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g0ldie
11/14/22 9:22:58 PM
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https://twitter.com/DollyParton/status/1591600947972935680

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Popcorn2000
11/14/22 9:26:51 PM
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Pretty much the best person to give that money to
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IdiotMachine
11/14/22 9:28:35 PM
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Popcorn2000 posted...
Pretty much the best person to give that money to
How about the workers of Amazon?

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TheGoldenEel
11/14/22 9:29:12 PM
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my son gets free books from her every month

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Blue_Inigo
11/14/22 9:29:29 PM
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I'm a charity. Gimme money

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voldothegr8
11/14/22 9:30:03 PM
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IdiotMachine posted...
How about the workers of Amazon?
Dolly is a modern day saint for kids, one could argue that's more important.

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CE_gonna_CE
11/14/22 9:30:47 PM
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Popcorn2000 posted...
Pretty much the best person to give that money to

voldothegr8 posted...
Dolly is a modern day saint for kids, one could argue that's more important.

All this

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g0ldie
11/14/22 9:30:58 PM
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TheGoldenEel posted...
my son gets free books from her every month
I didn't know this was a thing, but that's really cool.

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Popcorn2000
11/14/22 9:31:58 PM
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g0ldie posted...
I didn't know this was a thing, but that's really cool.
Yeah, shes fucking amazing. Theres so many charitable works that shes done for decades and never gets any attention for it.
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g0ldie
11/14/22 9:33:25 PM
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I heard about her being a part of multiple charities and helping people out on the low

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TheGoldenEel
11/14/22 9:34:52 PM
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g0ldie posted...
I didn't know this was a thing, but that's really cool.
https://imaginationlibrary.com/

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Alucard188
11/14/22 9:35:59 PM
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IdiotMachine posted...
How about the workers of Amazon?

They'll just waste it by providing for themselves and their families. Better to give it to some ridiculously wealthy person so they can distribute it to villages in Ghana or someplace.

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g0ldie
11/14/22 9:36:38 PM
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TheGoldenEel posted...
https://imaginationlibrary.com/
thanks!

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Popcorn2000
11/14/22 9:52:45 PM
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Alucard188 posted...
They'll just waste it by providing for themselves and their families. Better to give it to some ridiculously wealthy person so they can distribute it to villages in Ghana or someplace.
A very dumb and inaccurate take
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g0ldie
11/16/22 12:57:32 PM
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one more

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WingsOfGood
11/16/22 12:58:22 PM
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Allow all women who wants big honkers like Dolly free operations
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mustachedmystic
11/16/22 1:01:58 PM
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Not a big fan of country music, but I have seen her interviewed on television a number of times over the years, and she comes across as the most sincere, friendly, and down to earth celebrity alive today.

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MrMallard
11/16/22 1:12:14 PM
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IdiotMachine posted...
How about the workers of Amazon?
Okay, let's rephrase that:

Of all the American celebrities in the world known for their charitable track record, the positive potential of their work and their image, Dolly Parton is the gold standard for who this money could be going to.

Amazon workers absolutely deserve a cash infusion like this, whether it be as a company-wide round of bonuses for the staff or as a massive pension plan, or in having their wages increased permanently. This money is going to charity - almost certainly as a matter of PR, sure, but if it wasn't carved out for this express purpose there's zero guarantee it would have been going towards the workers. It's like complaining about people donating to Archive of our Own instead of giving money to people's GoFundMes, which is absolutely a real point of discourse I'm fucking sick of seeing.

That being said, maybe Dolly Parton can be extremely fucking funny and based in donating $20 million to fund unionization efforts for Amazon employees. But saying that, hearing that Dolly Parton has the authority to direct this money to charitable causes of her choosing is cause for celebration, because she is the gold standard for celebrities who are involved with charity.

Is this ideal? No. Nobody's wrong for pointing out the plight of Amazon's workers, nor for pointing out the more cynical aspects of this action being a PR stunt. I still genuinely believe this is a net positive, even if more could absolutely be done.

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rexcrk
11/16/22 1:13:52 PM
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IdiotMachine posted...
How about the workers of Amazon?


Only took until post #3


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misterbum
11/16/22 1:15:46 PM
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Im not here to give praise to Bezos for this, but by all means all the folks marginalizing Dolly Parton or simply generalizing her as just another rich celebrity are so completely off the mark it isnt even funny.

It only takes a quick Google search to see all the good her and her charities have done for children and families across the nation, and in particular for her home state of Tennessee. She grew up dirt poor with 10+ siblings in backwood, rural TN and yeah, shes wealthy now, but shes never lost sight of where she came from.

If more celebrities and rich assholes were more like her, the world would be a better place, no doubt.

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kage_53
11/16/22 1:31:51 PM
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He hasnt been in charge of Amazon for a little over a year so they are not his workers.
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VampireCoyote
11/16/22 1:51:23 PM
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Popcorn2000 posted...
Pretty much the best person to give that money to


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holy_bolt
11/16/22 1:52:03 PM
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Alucard188 posted...


They'll just waste it by providing for themselves and their families. Better to give it to some ridiculously wealthy person so they can distribute it to villages in Ghana or someplace.


Considering how much help Dolly's charities were to me and my siblings growing up I'm just gonna let you hold this L, bud

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DipDipDiver
11/16/22 2:00:22 PM
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MrMallard posted...
Okay, let's rephrase that:

Of all the American celebrities in the world known for their charitable track record, the positive potential of their work and their image, Dolly Parton is the gold standard for who this money could be going to.

Amazon workers absolutely deserve a cash infusion like this, whether it be as a company-wide round of bonuses for the staff or as a massive pension plan, or in having their wages increased permanently. This money is going to charity - almost certainly as a matter of PR, sure, but if it wasn't carved out for this express purpose there's zero guarantee it would have been going towards the workers. It's like complaining about people donating to Archive of our Own instead of giving money to people's GoFundMes, which is absolutely a real point of discourse I'm fucking sick of seeing.

That being said, maybe Dolly Parton can be extremely fucking funny and based in donating $20 million to fund unionization efforts for Amazon employees. But saying that, hearing that Dolly Parton has the authority to direct this money to charitable causes of her choosing is cause for celebration, because she is the gold standard for celebrities who are involved with charity.

Is this ideal? No. Nobody's wrong for pointing out the plight of Amazon's workers, nor for pointing out the more cynical aspects of this action being a PR stunt. I still genuinely believe this is a net positive, even if more could absolutely be done.
This is a way better response than that post deserved
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Jiek_Fafn
11/16/22 2:09:22 PM
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Probably just a tax write off for Bezos, but at the very least he sent it to a person that will actually use it to help people. Dolly Parton is a wonderful human being that legitimately cares about others. Bezos could throw it in the sewer and he wouldnt particularly care as long as he could write it off.

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CRON
11/16/22 2:10:17 PM
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Alucard188 posted...
They'll just waste it by providing for themselves and their families. Better to give it to some ridiculously wealthy person so they can distribute it to villages in Ghana or someplace.
You realize the majority of Dolly Parton's philanthropy focuses on Americans; particularly children, right?
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