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Sure, but there's a difference between existing in society and actively going out of your way to fund projects that are made by hyper-racists (the the omarchy guy)
No no, the whole "no ethical consumption under capitalism" thing means that there's no moral difference between my tax money funding ICE and directly donating to hateful people. They're both bad, and there's no possible way to measure how one thing could be worse than another.
You might be right but it is such a defeatist way to look at it. Maybe 30%-50% goes to taxes and you ha e no control over that. You also need food, a home, and depending where you live a car, so that limits your options. But the rest you have full control over. You can choose not to buy a Tesla, not to subscribe to Mullvad, not to donate to Omarchy. And with the money you save you can buy another car from a brand whose CEO didn't literally make the Nazi gesture on live TV, subscribe to a VPN that's not donating to a Nazi party, either directly or through a founder, and instead of investing time and money in a distro founded by a racist, you could use another distro.
It's only impossible if you say it is. I'm also boycotting US as much as possible due to Greenland and the EU tariffs. It's even harder because of how connected the economies are, but I still go out of my way to buy Danish soda instead of Pepsi or Coca-Cola, Italian toothpaste instead of Colgate, etc.
I was being sarcastic. I really thought the second sentence would be enough to give it away.
I didn't pick up that it was sarcastic, personally
It was. An intelligent reader should have had no problem with it.
A "/s" would have been helpful to note the saracasm.
There is no sarcasm in text