On the one hand this is cringe, on the other hand there's a lot of Christian charities that will do stuff like give toys to African children but also give them propaganda on how condoms are evil. So this one feels relatively harmless.
Just more ineffective lib shit. It's honestly not a big deal, you can agitate people who already want to help the Global South/developing world.
The Christians you talk about are usually much harder to agitate. They often think countries in Africa or Central America are struggle because of their pagan or immoral cultures. Basically just thinly veiled racist distractions from material conditions.
Should we build a modern water pipe system with treatment plants and connect these villages to it? Nah this giant plastic container is the best we can do.
Fuck western "aid" to Africa, this shit only exists to paper over the whole sale robbery we perpetrate on the global south each year.
You do know it wasn't Reddit the website that did this, it was most likely the unpaid mods of r/atheism that set up a fundraiser among users.
So how many water tanks have you built as some internet user?
I understand it, some people enjoy having community online that they may not have elsewhere. To see your anonymous community do IRL things is pretty interesting, and it reaffirms your membership in this anonymous tribe when you see its name on something. I'm sure people on here understand that sentiment, given that we immediately recongregated elsewhere after our website was banned.
The OP is still hilarious and dumb, but I don't think it's as simple as karma whoring.
Something makes my blood boil when I see something donated to help people, instead turn into an egotistical monument to the people that donated it. Just do a good thing without patting yourself on the back.
It's very transparent when somebody contrives a reason to do something good because they prioritise based on what gains them the most social favour. Everybody is aware of it and recognises what they're doing, everyone.
But it then allows egoists to discredit people who do good things as 'virtue signalling' because they can't admit there genuinely is a world where opportunities to go good present them selves (which is everywhere all the time) and people act selflessly in response.
Eh, who gives a shit? A water tank is a water tank. If the atheist sub did a good thing exclusively to be smug assholes about it - more power to them. Caring about motive here seems like unnecessary moralism to me.
They also killed off the professional quote-making industry.
Remember when /r/atheism as a default was the most insufferable part of reddit?
That was around when SRS was everyone's bogeyman too
a simpler time
SRS was the canary in the mine of reddit's alt right shit
There was a while when people had these copy/paste lists of the most common reddit sayings (shit like 'you have win the internet today'). When somebody said one of those sayings, they'd reply with the list as if to say 'you're being boring and uncreative and I'm calling you out'. Then eventually people started calling those people out for being repetitive and uncreative by posting the list.
Self aware reddit is the fucking worst. It's almost never about anything but users feeling ownership over their experience on the website despite interacting with thousands of other people at once. I honestly think it has nurtured a hatred in the minds of extremely online people and contributed to things like gamergate.
This is a good take, and I think it’s proven correct by the fact that SRS is a completely dead subreddit now, despite fighting racism /sexism online being every bit as important now as it was back when it was popular.
Their daily chat threads get at most 1 post that isn’t from the auto mod these days.
I wonder what happened / where their users migrated to. Are they all posting in /r/neoliberal/ now?
Shit reddit says. Folks would link to racist and misogynistic posts and comments.
I liked the one that was a hydra with all the atheist intellectuals sprouting out of his neck
They're on the receiving end of our endless imperialism and have to pose for a picture so some fat dweebs on r/atheism can feel better about themselves. I would have walled the photographer.
The same website that gave us such classics as "That guy wasn't an ARMA larper, he was actually a homeless guy"
In case people don't know what you're referencing, it's this mind-boggling display of disconnect from the real world.
