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Fuck The Poor? (Original Post)
FrodosPet
Apr 2014
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tazkcmo
(7,286 posts)1. Awesome.
I liken this to ""Support our troops" bumper stickers. Sorry folks, those just don't cut it.
Politicalboi
(15,189 posts)2. He needs to come to America to get thumbs up
For his Fuck The Poor sign. And doing the opposite at the end is tricky. A lot of people think giving like that could be a scam, so it's not like they don't care.
Jgarrick
(521 posts)3. The history of this phrase, part 1:
Demoiselle
(6,787 posts)4. I wish that...
when he was doing the "fuck the poor" thing, that he could have responded to all those who argued with him with a sensible simple (leaflet?) explaining precisely what they could do to HELP the poor a list of solid charities, political leaders to support, whatever. This set of videos tells me that people are well-meaning, but need some help channeling their well wishes (Does that make any sense?)
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Ron Obvious
(6,261 posts)6. I thought it was going to be this Tim Minchin song.