• sweatersocialist [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    3 months ago

    i hated having to bite my tongue any time a normie irl asked me if i “saw mr beast cure all those blind people” as if he’s literally jesus

    even besides all the rigging and shit, anyone doing “charity content” is obviously a grifter by their very nature of existing lmao how have some people not learned this by now? you’d think its just dumb kids but its been all adults asking me about mr beast

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      3 months ago

      Typical “philanthropy” defender: “BUT HE GIVES AWAY MONEY! HOW MUCH MONEY HAVE YOU GIVEN AWAY?” smuglord

      Predecessor “philanthropy” defenders over 100 years ago, watching Rockefeller flicking shiny dimes from his car to watch the poors brawl over the dimes:

      soypoint-1 capitalist-laugh you-are-a-serf soypoint-2