• HerbGrower@slrpnk.net
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    4 days ago

    Yeah I am sure they really need that £40 jar of honey, bottle of fancy wine and the finest steaks…

    I don’t see people stealing potatoes, but I see quite a few stealing the expensive stuff.

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              4 days ago

              Let’s end this argument by you telling us where your line is on what people are allowed to steal to survive. Because that’s all this argument is about.

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                Where I live its always luxuries that people steal, like fancy wines. If someone is stealing bread or vegetables that is actual food.

                What is the endgame if we just let everyone steal everything? A lot of theft here is done by gangs to resell for profit and I am absolutely not OK with encouraging that kind of behaviour.

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                  And do those viscious thugs stealing jars of artisanal honey happen to include a tiger, a small pig, and a yellow bear who wears a red shirt?

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            3 days ago

            Didn’t you read?? People were stealing organic avocados and fresh multi grain toast, not gruel and powdered milk.

            Edit. Apparently it wasn’t clear that this was sarcasm.

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              Oh no, they’re stealing a variety of things instead of subsistence living! How dreadful and awful! Let’s blame them for not just taking beans and rice instead of a corrupt system that forces this to happen!

              Seriously, fuck your mentality. It’s the same as those reactionaries who parrot “well eat beans and rice!” when people are on hard times.

            • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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              4 days ago

              So in other words your personal anectode is completely worthless in a discussion about US shoplifting. Thanks, gtfo.

              Maybe the higher wages has something to do with the discrepancy, innit? Fucking wanker.