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It's nice they did this but it doesn't move me. Any of us could have gone to Costco, purchased several cases of water and drove around for an hour handing it out and no one would give a rat's *ss we did it. Since it was Hopkins its a big deal. He has the means to do so much more like maybe putting together an effort to setup tiny houses for those homeless people in the video just like Schwarzenegger did. He found a parcel of land and put a bunch of tiny houses on it for the homeless.
 

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It's nice they did this but it doesn't move me. Any of us could have gone to Costco, purchased several cases of water and drove around for an hour handing it out and no one would give a rat's *ss we did it. Since it was Hopkins its a big deal. He has the means to do so much more like maybe putting together an effort to setup tiny houses for those homeless people in the video just like Schwarzenegger did. He found a parcel of land and put a bunch of tiny houses on it for the homeless.

Did you go to Costco and buy cases of water and hand them out?
 

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It's nice they did this but it doesn't move me. Any of us could have gone to Costco, purchased several cases of water and drove around for an hour handing it out and no one would give a rat's *ss we did it. Since it was Hopkins its a big deal. He has the means to do so much more like maybe putting together an effort to setup tiny houses for those homeless people in the video just like Schwarzenegger did. He found a parcel of land and put a bunch of tiny houses on it for the homeless.
It's the little things that matter. Sometimes the big things are more for show.
They put up a tiny home village for the homeless here and it is usually empty. Most of the homeless population doesn't want the help. They refuse to follow the rules required to live within the community (i.e. no drugs/alcohol), so the place is minimally used.
 

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It's nice they did this but it doesn't move me. Any of us could have gone to Costco, purchased several cases of water and drove around for an hour handing it out and no one would give a rat's *ss we did it. Since it was Hopkins its a big deal. He has the means to do so much more like maybe putting together an effort to setup tiny houses for those homeless people in the video just like Schwarzenegger did. He found a parcel of land and put a bunch of tiny houses on it for the homeless.

This guy.

Hey who knows maybe your doing a ton of stuff for the community. Please share let us know what we could do to help you
 

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It's nice they did this but it doesn't move me. Any of us could have gone to Costco, purchased several cases of water and drove around for an hour handing it out and no one would give a rat's *ss we did it. Since it was Hopkins its a big deal. He has the means to do so much more like maybe putting together an effort to setup tiny houses for those homeless people in the video just like Schwarzenegger did. He found a parcel of land and put a bunch of tiny houses on it for the homeless.
That's the whole point, he did not have to do this. There was no need to go passive aggressive on D-hop in your opening statement about it being nice, 'but'... I think the opinion of the poor person getting the bottle of water is what you should focus on regardless of the media noticing it or not :)
 

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They did make sure to film it and post it on social media, though. :wink2:
Again, the point is not why to the person getting the water. Heck, it might even prompt other guys to do it for PR, but the results are the same and that is someone getting some water, so the 'why' becomes irrelevant
 

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It's nice they did this but it doesn't move me. Any of us could have gone to Costco, purchased several cases of water and drove around for an hour handing it out and no one would give a rat's *ss we did it. Since it was Hopkins its a big deal. He has the means to do so much more like maybe putting together an effort to setup tiny houses for those homeless people in the video just like Schwarzenegger did. He found a parcel of land and put a bunch of tiny houses on it for the homeless.
Cardpa, that's getting a little dangerous good brother. Far be it for ANY of us to tell another man what to do with his money. There are billionaires who wouldn't so much as spit on the common man if he were on fire. He's doing something from the kindness of his heart when he could be lounging in his mansion's pool or eating steak and shrimp under the air conditioning. There really should be nothing negative to say about this good gesture.
 

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They did make sure to film it and post it on social media, though. :wink2:
I never understood why people have a problem with celebrities posting good deeds. Not every act is a self-serving one. Sometimes people with means, and even people without, can see that and say to themselves "I need to do something good as well". If it prompts someone else, rich or not, to do something positive, I'm all for it!
 

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Was the video posted on Hopkin's twitter account? I'm curious on who posted it. I don't do Twitter and I don't follow anyone on any social media site.
 

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Was the video posted on Hopkin's twitter account? I'm curious on who posted it. I don't do Twitter and I don't follow anyone on any social media site.
I'm not sure. I don't do a LOT of social media, but I do pay attention to most things Cardinals. I would think the team would either feature or retweet this on their official Twitter.
 

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Was the video posted on Hopkin's twitter account? I'm curious on who posted it. I don't do Twitter and I don't follow anyone on any social media site.
It was originally posted to his IG. IMO it would be dumb for these celebrities to not post this stuff on their social media because it usually prompts other people to follow suit and do similar good deeds. Sure there is something noble about doing it without any recognition, but you may end up making a smaller impact in the process.
 

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It's nice they did this but it doesn't move me. Any of us could have gone to Costco, purchased several cases of water and drove around for an hour handing it out and no one would give a rat's *ss we did it. Since it was Hopkins its a big deal. He has the means to do so much more like maybe putting together an effort to setup tiny houses for those homeless people in the video just like Schwarzenegger did. He found a parcel of land and put a bunch of tiny houses on it for the homeless.
Uh, any of us could have. How many did? He did. He didn’t have to. Give him credit. Also, I’m willing to bet a guy that does that does a ton of stuff we don’t know about. This is a silly thing to criticize a lot later about - literally a good deed.
 

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I never understood why people have a problem with celebrities posting good deeds. Not every act is a self-serving one. Sometimes people with means, and even people without, can see that and say to themselves "I need to do something good as well". If it prompts someone else, rich or not, to do something positive, I'm all for it!
Now if he gave water away like this, then I would have an issue with the act lol
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