Unconditional Love

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna
michals
chopstick psychotic-gerard
komikbookgeek
inkjette

So at my workplace, we fund a Food Is Free shelf. It's the basics: take what you need, give what you can - our town has a high level of poverty, there's a cost of living crisis, be the good you want to see in the world etc etc.


Today we had a guy knock on the door and ask if we had a plastic bag he could use to carry a few things - I said sure, got him a plastic bag, and he started packing up his 2 rolls of toilet paper, his 3 or 4 foodstuff items. He said he'd been to a funeral out of town (1500 kms away) and spent his paycheck on fuel - he was only broke till Friday, he said.


And I said, well I'm glad we could help, it's why we have the shelf. We want the community to use it.


And he said:

But people ABUSE it! I've seen people take heaps of stuff from it - and they don't even have kids or anything. And it's fair enough, some people are struggling until the next paycheck, but other people just ABUSE it. You need a sign that says TAKE ONE ITEM ONLY or something. I've taken something from here maybe twice, but I've seen people coming round every week! I've even put stuff on the shelf! Yeah, you need CAMERAS or something. People abuse it.


So here is a man who is actively utilising a public resource that we created to support our local community...And yet he is so brainwashed by capitalism into thinking that people don't deserve basic needs - if they're not working hard, or maybe they're struggling but they don't have it As Bad as others, or they're using a FREE RESOURCE more often than HE thinks is acceptable. He thinks that we should use security cameras to crack down on people "STEALING" from the Food is FREE shelf. Like he's more worthy, like he's a better person, because he doesn't need as much help as others might.


Sometimes, when something is free, people might abuse it. But isn't it better to offer the support to people who need it? To offer an opportunity for people to get back on their feet (even if they're only broke till Friday)? To provide help, no questions asked and no conditions needed?

So what if people abuse it - isn't it worth it if helps someone?

queeranarchism

#you run into this mindset all the time in mutual aid#we had people fighting over clothes at the free store on the regular#and it's like... we have dozens of boxes of clothes in the box#we're running out of space for clothes#PLEASE take trash bags full of clothes#go sell them on the side of the road if you want that's literally not our business#no one does that because they're doing well financially

^^^ My experience with free stores is that there is usually too much and you kinda wish people would take more. Our consumer society is wasting such a massive amount of food, games, books, movies, food... the only thing that are ever in short supply are the things that are build to break quickly like smartphones.

inkjette
silveraspen
theragnarokd

Now, of all times

Drink the wine.

Light a rose-scented candle.

Spray the perfume you never opened,

Sweet and delicate.

Take pictures of autumn.

The horrible fate -

The horrible fate doesn't care

That we abstained from sweets

That we wore sack cloth and ashes

And didn't look at the sunset.

What exists, exists.

What happened, happened.

If we all drown in the sea,

We'll go down singing.

- DKB

poetry theragnarokd
silveraspen
mag200
xenonucleic
sirfrogsworth

People are talking about not voting for Biden.

Again.

I'm just so tired of this argument.

I just can't do Trump again.

I can't.

His incompetence killed so many people. A panel estimated 40% of COVID deaths could have been averted.

One of those deaths was my mother.

She was killed because people didn't trust the vaccines and they didn't think masks were worth the inconvenience. That man could have gone on TV and said "This is the Trump vaccine and it is great." He could have sold fucking MAGA masks on his website. He had 100% influence over his dipshit followers and could have used that for the greater good. But he was too vain to wear a mask in public and bungled the vaccine rollout.

And now I worry some of my trans loved ones may not make it through another far right administration. They have this giant target on their back right now and conservatives seem determined to eradicate as many trans lives as possible.

I wrote a whole ass post about how I didn't care for Biden. I still don't. But when I try to imagine what a right wing administration would be doing right now... that seems like it would be a nightmare orders of magnitude worse than the current nightmare.

As someone with an untreatable chronic illness, I know the feeling of being presented with choices where all of them suck. And I have had to survive by choosing the least sucky option over and over.

It feels bad every single time.

I hate it.

And I still fucking choose.

It should be different. There should be better choices. I shouldn't have to choose the least bad thing among all bad things.

But there are people and things in this world I feel are worth sticking around for, so I continue to choose the least sucky thing.

fairykukla

Just a reminder; anybody the Republicans put up for a candidate is going to be just as bad as Trump himself; he opened a can of worms and they're not interested in putting them back in the can.

silveraspen
my-nameis-jasper-deactivated202

I asked my kids if they’d prefer a secret garden or a secret library and my son shook his head and was like “I don’t trust the secret gardeners and librarians”

my-nameis-jasper-deactivated202

Me: what if there aren’t any gardeners or librarians.

Son: there’s always a librarian. Just because you can’t see them doesn’t mean they aren’t there. And it’s a garden, there has to be someone taking care of it or it isn’t really a garden.

Me:

Me: this was supposed to be lighthearted

my-nameis-jasper-deactivated202

Daughter: don’t trust the secret librarian.

Son: any librarian who hoards a library to themselves is hiding something.

Daughter: /nods seriously/

Me: why are you two talking as if from experience should I be concerned

skiplo-wave

The kids are right Jazz

supreme-leader-stoat

But what if I want to be the secret librarian?

my-nameis-jasper-deactivated202

Me: what if you were the secret librarian?

Son: wouldn’t be a secret library. I have nothing to hide.

Daughter: so not a secret librarian. A good librarian.

Me: you two are on a wavelength I can’t understand

brawltogethernow

What a way to find out your kids went on a whole-ass portal fantasy adventure at some point.