Political activism meets consumerism: a dilemma

[firecat]

I’m mad about what Mump is doing everywhere but what it’s doing to Canada really bugs me; I guess I feel kind of like Canada is one of my best friends. I grew up near the Ambassador Bridge in Detroit. I spent most of a year in Montreal. And I love how defiant they’re being toward Mump.

I’m not yet personally worried about money.

Should I:
-make a point of buying Canadian products to help Canada?
-avoid buying products subject to tariffs because that would mean less tariff money in Mump’s pocket?
-avoid buying anything unnecessary at all, in the hope that not participating in the economy will put more pressure on Mump?
-some combination of the above?
-something else?

I suppose I should make a poll but I am interested in people’s reasoning, not just their votes.

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[jazzfish]

Soviet Canuckistani here. There's a lot of exhortation to Buy Canadian up here, I think mostly driven by companies who know an advertising opportunity when it gets dropped in their laps ("maplewashing").

Naive and mostly-unresearched analysis: buying tariffed products is LESS likely to give money to MAGAts, because one of the things about tariffs is that one can apply for an exemption, and last time one of the biggest unofficial exemption categories was "donated a large sum of money to Donald Trump". So point 2 is probably not the answer?

I personally incline towards Not Buying Anything but that's more due to my own tendencies to hunker down and hole up (things are gonna get worse before they get better) than to any political statement.