A GoFundMe campaign is raising funds to pay for the border wall
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https://www.businessinsider.com.au/gofundme-campaign-to-pay-for-the-border-wall-has-raised-hundreds-of-thousands-of-dollars-2018-12?r=US&IR=T
Jesus Christ.
It's probably gonna come out as either a scam where people run with the money, or make a very shoddily made product.
I thought mexico was paying for the wall
Paying for a metaphorical wall in their bank account maybe.
Donald Trump is in trouble, and he needs your help to finish the wall and make America great again!
Who do you think is going to contribute to the gofundme campaign? Duh
Are we living in a libertarian greentext post? Is crowdfunding government projects going to become a thing?
I'd like to take this opportunity to announce my counter project, "Help Me Fund the Construction of a Natural Reserve Along the Mexican-American Border" to complicate the construction of The Wall™.
Details can be found here
it's like taxes, but only for people at a 3rd grade reading level
we dont want to give our money to assist things like affordable healthcare, taxes for the possibility of affordable education
but we'll throw endless funds at a useless wall.
do americans even realize how stupid this sounds?
A lot of us do, but a lot of us don't.
One problem America has is that they leave out a lot of the social education out of the curriculum until you're in college. Even then you don't get a lot if you're outside a liberal arts major. If people really understood the effects of immigration and illegal immigration then it would be a resounding no to the wall, but far too many receive their "knowledge" from places like Fox and Alex Jones.
americans are living in a failing country, and those who support the wall are direct results of the long painful process of a country failing its people. and they're being manipulated by a populist.
im all for these morons wasting their money
another problem is much of american and world history is very very quickly glossed over. Like there's an enormous amount of shit that happened in the last 50 years but an american history class will cover the 1950s-2000s in like 3 chapters.
These people wouldn't raise a single penny to help their fellow Americans out of medical debt
Personally I hope the vet takes the cash and runs away to fucking aruba or macau or some such place, it would be the funniest outcome
I can't wait for the next story about this where it turns out they all got scammed.
I'm thankful for the teacher that came to our school right out of college and was strict and tough as hell but a fantastic young high school teacher.
He had this lesson he called "Cultural Literacy" that he had us go through our Junior year, read through this paper he made, answer questions, and write a paper ourselves.
It was basically the idea that you need to be culturally literate, to be aware of the sociopolitical and cultural landscape around you. The point was that, the more aware you are, the better your decisions can be, and the better your individual views and feelings can be supported. It helps with just general conversation to be aware of the landscape, it dissuades wearing your ignorance as a badge of honor on topics you have a negative opinion on but no understanding to back it up.
I still use the term today when it comes to topics like this, I think it was one of the few very good lessons throughout high school and it's basically always relevant. Basically, understand the world around you, approach topics with nuance, and come out with more strongly formed views because of it.
Jesus Christ just knowing that this concept has a name might be the most helpful thing I've learned in actual years
its pretty scary how much money this thing is raising, and so quickly
https://i.imgur.com/ou7U9ZK.png
Never thought I'd see the day where people are actually crowdfunding a government project this much.
Seriously whats the point of this wall, isn't it only going to cover a tiny fraction of the border? It's going to be fucking useless. Also can't it easily cost way more than $1B (which is absolutely nothing for America anyway) up to something like $20B?
You could throw your money at so many more helpful things.
You imply that the folks who support a wall along the border to keep the immigrants out have put any degree of thought into the logistical side of the venture. Forget the parts where it'll cost an exorbitant amount of money, upkeep, security and the legislative hurdles needed to overcome; if it keeps those disgusting browns out then it's worth it!!!
Next they'll get Sarah McLachlan to ask people to donate to the 'Build the Wall Foundation.'
The money should instead go towards investigating and fining companies for hiring illegals. The money from fines can further fund investigations.
Companies should be paying very dearly for the price of hiring illegally, knowingly.
But this won't happen, because even Trump's own company itself hires illegals.
*accompanied by upbeat ukulele*
Cards against Humanity did a similar thing a while back
Cards Against Humanity Stops the Wall
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think the money can be used for a wall even if they somehow hit the mark because it isn't federal money. Its far more likely that someone realized these idiots would line up to have their money stolen if they started taking donations for THE WALL.
Well technically, that's what taxes already are, just mandatory. However I see your point.
Don't these people usually support a smaller government with lower taxes?
Funny how that work out.
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