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Good for ALS, bad for the charities that those people would have donated to if not for the ice bucket challenge.[/quote]
Um, wouldn't the same argument apply to buying groceries, gas for your car, adult diapers for yourself, etc?
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Good for ALS, bad for the charities that those people would have donated to if not for the ice bucket challenge.[/quote]
Um, wouldn't the same argument apply to buying groceries, gas for your car, adult diapers for yourself, etc?
If it weren't for stunts like this, liberals would never donate to charities.
No-one who posts on LR has friends.
Either you have no friends, or none of your friends are fu***** idiots.
ALS is no joke wrote:
Anyway, I am a 22 year old guy who just graduated college. I'm on facebook, twitter, and instagram, and thought I had a lot of close friends. But although all my friends have now done the Ice Bucket Challenge, I have not been nominated by any of them to do it. Is this a bad sign? Do I actually have no friends?
Maybe you're just not white.
Where do you get off, really, spreading this nonsense.
I am a Liberal. I make a good income and have few expenses. I donated about 35% of my income last year to charity. What did you donate, or are you one more Conservative with a big mouth?
Sister Slide wrote:
ALS is no joke wrote:Anyway, I am a 22 year old guy who just graduated college. I'm on facebook, twitter, and instagram, and thought I had a lot of close friends. But although all my friends have now done the Ice Bucket Challenge, I have not been nominated by any of them to do it. Is this a bad sign? Do I actually have no friends?
Maybe you're just not white.
I haven't been asked either. All the people that did this were not motivated to do anything other than put their little video on Facebook because it was the big thing to do last week. And it ended up raising a good chuck of change. And they got to show everyone they cared. But it was about them more than the cause.
So whoever came up with this masterminded a very effective fund raising strategy via social media.
But none of these people putting videos on dumping ice buckets on their head were doing that because they wanted to help cure ALS.
If it raised a lot of money than all is good.
Liberal wrote:
Where do you get off, really, spreading this nonsense.
I am a Liberal. I make a good income and have few expenses. I donated about 35% of my income last year to charity. What did you donate, or are you one more Conservative with a big mouth?
Yeah right. Liberals are notoriously poor at charitable giving. You, completely anonymous twit on a niche message board, are the exception? Sure....
agc5k wrote:
I was nominated, didn't do it, don't have money to donate. Big woop. Doesn't matter. If you have financial means to donate, do it. If you don't, carry on.
As a whole, its good cuz people hear the term "ALS" which causes some of them to look it up and learn about it, while the fiscally responsible are like "I'm gonna donate to that."
Their overhead is about 90%. In comparison, the red cross devotes about 10% of money colected to overhead.
best one yet- excuse the obscenities
http://uproxx.com/webculture/2014/08/2-year-old-ice-bucket-challenge/
I don't like most things.
More like pat yourself on the back challenge. Just another mutation of the selfie.
Two-time CDN Olympian Bruce Deacon did it:
http://athleticsillustrated.com/video/bruce-deacon-als-ice-bucket-challenge/