They're not pointing out existing resources, though. They're just vaguely pointing at the concept of resources. This is literally less helpful than telling someone to get good.

What would actually be helpful is pointing out resources that do exist, but also acknowledging that not all of these resources are going to be accessible. Food stamps are great. There's even half-decent rental assistance in some places, but the wait lists for it tend to be extremely long and often depend on you already having lost your current place to live.

What to me is frustrating and absurd is that this is some feel-good bullshit that doesn't help anyone. It vaguely promotes the idea of going out and helping people, but the people who post this stuff aren't willing to help the people who show up in the threads when they post it. These threads are also ineffective at connecting people who want to help with people they can actually help, case in point.

They are literally anti-praxis. It's a way to do nothing and feel like you've done something, which dissipates your feeling of having a need to do something. The person who posted this clearly feels like it's helping, or they wouldn't have posted it. It's a substitute for actually pointing people at resources or encouraging anyone to help specific people.

But if you're going to sit here and tell me that if I need help, just go accept the help? And not provide anything beyond the concept that help exists somewhere? That is utterly useless. If you want to say there's help, either link to that help or be that help.

Sure, there are people who don't take the help that exists, but there are far more people for whom the help that exists is utterly insufficient to help them meet their needs. It won't keep a roof over their heads, it won't keep them in stable employment, and it won't protect them from the hateful people who are actively organizing to make things worse. We live in a world where people on visas are being pulled off the streets by plain-clothes ICE agents who don't show badges, ushered into unmarked SUVs, and quickly whisked away to distant locations. We live in a world where people are being fired from their jobs because someone thought they were trans and harassed them in a bathroom, and where people are being arrested and thrown into prisons that don't match their gender because of which bathroom they used.

People who hate us and want us to suffer are actively organizing to do it. They're not talking about it, they're not pretending that it's possible, they're doing it. And if the people with the capability of helping don't help? The people who have stable jobs and disposable income and literally zero threat to their personal well-being? If the best they can muster is fucking hopes and prayers? That's not going to be enough to turn the tide against the people who want to hurt us.

Verbal support isn't enough when the forces of oppression and bigotry are taking actual action. It requires material support. This is not that.