity. Keep up the good work, I’m boycotting with you :)

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    Canadians are also used to not eating many things in winter so boycotting products isn’t that difficult

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    I just bought an electric snow shovel for this winter… no more uncomfortable steps to shovel… then Trump started his shit, noticed it was Murican brand and returned it unopened

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      Be the change. If you’re American, take your money out of big tech, big corpo. Buy from local producers and family farms. Buy from coops. Buy from companies that didn’t bow down to the anti-DEI diktats.

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        I do this already. In the process of degoogling. I shop at Costco a lot and farmers markets It’s frustrating talking to Americans these days. It’s like talking to a brick wall. People that are on Trump’s d*** think he can do no wrong and don’t see the hypocrisy.

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          That’s all you can do yourself. Forget about the cultists, find those who you can get along with and help each other out. It’s gonna be a long time to get through this for any non-fascist Americans.

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    Good! It seems the only thing American elites respond to is money, and too many Americans are addicted to consumption to stop giving these assholes money.

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    Right on! Someone else in the family has been doing the grocery shopping, and my list is always titled, “Anything but American. If there’s no equivalent, Canadian or otherwise, don’t get it!”. Today I’m making ALL CANADIAN stew again! Had it the other day, some of the best stew I’ve made!🍁💪

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    Hi All!

    Kansan here. I see a lot of comments about growing your own food. Let me know if I can help answer any questions about growing greens indoors or other plants outdoors. There’s a lot of ways to efficiently grow greens indoors all season long.

    I’d also love to reccomend seeds if needed.

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      Nova Scotian here. Also grow tons of stuff if anyone wants help. We produce most of our own and have lived in 5 different provinces over the past 40 years. We have loads of experience indoors and out. Happy to help anyone out who has questions or needs help.

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    We are auditing literally every purchase. Netflix and Disney are banned. X and meta are blocked at the router. I’m actively looking for Canadian cloud providers for hosting. I’ve never seen such a thorough, deserved repudiation of America, long past overdue IMO.

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    I signed up for a CSA from a local farm finally. I’ll have fresh veggies grown a stone’s throw away for all this summer and fall. Meanwhile, I’m not buying American produce.

    Keeping my money away from Loblaws and other Canadian oligopolies as much as I can, too.

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      Thanks for your support! I’m just sorry really to the Americans who don’t deserve this, the kids especially :(

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        That would be those who voted Dem.

        Those that voted for Fart are getting their just desserts and did this to their own kids, and those who didn’t vote are finding out the hard way why not voting is a stupid idea especially when one of the choices is an orange clown.

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          You’ll never convince me to blame kids for their parents’ poor choices or wrong behavior.

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    It would be a nice bonus if surplus American produce became somewhat affordable to Americans due to foreign disinterest.

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      But it is not going to, you are only going to get F’d over some more. You import most of your fertilizer, Trumps tariffs will hurt you there. Trump plans on ramping up ICE raids so a lot of your foreign labour is going.

      What are you doing about it?

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        I don’t live in the US, but pretending that I do, you sound a lot like you’re blaming me. What exactly would you like me to do? I can think of a number of ways I could suffer and die for the cause, but not how to actually change anything.

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          Fair, I am going to pull a Canadian and apologize. I am trying to get over the Americans infiltrating the r/BuyCanadian group.

          I am not yet a full convert away from Reddit.

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            I am not yet a full convert away from Reddit.

            Part of a successful message to these shitheads is to stop using their services. That means Reddit. Quit today.

            As a bonus, when you take your thoughts and eyes elsewhere, the assholes trolling just look even dumber. Nothing takes the hot air our of a flatulent anus more than forcing them to play bugle for an empty room; the best internet insult was always “noone cares”

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        Doing the same thing I’ve been doing for years. Been focusing on my “main” guns, getting better with 9mm, AR and 12-gauge. Working on shelter and supplies far from here. Actually working on all that this week, off till Friday!

        If they come for my legal immigrant wife, they’re getting blasted through the fucking door.

        If Red Shirts come knocking, they’re getting blasted through the fucking door.

        What else is in my power? Marches and protests are a fucking joke. A general strike is the only power the masses have, and these masses voted for Trump. My fat-as-fuck fellow Americans dare not miss a meal to take a single day off.