🦊 One reason they're so pissed off about poor people using the hashtag to ask for help is that the hashtag was supposed to be an advertisement to the Harris campaign to set up shop on the fediverse. This was openly stated in the posts that started it, the idea is to show them look at all this money and enthusiasm there is to harness here, please join Mastodon. Included mention of contacting the campaign leadership about it.

And then all these poor people, useless cripples and embarrassing freaks and the like, started fucking that up, bringing down property values making Mastodon look disreputable.

So, sincerely, outstanding work by everyone who threw a wrench in that. Y'all got in the way of the sort of Mastodon evangelism that is thrilled with Threads and pines for corporate legitimacy. Keep fedi weird, don't let it become a manicured lawn for political campaigns and brands.

"Don't I get to decide for myself what I spend my money on?"

Sure, you do. But other people are going to see those choices and draw conclusions from that about your true priorities and beliefs.

Folks are not expressing their frustration with your donation choices because they believe they have any sort of authority over them - I think we're all pretty well aware that we don't.

Instead, folks are trying to tell you how they - the marginalized folks you claim to be supporting politically, to be clear - *really* feel about the way you put that into practice. Whether you are actually practicing what you're preaching.

Like with everything else, if you want to be an 'ally', you need to be listening to the people you claim to be an ally of, and follow their guidance on how to improve things for them, even if it is something you personally disagree with.

You have the choice not to do that, and to instead go by your own views of what is the best or most effective solution, but then you are not an ally - you're trying to be a *savior*, which is something very different.

That's your choice to make, but then don't call yourself an ally, and don't claim you 'support' marginalized folks, because you don't.

#MastodonForHarris #MastodonForKamala

@kamala Kamala ! I love you so much 😄😄😄 I will steal my dementia-ridden meemaw’s pills for you !! 😄😄😄😄

0/300 💊

I'm really struggling the pharmacy said my xanax refill wont be ready until next week. If anyone has any extras they're willing to donate that would be great.

Just mail them to my work at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington, DC 20500

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