[up_so_floating]

The OP is just virtue-signaling. He presumably still buys products from third-world dictatorships. Let's ask him. OP, how can you justify boycotting America and not China or a myriad of other countries that are ruled under a far more oppressive regime.

[nine_k]

Which products these might be?

Btw a number of vendors mark third world products as "ethically sourced", so it's possible to avoid products from dictatorships.

[toyg]

The difference is that places like China have very little influence over "us". We trade, that's it. Whereas the US, through Hollywood, Nato, SV and general industry, has humongous cultural and economic influence. When my Prime Minister goes hand-in-hand with your President and licks his gold-plated boots, we feel it. When you "help" our neighbors fall into civil war and we get millions of refugees, we feel it. And so on and so forth. This why we feel a duty to resist and condemn trends in American politics that we see as destructive: because you are our Rome and we can't afford you to take your imperial duties this lightly.

[geofft]

What's there to justify? Even if 'eksemplar is a hypocrite, but is accurately representing the opinions of a large number of Scandinavians, we, the US, have an economic problem, and saying "You're all hypocrites" isn't going to solve the problem.

(Also, go back to Reddit with your "OP" business.)

[RileyKyeden]

> (Also, go back to Reddit with your "OP" business.)

OP is short for original post(er). It's much older than both Reddit and HN.