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In reply to the discussion: I'm a hard person to love these days and I'll tell you why [View all]Tsiyu
(18,186 posts)16. This is what gives me hope
there are 80 million millennials who will soon start kicking ass and taking down names.
They revere Nimoy, as evidenced by his visage all over reddit's front page today.
And you know what gives me more hope?
Look at the choices for charitable giving by reddit users:
http://www.redditblog.com/
(scroll down)
Every winning charity will receive a donation in the amount of $82,765.95 from reddit.
After +250,000 votes cast on +8,000 charities by 80,000+ voters, we have our top 10 list of charities:
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Doctors Without Borders, USA
Erowid Center
Wikimedia Foundation
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies
NPR
Free Software Foundation
Freedom From Religion Foundation
Tor Project Inc.
The kids just have to wait out the dying Old Guard, but they're already making a difference.
Everyone should have hope.
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I wonder what your intent is with your post. Tell me you are not chastising the OP author.
rhett o rick
Feb 2015
#5
I don't know you at all, but you seem to be someone who truly knows we're not our circumstances.
ancianita
Feb 2015
#56
I too, was stuck sick by the realization of what is and what could have been
Half-Century Man
Feb 2015
#7
I was at a family dinner table with some old friends quite a number of years ago..
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#32
I know plenty of young people. I don't see what you do, particularly once they settle down,
ND-Dem
Feb 2015
#53
I am close with a good deal of young people whose energy, strength, and stability provides me much
appalachiablue
Feb 2015
#63
Do you know that MLK all but ordered Nichelle Nichols to stay on the show after the first season?
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#19
I sadly concur. Today's Republican Party is hell-bent on destroying the planet. And the DEMS are
blkmusclmachine
Feb 2015
#45
The weather has been either wet and cold, icy or frigid so I haven't ridden much lately
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#50
Hang in there my little green friend. The future is us. It is always within us to remake it.
leveymg
Feb 2015
#52
I think trade is a necessity, it's been going on for as long as we have been humans..
Fumesucker
Feb 2015
#59
"illegitimati non carburundum" (VERY bastardized latin for "don't let the bastards grind
niyad
Feb 2015
#78
There have been times when I have had doubts that there would be a better future...
1monster
Feb 2015
#85