• Tier 1 Build-A-Bear 🧸@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Maybe I don’t feel like enabling a total stranger? Maybe I want to make sure I’m helping a problem with food and clothes rather than making it worse? Call it whatever the fuck you want Imma keep doing it and I don’t think there’s anything wrong with it

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      1 year ago

      The best thing you can do is donate to food banks. Either with actual donations of food or money donations.

      It’s actually a good idea to give food banks money because they get no end of cookies but no fruit or vegetable.

      I volunteered a food bank occasionally and we have enough pasta to survive the apocalypse. And every week people bring us even more bloody pasta. We could probably give it people to build as a shelter for themselves and still have more than we knew what to do with.

      Also we have 40 bags of kale. Which I don’t think anyone wants to eat even if they are starving.

      • Sotuanduso@lemm.ee
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        1 year ago

        But if you just offer to buy them food, then people on the internet will complain at you denying them agency.

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            1 year ago

            There’s people in this thread saying a gift card isn’t a gift because it has stipulations on how it can be spent. They’re not being super aggressive about it, but still. If you want to find that comment chain check my last post.

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            1 year ago

            I mentioned it on a Discord server and got such responses as “Oh shut up. Let people have agency.” and “It’s just restricting more control from societies most vulnerable group.”