Things I Hate

[Invictus Sol]

Victimology: the opiate of the socialist masses.

We were in Victoria on the tail-end of our vacation to Vancouver Island (majority being in Ucluelet/Tofino) and there was an old/blind guy crying on the corner (also crippled, for whatever it means to certain ass(****)s...

"Spare a little change". He'd call it out again and again. We ignored it and crossed the street but eventually I crossed back and gave him some money. Personally, I don't mind one bit if the government would take care of such souls. I'll pay an extra percentage or two no problem.

 

[GeneralZodLives]

Sam Smith - Stay With Me. F-ck I hate that whiney-ass song so bad.

Amen--especially since I seem to hear it every single time I get in my car

 

[devilof76]

"Spare a little change". He'd call it out again and again. We ignored it and crossed the street but eventually I crossed back and gave him some money. Personally, I don't mind one bit if the government would take care of such souls. I'll pay an extra percentage or two no problem.

And watch people 'in need' multiply like cockroaches.

 

[Invictus Sol]

Yeah, possibly. I don't think most people want to be in that situation, though (I know I'd prefer death to what that old man had to deal with).

 

[Lejuan]

And watch people 'in need' multiply like cockroaches.

Australia has a reasonably generous social welfare program. The vast majority of people who are homeless will have some sort of mental illness - otherwise nobody goes hungry or without shelter or access to medical services. You don't find too many people asking for spare change anywhere. There are always those who will try to get something for nothing, but the vast majority of people - imo - want to make an honest living. And qualifying for the various welfare dollars isn't easy. When the assistance is there for those genuinely in need I'm fine with paying the tax to make that possible.

 

[thenammagazine]

Unfortunately they know no other way, on the res they are encouraged to do nothing and to just collect a check. They even bully and ridicule students that try and better themselves. I don't understand why we as tax payers and the Government continue to just hand Native Americans money, to be honest they are POWS, but yet we keep them uneducated, drunk and on government support, if anything we should be trying to blend them into our society .

Because there's a whole party who continually relies on their votes.

On the flipside, there's a whole party who relies on the votes of those who open casinos.

 

[Frank]

We were in Victoria on the tail-end of our vacation to Vancouver Island (majority being in Ucluelet/Tofino) and there was an old/blind guy crying on the corner (also crippled, for whatever it means to certain ass(****)s...

"Spare a little change". He'd call it out again and again. We ignored it and crossed the street but eventually I crossed back and gave him some money. Personally, I don't mind one bit if the government would take care of such souls. I'll pay an extra percentage or two no problem.

The government will only treat him like a statistic and might spend .001% of the money you give it on what you intended. On the other hand, you treated him like an individual with some amount of compassion. We'll always have the poor and homeless, no amount of gov will ultimately fix it. If there's one rule I wish more people would follow it's "Don't put your money into something if you can't see where it's going." Even the hobo isn't exempt. It probably would have been better to have spent the money you wanted to give him on food/drink/blankets, then given that directly to him rather than just money because alot of those folks are hardcore drug addicts.

 

[devilof76]

I've never understood why government involvement in charity is necessary when there are so many people willing to help.

Yeah, possibly. I don't think most people want to be in that situation, though (I know I'd prefer death to what that old man had to deal with).

Have you ever lived with poor people?

Australia has a reasonably generous social welfare program. The vast majority of people who are homeless will have some sort of mental illness - otherwise nobody goes hungry or without shelter or access to medical services. You don't find too many people asking for spare change anywhere. There are always those who will try to get something for nothing, but the vast majority of people - imo - want to make an honest living. And qualifying for the various welfare dollars isn't easy. When the assistance is there for those genuinely in need I'm fine with paying the tax to make that possible.

60% of the state I live in receives some form of government assistance.

 

[Frank]

It's like that moment when you discover that the Ferguson protests would not have been possible if most of the people there had to go to work in the morning.

 

[devilof76]

Then there's the moment you realize that the reason they don't go to work is because the expectation that they should is the product of an allegedly racist system.

 

[Frank]

I'm so white, I keep myself down sometimes!

 

[devilof76]

Your white guilt must be off the charts!!!

 

[Frank]

I think Al Gore said it was linked to CO2 levels.

 

[devilof76]

Did you know only white people exhale CO2? It's science.

 

[Frank]

 

[Solidus]

Asian women with umbrellas in sunny weather. I just want to grab the umbrellas away and break them over my knee. Seriously, use sunscreen!

They're called a parasols not umbrellas . I see a lot of women using them in NYC. Nothing wrong with it. Sunscreen is pretty ineffective when it's sweated off.

 

[thenammagazine]

Asian women with umbrellas in sunny weather. I just want to grab the umbrellas away and break them over my knee. Seriously, use sunscreen!

They're better than the face visors.

 

[fosing]

They're better than the face visors.

those must be inspired from super sentai and kamen rider series.

 

[Frank]

Is it wrong that I think she must be dating an elderly racist owner of a sports team fresh off an award from the NAACP?

 

[Frank]

If I'm allowed another white male moment: I think that visor is perfect for female muslims in space!