Bernie’s lasting legacy: massively increasing the fleecing of suckers for small political donations. the Chris Roberts of politics

Right? How much is Barry even worth, now? Why doesn’t Nancy throw down 100m for the most important election of our lives? Fuck them.

Why would I give them money? I could buy weed with that money…

Without sounds utterly heartless and mean, this is why I hate “charity”. I hate when barons, pharaohs, kings, and merchant princes, ask me to donate to a charity. It really always makes me think “how about YOU donate dude?”, and dude can be a person or a MEGACORP. I hate when I got to a store buy my goods and they ask “Would you like to donate to XYZ?” and I just think, why are poor people asking other poor people to donate to a charity on behalf of a MEGACORP? It just feels so wrong to me. I tend not to do so. I’ll donate to a “gofundme” or a something I know that organizers are really doing some good work for those that really need, but I always feel like so many “XYZ research fund” or “ABC foundation” tend to feel more organizations to make money and do charity on the side.

I think altruism is cool and good in my book. It’s one of humanities greatest strength. Caring for others purely out of a desire to do good rules and I think that’s one of the beauties of anarchism as a mindset. Being kind and building up others and support your fellow human is “bussin fr”, but I hate how non-profit NGO charity industry gets in the way of altruism intentionally.

The lib part of my brain had an idea. What if you could set up campaign donation funds that only get relesed to the candidate for certain policy promises ( i mean they can just break them). Im imagining crowdfunding some sort of “stop the genocide” campaign fund that grows as people donate and is only donated once the candidate vocally supports x policies, or say 'condemn the genocide using the word ‘genocide’. If candidate doesnt do the thing everyones money gets refunded.