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First, there could be innocent shoppers in the store.
Second, cleanup costs would be astronomical - cheaper to let them take the stuff.
Third, if the clerk is encased in a bulletproof chamber, there's no longer a threat to them and deadly force is no longer justified - it would be murder.
Just sayin'.
Many stores are fully equipped with fully locked doors once someone commits crime. It’s literally the only way for them to get caught as they wait for police.
Search on YouTube, there’s plenty of viral videos of it.
As far as innocents go, most criminals like to wait until the store is empty to do something stupid.
The greatest theft by far is being carried out by our government and their banker buddies on Wall Street.
Sure, that's a whole other thread, imho. But it's not like Millennials and Gen z'ers are not embedded into that world either.
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Why do people commit crimes?
Of course there are a multitude of reasons. There is never one answer.
To keep to the thread,..why do people commit illegal street takeovers and rob convenience stores for junk food? They are trash people reverting to base caveman states, and I seriously doubt anyone in there gives a hoot about boomers.
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What do you mean by wealth? Numbers?
I mean, if the case is made that these Millenials and Genzers are victims due to boomers squandering their old money. People of today have ways to make their own fortune. Totally new fields and jobs are created with each new tech. It's there is you want to pursue it. And no reason to rely on Old Boomer Money to give you a leg up. Or blame them if you don't have it.
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the problem goes back much further than baby boomers
and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip." - Robert Lewis Dabney, 1897
If we gonna go back so far, it may just be human nature. That passage you quoted sounds like any party. Each looks out for a new boogeyman to whip to get enough votes to stick around.
Generations from now, whatever the new label will be, will blame the current Millennials/Gen z'ers for some other dumb stuff. Like maybe squandering the Internet and giving up their rights to online conglomerates by enabling FB and Tik Tok. Or putting their faith in virtual vaporware currencies.
I am not saying boomers are perfect, or the past in general even. I just don't see it as generally useful to point out. I feel we've come and evolved way past the point of attachment to the past. There can be a point in time where we can say,..ok,..all this,...right now,..we are responsible for this garbage.
What sort of Newspeak do you think the "academics" and the Orwellian media will invent to describe these sorts of activities, once they become truly ubiquitous across the nation? Maybe something like:
Spontaneous Equity Incident
Involuntary Repatriation of Stolen Capital
Colonialist Karma
Property Resettlement/Reallocation/Redistribution
Mostly Peaceful Self-Help
Anti-Corporatist Activity
Feel free to add your own!
Reparations pending
Welfare reallocation
Bread line buffet
Capitalistic karma
“The store has insurance, so who cares.”
Inequality readjustment
Affirmative action
Inflation revenge
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Just keeping it street. No need to trip. Encouraging to see Hispanics and Blacks looting together. However, let's not rush to judgment. The jury is still out on racial solidarity. Not a lot of high priced items in a 7-11. Nobody is going to get into a fist fight over hostess cups cakes (or at least not this looting.)
And what about the cash register? Anybody get the money? That's the real prize.
Please everybody knows the real prize at 7/11 is the slurpee machine
First, there could be innocent shoppers in the store.
True. That issue would have to be addressed. I'm sure we have some high-tech solution just waiting to be found.
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Second, cleanup costs would be astronomical - cheaper to let them take the stuff.
Ah, not so much. Just a fumigator and a meat by-products truck. Give the dog food manufacturers some sort of subsidy.
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Third, if the clerk is encased in a bulletproof chamber, there's no longer a threat to them and deadly force is no longer justified - it would be murder.
Yeah, but that's not really the point. It's more about ridding the world of "waste" and saving the taxpayers years worth of catch and release costs, court and appeal costs when the criminal is finally dealt with, and the cost of room and board in prison for a lifetime of ins and outs.
To keep to the thread,..why do people commit illegal street takeovers and rob convenience stores for junk food?
Because they don't like capitalism, and they don't like you.
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I mean, if the case is made that these Millenials and Genzers are victims due to boomers squandering their old money.
What Baby-Boomers squandered was not money. It was far more valuable.
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Generations from now, whatever the new label will be, will blame the current Millennials/Gen z'ers for some other dumb stuff. Like maybe squandering the Internet and giving up their rights to online conglomerates by enabling FB and Tik Tok. Or putting their faith in virtual vaporware currencies.
That is all correct. Is it not?
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I am not saying boomers are perfect, or the past in general even. I just don't see it as generally useful to point out. I feel we've come and evolved way past the point of attachment to the past. There can be a point in time where we can say,..ok,..all this,...right now,..we are responsible for this garbage.
If government schools are telling children to cut off their penises and take hormones, don't blame the children. If you want to blame democrats, that's fine. I blame conservatives, because conservatives were too cowardly and utterly pathetic to do anything about it. They support the system unconditionally and demand blind obedience.
When the democrats pass a law to take your guns, I'm going to lambast you as a criminal when you complain. You must obey.
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It's not reasonable to me. Regardless of the crime going on, being a racist is never reasonable, period. Anyone who thinks otherwise has some despicable thinking. No one should be a racist, period.
I've been subjected to violence by some White people. I don't go taking that out on the entire White population. Anyone who would go after the innocent because of the guilty is despicable.
yes, racism is wrong.
however, oftentimes, well-defined stereotyping is unavoidable and not wrong.
however, oftentimes, well-defined stereotyping is unavoidable and not wrong.
When it comes to stereotyping, I understand I will end up on the wrong side of that as well. I do not want to deal with some individuals judging me based on those who have committed crimes.
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