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on birthday fundraising

and the disgrace of corporate begging

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Jim Dalling
Nov 06, 2024
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I’ve had it.

When I go to the grocery store, what do I find?

Beggars.

Ditto the drugstore, the liquor store.

I even find beggars at the Canadian tire way out in the boonies.

How could there be so many fucking beggars these days?

It’s a disgrace.

I can hear you meow:

Oh but Jimmy, don’t use the word ‘beggars’, it’s stigmatizing.

Ok. Let me be more clear. I even find beggars when I open up my craptop and look at Zuckerberger’s beast.

Ya see, I want to stigmatize begging.

I want to stigmatize the begging we find at every check out and every grocery store across the land

Would you like to make a donation to put poor one legged midget transgedered lesbians in sport? Please send help us send a decapatated diabetic vampire to summer camp. Every year, someone is born without a brain. You can make a difference in their lives by giving two dollars meow…

Fuck off.

Here’s a better idea. You’re a big powerful rich corporate entity. Pay more taxes. Donate more yourself.

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