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by dgellow 1079 days ago
You don’t have to take it to the extreme, as if it was an absolute. In this case it’s avoiding Tesla, which isn’t really that hard.
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Exactly. Some boycotts are easier than others. Lots of companies sell good electric cars now.

For a long time I also tried to boycott the shittiest oil companies, but after Deepwater Horizon, I realised that's all of them, and I still don't have an electric car.

Although in the case of Tesla, there are also less principled reasons to avoid it: after seeing his handling of Twitter, it's hard to believe he's actually a good CEO. Can I really trust Tesla's quality? Not to mention what effect his erratic behaviour may have on the support I would depend on.