Mind your own business!
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Only if consumption is conspicuous... like big concerts purchased via a parasite monopoly or their scalpers.
If they know better and there is no legit difficulty in not buying it then yes.
There is no reason why you would have to buy Coca Cola, McDonalds or other trashfood supporting genocide. There is no reason why you would have to buy Israeli anything. There is no reason why you would have to buy brands a Reebok or pay for Microsoft games.
Your employer forcing you to use Microsofot for work is a different matter.
If you do nonetheless, where you have no need to, you are choosing to support genocide and that makes you a terrible person and in a just world you would have to face criminal charges for it and have your money taken away to compensate the victims.
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I ignore boycotts because they tend to affect the common employees of the targeted company more than the CEOs they're aimed at. Congrats, you clicked on Brand X instead of Brand Y. Your uncle got laid off when the quarterly numbers went down, but a billionaire has $3 less now, and more importantly you feel like a hero. Way to go, Joan of Arc!
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The new Tesla model Y seems pretty great but I judge their drivers harshly. 100% of the people who drive one saw the nazi salute and still chose to buy a new car from him. If it weren't for Elon ruining everything he touches I would really want one. I judge cybertruck drivers too but not as harshly, many of them bought it before we knew he was a nazi and they just have terrible taste in cars.
I’m fine if they eat chicken fill a or buying a Cyber Truck, if they spend the same amount of time (using minimum wage as a scale) on community: mentoring trans kids, feeding homeless people, building shelter, changing diapers for the elderly, etc.
IMO if you do community service full time for a couple of years it grants you an entitlement for a douchebag car.
Who the fuck are you to gatekeep me spending the money I earned?
That's not what gatekeeping is
They're saying no one should be allowed to buy a product without also spending time and money compensating for the company owner's bigotry. That's exactly gatekeeping.
If that's the case you owe a fucktonne of money and service for all the Intel processors you've used seeing as Intel built the math machines that optimized the murder of Jews during the holocaust
That's not gatekeeping, that's being judgemental about how others spend their time.
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