Nothing rule : 196

[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago

I could not possibly give less fucks if someone steals from a name brand store. Little mom a pop shops, I might care a little bit, but any nationwide chain? Fuck them.

If I see someone stealing from someone else, I will definitely have fucks to give. But I'm not going to shed any tears if someone walks out of a Walmart with shit they didn't pay for.

These fucks gouge us every chance they get. They raise prices mere days before a "sale" so they can slap a x% off sticker on something and sell it for full fucking price. I do not have any sympathy for them at all.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Unless they lock that shit up behind a cabinet. I took this photo today and it almost made me cry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

What even is that exactly? I have never seen anything like that

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I didn't know what these were too. I only learned about these after having a kid.

After a woman gives birth, the exit where the baby comes out bleeds.... Profusely.... Usually for a few days, but could go for a few weeks. Something that regular pads can't handle.

It's basically an essential item that should be given out free to all mothers and it's locked behind a glass case.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago (2 children)

After a woman gives birth, the exit where the baby comes out bleeds

Vagina. It's okay to say vagina, because that's what it's called.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Like, even Depends adult diapers wouldn't be sufficient for postpartum bleeding?

after my most violent birth, I just remember having the luxury of being at home for months and having access to the toilet all day 🤷🏻‍♀️

It was 17 years ago but the memories are coming back to me now, yeah it was pretty much like giving birth three more times with all the blood and god-knows-what-solid-bloody-tissue-chunks still coming out of me days after.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Crenshaw but based.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Winshaw, his theoretical antiperson.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Or medication or hygiene products or toys or actually anything. The store is not paying me to care.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

Ya frankly if they're just taking corporations and not mom and pop shops I ain't seeing anything.

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 5 months ago

Oooh yeah sorry I have face blindness, even if I saw the person again I'd never recognize them soooooooo sorryyyyyyyyyy

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (2 children)

1 can, sure.

2 cans, maybe.

But when I see some asshole load up a cart and start booking it towards the nearest fire door? Yeah, I'm stopping you.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

We had a problem in my country a few years ago where large numbers of people would buy up a heap of baby formula so that they can resell it overseas at a massive profit. Enough that stores had to put caps on how many you're allowed to buy, and local parents still frequently couldn't get their hands on it.

They weren't generally stealing, but if they were, you bet I'd report that. And if they were noticeably going back in to buy more than the limit.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Someone once stole half a fucking oxen of meat and his excuse was "I need to feed my family". My dude, is your family 50 people?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Remember that "feeding 50 people once" is the same as feeding 10 people 5 times. With a large family, that could be as little as a week of food.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Sure, but maybe my comment demanded some context. Beef is expensive compared to many other meats where I'm from and this person literally stole the most expensive cuts only, in amounts that came to huge sums. Their explanation made no sense, since there are far better things to steal if all you want to do is feed your family. He was caught with so much that it was unreal.

I wouldn't have brought it up in this thread unless it was weird, because I do believe stealing food from the supermarket isn't immoral if you truly need to do it to feed yourself. Not that I see it happen ever, y'know.

edit: made a clarification

[–] [email protected] 31 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In my experience, being a victim of crime makes people less empathetic and more likely to favor “tough on crime” bullshit policies. This is why California is seeing a rise in Conservatism and progressive DAs are getting voted out. Sadly the progressive DAs were never helped or supported by other arms of the state legislature that could have attempted to solve the root cause of the issues (hint it’s not that some people suck)

In America at least, the small business owners may or may not be a part of the problem, depending on whether they’re voting GOP. The big businesses are definitely the problem as they mindlessly favor shareholder loyalty instead of community loyalty.

Ideally you’d want voters to be empathetic to the plight of less fortunate, and vote for progressive change. That doesn’t help someone who is hungry now, so I suggest donating food items to the local bank or community for the short term help if you really want to help the poor, and voting progressive candidates into office for the long term help

In general all countries need to remodel towards market socialism, otherwise you’ll always have the national security dilemma for any kind of policy change

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

Nothing more American than spending more on incarceration than it cost to house and feed that same person.

Well, maybe denying one's self healthcare on the off chance an emotionally unstable drug user gets the help they need.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Did you see someone shoplifting? No you fucking didn't, narc.

EDIT: Okay, so just grabbing a top level comment to dispell some misinfo.

Stealing baby formula to onsell online does happen: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/05/02/magazine/money-issue-baby-formula-crime-ring.html

Parents stealing baby formula out of desperation also happens: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/the-desperate-reality-of-stealing-baby-formula-because-you-cant-afford-it_uk_64635704e4b09eef8308cfc6

The problem here is that baby formula is something people need to feed their babies, and our society has decided that if you don't have enough made up arbitrary tokens, you don't get to feed your baby.

If I don't know 100% that the person I saw stealing baby formula is doing it as part of a crime ring, then I'm not going to ruin a parent's life because they did what they needed to feed their baby. Even then if the crime ring is selling it at a discount then I don't particularly care to stop them either.

If you want to tell people that shoplifting is such a problem and you want to focus on the crime rings and ignore the poor people, your priorities are messed up. Also none of you know how to source your claims. Also, don't start with some BS about how nobody ever does it to feed their baby, that's just false.

In conclusion:

Did you see someone shoplifting? No you fucking didn't, narc.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (12 children)

No one shoplifts formula to feed their own baby, they steal it to literally scalp it to those who actually do need it, at a fat markup, after conveniently draining the store's supply so they're the only source.

They're not Robin Hoods sticking it to the Big Bad Corporation. They're profiteering scumbags.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

Bold assumption that no one shoplifts baby formula to use it

There will be people who are desperate enough to do so (I've even known a few)

The amount of people I've known who have stolen food for themselves or their kids is more than those who haven't

Edit: spelling

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've seen stolen wares and goods being sold on street many times before. They arent scalped as that implies charging more than the retail price, they're sold for significantly less than the retailer, often at a fraction.

And just because they sold baby formula, doesn't mean they don't need to sell it to buy food and gas.

I will side with the have nots doing what they can get away with to survive over the Alice Waltons choosing to live like modern Pharoahs on our backs and never being satisfied with their immoral dragon hoards every time. The owners have bred this desperation, and bribe our captured government to maintain it in perpetuity for their exclusive benefit. Look to the nordic countries, this isn't how we have to live, scraping and subsisting, it's how our owner class demands it be so they can run up their ego scores, competing with one another while seeing us as subhuman batteries for that sociopathic game.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

They're rolling back prices! Better than nothing for damn sure

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[–] [email protected] 62 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I absolutely did, and I'm taking mental notes on their technique to improve my own.

There's no shame in stealing from a publically traded conglomerate, they used the money from exploiting you and those like you to lobby to steal more from you and destroy the commons they tear up with their supply chains but didn't want to pay taxes to repair and maintain, and destroy public education they also don't want to fund despite enjoying and taking for granted the pre-literate workforce they have access to that they directly profit from. Stealing from them is just revenge.

They've stolen more from us than we can ever hope to steal back, including the temperate climate of our only habitat in their insatiable, blind, reckless, gluttonous, antisocial, sociopathic need for ever moooaaaar.

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