• Deinonych[they/them]@lemmy.ml
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    9 days ago

    In that case, you simply just have to take the risk. A well-off person giving money to another well-off person pretending to be poor isn’t as harmful as a well-off person not giving money to a poor person because they think they are a well-off person pretending to be poor.

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      Giving money to a person pretending to be poor instead of a person who is actually poor is harmful. You only have a finite amount of money to give away and you would be wasting it.

      Very interesting way of rationalizing it though. B+ for mental gymnastics.

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        8 days ago

        2/10 for reading comprehension, i never said that giving money to somebody who doesn’t need it isn’t harmful, i said it wasn’t as harmful as not giving money to somebody who does need it. Please go back to school and retake your english exams

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          8 days ago

          You’re comparing giving money to not giving money, that’s apples to oranges. And it’s wrong anyway.

          You’re telling me that giving money to Elon Musk (someone who doesn’t need it) isn’t as harmful as not giving money to me (someone who does need it)?

          Lol it’s such an incredibly dumb phrase that I could pick it apart in any number of ways. You actually confused yourself with the double negatives in order to convince yourself of your own flawed logic lmao

          But seriously, send me some dough 😉

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            8 days ago

            You are doing a terrible job at twisting reality to push a “fuck the poor” narrative and im fed up of trying to be civil towards it. Please learn some empathy and stop trying to make giving homeless people money seem like a bad thing.

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            Also making a rich person marginally richer is objectively not as bad letting somebody starve to death you worthless fascist.

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              I’ve done infinitely more to help poor and homeless people than you ever will. Don’t try to lecture me about empathy.

              Sending money to other hexbear users isn’t helping the poor. You can lie to yourself about it, but if you actually wanted to help poor people, there are much more impactful ways to do it.

              You pretend that you care about marginalized people just to make yourself feel better. Just like billionaires who donate to charity and think that makes them good people. You’re a poseur

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                I’ve done infinitely more to help poor and homeless people than you ever will.

                You pretend that you care about marginalized people just to make yourself feel better

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