This.
This is why I focus on food.
This is why I'm building apparatus and infrastructure for me and my neighbors to have free food. Post-scarcity food.
It isn't "being kind". It isn't "out of the goodness of my heart" or "altruism". Or any other dismissive infantilization. (I do care. People should be kind. We *can* take care of each other out of love and support and we should! But I fucking hate that dismissive bullshit attitude from folks who idealize greed and power and oppression).
I build mutual aid to remove the leverage of those that exploit and harm others.
Here is a perfect example of what I am fighting: ICE is using starving kids - a situation they and the people that deploy them have intentionally created - to kidnap and exploit kids.
If everyone was fed, they couldn't use this leverage. (If everyone had universal healthcare, corporations would lose one more means of exploitation. Et cetera, et al.)
Food is power dynamics.
To be fed is to be free.
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This is why Republicans hate school lunch programs, SNAP benefits, and allotment gardens.
A world of 1% "haves" vs. a 99% "have not".
If they are to succeed, they hope to bring back rickets, scurvy, & pellagra of the Jim Crow Era.
A low protein, low nutrient diet is how a permanent underclass is built.
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