Another poor soul saved from the orphan crushing machine. How heartwarming.
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A bit off topic, but this is why I avoid communities for "uplifting news". It sounds like a good concept at first, but then most of the news are based on that.
I don't want my tax money saving people from destitution. I want that guy to do it so I can read about it on social media.
And they call it doomscrolling! I do it to pat myself on the back!
This is charity, not Socialism. This is providing help at the whim of one person's desires or beliefs. Charity has its place but society should use its resources to offer help to everyone in need.
Edit: And just to be clear, when we talk about socialism, we are talking about democratic socialism. That doesn't mean there isn't free market commerce, it just means that the market is regulated. Even the U.S. regulates its free market.
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It's true, most conservatives want to be entertained and heart-warmed by the idea of feeding the homeless but they don't want to do it themselves.
And they're willing to pay more money to not do it rather than do it!
That's what Jesus is for, outsourced Goodness^(tm)^
Unless it's to give them physical support getting through a voting line designed to make people wonder if they should leave the line for survival sake. In which case they don't want anyone doing it, homeless or not.
“But I want credit for my acts of kindness.”
-The Righteous Right
How can I get into heaven if I don't get the points myself? Collective good works are only half credit.
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Wouldn't this work better if it was on the dumpster?
Having it on the door makes it performative, doesn't it
Yep. If it was on the dumpster, they might actually have to give a plate or two away.
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America was so horrified at the sight of bread lines that we stopped giving the bread
If we could trust every last person to act on charity, and every person to accept charity only when they need it, socialism wouldn't be required.
But will this sign change when a small homeless camp sets up on their doorstep?
Supporting the public comes with its own unique set of problems. You need to do this kind of thing at scale, or it will fracture and fall apart.
Exactly. In an ideal world this type of thing would be enough, but that's not the world we live in, and charity like this is just not going to cut it. That's not to say that it isn't a kind gesture, though.
i fully expect they entirely meant well.
What’s with the Windows 95 style inset border and black border on this?
It's called style, honey
Screenshots have gone too far. Time to learn how to save images properly.
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First time I read “incest border”. Time to lay off the pornhub.
Help me step-border, my arm is stuck in the drain again.
Where else should it be stuck? 👀
Why would the person that goes through the bins go to the front of the shop to look at a piece of paper on the glass. Surely you'd post this on the bin that night?
Feels like I could write a hand written receipt from oxfam, thanking me for the 8 figure donation, and put it on my tinder profile.
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The love the idea of performative goodness which costs them less than a dollar one time which they can then milk endlessly for good vibes with their fellow man buuuuut they really don't want to come off $300 every month so that the young woman who works in the same establishment can have enough to feed her kids well. It costs a lot more it scales and nobody personally thanks them or sees them being a good person when they pay the IRS to fund this. If they pay the IRS that is.
It's a design flaw that many people get more satisfaction out of other people's charitable actions than their own.
Really? I would have said that was a learned behaviour, with all those feel-good stories (& the hype & how it makes them respectable).
I have noticed I initially immediately distrust "charitable" people bcs at best I discovered their empathy is purely visual (like the shellshock of a crying child, but directly confronting to or advancing the causes of that are outside of view so fuck that child, we all gotta do what's best for us). Not to mention, it has to be public charity, ie they need to get something in return.
Beyond emotional support, charities are only for cases when society already grossly failed, not something we want to see more of.
So many people needing charity for things that arent even scarce, is just horrific & should make us want to make whether changes needed to fix the system.
It’s one thing to vicariously be a decent person and virtue signal by sharing such a meme, but actually paying for it? Fuck no.
These people love the sense of broadcasting their "selfless giving", and totally not for attention and influence.
Orphan crushing machine
My immediate reaction is that the owner probably took the picture himself trying to go viral and immediately took it down. Nothing gets solved in this country anymore unless there's a dollar to be made and looking like a good person is somehow more important than being a good person. Why would the person even read it on the front door? Why not discretely package some food and put it next to the dumpster with a note stuck to it? Nothing about this makes sense when you analyze it. The few real heroes of this country are unsung, the rest is just virtue signaling.
Always reminds me of the classic Brecht piece "Saint Joan of the Stockyards" whenever I see celebrations of "charity" like this.
There may well be much healthier stuff in their dumpster than peanut butter and jelly. Why not offer to make an arrangement with the person in question to let them take stuff that's about to expire? Or, like, separate food that's being marked out into its own bag and maybe even put it in a cooler or something?
There was a time in my life when I did a fair bit of this myself and I was mostly getting like prepared foods that had been marked out the same day I was getting them. Peanut butter and jelly would have been a downgrade from pulling a couple of days worth of meals with like meat and cheese and veggies and stuff rather than just sugar and nuts and bread.
Not to say that this isn't nice, but it may well be a less viable option on its own in the long term. I suppose they could always do both.
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