somebody is def going to take this the wrong way considering that this is tumblr dot com, but as someone who was in an (among other things) financially abusive cult, it is… really eerie to log on here and see people regurgitate the exact same arguments leadership used to bilk thousands of dollars out of us 🧍🏻♀️
like ‘if you have a cent of spending money to your name, you have enough money to donate to us, and it’s selfish and counterrevolutionary for you to want to keep it’ is the verbatim line they used, and many people in our organization ended up trapped in cycles of debt/dangerous living situations as a result. i have nothing against mutual aid in principle but there are absolutely 1. blatant scammers and 2. bad faith actors willing to use various forms of emotional manipulation/abuse to get what they want on here, and it legit scares me how this website promotes gullibility as a virtue



























