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this is absolutely perfectly said

The reason you want an actual humanitarian aid system and *don’t* want to force everybody to rely on online mutual aid is because online mutual aid *forces people experiencing horrific trauma* to perform on the Internet for survival.

Which is not to say that online mutual aid is therefore always bad or that it’s bad to participate in it, but we have to be very honest about how it creates a pretty brutal competition.

What I am really trying to say here is "this is exactly why USAID and the international aid system it once supported, which is now close to collapsing due to its destruction, was Good Actually"

This is also why I really don't care for how an increasing number of people on both the left and the right (and in between) now claim that mutual aid is *better* than existing aid organizations, and therefore we don't really need to prioritize saving them.