Buy European

American here. Personally, I disagree with the buy European movement. Getting Americans to buy American is exactly what Trump is doing by establishing tariffs. And if Europe was serious about buying European, then they would establish their own tariffs for non-EU countries. I would much rather see a buy "local" movement that is anti-corp or anti-America and more focusing on building up your local communities.

I say it would be a nice step forward. One step after another, this is how we May proceed.

I did not realize how deep american brands are settled in our habits and economy. Almost every succesfull brands here, since our childhood hase be bought by an american firm.

It's a first step that we understand that. And it is not only about turning out back on american brands, it's also about trying to make better for a better world.

My words may be naïve. I know. We won't replace every american product in 2 years, but we gain consciousness. So keeping on educating ourselves is one way to go forward.

It's more about changing ourselves than hating americans, for what they represent today is just what we are but maybe worse. We should not replace one bad habit with another but take the opportunity to be better.

I love M&Ms seriously, i buy a big pack like every week but i stopped since Trump went all craycray, its a hard (but healthy) fight, i haven't found an alterative yet.

If you're really serious that people should buy more European, then essentially tariffs are the economical way to do it. People can still buy stuff from around the world, but they pay some extra if they want to buy from outside EU.

Let's make a wiki to store ideas. I'll looking forward to it and would apply for a mod postition because I really like that idea.

Reach out to a political party like Volt Europa (Although they don't seem to be on the fediverse)

I'm surprised as well, but some national parties chapters are on Mastadon:

Germany 🇩🇪 https://mstdn.social/@voltdeutschland The Netherlands 🇳🇱 https://mastodon.nl/@voltnederland UK 🇬🇧 https://toot.community/@Voltuk

Also a lot of local chapters do, not gonna link them. They seem to prefer to be on Bluesky, this is a link to the European account: https://bsky.app/profile/volteuropa.org

On their website they list their MEPs, but none contain social links to Mastadon or Bluesky, didn't check whether they are actually on either of them

Just want to add that we shouldn't neglect word of mouth as a useful transmission vector. Anecdotal, but I've started dropping the idea in conversations with the people I know (most conversations inevitably drift to the state of things, so it's not that hard to squeeze it in), and most started focusing on that. A couple of explanations and memes later, and they started reconsidering their shopping habits.

I think we're reaching the point where the level of degradation is high enough to be immediately noticeable, which means people are becoming receptive, if only through survival mechanisms. As you've said, most people are simply functioning based on incomplete data, and this particular boycot is like a lite variant, mildly irksome at best. Easier to switch from Coke to American Cola (I'm not kidding, this is an actual fizzy Coke clone made by European Drinks - now discontinued, I believe...), or whatever else there is.

I do completely agree that a public, official campaign for this would speed things along greatly. I'd second trying to see if Volt wouldn't be interested in including this idea in some of their campaigns. Could also talk to local councils/whatever form of local government is available about this, maybe it could even merge with promoting local products in some areas (my home town has a lot of supermarkets which import apples, even though it's actually pretty renown for its apple orchards and natural apple juice, it's downright stupid...). This would imply creating some reading material at least, but wouldn't need to do much more than explain the movement, then send the readers to an accessible (and mobile-friendly!) web page with more info ("buyeuropean.eu" has a nice vibe to it).

Edit: another long shot would be trying to talk to local businesses and see if they won't carry some info material, like have a "Pop!" poster with the concept somewhere, or even carry pamphlets. Most local businesses are very good nodes for transmission because everyone knows the local shopkeep, and the local shopkeep knows everyone. Sure, it's not in their immediate interest to have people refusing to buy their stock of American products, but the process should be slow enough to allow them to adjust their suppliers. A 1-2 month timeline, thereabouts. Unless they have longer-term contracts, but I don't know how those stand now that Liberation Day has happened [Heh, remember ~~Michael Bay's~~ Emmerich's (my brain is melting...) Independence Day? Yeah, they called it Liberation Day, too. Better plot than IRL...]

Edit 2: I'm an idiot! These exist, apparently. Yeah, we need a campaign=)))

"We don't have some kind of platform where we can organise stuff without the algorithm just hiding it after a day"

theres a server/forum on Revolt called "EU Vibes" that would be a bit better for organising things than here or on mastodon. https://rvlt.gg/eSHZgSP9

they mention BuyEuropean and BuyFromEU in their description so im guessing it was set up recently enough.

Revolt is a Discord alternative if anyone isnt familar. its based in the UK but beggers cant be choosers eh!