spoiler alert, what you're calling "trauma porn slop" IS the community rallying behind something. something infinitely more important than buying television ads for a presidential campaign. something that'll actually directly keep people alive
wow we have been getting so many bullshit reports today trying to tattle on our users for the cardinal sin of... posting mutual aid requests or criticism in the #MastodonForHarris tag? lmao
it's always so fun immediately resolving those with absolutely no further action
...started the fedipact against threads.net and constantly boosts mutual aid definitely doesn't have the interests of queer fediverse users in mind lol. makes peeeeerfect sense
it's called DESPERATION william and if you've never felt it perhaps you should shut the fuck up about our plight
"i don't trust mutual aid crowdfunding requests online, they could be scams" has the exact same energy as "i don't give homeless people my spare change because what if they use it for drugs?"
gee it's almost like they refuse to take other people at their word when it comes to lived experiences and insist they know our own realities better than us
extremely ironic to bitch about not even real block evasion while actually literally going out of your way to contact me on a different platform because my instance has you blocked
"block evasion is when somebody accidentally tags me in a DM from their alt warning the moderators on cyberpunk.lol that i'm harassing people, leading to my suspension. but block evasion ISN'T when i actually literally block evade by emailing vanta personally to complain about this after the fact"
@vantablack This is like, the second or third time a lib post unhinged mask off shit about mutual aid peoples using their precious hashtag before scrambling to delete it after being called out?
@vantablack@cyberpunk.lol@rachaelspooky@cyberpunk.lol yknow what, the only reason i (and the other headmates) dont do a post too is to avoid people accidentally double-donating when they are spreading money across multiple MA posts. if only the #MastodonForHarris people had integrity too
@vantablack@rachaelspooky Pretending that peoples who disagree with them are bots/trolls paid by whoever/aren’t real in one way or an other is a common coping mechanism liberals who pretend to be progressives use when peoples to their left politically point out their hypocrisy.
"Plural" is their way of not publicly acknowledging that many of the primary critics of #MastodonForHarris being such aholes also happen to be Black, and that goes against their professed beliefs in pushing "racial equality" through neoliberals like Obama or Copmala/
@vantablack imagine thinking that #mutualaid posts are a "scam" when multiple people ask for money, give an explanation for why they need it and what specifically they're going to use it for but not taking even one second the consider that the #mastodonforharris group, which has plenty of campaign money already, might be grifting. Absolute clown mentality.
posting this again for the new hashtag #Mastodon4Harris (they moved, note the "4" instead of "for")
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@vantablack this why I've avoided using that name, and I preemptively set up filters associated with that candidate. They love to troll in her name, been that way since her failed presidential primary.
@vantablack Vanta honey for realz, please try and take time out from this affray. You've already done so much, and staying here is not gonna be healthy for you.
And, also....this nonsense that electing more Democrats will create sooooo much opportunity and jobs that there will be no excuse or reason for #MutualAid "begging" is far more a conservative DLC/Clintonite Democrat view of "starving poor people will help us nudge them to the Manpower agencies for minimum wage jobs." This is the embodiment of Liberals lurching hard Right.