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Oh no, are profits in danger? Finally something the DNC can actually be bothered to care about.

The authors are conflating two issues. They mention the reduced tourism, but that is not about being anti-American. People are reasonably scared of getting locked up; why would anyone risk visiting the U.S. if they had another decent option (like, for example, any country that isn't at war right now)? ... And this is a totally different issue from boycotting American manufacturers. It's about personal safety.

At the same time, the anti-American sentiment goes hand-in-hand with tariffs. If the U.S. charges tariffs on the EU, for example, people who work sales in the EU will be hurt by the loss of customers. And then when the EU issues counter-tariffs, US goods become too expensive to buy... And this is all about basic economics, not about feelings.

And then, finally, there are feelings. Many people think that Trump (who is in the Epstein Files) is an evil POS. And most large American corporations supported his rise to power and are currently licking his boots. Supporting that evil man is itself an evil act, many people would say.

Anyway, these are three different overlapping issues, and Newsweek should have good enough writers to describe the situation with greater precision. But if you bring in the non-emotional arguments, that makes the U.S. companies look like big jerks, right, so of course the magazine couldn't be bothered with that kind of analysis. Better to describe the broader international community as moody or some shit like that. Meh.

This country sucks. Hopefully it splits up soon.

Sucks to be a company who supported Trump and the GOP.

You should be anti-MAGA, not anti-America

Leopards ate my face!

Oh no, anyway...

And it's working! It's so funny to see companies like McDonalds advertise with: "Your burger is produced in Europe" or the like. At least they seem to acknowledge that they are biting off one of the hands that feed them, good.

We deserve it

Please avoid our businesses and produces like the plague. Because you're giving money to pure evil.

Edit: and for my fellow Americans... Stop buying shit you don't need. Seriously, Christmas and birthdays need to be fucking canceled! Stop buying pumpkins spiced bullshit, TVs, and entertainment. Go cold turkey on all the shit they've tricked you into needing and wanting. Voting with our dollar might be our last chance at a peaceful change of values in our country. You don't need fabric softener, but the oligarchy needs you to keep buying so they can take more wealth. The money you spend on shit you don't need doesn't help anyone but the wealthy. Very little of the money everyday America spends circulates in our communities in an additive way. Build community not corporations.

I stopped buying as many American products as I could, but food even more so after they gutted the safety checks. I don't want your unsafe Nazi products here.

"worsening views of America are rapidly taking a toll on some brands' health."

Good.

The only thing the US cares about our understands is money, so fuck every American business supporting this administration.

As a Canadian I have never been so insulted and betrayed in my life, and Americans laugh it off or just altogether do not understand why we're angry.

And I wouldn't say my perspective is anti American, I know a lot of good American people. I'm very much anti Trump and also very angry that as a group Americans delegated their votes by staying home or voted republican.

I've ditched google, Netflix, etc. I dropped my Apple subscriptions (and bought linux computer). I don't buy any American food brands, I've moved my clothes purchases to Canadian brands.

The only US brand I still support is Costco, and even then I'm checking the labels.

I also have a few holdout things I haven't replaced, but I am working on it every week.

Lol at the thumbnail showcasing McDonalds, which ran TWO separate PR campaigns for the Trump regime, and is thus one of the single most anti-American brands in existence.

Don't give McDonalds another cent, ever. There are plenty of other option to get your greasy heart attack fix.

As an American I hate us more and more each year.

i'm joining the war on rising anti-american sentiment on the side of rising anti-american sentiment

Fuck major American brands fuck corporations fuck the bourgeoisie and the patricians fuck CEOs fuck “members of the board” fuck shareholders and the entirety of every Forbes list

I'm becoming anti-American, and I'm American. I totally understand why the rest of the world hates us. I don't blame them at all.

"Why do they all hate us?" wailed the guy literally pissing on a bunch of people snarling at him for some odd reason.

Gee I wonder where that could've stemmed from?

I'm american and am so fucking ashamed of this place right now. Hoping for aliens to come down --since they always land in the US-- and just start blasting...

I'm not sure that these companies or Americans in general haven't considered the notion that the damage will be permanent. They can punt Trump, but that would do zero to alter the machinery in place that gave him the presidency.

There's about one third or more eligible American voters who will without fail, sit on their asses and not vote. Two Trump regimes won't inspire these ratfucks to vote. The Democrats seem to be doing anything and everything other than tapping into the obvious stuff that AOC and Mamdani campaign on. And about one third of Americans want to be MAGA! forever, like having herpes.

Meanwhile, the rest of the world has to suffer while fucks like Rupert Murdoch and Peter Thiel run their show for them.

The US of Trump isn't a good brand from the outside view. From a European perspective it's an absolute clown show and it's unbelievable how long it's going on and people still taking any of it seriously. I mean the consequences are serious but none of the arguments and things being said. It's obvious nonsense, a lot of people are calling it out but seemingly an equal number of people just tries to spin it into 4D chess moves with even more bullshit.

Sucks to suck.

They spent billions of dollars and decades avoiding competition at all costs.

We can't have good cars or phones or anything really. All our appliances are designed to break so you have to buy another. Planned obsolescence. Enshitification.

Whenever I have a choice I avoid US products and I'm American. Because the products are either designed to fail or just worse. And for a higher price.

Even as an American, I'm avoiding American products. Now. Please give me foreign option for 1/2 the price that will still last about as long.

shouldn't have elected a disgusting cunt of a swine.

Major US brands can and should die in a fire

I relish watching US produce rot and slowly get replaced with alternatives from other countries up here in Canada.

Keep it up. The US can fuck right off.

Anti-american sentiment is largely justified. There's concentration camps and masked men kidnapping people off the street. People are proudly wearing the maga-hat symbols of trumpism.

As an American, good. We have too many chuckle-fucks here who live in their own bubbles, thinking America can do whatever the fuck it wants without consequence, like we're not all a part of the same global stage. We deserve every ounce of criticism we're getting.

There has been rising anti-American sentiment for decades. (Deservedly in many cases.) What they are sounding the alarm over is that Trump has edged it across the line where they have to care.

The reaction to Mangione was an indicator, and the oligarchs saw it even if the politicians didn't. Same thing here, IMO.