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Donate if you can. I just donated to my local food bank. I challenge you to do the same.
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If you can, please try to find a way to donate without supporting cooperations like paypal who are complicit in creating this mess.
A regular ACH transfer for example will be much cheaper for everyone involved and paypal won‘t get a cut.
Never fucking good enough. There's always SOMEthing wrong with every charitable anything.
Fuck everyone.
"if you can, dont support the companies that are causing the problem youre trying to support a fix for"
"nEvEr GoOd EnOuGH!!!!!"
Doing more to make a bad situation better SHOULD never be enough until the bad situation is over. Do what you're capable of, not 'do the bare minimum because its good enough'.
Cant donate? Go work to deliver/serve food.
If the places giving food have all the food, but have a line. They need more people handing it out. That's "free" to do.
And if donating via paypal is your only viable option, then do so by all means. I just wanted to point out that it is not the ideal method and it always makes sense to explore alternatives especially when highly questionable cooperations are involved.
I think the word you're looking for is corporations.
Yeah that’s what i wanted to write but my fat fingers and autocorrect had other ideas.
Guess what? You're going to be buying food from "big agg" and supporting mean ole businesses! If you then can grow your own food and donate everything you don't need to maintain a minimum existence!
You don't need to go all Doug Forcett to do good. Stop purity-shaming people.