In the parking lot of a Shell gas station a few blocks from my home, sits a large white container....On the outside, it contains a little message:

“Help stop child abuse. Donate clothing, accepted in this receptacle”

What?

So if I donate some clothing, then little Tammy in Wichita, KS won’t be beat tonight by her alcoholic father? How asinine is this…….? Giving clothing donations does not stop child abuse.....

Think about it, how in the hell would this scenario play out: I drop off a couple flannel shirts and an old pair of corduroys in the box. Where does it go? Since the premise is “stopping child abuse”, it likely goes to some kind of shelter for battered children or something of that sort. There, it would be given to children. So…..how the fuck does this “stop” child abuse? It makes no fucking sense at all.

I will bet you $1,000,000 that the idiot who came up with slogan/wording for this donation box is a liberal. There is no way anyone else would be this dumb. I mean, think about it……. how about I have a donation box for clothing and claim that it “Stops Rape”. Or maybe that it is “Stopping Terrorism”. Or how about “Stopping Nuclear Arms Production”…….

Fucking c’mon.

Donate your clothes or don't. Why must you spam up the news and politics forum?

But to answer your question, I could imagine that if a person (probably a mother) wanted to get a child out of an abusive situation, she might have to do it with as little luggage as possible. If she knew there was a place out there that could help her out with things, maybe she'd be more likely to do it.

If you were a serious poster I might put more thought into my answer, but clearly you only start these threads so you can throw around the word liberal.

Yes, you are mentally superior to all liberals, now go prove it to someone who gives a fuck what you think about politics.

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Did you not consider that maybe the clothing goes to a thrift shop where the profits go towards things such as maintaining shelters and running counselling services?

The clothing is sold to a second hand retailer like Value Village and the money is given to the charity.
http://www.valuevillage.com/charity/

They sell unwanted secondhand clothes to raise money for charities. It's fairly common practise worldwide, and your ability to appear mystified by the concept impresses no-one. This has nothing to do with liberalism or anything other than you being unaware of the world around you, so my advice is to just quit while you're leagues behind on this one and find something else to kvetch about.

You're such a heartless cunt.

You forgot "moronic", "ignorant", or some other word to that effect.

Seriously, can we pin this thread, or just keep bumping it, so that it becomes a permenant monument to exactly how stupid some of luftwaffe's posts really are?

whether it's true or not, who cares? give your old clothes to charity, regardless.

luftwaffe and paladin are on the same wavelength.

I'm not sure if he's even questioning whether they sell the clothes on or whether they give them the money or what. I think he is just genuinely unaware of the concept of a charity shop. I dunno, maybe they're not as widespread in America as here, but I figured they were on account of how all the shit bands they keep sending us look like they buy their clothes from them.

perhaps he just didn't take the thought one step further. maybe he expected the people who placed the bins there to have some magical cosmic power that would make tammy from wichita's dad stop being an abusive drunk when they get 5 pairs of jeans and two winter coats. or soemthing.

what a fucking retard

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Agreed. Someone needs to teach him that he has a brain and that he should use it instead of mindlessly humping the keyboard with half-formed thoughts.

You ever see that Alan Partridge Christmas special where people were pulling a giant cracker to get a kid a kidney dialysis machine, and because the cracker caught fire before it was fully pulled they refused to give it to her?

Well, I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen in real life.

if you can't pull a cracker you deserve a kidney failure related death, imo

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In fairness, it was a pretty big cracker. And a comedy programme.

but still. if she'd really wanted to live...

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It 'likely' goes to a shelter? You mean you didn't even arse yourself to find out how the system you're criticising actually works before criticising it?

Fucking hell Luft, I realise you have a history of incompetant research, but not even bothering to do any at all before barging in is stupid even by the low standards we've come to expect of you.

Do better next time or don't bother wasting our bandwidth.

Nice to see old Nazi airforce taken to task and "liberally" lambasted for being an ass.

yep, that's probably where they go.

Now..... how does shelter maintenace and counceling services physically stop children from being beat? It does not..... and donating clothes to a place of this ilk does not as well.

donating clothing does nill to physically stop children from being beat.

yep, i understand the process of what happens to the clothing.

however, donating that clothing does not stop children from being beat. it's quite simple.

If you believe that donating clothing will stop children from being beat.....then you would have to use the same logic in all other instances.