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

  • 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.