Americans have had to invent novel terms to avoid using the ‘s’ or ‘c’ word with politics. ‘Mutual aid’ is a term usually used to refer tk grassroots organizing of communities to cover basic needs like food and medicine.

Referring to a common internet scam as ‘mutual aid’ is doing more work to smear the term than anything.

MBFC does the opposite of elevate conversations. It’s quite frankly a poison pill for conversations. People will apply their prejudices and alter their interpretations based on the ‘bias check’, typically before or instead of any critical thinking or ant article. of any article.

The last time the MBFC bot was going the user pushing it was very clearly aware of this dynamic. They also knew it was lumping everything to website source, despite authors and opinion pieces, for maximum damage.

The first year after the api debacle in 2023 was rife with culture class of redditors tromping through anarchist and communist communities and instances and freaking the fuck out they’re allowed to exist.

Those instances have resulted in defederations or there’s been enough fatigue and migration that these days its really just down to like 3 chronically obsessed users variously spamming about it.

“People live in cities and get degrees in college towns” map.

Suebi: lol

According to this chart… checks notes China bad.

Is this about where a diagnosis happens or where a diagnosed person resides?

There’s an area where most the US military, or at least the US Army, sends their servicepeople with disabled children to consolidate access to services and that area is marked ‘cold’.

Well we got the stuff like production down. Shame about the distribution stuff.