Penance may not be the right word. I try to keep perspective, and have to be okay with some coming through. If I lose that perspective, I become what I hate.
For example, my household no longer purchases from Amazon. Nearly five months clean
. But I refuse to research all websites and apps that use AWS. Now, effectively I am boycotting the part of their business they lose money on, and supporting their profit cow, but it is something, and close to 50 people know I don’t support them due to their ideology and censorship. That has to be good enough for me.
I recently backed the remaster of Into the Odd. The creator was the headliner for that bail fund project summer before last. Technically, since he is British, I see his actions as a foreigner who helped fund domestic terrorism. Having perspective, what I really think is he probably is super left, caught up with everything going on at the time, and likely a political twat. But he is not my enemy, and I am not his. I will get hours of fun out of the work. And it is quality.
I say play your game, keep perspective, and make an impact where you can.