As he pulled his luggage through downtown New Haven, Conn., a woman handed him a flier describing his new city as crime-ridden and dangerous. It listed alarming local crime statistics and instructed students to “remain on campus,” “avoid public transportation” and “stay off the streets after 8 p.m.” Illustrated with a picture of the Grim Reaper, the flier wished students an ominous “Good luck.”

But perhaps most jarring was the source of the flier, listed plainly in its text: the union that represents Yale’s own campus police.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/nyregion/yale-police-fliers.html

  • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    So if you think someone has a little more money than you do, it's OK to rob them for no other reason than you would like more money? Again, this is bad, and not leftism, despite the class-based veneer you're throwing on it.

    Moving from "some crimes are justified, or even good, because they further a leftist project that benefits working people" to "crime is rad lol" creates this type of opportunism.

    • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      a little more money than you do

      lol

      they have a lot more money than i do

      it's OK to rob them for no other reason than you would like more money

      that more money would mean i don't have to choose between power and food, so yeah

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        "crime is rad lol"

        Yep this is about it

        In response to your edit about power and food: assuming that's true, robbing an individual stranger is maybe the least justifiable type of theft. An electronics store is what you're looking for.

            • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              "robbing extremely privileged people would mean i could afford basic necessities"

              "you just like crime"

              lol

              • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                You edited in your economic justification after a couple of comments. Your original comment was just "I want to rob posh people."

                • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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                  1 year ago

                  you know the edit is timestamped right?

                  i added it in before you replied to the comment

                  and it just had the top line of "they have a lot more money than i do"

          • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            The only reason to prefer mugging a random student over walking out of Target with a TV is wanting to hurt a person, or at least screw them over individually.

            You just want to punch up, which is understandable. But it's not leftism, and it doesn't justify victimizing a person instead of a company.

            • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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              1 year ago

              The only reason to prefer mugging a random student over walking out of Target with a TV is wanting to hurt a person

              we don't have target here
              way less likely to get caught mugging some rando
              you don't really need to hurt them
              again, never said it's leftism

              you also need to flog the tv
              and get it home

            • CannotSleep420@lemmygrad.ml
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              1 year ago

              The only reason to prefer mugging a random student over walking out of Target with a TV is wanting to hurt a person, or at least screw them over individually.

              Show stalin chad
              Show yes balloon

              • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Stalin robbed banks, not individuals, and he was doing it to fund a proletarian party, not for his personal benefit.

                Few people want to associate with a political movement that encourages or allows casual violence. Those movements are disconnected from the people and open season for opportunists. It should not be a hot take to want violence to be carefully directed towards political ends.

      • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        In your original post you make it sound much more like recreation than necessity.