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

        Yeah, "I just feel like robbing people" is bad. I'm asking why a leftist community seems to think it's worth upvoting.

          • 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.

                  • 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.

              • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                1 year ago

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

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      It's the most important form of leftism, bullying liberals.

      • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        No, that type of comment is opportunism at best. It's OK to recognize that.

        • Adkml [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          Ok I'll add sympathy for ivy league students who think seeing a black person made them a victim of violent crime to my list of things to care about. It's gonna be right around sympathy for soldiers who feel bad about the war crimes they committed.