re: How do you contribute to your community?

I pay taxes so dipshits can sit at home collecting a check while starting stupid threads on the OT.

About $1000 every 2 weeks goes to “my community” via a wasteful tax system.

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How do you contribute to your community?

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I mind my own business
I take care of my own house/property
I don't steal
I don't vandalize
I pay my taxes

As long as YOU support them and don't expect me to.

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coach, ref, ump, or assist with a local children’s sports

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I do this for pretty much every sport here in town

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consistently volunteer at a charity?

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volunteer a lot for church functions that are charity based and after hurricane laura my dad and I went and tarped roofs and helped as many as we could as he is a local elected official.

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Do you bring other people’s shopping carts from the parking lot so that others can use them?

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i do this

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Do you pick up litter when you’re walking?

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i do this


I also pay my taxes for the public schools and then send my kids to private school.

I feel good that I am doing my part.

Prison ministry

There's a ton of shitposting on here, but honestly, I think that's because the question made quite a few people feel badly about themselves.

I actually had a similar experience early on during the pandemic.

I pulled up to the Essen/Jefferson intersection and saw a pandhandler. As a rule, I don't give to panhandlers, and especially not ones approaching vehicles. My thought process is that's a terrible way to handle charity, and that we should help people through organizations that specialize in that work.

Then the thought occurred to me that I didn't actually donate to any organizations that did that work. I donated to the arts, etc, but nothing that actually helped the people I was refusing to help, but using the existence of those organizations as my justification. That realization made me feel extremely uncomfortable, and like a massive hypocrite. So I sat down, did some research into local charity organizations, and significantly increased my total charitable contributions while also significantly rebalancing them. It's still a work in progress, but now that it's something I'm cognizant of, it's much easier for me to constantly examine whether my time and money are actually going to things I claim to want to see in the world, or whether I've simply begun making excuses for my inaction.

And I return my shopping cart so fastidiously you'd think I had a camera following me.

I fight a never-ending battle for truth, justice, and the American way.

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I baby sit people’s kids and prey they learn math along the way

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Pay a ton in real estate taxes and not do stupid shite that requires intervention by the police or fire departments.