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Another Reason to Hate Gofundme
My brother posted a similar article to this on Facebook the other day and I kinda felt the need to throw up the entire time I read it. I'm not sure why I was surprised. Three different GFM's have been set up for Officer Darren Wilson - totaling in the neighborhood of $1 million dollars. :-(
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Re: Another Reason to Hate Gofundme
I think the rationale is, "Well, his police career is down the tubes, and people still want to murder him, so... maybe he could use money?"
Presumably, those who assume he was acting within his rights and think that he's now got to deal with an unfair ton of shit "just want to help the guy out."
here you go
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eta: but this wont be a fun one to watch implode. Because this is actually a serious topic, not like watching an internet troll unravel. Emotions are going to run high.Yeah, crowdfunding generally doesn't make sense to me. It generally rubs me the wrong way when people just ask for a handout on behalf of themselves or their friends. Generally asking the internet to take care of you should not be your primary plan of action.
There's a Mexican restaurant in Ferguson which was damaged somewhat and which has definitely lost business. They're struggling to keep it open. They set up a GoFundMe page, which hasn't gotten much action. One of our associate pastors knows them from when he was pastor of the Catholic church in Ferguson, and he helped them open the place. Instead of asking our parish just to donate to them, though, he set himself up as their "tamale salesman" - the restaurant would bring as many tamales out to the parish as they could make, and they'd be available after Masses. We sold out midway through the line after the 2nd of 4 Masses.
I really liked that instead of asking people to "fix it with your money" he set up an opportunity for the business owners to sell their own work product and make their money.
Darren Wilson also earned $1 million for interviews. Hell, even George Zimmerman had money and GUNS donated him. I have no fucking clue why people would give their money to these shit stains, but they do.
Guuyysss I just saw a GoFundMe set up for a CAT. This girl found a cat and since she can't find his owner, has decided to be oh so super "speshul" and take him in! But she needs the funds to take care of it. Donate so she can feed the cat and buy it a litter box!
-.- girl. You are 27 years old. NO.
Holy shit, you can do that? I am starting a go fund me for this pair of Manolo Blahnik shoes. You ladies will totally donate, right?