When the grocery store asks you to donate to Medicine for Orphans and you say no, you’re a horrible person who personally hates children. But when the pharma company quadruples the prices of said medicine for no reason at all, and they have a patent so no one else can legally make that drug, that’s just business and perfectly okay. And when the government slashes funding to foster care to reallocate to the oversized military, that’s just being patriotic.

Oh, and when Medicine for Orphans is spending less than 5% of your donation money on actual medicine, while having multi million dollar salaries for their entire board of directors, those are just administrative costs and you’re worse than Hitler if you dare to question such heroes and visionaries! And the fact that Medicine for Orphans is actually affiliated with a Christian church and won’t use any of your donation to help gay children, non-Christian children or children born from extramarital relationships? That’s just religious freedom!

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    Charities are actually also a funding source for much of international terrrorism .

    Generally speaking if your charity donation is going to a “war torn area” it is literally funding the further immiseration of the populace. If it’s domestic it is being used to undermine local businesses, provide a masive salary to a dozen white wine moms and soccer dads, and/or fund criminal organizations. And no matter where your money goes it is also being used as a tax haven/loophole.

    The “non-profits” of the big families: walton, bezos, etc are actually engaging in undermining national government programs like libraries, schools, etc.

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      The “non-profits” of the big families: walton, bezos, etc are actually engaging in undermining national government programs

      Please tell me more

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        The more that non-profits engage in certain activities the less “effective” the government programs are. So for example the bookmobiles undermine libraries, and private hospitals compete with public hospitals.

        The one that is the standout and is actually already well underway is the use of charter schools to privatize education. The Walton Family foundation owns/“sponsors” an obscene amount of charter schools all over the country. and they literally use the wal mart model but on schools. They will set up like 7 blocks away from the public school, attract students and then lobby to close the public school. It’s freaking disgusting. The result is that a pretty significant portion of US schools are now charter schools.

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      I’m happy that I didn’t donate to anything. I didn’t really like charities as a child because I felt I was wasting my time that could be better spent elsewhere.

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      Don’t forget Bill Gates, and all the amazing work he does with education and farming.