#literally just fucking google volunteer opportunities + your city and there that’s more praxis than 90% of this fucking webbed site | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

wilberave · 9 months

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the terrifying moment of realization when talking to a self proclaimed Leftist when you can immediately tell “oh. this person has never done an hour of community service in their life.” like. i know it’s been said before but your politics truly do not matter if you’re not interacting with your community in any way. you can vote in every single election and it will not have a fraction of the impact of 17 year old tyler who got sentenced to 20 hours of picking up litter and weeding the community garden. you can never once vote out of protest and read piles of theory and not come close to making the change that the group of 80 year old catholic ladies at St. Mary’s on the corner do with their weekly community meals and school supply drives. we live in the rotting corpse of an evil empire. ideas mean fucking nothing. the only thing that matters at all is physically extending a hand to try to help the people around you.

#getting super involved in volunteer work in my tiny ass town in rural ohio has perhaps radicalized me more than anything else #like truly it is so easy to make sure peoples lives have been tangibly improved even in some small way #just by serving and packaging meals or sorting through clothing donations #or keeping kids entertained while their parents talk to someone abt SNAP or even fucking scrubbing the sinks and toilets in a halfway house #because the residents have much bigger things to worry about than cleaning #all things i’ve done within my own town that were easy and fun and great ways to socialize and meet people near me #literally just fucking google volunteer opportunities + your city and there that’s more praxis than 90% of this fucking webbed site #god. sorry for the rant. can you tell i’ve been seeing an i fluc of Very Stupid posts recently #influx*

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