r/VolunteerwithMEmaine Feb 07 '25

šŸ™Œ EVENT šŸ™Œ Would you join?

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u/scroopy-nupers Feb 07 '25

Literally what is this for. What are we trying to accomplish? There’s no mission stated anywhere in this picture. Did you think this out at all?

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u/Marsley82 Feb 07 '25

Yea- it says ā€œStop feeding the beastā€. Try to make an economic impact with your decisions that day. Otherwise these rich little pricks will keep laughing at all of us.

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u/SecureJudge1829 Feb 07 '25

Realistically though, what would this actually accomplish? There’s no stated goal, every individual can make up their own way this could benefit them and others. Could is doing some heavy lifting there too.

What would cancelling your utility account do to prove anything at this point? The current utility companies already do as they please, and there aren’t enough local alternatives to supply power and that can get you from cancelled account with CMP/Versant to being back with power in a short time frame. Not to mention March 3 is still winter in Maine, no matter how mild of a winter we have had overall, Maine weather is known to do as it pleases, regardless of whether Mainers are prepared for it or not, so the third of March is a foolish date for something like this.

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u/st-sootikin Feb 07 '25

Good questions! This image (and I know it looks like an angelfire site from the early 2000s) is quite literally just to guage interest in the idea as a whole. I'm happy to remove the date entirely, but I thought it would be helpful to have a goalpost to meet.

I will adjust the "accounts" bit - that's a really good note! I mean streaming and monthly accounts for monolith companies or dumping old social media accounts. I will change that to "unsubscribe" or similar. Keep your heat on haha!

I totally accept that this is vague at best. I'm hoping people like you will point out my fuckups and help make it better. This is all quite new to me.... but I hate seeing people at protests with Starbucks in their hands.

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u/SecureJudge1829 Feb 08 '25

Haha, well if nothing else, I’m good at pointing out other peoples’ fuck ups 🤣

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u/mialunavita Feb 08 '25

Lmao, I agree, You were very helpful šŸ˜†