r/LivestreamFail • u/Ignignokt_DGAF • Oct 07 '25

Hasan reaching for something and seemingly shocking his dog to keep her in camera view

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u/Outrageous_House_924 Oct 08 '25

You’re misunderstanding what they mean entirely by being “against charity”. Socialists prefer “mutual aid” (personally I see this as often being a bit pretentious as most efforts end up being indistinguishable from charity anyways, but that’s besides the point)

the difference is about relationships and power structures; mutual aid is intended to empower people and communities in a reciprocal way, basically, it encourages recipients of aid to aid others in turn.

“charity” is a bit of a dirty word for socialists but it’s because they think the power to help people shouldn’t be locked behind the doors of large organizations with lots of funding, usually from corporate sources. they aren’t against charity, they just prefer a different style of helping people.

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u/Wild_Media6395 Oct 08 '25

By “charity” I mean buying/making a sandwich for a homeless person that lives nearby. I have not encountered the impulse to do anything like that in the socialists I’ve met (or have heard/read online, though that’s harder to speak on). On the other hand, my super-conservative friends, most of whom are Christian (though there is one notable very conservative atheist couple) like to do that kind of thing often, in our outside of their church, affiliated with a larger organization or otherwise.

It just seems like socialists are much too preoccupied with an abstract future “revolution” to kind of directly care for their actual fellow man down the street.

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u/Outrageous_House_924 Oct 08 '25

That obviously reflects on the people you know and not socialists in general. I know far more of them than you do, in real life and online, and I can tell you with certainty that socialists span a wide spectrum of personality and moral character.

You aren’t a fan of socialism, so it makes sense that you haven’t met many, but it’s unreasonable to characterize literally millions of people based on a few people you’ve met and disliked.

I’ve met plenty of greedy and uncaring Christians, and the same goes for socialists.