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 (DIR) Post #AcGysdTHd1Sx8BjF7A by untsuki@udongein.xyz
       2023-11-28T18:00:00.265043Z
       
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       @vantablack What is even that name of organization? It sounds more like some terrorist group name than charity
       
 (DIR) Post #AcI7RSuds3olJJbXfc by passenger@kolektiva.social
       2023-11-29T06:59:26Z
       
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       @untsuki @vantablack It started during Prohibition times, as a group of religious ex-soldiers who would trash establishments that sold alcohol. They were defeated by a rival group of ex-soldiers who liked their booze, called the Skeleton Army.I'm not making this up, it's amazing.
       
 (DIR) Post #AdOelSriYcTJNtM0em by toiletpaper@shitposter.club
       2024-01-01T08:44:34.089578Z
       
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       Can confirm first hand this happens at most Christian organisations who engage in so-called `charity`. In the words of Oscar Wilde..."We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious. They are quite right to be so. Charity they feel to be a ridiculously inadequate mode of partial restitution, or a sentimental dole, usually accompanied by some impertinent attempt on the part of the sentimentalist to tyrannise over their private lives. Why should they be grateful for the crumbs that fall from the rich man’s table? ... Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less. For a town or country labourer to practise thrift would be absolutely immoral. Man should not be ready to show that he can live like a badly-fed animal. He should decline to live like that, and should either steal or go on the rates, which is considered by many to be a form of stealing. As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg. ... As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage."from: the Soul of Man under Socialismhttps://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/wilde-oscar/soul-man/