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This is pointless. Your tax dollars are doing MUCH more for Israel than what products you buy. Boycotts are a capitalist distraction from the real systemic issues.
His point wasn't to find a CPU, it was to make a political post in a tech community.
I agree. We need more of these!
What if you live in a country that doesn't send any money to Israel? Also, boycotts do work.
Buhruh! Why not just stop voting since "your vote is only a drop in the ocean" or "it only legitimises a broken system"?
Every action towards progress counts. It's better than nothing, which is what people do if you ask them to change the world in one go. Change is gradual, change is slow, change can be achieved by the small actions of many. Not everybody has the time to "tackle the systemic issues" you perceive to be true nor does everybody agree that those are the core issues.
Belittling action, no matter how small, is discouraging and counterproductive.
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Voting is good because elections can be won by a few votes and ARE won by a few votes consistently. The tiny fraction off the top of your CPU purchase that might end up possibly supporting Israel is doing nothing compared to the hundreds of millions that, may I remind you, you cannot opt out of sending to Israel.
Changing what products you consoom is literally feel-good liberal shit to make you feel like you're doing something. Talking to representatives and protesting is way more effective, in the sense that one of them does nothing and the other actually does something.
This is why big companies continue making money, influencing politics, and can have more profits than some countries have budgets. Then people like you turn around and say "ermagerd, companies are destroying the world" with an iPhone in one hand and a venti in the other while wearing fast fashion. But at least you voted, amirite?
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You are severely overestimating the amount of people who, to put it the shortest way I can think of rn, are not NPCs.
Yes, what you say could be true in a perfect world where everybody or even a majority of people participate in boycotts. I still believe it's a distraction from capitalism's structural problems but they could still be effective that way. The difference is that the world we live in is not that world and therefore small-scale boycotts like this do basically nothing. The average person does not care what companies support Israel. Also a lot of those lists are literally wrong but that's a different issue. Also also, the government STILL sends a SHITTON of money to Israel whether you personally support it or not.
Not when there's an organised boycott, called for by Palestinians. You can do multiple things at once. Not buying something takes 0 hours of your time lol
It takes so little time you needed to make a post to ask for help lol
Making a post takes a few mins of time. Not boycotting is taking so little of your time that you needed to make 2 comments about it, wow
Omg such a waste of time that could have been spent scrolling through memes instead of trying to do the right thing.
Making a post takes a minute. Responses will take less than a minute. They were crowdsourcing specific and quite niche knowledge. In that time between making the post and reading them after a wait OP was able to do literally anything else instead of searching and trying to pull out decent looking CPUs they couldn't guarantee. If you were buying any CPU you would hopefully look for reviews or comparisons, BDS or not, to inform you.
This smells of reductionist "no ethical consumption under capitalism" ideology.
That just means living in capitalism doesn't exempt you from criticising the system, not that you can't and shouldn't use the mechanism of capitalism to help make life difficult for fascists.
It might not "fix" the problems but it sure as hell is making Israel pay while our national governments do fuck all.