Given the option, Why are you not buying goods made by your fellow countrymen? Do you hate your country? Do you wish economic ruin on your nation?
>I can't afford it! Yes you can. You are just high on cheap shit.
>my country doesn't make it Some cases this may be valid especially third world hell holes.
>x country does it better Probably not true in most cases. Still, so what? Support your country and your people. Sending all your money over seas is not going to help your countrys companies make their product better. It just gives the foreign companies more money to better their product.
So why are you cucking?
Carter Howard
>Buy 10 Brooks Brother's OCBDs in 2000 >Wear each one until its physically dirty, not just 1 day >Handwash and hangdry >Still have them 15 years later
Quality
Nathan Hill
Often the "consumer" product that are made here are insanely expensive luxury products but I'll buy as much domestic as I can. Pic related. I can't afford a guitar that's more expensive than an average car.
Isaac Ortiz
I work hard for my money, I'm not going to spend it on a piece of shit American car. American cars are terrible. Fuck your union too btw.
Xavier Morales
American cars are fine. I have two over 20 years old running fine. Quit making shit up to make yourself feel better.
And I'm not in a union but I am in manufacturing so thanks for taking my job away.
Cooper Foster
The only products I buy are MADE IN TEXAS
TEXIT TEXIT TEXT E X I T
Blake Ramirez
I buy polish products literally everyday, if you consider yourself a patriot you should do the same It strenghtens both the country and the local busines
Jason Nguyen
I don't care about buying Dutch.
But I do prefer quality products from European countries or Japan. Most of my photography gear is Japanese, for example, and it all has awesome build quality. I think most of my kitchen equipment is made in Italy.
Ethan Stewart
Pretty much only Germany makes mechanical keyboards. The others are rinky-dink shit in sink ripoffs
Alexander Roberts
> tfw when nothing being sold around here is Canadian or American made.
Thomas Perry
>shitty meme cherry mx switches
Henry Campbell
modern Ford Fusion is an excellent machine I agree early-mid 2000s were mostly terrible but they're massively improved since
Hudson Collins
Can I buy a used Chinese phone from a fellow American?
Jace Taylor
What's wrong with MX switches? I love them.
...thought they were mass produce in China though?
Ryan Scott
My father's Jeep keeps breaking all the time. The engine will probably last forever but everything else not so much. When it works properly, it's a good car but it should be more durable.
Isaac Diaz
>Fuck your union too btw.
The UAW is basically comatose at this point bro. The people working in the few plants still left are getting paid less than MCdonalds part timers.
Camden White
I try to as much as I can. I wear almost exclusively Dutch clothes and footwear, I use Dutch electronics (Philips) and I eat almost exclusively Dutch food. It's harder to consume purely domestic as a Dutchman though, we lost a lot of production industry after the 1970s.
For instance, it's barely possible to drive Dutch, unless you drive a pre-1976 DAF or a luxury (and unaffordable) sports car like Donkervoort or Spijker
DAFs are comfy af though, I'm thinking of buying one
Blake Wilson
My country doesn't make SHIT.
We import everything from America, China, and Japan.
Carter Butler
>god machine
the new mid-engine corvette will kick the rest of the world in the dick
Aiden Ward
Made in Germany. I feel that there are better alternatives though.
>Reds/Blacks Gaterons, smoother switch.
>Browns/Clears Matias Quiet Click or Topre (more tactile or quiet)
>Blues Matias Click or buckling springs (still made in the USA).
Philips sold off all their consumer electronics though. They only want to make health products now.
Smaller brands do make electronics in the Netherlands. I think our country is currently the world leader in fully automating the assembly of electronics. - this could become a huge industry here.
Chase Myers
A Dutch company called ASML is the world leader in semiconductor fabrication manufacturing tooling.
Angel Hernandez
Because fuck consumerism. I buy the stuff I need used and prefer local food when it makes sense ecologically and economically.
Easton Rogers
>not getting a truck like a man
Joshua Rodriguez
I know. Their market share is actually over 95%, it's crazy.
But I'm not going to buy an extreme ultraviolet lithography machine any time soon, I have no place to put it.
Juan Brooks
>not building your own state of the art semiconductor fab in your garden
baka senpai
Jason Barnes
I try to buy as much as I can from US/Canada/Europe/Japan. Some items are impossible.
Austin Price
At least the food is! Right?
Leo Baker
>America becomes Cuba 2.0, completely crippled by isolationism and lack of domestic innovation and subsisting for decades off the same leftover Chinese hand-me-downs Oh the ironing