Everything's a mixed bag. To truly "boycott anyone who crossed what you believe in, even in a tiny way" would require going full Uncle Ted and going off to a log cabin in the woods. And even then, unless you already have a remote enough plot of land to do that you'll probably be buying the land from someone who "crossed what you believe in, even in a tiny way."

And even then, you'd have to be truly self sufficient. I'm not sure even Ted could do that, unless he somehow made the sunglasses and hoodie in that infamous sketch all on his own.

As for me, I avoid buying woke media, don't give money to the streaming companies, easy things like that. But my soap and shampoo? I'm sure it's made by SC Johnson or one of the other big corporations. My food? I buy it from Kroger, which recently lost a suit over making workers wear pride iconography. I could buy it from Walmart, but well, it's Walmart. And of course there's Whole Foods. It's a matter of choosing the lesser of the evils.

Businesses and wokeist ideology are so intertwined across all sectors for the average person that boycotting everyone that did something you disagree with would be nigh impossible.

As for twitter itself, well, my question would be what would you use it for? If you want to use it to spread a message or gain clout then it's a necessity. If you want to use it to see what's going on, we already have workarounds like nitter that help with that. If you want to just comment on things? Plenty of options there already so twitter's redundant imo.

I think it would be more trouble than it's worth. You truly connect yourself to millions of others at a subconscious level. You can have a thought and an instant after you think it you can release it into the greater network and others can instantly react to it too. No time for refining, no time for thinking or analyzing, nothing so lofty as those. You reveal an innermost being to the primal void of Man and all the dangers that come with it. In the past maybe this wouldn't have been a problem but it only takes one other person in this whole collective of millions to get sufficiently angered enough to find you, trawl through your history and ruin your life. Are you killed? No, but you're fired, unemployable, and might as well be killed. If it were not for the various social safety nets in place today it would be assassination by proxy.

You don't even have to be currently connected to twitter for that to happen. Christian twitter recently had a big canceling over a guy's old, disused alt account. A Christian headmaster with a wife and four children fired from his job with his name and face posted all over twitter. His livelihood and lives of his loved ones instantly put in danger. The catalyst for it all wasn't even something that guy did. It was his association with a guy who wrote a book about "Christian Nationalism." The cancellers couldn't find anything on that writer so the headmaster was the next best thing.

Sure, great, even good opsec can minimize the risk but it's always there. The Silk Road founder had great opsec but just one teeny tiny little overlooked thing led to his downfall.

You don't even have to be presently offensive for this to happen either, just look at all the people getting cancelled for decade old tweets that were absolutely within the bounds of normal discourse when they were made.

Twitter lets us reach into the collective unconsciousness of man, but doing so leaves us just as open to the collective unconsciousness in turn, with all the good and evil inherent to it.

Everything's a mixed bag. To truly "boycott anyone who crossed what you believe in, even in a tiny way" would require going full Uncle Ted and going off to a log cabin in the woods. And even then, unless you already have a remote enough plot of land to do that you'll probably be buying the land from someone who "crossed what you believe in, even in a tiny way."

And even then, you'd have to be truly self sufficient. I'm not sure even Ted could do that, unless he somehow made the sunglasses and hoodie in that infamous sketch all on his own.

As for me, I avoid buying woke media, don't give money to the streaming companies, easy things like that. But my soap and shampoo? I'm sure it's made by SC Johnson or one of the other big corporations. My food? I buy it from Kroger, which recently lost a suit over making workers wear pride iconography. I could buy it from Walmart, but well, it's Walmart. And of course there's Whole Foods. It's a matter of choosing the lesser of the evils.

Businesses and wokeist ideology are so intertwined across all sectors for the average person that boycotting everyone that did something you disagree with would be nigh impossible.

As for twitter itself, well, my question would be what would you use it for? If you want to use it to spread a message or gain clout then it's a necessity. If you want to use it to see what's going on, we already have workarounds like nitter that help with that. If you want to just comment on things? Plenty of options there already so twitter's redundant imo.

I think it would be more trouble than it's worth. You truly connect yourself to millions of others at a subconscious level. You can have a thought and an instant after you think it you can release it into the greater network and others can instantly react to it too. No time for refining, no time for thinking or analyzing, nothing so lofty as those. You reveal an innermost being to the primal void of Man and all the dangers that come with it. In the past maybe this wouldn't have been a problem but it only takes one other person in this whole collective of millions to get sufficiently angered enough to find you, trawl through your history and ruin your life. Are you killed? No, but you're fired, unemployable, and might as well be killed. If it were not for the various social safety nets in place today it would be assassination by proxy.

Heck, you don't even have to be currently connected to twitter for that to happen. Christian twitter recently had a big canceling over a guy's old, disused alt account. A Christian headmaster with a wife and four children fired from his job with his name and face posted all over twitter. His livelihood and lives of his loved ones instantly put in danger. The catalyst for it all wasn't even something that guy did. It was his association with a guy who wrote a book about "Christian Nationalism." The cancellers couldn't find anything on that writer so the headmaster was the next best thing.

Sure, great, even good opsec can minimize the risk but it's always there. The Silk Road founder had great opsec but just one teeny tiny little overlooked thing led to his downfall.

You don't even have to be presently offensive for this to happen either, just look at all the people getting cancelled for decade old tweets that were absolutely within the bounds of normal discourse when they were made.

Twitter lets us reach into the collective unconsciousness of man, but doing so leaves us just as open to the collective unconsciousness in turn, with all the good and evil inherent to it.