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.
