I like New Balance - they maintain manufacturing capacity in the US and UK so you can choose to buy trainers made in those factories, by white people and to white people standards, instead of the ones made in China or Vietnam or wherever.
I've noticed that recently their new advert had a black in it, but that is a universal problem at the moment and the fault of the advertising company, which I don't hold against NB. A NB executive can hardly expressly state in a meeting with the ad agency 'no blacks'. Well they could but they wouldn't keep their job.
You may also see a black modelling the trainer on the website of your preferred online retailer, again not the fault of NB.
They also provide full measurement charts online, different widths of shoe which other manufacturers don't do anymore because of (((economies of scale))). And they are sized correctly, so you will need to buy the size up from what you have become used to buying - because other manufacturers have fallen to (((shrinkflation))) which NB have not done.
But NB are just one Manufacturer I choose to support. I, like you, have become very choosy about how I spend my money and my purchasing choices are now quite political, considering the complete supply chain and the ramifications of what I do with my money, even if it it doesn't make pure economic sense.
The only things I struggle with are my TV, mobile phone and laptop purchases. Audio equipment you can buy domestic or vintage.
TV - hard one, they are all made by large gigacorps. Unless you go to high end makers like Barco or NEC for a commercial monitor, but those are not TVs.
Mobile phone - At the top of my head, only Purism has a made in USA phone.
Laptop - Vaio is now owned by a Japanese investment company and their laptops are made in Japan. However their focus is on business laptops.
Audio - a few are made in USA or Japan to choose from.
I struggled when selecting my most recent phone as everything is coming out of China. I don't have a particular problem with the Chinese people, but I understand that the globalization they are facilitating is responsible for horrendous work conditions for their own people and diminishing manufacturing economies for those countries not wishing to contest the race to the bottom, much like Amazon purchases facilitate a reduction in living conditions for retail workers.
I waa hoping that Essential Phone would succeed because the devices themselves are beautiful, however I don't actually know where the phones were made and the company has now gone bust.
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