It seems there's a strike against the #MetaDemon and people like me are suffering this ill organized "strike" which to me it comes across as a tantrum for taking their distraction (tiktok) toy away
News flash, fellow activists, if you plan to execute something to hurt "the man" you need to be aware of all the folx you could potentially kill trying to make a power move
tChump and the other goons dgaf if you don't use #Meta for a few days stop playing into the hands of those in power
Stop eating each other alive
Many use the #MetaDemon to fight for survival and very few platform users support #MutualAid the way I have seen on that platform
I get the issues with it
I get the desire behind such actions
But we need to be conscious when trying to make power statements
The #Mastodon users who have supported MA are few and far between and while a handful might #boost few let go of even $1 to help another survive
I can correlate user names and times support comes in way more than I ever say
But even then keep in mind how much smaller the #fediverse is as a whole with many Twitter users and TikTok users flocking to #Bluesky and the two platforms seemingly fighting each other
The fediverse isn't Meta vs Musk
Stop it!
Until we build decentralized platforms & use them as they are designed (anti-capitalist, decolonized spaces) things like Meta are a necessary evil for those of us who rely on #CommunityCare
I don't make this rant to say #Strikes are wrong I say it with extreme pleading
BE RESPONSIBLE don't hurt the most marginalized just to throw around the weight of the people vs the #facists
You're throwing away those you claim to fight for the most
If you care to keep my family alive I need $907 in 13 hrs
I'm continuing this rant with various posts I saw on the #MetaDemon - I haven't seen much about #MLK here today... But I also haven't had a chance to look
When you come from the lower class vs the middle class you know that humans are seen as supply and demand
We see our family members fed to the machine
- we are jailed for our skin: free labor
- we are jailed for our minds: free labor
- we are beat to conform through hunger and the elements: forced labor
Govt isn't here to care for us, they want control, they want slaves to bring them riches, policy doesn't bring freedom
We are here to care for us #CommunityCare is essential
More from the #MetaDemon from my friend (@)ComradeLauren
Just to demonstrate that we BIPOCs have been in danger from ICE because of BOTH political parties - I just really need folx to see that we need to stop entrusting our lives to "govt"
Yes I use SNAP but if my community would help me be housed and fed i wouldn't lose complete autonomy over my own care and STILL be slowly dying of hunger
The following link is the source of these images https://ohss.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2024-03/2023_0818_plcy_yearbook_immigration_statistics_fy2022.pdf
Three more to add to this particular part of the #thread
My family is in danger but I don't share this just because of myself, ICE has been leading many BIPOCs folks to be terrorized by physical and sexual violence in these "deportation" (concentration) camps since #Obama made ICE
At this point I consider all non-white politicians complete traitors #AOC is one such person who claimed to be green party
I almost fell for that
https://paypal.me/SabiLewSounds -
Keep my family alive please $881 keeps us safe from racists
I have no hopes that anyone with means would care to help give enough to eat so as my mother keeps begging for food I hope those who aren't just word pushers will SEE me and HEAR me
I understand trying to keep yourself safe but hoarding while #Disabled #BIPOC and/or Queer community members die is just as disgusting as being the person who lynches one of us
Be the change that will make a safe future for all
I understand the fear, I understand the situation more than you can see from me
I'm not some asshole just yelling and screaming to shame people
I am as human as you are
I am constantly in a state of hyperarousal because of my #CPTSD my system has been flooded with cortisol again and again for decades
I know that these actions of self preservation aren't because "libs" are demons I will never believe such a thing about humans
Shed shame and fear and act with love and light