I’m not making some political argument here, I’m saying “boycott Russia due to its war of aggression against a neighbor” isn’t buying into “US foreign policy.” There are direct moral and ethical implications totally aside from any policy ones.

Make whatever moral calculus you want, just don’t play the goofball contrarian stuff and act like that’s derived from some high and mighty “I am independent from US foreign policy” lol

I do it on mandates of my home country is being invaded. It is not particularly about the US here.

Apart from that,

It should be socially unacceptable to come and grab part of the other country because "you want to".

By not boycotting, for me it feels at least like "one doesnt care", the worst "one socially accepts it".

As well as you can socially accept dark patterns on the web - they make money, customers pay - that's fine maybe?

Successful companies have a say in what is ethically acceptable. Same with green energy and other things that don't bring money short term but defend the better world we want to live in.

If you think Russia is the only country getting boycotted for its military action, you live under a rock.

If you think all wars are of equal moral clarity, you are deeply confused.

> and you do not boycott any companies in any other countries conducting wars

Perfect is the enemy of the good. Feeding one hungry person is good. It doesn't make one a hypocrite if one doesn't feed them all. (The person yelling about the one doing good being a hypocrite, on the other hand, is less clearly uncontemptible.)

I’m not happy about Kagi integrating Yandex. But I’m not going to drop them over it. That’s a personal tradeoff I’m willing to make, though I readily admit it’s trading access to a great product for participating in something evil.