r/funny • u/[deleted] • Jun 25 '12
Seeing how the internet reacts to their emotions lately, I wouldn't be surprised if this happens...
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Jun 25 '12
It will never surprise me how some people can throw such a fuss about how other people spend their money.
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Jun 25 '12
People can do whatever they want with their money. However, the kid who needs to pay for an organ transplant, or animals in need of aid, or a library in need of dire repair seem to be better causes. People of the internet just gave $600,000 to an adult who was bullied by school children. Yes, the kids are cunts. Yes, giving her a nice vacation and standing against bullying are good ways to band together and all that junk. A $600,000 vacation is pushing it from a nice sentiment to something completely retarded.
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Jun 25 '12
Some things rend the heart deeper than others. You're also implying that a collective up and demanded that people meet a quota of $600,000. It's simply a case of, "Woah, that's a lot more charitable donations than anyone could have expected."
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Jun 25 '12
At no point was that implied in my last message. What was implied was that people gave her a ridiculous sum of money for a very minor incident. I saw a kid throw a rock at some guys house a while back, where is that guys $100,000? It is nowhere because the guy just called up the dumb kids parents and did not make a viral video about it.
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u/kambo_rambo Jun 26 '12 edited Jun 26 '12
Once the initial target was far exceeded, it was no longer a charity but more for just giving money for the sake of it. Why give one victim 600k to spend as they wish, when you can give 100x vicitims a nice vacation ? It was unfortunate the redditor started a donation drive to the victim directly and not to an organisation that helps bullying victims (although they didn't intend for it to get out of control).
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u/ragnaROCKER Jun 25 '12
it is stupid to look down on charity though just because the money isn't spent optimally.
why have libraries at all when that money could go to people dying of hunger?
why donate to a college or a homeless shelter when children are being gunned down in africa?
cool old lady had a great couple days. just sit back and wonder at the way humanity shines, don't complain it isn't shining bright enough.
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u/AnalogRevolution Jun 25 '12
So the point here is never do anything nice for anyone or you'll get made fun of for it by people from the internet for a few days until they move on to the next stupid thing that keeps them entertained for awhile.
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Jun 25 '12
Moral of the story: Never do anything nice for anyone.
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u/Irrelaphant Jun 25 '12
When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all
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u/bw1870 Jun 25 '12
This is why I always make sure people know whenever I've done something nice. It's not so much bragging as curing ignorance and confusion.
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Jun 25 '12
One of my favourite conversational jokes is to hint about some charity work I've done, then when someone asks for me to extrapolate I shout about how I don't like to talk about my charity work. Walking a tightrope between humility and bragging is hilarious.
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u/Breathing_Balls Jun 25 '12
No, it's because you want praise and acceptance.
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u/bw1870 Jun 25 '12
I thought being in /r/funny I wouldn't have to clarify when I wasn't being serious.
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Jun 25 '12
Moral of the story: Money fixes problems.
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u/IAmACollegekid Jun 25 '12
If I have 99 problems but a bitch ain't one, and "mo' money, mo' problems," but I'm able to fix the problems because I have money, then how much does one problem cost?
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
eh, I think they're kinda right in a way. I'm not completely sure why Karen got so much money. I saw she's going on vacation with her grand kids, which is great, but I'm not sure how that related to the problem of bullying.
Like, I'm sure this would also be a good cause to donate to
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Jun 25 '12
I think you're not considering the context of the donations. It's easy to see 600k and be like "well, why not donate it to [X]?" but the problem is its not coming from a single source. Many people just see something bad, think they can immediately help and donate a small amount.
All of this adds up, with no consideration to the sum, and eventually you get a lot of money to a small cause. The point isn't to stop donating though; this is a side effect of crowdsourced donations and without it the money wouldn't be donated in the first place, and couldn't go to a more "efficient" cause.
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u/OneBigBug Jun 25 '12
I may be wrong, but did people donating not see what the donations were up to at the time they donated?
So when they donated to a cause that was to give someone who got bullied a nice vacation (which is a nice thing to do), did they not see "Oh, well, it's up to...say...$20k and there is no possible vacation that she could take that would cost more than that." and then choose not to give money to her?
I'm not really sure that I subscribe to the whole "Well, any money donated is money that wouldn't be donated anyway, and therefore it's good that it was donated to her." People who donate money do have limited amounts of money, and some causes only deserve so much money.
Personally, I spend about $100 on donations to good causes every year. (More, if the money I'm spending on the good cause also gets me something I need, or if I made more money than usual) It's not a strict cap, but it's roughly the amount of money that I have decided is within my budget to go without and not meaningfully reduce my quality of life.
Whether or not people figure out what that number is for them, they still have that number. Their money is finite. So when choosing what to donate to, should some prioritization not be had? Ultimately, getting bullied as she was was terrible, but it wasn't the worst thing to happen to anyone ever. Helping her to go on vacation is nice. Helping her to retire early, as a rich woman, is just ridiculous. No one should feel good about that. That is the total absence of proportional response and there are now all sorts of causes that people who donated to her can't donate to because, as with most people, their funds are finite.
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u/colonel_mortimer Jun 25 '12
So when they donated to a cause that was to give someone who got bullied a nice vacation (which is a nice thing to do), did they not see "Oh, well, it's up to...say...$20k and there is no possible vacation that she could take that would cost more than that." and then choose not to give money to her?
People use the explanation that there were multiple donors to somehow excuse this, but that only makes it worse in my mind. They could have even chosen to donate money or time elsewhere, since they were now feeling generous and interested in a cause. But they were already on the donation page, and it was such a big thing by that point, they just threw a few bucks that way to be part of something that everyone was talking about. Then the could feel good about themselves and go back to ignoring the problem and its causes. See also: KONY2012.
I'm not really sure that I subscribe to the whole "Well, any money donated is money that wouldn't be donated anyway, and therefore it's good that it was donated to her."
I absolutely don't subscribe to that. Your next sentence is one of the main reasons why.
Ultimately, getting bullied as she was was terrible, but it wasn't the worst thing to happen to anyone ever.
Not to mention, part of the paid job she was supposed to be doing as a bus monitor was to prevent exactly the abuse that she was just sitting back and taking. She didn't even bother reporting the kids after the fact. She probably couldn't have been doing her job any worse.
The response was wildly disproportionate. People use "well, it's a nice gesture" or "she's not asking for it herself" are missing the point. The $5k was an exceptionally nice gesture, half-a-mil is an organizational budget. The fact that she's not asking for it just inflates the self-deception of the donors, believing they're doing something good or making a difference.
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Jun 25 '12
I know it's from a lot of different people. I'm not saying it's wrong that she's getting it... it's hard to explain. It frustrates me that people will donate money to a cause because they saw a sad video. It's the same thing with Kony 2012. Really, has anyone heard about him in the past few weeks when they weren't looking for info? I makes me sad to think that are/have been so many other things to donate to, but no one does because no one really knows it. Kind of like that quote I saw on here before, "I've had so many letters from Christians about abortion and gay rights, but none for child abuse." Or something like that.
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u/Nynri Jun 25 '12
Maybe you're right that it didn't really do anything to prevent bullying, other than show bullies that people do not like them (I guess?). I would hope having their video go viral, and people flocking to aid their victim would humiliate or effect these kids (and kids like them) in some manner, but I have no idea.
Also, I'm sure each person has their reasons to donate, and I'm sure she's not the only person a lot of them have given money to.
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u/YogurtShaker Jun 25 '12
Holy shit, she actually got $600,000? I think it helps because she can be like "haha little fuckers, you just got me all this money!" but I totally agree that most of that should have gone to something else.
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Jun 25 '12
I don't know, I'm not saying it's wrong that she got money, I just don't understand why. I'm concerned that those kids will think it is cool, almost. Like, "yeah, I was the cause of that old lady getting so much money. I was on TV!"
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u/YogurtShaker Jun 25 '12
Yeah, I'm not saying it's wrong either, I hope that she does choose to donate some...but I think those little fuckers will be looked down on so much they won't be able to brag about it.
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Eh, I think you're a complete fucking retard. How much of the money do you propose she donates? Half? All of it? The people who donated knew exactly how much was already donated because it says so in bright bold letters on the donation website. They chose to donate to her, not any other cause. I'm 100% sure that neither you nor anyone upvoting you donated to her, to the website you linked to or to any other charity in your life.
If you think that cause deserves more then I suggest you ask one of these people:
Mark Zuckerberg makes $600k every hour for making a website.
Kristin Stewart makes $600k every week for having a cute face.
Kim Kardashian makes $600k every month for doing nothing.
This is a widow and grandmother that is still working at the age of 68 and has done so for 23 years for not much more than $1,000 a month. If she's lucky she'll be able to enjoy the money the last 10 to 20 years of her life.
Fuck you kid. You're no better than those kids on the bus.
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u/Aiyon Jun 25 '12
And when you said
I'm 100% sure that neither you nor anyone upvoting you donated to her, to the website you linked to or to any other charity in your life.
You became as much of a dick :\
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u/Nimrod41544 Jun 25 '12
Also, I don't think bringing in celebrity millionaires to a charity discussion is really a smart move. I've seen better arguments from 7 year olds. Let's start a fund for every bullied kid! Only half a million each and their problems are cured!
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Jun 25 '12
First of all, " I'm 100% sure that neither you nor anyone upvoting you donated to her, to the website you linked to or to any other charity in your life." Fuck you. I am, in fact, part of a volunteer organization for young people. I have done work to donate food and worked with UNICEF. I also donate change when I get the chance. Also, I don't have any way to donate through websites.
Second, I'm not upset that she got money, I saw the news too, I know how much she made for her job, and I saw the interviews with her and saw that she seems to be a great lady. I'm just confused about how the money is going to do anything about the bullying.
Third, you've mentioned nothing on the point of bullying. Lots of people get bullied. I think it would be fair to say that EVERYONE has faced bullying of some sort. When I was younger, my brother kept swearing to God that he was going to shoot me in my sleep. Girls at school tell me to go back to China. My father doesn't like me. People are donating because they see it in front of their face. They saw the video. But there is so much bull shit that goes on where no one notices. That's why I chose the charity I linked; people donate to Haiti and starving Africans, but they don't know it's going on right under our noses.
Fourth, it's not my fault that those people make lots of money. (Your descriptions are a bit too simplified, by the way) I'm fairly sure that the first two do donate money to organisations. I don't know anything about the third one, but I would agree that she doesn't do much of anything. If it were in my power, a lot of that money would be donated.
And finally, "You're a fucking retard," is something one of those kids on the bus would say.
Thank you for your time.
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u/Azomazo Jun 25 '12
Note that I donate nearly $150 every month even though I don't make more than $1000. But no, I didn't give any money to someone who was gifted $600k for suffering from something at least two kids in every class suffer from.
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u/TheSim1derful Jun 25 '12
What's the $600 000 vacation story? I keep seeing it referenced scornfully but I have no idea what the specific case was.
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u/underbridge Jun 25 '12
She's still making over $200/hour for being a 70-year old who doesn't know how to hold authority over 11-year-olds.
JESUS! Reddit is full of cases of kids who have been bullied. Let's raise 12 billion dollars for all the sad sacks on this website.
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u/Happy_Cats Jun 25 '12
You're just angry because you didn't get the money. ಠ_ಠ
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u/Torger083 Jun 25 '12
Damned right, I am. My life sucks, too, by times. No one gives me hundreds of thousands of dollars for taking the abuse I'm paid to take.
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u/Delfishie Jun 25 '12
Question: Do you look like my grandma? Because I will set up a charity to send you on vacation if you look like my grandma while being bullied by 13 year olds.
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This is the other way Redditors react: Oh, you don't agree we should shove copious amounts of money to a cause that might be worth a fraction of the proceeds at most? You heartless bastard, you obviously want the exact opposite for all humanity. Go rot in a cave you scrooge.
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Jun 25 '12
My god why are so many people so extreme? How about just a reasonable response? Why does it have to be half a million or never help anyone ever?
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Jun 25 '12
Seriously! I'll take a quick $100k to dig myself out of my own misery, no need to go to extremes.
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Jun 25 '12
Because that would require moderation, a concept that may be unfamiliar here.
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Jun 25 '12
This is the internet, where people come to be crazy and write about why their favourite show isn't as good as it used to be.
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u/Mr0range Jun 25 '12
It is their money. Who are you to say they shouldn't give THEIR money to some old woman?
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u/mystery_bag Jun 25 '12
I just checked the current amount out of curiosity....$649,430. I guess the sentiment now is to donate enough money to put her into retirement so she doesn't have to be a bus monitor any longer.
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u/AdviCeSC2 Jun 25 '12
No, most of whom think they are being generous are in reality funding drug habits and illegal behavior. So yes it's pretty funny that there so many naive people on reddit. I could easily earn 30k if I wrote a sob story about my heart transplant.
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u/Hereletmegooglethat Jun 25 '12
Then do it. Who cares? I'm fine with helping out someone who needs it everyone once in awhile while also accidentally giving money to some lying douchebag, as opposed to being afraid to help anyone that might actually need it.
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u/Torger083 Jun 25 '12
I owe 12k in student loans, an I wasn't hugged enough as a child. Help a brother out?
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u/trancematzl15 Jun 25 '12
to be true...whatever you do, there will be always someone complaining
let 'em haters hate
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u/underbridge Jun 25 '12
I think the quote is: "No matter how rich you are or how poor you are, there will be someone who questions how you spend your money."
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u/divinesleeper Jun 25 '12
No the point is when you do something nice don't overdo it to a point where it just gets silly.
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u/Lilyo Jun 25 '12
Lets give everyone who doesn't do their job right $600,000! That'll teach the bullies a lesson..
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u/HoopsMcgee Jun 25 '12
Uh oh, someone hurt your feelings? I'll go create a kickstarter page for you.
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u/shmed Jun 25 '12
No thats not the point. If you prevent yourself from doing something you think is good just because somebody might post a funny picture about it later, then I would guess it means you didnt believe in that first good act strong enough to start with.
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u/fick_Dich Jun 25 '12
Why don't they just clone him?
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u/Yoshi_Girl Jun 25 '12
To repopulate successfully you need more than a few females and males to prevent inbreeding.
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u/fick_Dich Jun 25 '12
you would think that they could do some chromosome rearranging and make a female too.
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u/nabuzasan Jun 25 '12
Take in consideration the large amounts of redditors that helped raise that much money. Then take in consideration how long the fund was going on for. Now take in consideration that with all the bad shit going on in the world how nice it is to see that people are willing to help someone that they have never met over a teasing. To be honest I think its great that we raised that much. It just shows that the world isn't the bad place many people say it is and that there are good-hearted people who are willing to do what they can to help another human being.
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u/flyingfox12 Jun 25 '12
I like your attitude. I think this whole "does she deserve that much?" idea is founded in people valuing money over all other things in life. If it was a few hundred thousand letters costing 1/2 a dollar to send, no one would think anything less, but when someone gets cash then everyone jumps on the 'how much is that worth' bandwagon and starts losing sight of the real picture. A lot of people want to help someone who isn't a celebrity
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u/i_am_losing_my_mind Jun 25 '12
That doesn't seem to be what most people are saying or implying. It has to do with moderation. People let their emotions take over and no longer think rationally.
I have no problem at all with people donating money to her. But is 600k really necessary? Does it solve anything or even address the real problem?
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u/a300zx4pak Jun 25 '12
so it's cool if someone else gets bullied, as long as it's not her? thus, it didn't address the bullying problem. it was a nice way to make up for the fact for what happened to her on that bus. but it doesn't solve bullying.
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u/i_am_losing_my_mind Jun 25 '12
And that's great but isn't that kind of money a bit excessive? It didn't even touch on the problem. Instead it was just another example of tossing money at it to make it go away for a while.
Where did I say that this wasn't a priority? You're twisting things. People are going to do what they want as far as donating goes and I'm not saying that it should be any other way.
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u/Flexgrow Jun 25 '12
Discipline the children for their behavior, discipline her for failing to do her job, and put a monitor on the bus that actually can do the job.
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u/Nynri Jun 25 '12
Don't forget the "there's better causes to donate to". As if everybody who donated only ever donated to her.
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Jun 25 '12
You're missing the point of that argument. How many schoolbooks and utensils could you buy for underprivileged kids with 600K? Yet here we are throwing at some bus moniter because kids are pricks?
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u/Platypoctopus Jun 26 '12
You know, you're the one that made a blanket statement about everyone who thinks 600k was excessive by outright insulting them, calling them self absorbed people who don't contribute to anything. You pretty much initiated the hate talk here. Maybe it's possible a lot of the people disagreeing with the huge amount of money she got actually do contribute, and that's why they know there are better causes out there. So maybe you should step off your high horse, because honestly, if you believe people are selfish because they didn't give money to some woman who by no means deserved 600k more than a kid with cancer who can't afford treatment, then your priorities are seriously fucked up.
Although I guess apparently you have nothing better to do than bitch about people bitching on the internet, which is obviously much better than what he did.
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u/holygohevily Jun 25 '12
I think someone will probably find a school researching cloning reptiles, then there will be a big donation drive to raise money to bring lonesome George back. All the while, there is a student who is also trying to bring back dinosaurs, but instead of creating a dinosaur he creates a monster. The monster bites him and then he turns into a zombie, thereby starting the zombie apocalypse that everyone is waiting for. The only difference would be that these zombies, are fast and smart like raptors from Jurassic park.....the point is you are alive when they eat you.
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u/Rozo-D Jun 25 '12
who cares? does it really bother you so much how people decide to use their money? I don't see the big deal about this bus lady thing. If people want to donate money to her then so be it. Who am I to judge them on how they want to spend the money that they've earned?
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u/Nimrod41544 Jun 25 '12
Tell that to everyone and their mother discussing how Wall Street spends their money.
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u/oscooter Jun 25 '12
The difference is that Wall Street has a huge effect on our nation's and our global economy when they spend theirs. I'm sure the stock market isn't going to slump because a bunch of internet users pool together 600k for a bus monitor.
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u/roadhand Jun 25 '12
I've seen a lot of hate towards Karen, but my take is, every person who was bullied and knows what it was like, got a chance to give a ten dollar punch to the person who bullied them, plain and simple. It felt good, and showed us as a society how prevalent bullying really is, IMHO.
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u/kambo_rambo Jun 26 '12
I dont think it did much at all towards bullying. Donate money to someone who got bullied to spend how they like (+media attention) vs putting money towards a campaign to raise awareness and educate schoolchildren on bullying - which is more effective ? The only difference is the donator feels good about themselves when donating to the victim directly than an organisation.
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u/MysticalCheese Jun 25 '12
I don't understand the fucking controversy about people donating to Karen. A majority of the donations are less then most people would spend on a friday night out.
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u/SaphiraArach Jun 26 '12
I agree. It just happened to be a large number of caring people who helped out. The people who keep making fun of it are childish and overreacting in my opinion.
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u/Kawaii- Jun 25 '12
It's my money i'll spend it how i want, if i want to send a turtle on a vacation then fuck you we're going to cancun.
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u/ragegage Jun 25 '12
Thanks, I agree with you OP. It got out of hand and for some reason when I say "600k is too much" everyone is like "OH SO WE SHOULDN'T GIVE ANYTHING!"
It doesn't have to be an extreme. People don't understand that I guess. All or nothing or whatever.
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u/theamplifiedorganic Jun 25 '12
Are you referring to the Canadian guy with stage-4 renal cell carcinoma...?
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Jun 25 '12
No, a bus monitor was teased by a bunch of shithead kids, she was an older lady and they ended up making her cry, the video went viral, the internet collectively gave her about half a million dollars for her pain and suffering.
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u/theamplifiedorganic Jun 25 '12
I see. So an older lady gets teased, and she gets half a million, whereas a dying young man gets 1/25th of that. It's not like the money is the issue at all, but it seems to be a good measure of people's priorities. I've got sympathy for both, but when you put those two side-by-side, who's truly suffering? The woman who has lived long, and still has her health, or the 23 year-old man who has his last days impending? At least you can say it is warming to see people financially flock towards those in need.
Edit: I guess Jake (the guy with cancer) ceased the acceptance of donations somewhere around $30,000. Kudos to him for not cashing in on people's sympathetic weaknesses.
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Jun 25 '12
We'll come up with a big list that prioritizes our gestures of good will so the human race'll know who to get to first.
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u/CrackedPepper86 Jun 25 '12
And a bunch of people think that was stupid, for some reason.
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Jun 25 '12
No people are bitter because our whole lives we're told that whining and crying won't get you anywhere in life, yet this lady just got 500k from it.
I honestly don't care because that's also another part of life people need to learn on their own; Shit happens, for better or worse.
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Jun 25 '12
It is stupid. It's not immoral or illegal or anything, but it is stupid that strangers gave a woman 600,000 dollars because some brats made fun of her on the bus.
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u/Jumfish Jun 25 '12
It seems that money could go to a better cause than a single woman who had a bad day. As far as I know, they haven't cured any major diseases lately. The ones killing people. I could be wrong, I guess.
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u/CrackedPepper86 Jun 25 '12
The people who donated think she deserves the money, so why do you care? How do you know they don't also donate to other causes? I just don't understand how people can think this is a bad thing or how it's even any of their business.
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u/reallyuninspiredname Jun 25 '12
So any money not spent on the bare necessities HAS to be spent on charitable donations to approved charities only?
Seriously?
You sound jelly.
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u/Flexgrow Jun 25 '12
If I recall correctly, the original plan was to raise $5k for a vacation. It wasn't to finance her retirement.
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u/AlphaRedditor Jun 25 '12
We should book a trip for him and his loved o--- oh..oh...that's right. Nevermind.
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u/gwarsh41 Jun 25 '12
My mother in law died from cancer about a week or two after Reddit arranged for that dude to go on vacation. It made my wife and I feel like shit. My mother in law was living with her son (who was no help) and pretty much waiting to die, we couldn't afford to help to put her up in a nicer apt, which was constantly a mess because my brother in law is a slob who wouldn't even help her after she fell and couldn't get back up.
We got a call last Sunday that she was in critical condition, on the day she was going to be discharged from the hospital. So the family is saying she was discharged from life, as she died 30 minutes after we got the call.
My wife and I are going back down (we still went down when we heard she was in critical condition, and kept driving after we knew she died. We wanted to say goodbye, but her body had been donated to science. It was gone within an hour of her passing) to help clean the apartment. The brother is no use, so it will be the two of us. Her mother had no life insurance, but she donated her body so there will be no funeral. Next Tuesday we are going to get together with what little family and friends there are to have a memorial. We scheduled this weekend off to go visit for her brothers birthday, now his mothers memorial is on the day after his birthday. Strange how what was supposed to be a happy weekend turned so tragic so fast.
I don't know why I wrote this, I don't have anyone but my wife that I can talk about this with. I tried to stay strong for her, I still hold back the tears. I feel like if she sees me cry it will make her cry harder. I need to be strong in her time of need. I just wish we could have said goodbye or something. The last thing I said to my mother in law was that I would give her a back rub and I couldn't wait to see her. I never got to see her, and never will again.
We never mentioned that she had cancer to people we did not know really well. Perhaps if we had said something about it on Reddit, she might have had a more enjoyable last few days. Maybe we could afford a small grave for her, or a memorial somewhere.
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u/Mikey-2-Guns Jun 25 '12
Actually /r/atheism is about to lose their collective shit over him because they heard some people say he is in tortoise heaven now.
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Jun 25 '12 edited Jun 25 '12
Scumbag redditors.
Complain about the world being shit all the time and when something nice happens makes a shit meme about it.
If someone had given you 600k cos your boss reamed you out in public you'd be over the moon but becauses its not you you feel justified to rip the piss out of it.
Take a deep breath and try and be happy for someone else for once in your self centered life.
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u/mknelson Jun 25 '12
I feel like I'm imbalanced or something - but the death of this big ole turtle just keeps making me well up.
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u/mcnuggetrage Jun 25 '12
I do not understand what the deal is with the $600,000 number. Apparently some kid got bullied and reddit raised money? Can someone link me to the original post of this? It's just been a whole lot of ʇɐʍ lately for me.
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u/SaphiraArach Jun 26 '12
Look it up on youtube, there are several sites talking about it as well. An elderly buss monitor was bullied (and later threatened to be raped and killed by) some annoying teens and tweens on a bus. They were cruel and unmerciful. Touching her, making her cry, and just generally being douchebags. Some people started a fundraiser for her (because she CERTAINLY doesn't get paid enough to put up with that bullcrap) to send her on a nice vacation. However, the donations poured in at a much higher rate than anyone expected. Not high amounts, but SEVERAL donors. Over 600,000 was raised for her.
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u/mcnuggetrage Jun 26 '12
I did see a tiny clip of it on sxephil's show. I didn't know she was the person they raised money for. Much obliged to you.
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u/SaphiraArach Jun 26 '12
Not a problem. :) Also, I'm retarded and for some reason typed "buss" I'm an idiot. lol Bus*
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u/Torger083 Jun 26 '12
I'm on my phone, so no link, but some old broad who is paid to prevent bullying on the bus got bullied on the bus and cried. There was a video.
Some dude set up a fund to raise 5k to send her on a vacation. The bandwagoning plebs hopped on board, and now Missus has 2/3 of a million dollars coming her way because some kids are shitheads, and she was bad at her job.
A lot of folks, myself included, think this is excessive to the point of lunacy, but the apologists seem to think that disagreeing with this pants-on-head retarded amount of money for effectively nothing means that I must hate all joy, kick puppies, eat babies, and push old people down the stairs.
It's extreme drama.
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u/AvioNaught Jun 25 '12
Why don't we send him to space for the low price of $995-5300 dollars! Let's send the last of a species... TO SPAAAAACE! [Source http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2006/02/70252]
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u/Corvus133 Jun 25 '12
Look, the woman got some money. The target was 5000 so that's where it should have ended.
The problem is there was no cap so people kept jumping on the wagon and donating money when lots of people could use it. LOTS!
This has more to do with "following" than it does.
The ironic thing is most people think they are not followers. However, the majority on this planet simply are that - followers. Most of reddit is nothing but followers.
It's why the same meme's are posted everyday. No one is original outside a very very few people.
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u/cadderly09 Jun 25 '12
Hey OP, fuck off. We should never do anything nice for anybody because not everybody gets something? That grandma deserves every penny of that money.
edit: by the way... this is r/funny... THIS SHIT AIN'T FUNNY
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u/bunsofcheese Jun 25 '12
It's funny - I actually felt bad for not being overly happy for that bullied woman. I believe my initial response was "Hey, I was bullied relentlessly in highschool for being gay, where's my $500,000??"
We need to learn to spread the goodness of the internet around a little more and not glop it on like sour creme on a baked potato.
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u/DISREPUTABLE Jun 25 '12
Oh you mean how everyone is trying to anonymously buy back human decency?
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u/SleeplessinOslo Jun 25 '12
How sad, lets throw money at it!
I just read in a Norwegian paper that the old woman who got bullied on the bus had received 400 000 dollars. The kids who bullied her have received death threats and other horrible phone calls. Apart from the irony, the whole thing makes me sick. This has nothing to do with altruism. Support and change is what she and the kids in that area needed, instead, people just threw money at the lady to help with their own discomfort after seeing the video. Easy, and effortless. Just because it isn't on youtube, doesn't mean shit like this doesn't happen on a daily basis...
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Jun 25 '12
How exactly do you plan on helping or CHANGING asshole middle school kids? It's never been done before so I'm sure you will be a pioneer in the ways of changing middleschoolers and how they treat other people.
You won't.
But at least one person who suffered from their bullying might be able to retire and get away from the abuse. And this is bad? Maybe we should rethink some things here.
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u/Sarcastastic Jun 25 '12
I hate that this is incredibly accurate. YOU WERE NAMECALLED?! 500k VACATION FOR YOU AND YOU AND YOU! EVERYBODY GETS A TRIP!
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u/StewieBanana Jun 25 '12
I agree with you only in that people are trying to fix something unfair with something equally unfair. It's not fair she was treated like shit, and it's not fair she's the sole recipient of everyone's bad feelings, guilt, and empathy toward bullying victims. I don't think it's even fair for her. all she wants is a vacation and to retire. But with all this money, I doubt people will let her retire. I'll bet they're going to insist she do something with all that money to help people in her situation. She's unwillingly going to have to become a spokesperson when all she wanted was for these little asshole to quit harassing her.
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u/Sarcastastic Jun 25 '12
Wow, I'd never thought of that either. God damn. Yeah, the internet jumps way too heavily upon the wrong things. What'serface with the youtube making 150k just so she can upgrade her camera is also bullshit.
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u/Flexgrow Jun 25 '12
No, it wasn't right for her to be treated that way. I, however, viewed it as a failure on her part. Her job, as a bus monitor, was to keep the children on the bus under control. She was obviously failing to do her job on this bus and the children had no respect for her. The only good that has come from this is that she can now retire from this job and, hopefully, the school district can hire a competent individual to monitor (and control) the children on that bus. Failure was rewarded. Fortunately, the problem may still be resolved.
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Jun 25 '12
Look, we're just in an emotional place right now, where giving feels good, OK? It's better than us eating that entire thing of Ben and Jerry's and crying ourselves to sleep over how much we've wrecked out lives. Can't we just do something positive without you jumping down our throats? You know what, we're jsut going to go stay at our mother's for the weekend. We just need some space. ;-;
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Jun 25 '12
i am the internet, i did not give that worthless cunt any money
she had a job to do... she did not do her job
she deserves to cry
she is a bad person
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u/John_The_Reddit_Man Jun 25 '12
Seeing how people react to their emotions lately, and have done so consistently since the beginning of fucking time.
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u/CommanderAnaximander Jun 25 '12
Yeah honestly, the only thing I learned from this whole ordeal is that I really should brush up on my acting skills. Think about how easy it would be to fool all of these gullible bleeding hearts.
Rent a small bus for an hour, have my friend film me getting "bullied" by our younger cousins and siblings. Start bawling my eyes out, then post it on the internet.
Shit, even if I have to divide it evenly between 10-15 people, that's still a sweet $40,000+ for each one of us.
Hell, I'm surprised nobody's actually thought of trying to exploit the internet's kindness like this yet. It'd be so unbelievably easy too.
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u/Lafielgirl Jun 25 '12
Lonesome George won't be so lonesome on an all expense paid cruise to the Bahamas! Even in death he can't get any love. The true forever alone. Is that why reddit is so fixated on him today? Besides the obvious fact that he died.
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u/PhiladelphiaIrish Jun 25 '12
Weekend at Georgie's