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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

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[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

didn't say it was leftism
i don't like poshos and could do with the money shrug-outta-hecks

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

some of us don't care about poshos i guess

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

"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.

[–] OgdenTO@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's the mentality on display here.

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

"you just like crime"

lol

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You know you have to refresh the page to see edits, right?

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

fair enough, i did not

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

sure thing bud

[–] WoofWoof91@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

mugging someone is easier though

[–] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 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

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] CTHlurker@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Comrade WoofWoof can have a little crime, as a treat.

[–] ExternalAlpaca@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

I don't like your comment and I don't care if you think it's leftism or not

In the fucked up world we live in I am very in favor of stealing from the rich, to include the Yalie 6th generation legacy fucks