Charity Adverts
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Your not. We all do it.
There's just so many of them!
A lot of them are for the most random things too, like looking after dogs. If I wanted to look after a dog I'd bloody buy one. The ad even said "They send you greetings cards". No they fucking don't. I hope nobody gives you money for lying so blatantly.
There's just so many of them!
A lot of them are for the most random things too, like looking after dogs. If I wanted to look after a dog I'd bloody buy one. The ad even said "They send you greetings cards". No they fucking don't. I hope nobody gives you money for lying so blatantly.
I don't think they should guilt you into supporting the charity. You should do it out of your own will.
Actually, I see no point in donating to charities.
Don't get all angry yet, hear me out.
Poverty will never be abolished. Even if you give every poor person a few million dollars, others will be poor.
The only way poverty will be demolished is if we believe in communism. And the last person to believe that didn't end well...
Don't get all angry yet, hear me out.
Poverty will never be abolished. Even if you give every poor person a few million dollars, others will be poor.
The only way poverty will be demolished is if we believe in communism. And the last person to believe that didn't end well...
The best way I've found thus far is to give money directly to a school in Kenya.
My finace's Aunt runs the place for kids and their families who very literally have nothing but the clothes on their backs. The
£15 feeds the whole school (about 50 kids last count) for a week and the meals at school are more often than not the only hot meal these kids get.
Don't get me wrong. There are plenty of charities that do excellent work on the ground. But they have monumental overheads to deal with. The only overhead I have to deal with is getting Sterling from the UK to Kenya and I know exactly what difference my help makes.
My finace's Aunt runs the place for kids and their families who very literally have nothing but the clothes on their backs. The
£15 feeds the whole school (about 50 kids last count) for a week and the meals at school are more often than not the only hot meal these kids get.
Don't get me wrong. There are plenty of charities that do excellent work on the ground. But they have monumental overheads to deal with. The only overhead I have to deal with is getting Sterling from the UK to Kenya and I know exactly what difference my help makes.
But Hitler didnt believe in communism? Uh?Dkozza said:Actually, I see no point in donating to charities.
Don't get all angry yet, hear me out.
Poverty will never be abolished. Even if you give every poor person a few million dollars, others will be poor.
The only way poverty will be demolished is if we believe in communism. And the last person to believe that didn't end well...
Hitler hated communism with a passion, more than the jews. Communism is an antethisis to Nazism. Fascism and Socialism are completely at odds.Dkozza said:Actually, I see no point in donating to charities.
Don't get all angry yet, hear me out.
Poverty will never be abolished. Even if you give every poor person a few million dollars, others will be poor.
The only way poverty will be demolished is if we believe in communism. And the last person to believe that didn't end well...
I just avoid television as a rule.
The occasional piece in the Sunday times gets me thinking, though.
I mostly ending up feeling deeply misanthropic instead of charitable after reading the things. 1st world guilt...
The occasional piece in the Sunday times gets me thinking, though.
I mostly ending up feeling deeply misanthropic instead of charitable after reading the things. 1st world guilt...
Same.mikecoulter said:
The NSPCC ones in particular make me so sad, I at least mute them. Failing that I change the channel or leave the room. Can't take upset children. I don't trust large organisations such as Oxfam, you just never know where the money is going. All these adverts can't be free. That ain't a charity, it's a fucking business.
I'm just not the type to blindly throw money at something for a bit of an ego boost or whatever.
I'm just incredulous that our country (America) is so preoccupied with what's happening to some measly, disease-ridden, backwards hole of a country, when we don't even have national health care!
I don't mean to sound cold, but we really should be working on our own problems before draining our cash into a place like Ethiopia or Sudan.
I don't mean to sound cold, but we really should be working on our own problems before draining our cash into a place like Ethiopia or Sudan.
I watch TV to ammuse myself, not to feel guilty or sad. If you have in fact seen these commercials, you would know that 90% of the time some kid stares into the camera and looks at you like you just killed his whole family with a Kalasjnikov. I turn off the TV in protest of these adverts even though noone will notice anyway.DC_Josh said:
You're just like anyone else, if they're over exposed to something they tend to develop a dislike to it simply because they grow sick of it.
Don't feel you're a bad person just because of that. If the ads were for new cars or something no-one would have thought any different of you, and they shouldn't with this either.
Don't feel you're a bad person just because of that. If the ads were for new cars or something no-one would have thought any different of you, and they shouldn't with this either.