I think it’s the greatest trick capitalism every played, to convince people to resent, say, some poor bus driver who gets spit on and has a nervous breakdown, and make people think that helping a person like that somehow hurts them.

That rich guy would give to children’s cancer charities – one of the most bland, blameless things you can give too. Just, that, clearly, he would only bring himself to donate to things that he can’t find any way to blame that person for bringing on themselves, so of course he wouldn’t fund, say, drug rehab, or helping homeless people or even rape victims, I bet. Even if he agreed that any of those people deserved help, or even something equally inoffensive but less heroic, like building roads, he wouldn’t spend his money there.

Ugh, I hate when people think they should decide where to spend their money, because they sure know better than the government, which is just 100% waste and corruption! No, it’s not, No, you don’t, asshole, and even if you did, which, again, you don’t, you still wouldn’t spend it there.

(clearly I still have some issues re: that summer I spent listening to republicans at work complain)