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C'mon, prosecuting people stealing basic necessities[1], and small personal use items[2] are not gonna keep rich corporations from going out of business. We ha
by RedBeetDeadpool 5y ago
C'mon, prosecuting people stealing basic necessities[1], and small personal use items[2] are not gonna keep rich corporations from going out of business. We have to defend the marginalized, or else late stage capitalism will turn us all into slave wage laborers.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEuoSmW4DRw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEuoSmW4DRw
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhCTrcTzFYQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhCTrcTzFYQ
- diogenescynic 5y agoIt's not Aladdin stealing a loaf of bread.. These are organized crime rings that are stealing to resell to "fences" who then resell the goods online or at flea markets. If you ran a business, I'm sure you'd see it differently. Almost no one is going hungry in America and certainly not SF, where we have generous social services.
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- sirspacey 5y ago10M children are food insecure. https://www.childrensdefense.org/state-of-americas-children/soac-2021-child-hunger/ https://www.childrensdefense.org/state-of-americas-children/... This is not to negate your point about SMBs. But to remind that yes, children do go hungry every day in the US. I was one of them.
- diogenescynic 5y agoAnd in SF there are multiple places literally giving free food and groceries. That’s not the issue at all.
- Nicksil 5y agoHoly shit. In the first video there's a clip with a security guy confronting the person stealing and they just keep grabbing things as if he didn't exist. It's a bad comedy if it wasn't real.