Davide Aversa Sep 24, 2025

It is okay not to fight all the fights all at once.

Nowadays you may feel the urge to boycott ten different companies, stop using certain services, self-host a billion things, consume specific products, save energy in a certain way, and so on.

If you can do all that, great.

If not, it is okay.

Show threadEmma Liv

@thek3nger No. Sometimes shit is hard. We're all better served by advice to stay strong and toughen up than to give oneself excuses not to make difficult changes or to undertake difficult actions.

Of course we all need a break, but that means things like eating okay and getting enough sleep, not slacking on the fight itself. If a boycott is too hard, then the left is truly cooked. Resistance is not convenient.

Sep 24, 2025 at 6:06pmWeb
Show threadDavide Aversa Sep 25, 2025
@not3ottersinacoat I see where this comes from, but I don't agree for two reasons. 1) If I tell someone they have to boycott 100 different things and that they are "bad" if they can do that for only 80/100, the result is that they will give up on those 80 as well. 2) Boycotts have many benefits; I do them, and I like when people do them, but you cannot shop your way out of a skewed system. I prefer fighting for better policies to scolding people for making bad consumer choices.