idk how to tell people this but putting "i dont give money to donation posts" in your bio is like walking around town wearing a t-shirt saying "i dont give money to homeless people" like did you know you dont actually have to announce that, and when you do, it makes everybody around you think you are a tool, because, again, if you dont have any money to spare (and, yknow, i bet you are still privileged enough to have more than whoever is begging?) then you dont need to announce it to world at large.
honestly it's even more egregious than the t-shirt example because online you literally don't even need to tell somebody you've seen their post or read their message or whatever. nobody is pointing a gun at you and saying "youre a bad person if you dont preemptively reject mutual aid requests" so, y'know, to me it reads a lot more like "i don't want to feel bad having to see a Poor Person experiencing Poverty in my periphery"


















