• mvilain
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    2417 days ago

    I have long fantasized about doing this exact same thing, especially to MAGA-types who somehow got my address and are mailing me requests for donations. Someone in those groups as well as THE SALVATION ARMY have discovered that those postage guaranteed reply envelopes cost money and prompt this response. So now all that stuff requires a stamp if you want to reply. I hope that’s cut down on their fundraising efforts.

    • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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      317 days ago

      What is wrong with the salvation army? Sometimes go in there looking for board games when we check if any of the charity shops have any games beyond 50 versions of monopoly and trivia pursuit.

      • @Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
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        • In 1998, the Salvation Army refused to comply with San Francisco’s laws regarding domestic-partner benefits, costing it $3.5 million in city contracts and leading to the closure of certain programs for homeless people and the elderly.
        • In 2001, the organization tried to strike a deal with the Bush administration, which would have allowed religious charities that receive federal funding to circumvent local ordinances against anti-LGBTQ discrimination. (The organization also threatened to stop all of its New York City operations in 2004.)
        • In 2012, a Salvation Army branch in Vermont was accused of firing a case worker after learning she was bisexual.
        • Also in 2012, Salvation Army spokesperson George Hood said the organization views same-sex relationships as sinful. “A relationship between same-sex individuals is a personal choice that people have the right to make,” Hood said at the time. “But from a church viewpoint, we see that going against the will of God.”

        https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2019/12/16/21003560/salvation-army-anti-lgbtq-controversies-donations

      • @other_cat@lemmy.zip
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        1617 days ago

        They are anti-LGBT. I don’t have a source handy for you at the moment so encourage you to search it up.

        • moonlight
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          I’ve bought quite a few items of clothing of the “wrong gender” from them…

      • lime!
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        817 days ago

        the christian holiness movement offshoot organized in actual army ranks under red banners emblazoned with their literal motto “blood and fire”? idk but i could pick out a few things that seem… off

        • swab148
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          Don’t forget the literal slavery at their rehab centers!

        • @Korhaka@sopuli.xyz
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          317 days ago

          Are we even thinking of the same organisation? Never seen that, but maybe they keep it hidden round the back as it would put off customers. I live in the UK, not sure if that makes a difference

      • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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        They’re Christians and you know how bad Christians are, with all the volunteering and the charity and the do-gooders and all

          • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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            There aren’t any Palestinian Christians left after what Hamas did. Do you not know the history of the area? It’s fucked up.

            I suggest you go research it yourself, I’m just a random commenter on the Internet and there’s way more credible sources out there

            • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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              https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_Christians

              You believe complete lies and make shit up about Gaza, and Palestinians, and know nothing about the region while thinking you’re an expert and justifying the ongoing genocide.

              These are the people that the Pope has been calling every day while they’ve had a complete blockade of all food since Mar 2nd.

              • Saik0
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                117 days ago

                Well… he hasn’t called the past few days.

                • Psychadelligoat
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                  216 days ago

                  And you know this because…?

                  God hooked him up with a line, still, damnit. He’s not free til the new guy gets in

                • @Count042@lemmy.ml
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                  I guess the fact that there are only 3000 of them in Gaza makes it okay to starve them or rape them to death in a genocidal campaign like the Israeli’s are doing?

                  Go justify torture camps and genocide somewhere else.

                  • @Kaboom@reddthat.com
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                    Mate, I think you reversed the countries there. Hamas/Hezbollah is the one attempting genocide. And rape is a Hamas thing, not the IDF.

                    And starvation? They have sea access. There’s no reason for Israel to let a country they’re at war with to send shipments through their lands. That’s just asinine.

                    Go justify torture camps and genocide somewhere else.