{"id":18565,"date":"2025-04-19T11:37:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/this-unamerican-life-can-you-really-divest-yourself-of-everything-from-the-us\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T11:37:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:37:32","slug":"this-unamerican-life-can-you-really-divest-yourself-of-everything-from-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/this-unamerican-life-can-you-really-divest-yourself-of-everything-from-the-us\/","title":{"rendered":"This unAmerican life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US?"},"content":{"rendered":"

iPhones and Google Maps are out \u2013 and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don\u2019t go making any new ones<\/p>\n

I really wish I had a Tesla. Ideally it would be a Cybertruck but any Tesla would do. Then I could plaster it with those \u201cI bought this before Elon went mad\u201d stickers, shamefacedly sell it at a loss and write a performative social media post about no longer being able to stomach the guilt of driving it around town. But as I don\u2019t actually own a car, let alone a Tesla, I\u2019ve felt unable to add my voice to the anti-Musk and anti-Trump protests gaining momentum around the world. Until now.<\/p>\n

Of course, I will not be travelling to the US at any time soon. As former US secretary of labor Robert Reich<\/a> writes, why reward Trump\u2019s America with my tourist dollars? But as I wasn\u2019t planning to visit America, this doesn\u2019t feel like a sacrifice, let alone a meaningful one. So the appearance of the #BoycottUSA movement has arrived at just the right time. Here is a campaign<\/a> I can sign up to wholeheartedly. But I plan to go further than the one in three French people who are merely \u201cavoiding\u201d American products. Instead, I am proposing a total purge, ridding my house and my life of any taint of Americana. Not a Marlboro will be smoked, no Manhattan drunk, no foot stomped to the exuberant refrain of Cotton Eye Joe.<\/p>\n

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\niPhones and Google Maps are out \u2013 and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don\u2019t go making any new ones
\nI really wish I had a Tesla. Ideally it would be a Cybertruck but any Tesla would do. Then I could plaster it with those \u201cI bought this before Elon went mad\u201d stickers, shamefacedly sell it at a loss and write a performative social media post about no longer being able to stomach the guilt of driving it around town. But as I don\u2019t actually own a car, let alone a Tesla, I\u2019ve felt unable to add my voice to the anti-Musk and anti-Trump protests gaining momentum around the world. Until now.
\nOf course, I will not be travelling to the US at any time soon. As former US secretary of labor Robert Reich writes, why reward Trump\u2019s America with my tourist dollars? But as I wasn\u2019t planning to visit America, this doesn\u2019t feel like a sacrifice, let alone a meaningful one. So the appearance of the #BoycottUSA movement has arrived at just the right time. Here is a campaign I can sign up to wholeheartedly. But I plan to go further than the one in three French people who are merely \u201cavoiding\u201d American products. Instead, I am proposing a total purge, ridding my house and my life of any taint of Americana. Not a Marlboro will be smoked, no Manhattan drunk, no foot stomped to the exuberant refrain of Cotton Eye Joe. Continue reading…Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

iPhones and Google Maps are out \u2013 and you can keep your existing friends from across the pond, but don\u2019t go making any new ones I really wish I had a Tesla. Ideally it would be a Cybertruck but any Tesla would do. Then I could plaster it with those \u201cI bought this before Elon …<\/p>\n

This unAmerican life: can you really divest yourself of everything from the US?<\/span> Read More »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":18566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}