Cynthia Nixon: Legalize Stealing

She didn't say that, OP.

Troll.

She did, R1/fucking moron.

So many of these stores in my area ended up closing down because the shoplifting was so bad. I'm sure that helps the community.

Don’t lock them up, let them steal it and then don’t prosecute.

She's attacking people for conflating poverty with criminality. But she does it too by suggesting people have to steal because they're so ppor.

Is she the one who tr*nsed her daughter?

I'm on board.

The decline to prosecute stance has not worked well in SF.

[quote] She did, [R1]/fucking moron.

No, she didn't.

She doesn't seem to understand that it's long been a practice to lock up some detergents, especially Tide, because it's become a form of currency in some subcultures. Stores on the east coast started reporting a spate of Tide thefts, some even had pallets stolen from loading docks. For a while people theorized it was used for some kind of drug cooking process, but apparently not.

And she wonders why she lost.

What could possibly go wrong?

[quote] So many of these stores in my area ended up closing down because the shoplifting was so bad.

Name one.

The left is insane.

You would think Cynthia Nixon would be laughed out of the room. But at this point in time she just adds to the noise.

If you keep your shoplifting under £200 ($290) In the UK and admit the crime if caught it won't go to court, you won't even get a caution..

Infact The Police probably won't even attend when called by store security.

I know a guy who works at CVS and says suburban kids do a lot of stealing there. I doubt they are desperate for detergent. Should we let them go, too?

Any kind of theft, whether in a store or fraudulent auto claims, just drives up the prices.

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Don't do it, New York. Don't.

Maybe not really desperate for necessities..

Maybe Cynthia could just invite those in need to drop their laundry off at her place to be washed and folded. I'm sure Roja is quite the laundress.

i can only tolerate Tide Free and Clear, fyi

I guess Cynthia lives on the minimum necessary and gives all the rest of her money from SATC(many millions?) to charity.

R1 and R9 seem to have no reading comprehension whatsoever.

From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.

Off topic, but if I click the link at R20 from here in the UK directly underneath the story I get an advert for cremation showing the coffin going into the oven.

Who cares if a Walgreens closes? This isn’t like cultural degradation. If the businesses can’t sustain themselves then another form of prescription facilitation can be done. Business models change over time.

[quote] Who cares if a Walgreens closes? This isn’t like cultural degradation. If the businesses can’t sustain themselves then another form of prescription facilitation can be done. Business models change over time.

Duly noted, Boris.

I don't believe bankruptcy is a viable "business model".

Don’t you just miss her candidacy?

r5

[quote]Who cares if a Walgreens closes?

The people who work there, for one.

R3- That's why so many inner city neighborhoods are food DESERTS. The supermarkets that were in these neighborhoods closed because of too much theft (shoplifting) , though that is NEVER discussed as a reason for a particular area being a food desert to begin with.

Tide is sold at swap shops, Fakebook Marketplace etc. There is a real market for it.

Go to any Walmart or Dollar General in a semi sketch area and whatever is locked up, is the most stolen.

A giant vicious cycle

Cynthia Nixon would LOVE San Francisco where one can STEAL up to $950 worth of items from a CVS/Walgreens and not be prosecuted.

She does seem incredibly naive, acting like every shoplifter is Jean Valjean.

R16 That's about police cuts though, where police forces don't have the resources to tackle what's classed as lower levels of crime. And let me pre-empt your inevitable response of "but they have enough resources to go after people for tweeting" by pointing out there are 45 different police forces in the UK, each with their own resources and priority issues.

Most of the stuff people steal from stores like CVS they just go down to a bodega and sell them to them for pennies on the dollar. All those black kids on the subway selling candy bars stole them

R36 You have misjudged my attitude to shoplifting, I'd probably raise the threshold to £300 ($420).

The staff pilfer way more than all of the shoplifters combined in most stores (or are conspiring with family members to do so).

.

Good luck to all of them

Theft = crime = consequences

Cynthia Nixon has enough money to pay the fines and shoplift costs for all of New York's losses, for about two days.

As for R38, please keep your pounds to yourself in every way that is applicable - your claim of staff pilfering to defend non-staff shoplifters make you sound like a fat cunt.

R31 oh ya Walgreens are really great for the workers that they pay minimum wage to lol 🙄 get a grip. Nobody is losing out on a career here.

If Walgreens closes where do people get medicine ,buy toothpaste etc. You think some independent pharmacy is going to survive in a poor area when Walgreens couldn’t. So many stupid assholes who’ve lost the power to think.

R26 R31 The Walgreens closing in San Francisco matter greatly to the people in the neighborhood, especially the elderly and disabled who can't travel far. People now have to go farther to fill their prescriptions, buy basic goods and all other necessities, including food.

Most of the Walgreen's closing are in low-income neighborhoods, so this is affecting POC and immigrants more so than San Franciscans living in middle/high income neighborhoods. I'm not sure how much Walgreen's pays, it may be minimum wage or a bit higher, but the working class people who worked there depended on these jobs.

Please try to see past your own nose.

Shouldn't a rich person like Cynthia use some fancy organic detergent?

R42 sorry I’m not gonna fall for that sob story. The loss of minimum wage jobs that fuel the cycle of poverty shouldn’t be sad to you if you care about the poor like you claim to (I’m guessing you’re lying). If this model of business isn’t sustainable then another form should come in. Having pharmacists in these kind of shops that sell a bunch of other stuff is unethical business in itself, so hopefully a more sustainable and appropriate business model will rise to the task.

Nobody should be buying their food at a pharmacy, if you can’t see that then idk what hope there is for you.

Will she steal a U Haul though?

R44

What more "sustainable model" can survive endless product being stolen? Good grief, you've allowed your brains to fall out.

Just buy everything off Amazon.

What's even better about her braindead take is that the CVS is locking up the detergent specifically because they know the shoplifters won't be prosecuted. So, it's not just that she doesn't want thieves prosecuted, she thinks for-profit businesses should exist as some sort of charity for lowlifes.

Fine, we’ll close our loss leaders!

A different business model. Just a pharmacist. Go to a chemist in Europe see what I mean.

R49 bringing up getting rid of loss leaders as if that would be negative shows your totally submission to corporate destruction of society.

Stealing is so uncivilized. She should be arguing for better welfare if poverty is the issue. OK-ing stealing is on the level of 'Defund the police' - a really bad message that turns average voters off the left.

I’m find with them shoplifting some Tide, but if they come into in my shoe store I’ll pummel them with a stiletto.

R53 widespread poverty in a country like this is uncivilized. If businesses are shutting down because so many people are stealing because of endemic poverty then maybe the politicians will have to actually make some changes.

Why is everyone baizuo now?

R44

Don't act like you care about poor and lower income people, R44. I live in the world as it is now, not in the utopia you dream of, so yes, the loss of minimum wage jobs, if they are the only jobs some San Franciscans can get at this time, is something to be sad about.

Walgreens was a sustainable business in San Francisco until recently. The pandemic and the uptick in shoplifting has made a huge difference. That a couple of Walgreens have closed is one thing, but seventeen is quite another.

R55, it seems more likely that voters would demand a crackdown on the criminals. The average voter thinks differently to someone like you.

R55 Until stores like Walgreens start closing in middle income neighborhoods, like the one in Castro Street or upper Fillmore, I doubt any politician will care. At least, not in San Francisco.

R57

I do care about poor and lower income people, R57. You care about corporations, and are parroting their bs line about ‘providing for their communities’ when all they care about is profit. Otherwise they wouldn’t be closing duh.

These huge corporations destroy communities and provide people with terrible jobs and working conditions and destroy local independent business and culturally degrade the country and you’re gonna sit there and tell me that it’s sad that they’re closing?

Gayle, enough.

r60 you know the same applies to local independent businesses, right? and if the mean ol' corporations close, the shoplifters will move full force, which some had always been there, to mom and pops.. which most already closed because of the shutdowns.

this is like the scree from kiddies about caring more about buildings when people riot... who also didn't give a fuck about independent businesses.

R60 Listen Rose, stop preaching. I don't particularly care about Walgreens as a corporation, but this is a major chain store in San Francisco. People do depend on these store for every day things, whether we like it or not. Not every neighborhood in San Francisco has a Cliff's Variety or Papenhausen.

It would be lovely if smaller, independent stores opened in places like the Tenderloin or lower Market, but guess what, they can't stay open in places where shoplifting is rampant, because they can't take the loss in revenue. Stores like Walgreens could for a time before the pandemic, but they can't with the double whammy of Prop 47 and the pandemic. When these stores close, there is no other store, chain or independent, to follow.

Whether we like it or not, at this time, mid size chain stores like Walgreens are important in many neighborhoods in San Francisco.

I haven't been to San Francisco since 2011. Would I be shocked by the homelessness and lawlessness rampant there now or is it just media hype?

R62 you keep on shilling for those ‘major chain stores’ you think are so important. A smaller independent store actually would be able to react quicker to local conditions that a store like Walgreens actually, even though you presume they wouldn’t be able to exist you’re just saying that without even a hint of proof or reason so you’re not to be taken seriously. Listen I get it you love target and base your personality around which supermarket you go to but that doesn’t mean anyone else has to cry tears when a couple of Walgreens shut down sorry.

R64, genuine question, how would an independent store deal with it better? CVS and police have said that SF thieves are becoming more violent and are assaulting security officers. Also, 17 Walgreens stores shut down which is a lot more than 'a couple'.

r63

R65 chain stores have layout / stock plans and certain ways that the store operates that they have to adhere to. Infexible. Independent stores don’t. They’re more adaptable. I’ll let you connect the dots.

Honestly if every single walgreens store closed tomorrow it would be better for the country so bring it on. The submission by the country to large retail is so depressing. Every single town in this country is like a copy of the next, and that’s down to franchise and national stores having no regulations.

Wow r66 “the tenderloin’s not really tender over here” and you expect people to keep watching? 😂

R64 Your constant need to resort to ad hominems just suggests you have no valid argument to make.

Local people in these communities are protesting the closures of these stores. Doesn't sound like they're happy to see them go, and doesn't sound like the hold out much confidence of an independent business opening up to replace them. And that's without even getting into the higher prices that usually come with independent businesses.

Wasn't Nixon a big supporter and campaigner for DeBlasio?

Nuff said.

Why are people having trouble making ends meet? Business are complaining about how hard it is to get applicants for jobs.

Maybe concern yourself with this, OP. This is the stealing that should concern you:

Good. I will go to her place and stock up on whatever I want.

Off topic, I know, but Miranda could stand to eat a Sheetz dog or two, she's looking positively anorexic.

[quote]I do care about poor and lower income people,

No you don't.

You sound like the spokesperson for Jeff Bezos.

^^^No I don't, R75. Your accusations are childish.

Would Cynthia say the same thing if confronted in public by a lower middle class immigrant family complaining about struggling to stay in business because of white kids shoplifting and not being prosecuted?

[quote] The left is insane.

How great would it be to Twilight Zone a specimen like this (“the left” lol) into the situation where he’s lost his job, has no benefits, and doesn’t have a support network of people to get him by?

Pretty great, IMO.

No, no one supports stealing. But we live in a culture in which, if you’re in the situation I described above, you’re basically expected to go off and die somewhere, politely out of sight. There’s a very modest and temporary support net, and once that’s pulled out, well, you’re fucked.

It’s [bold]completely scandalous[/bold], but no one seems to care until some actress says something like Nixon did, and then all the Fox News chuckleheads start croaking like an Alabama pond at night.

Here is my advice to people, don’t steal. But if you are going to steal don’t steal from stores in your own neighborhood, go to the expensive neighborhood and steal from Whole Foods.

[quote]No, no one supports stealing.

Stealing is reparations.

R69 pics of protests pls. I’m sure whatever you churn up will be really super impressive.

And those of us who play by the rules get punished.

R82 what was your punishment? Please tell me of the suffering you faced by the closure of a Walgreens that isn’t remotely near where you live? My heart bleeds.

What does she care? She's moving to Tribeca

6 million dollar home.

Oh I get it...mom and pop pharmacies are going to replace Walgreen's! We should really be celebrating their closings.

And not only are independently owned pharmacies going too make a comeback, but shoplifters are going to miraculously keep away.

Oh the things you learn on Datalounge.

She does her own shopping? At CVS? Can you imagine?

Will this be included as a plot in the new SATC? What will Carrie steal anyway?

Her consistent stupidity favoring among her theatrical cunt-a-doodles says much about her neighbors who remained reserved about the flamboyant, Margaret, who loved any sort of attention, and shrank when intelligent playwrights told us what a useless thing she was. Even AFTER she fancied herself MORE THAN COMMON, the total bitch did! Lol😂

R85 Don’t forget mom & pop stores tend to charge more, which is the last thing needed in poorer communities.

Live in NYC and these people aren't stealing from Duane Reade, Rite Aid, Walgreens, CVS etc... because they are broke, hungry or whatever. They're doing to to resell in the hood, on eBay, CL, to bodegas, etc.....

If you're hungry you don't steal nearly entire case of something, which happens all the time nowadays.

On UES NYPD is stationed outside such stores nearly 24/7, and places still get jacked. Store employees have been told by corporate not to interfere, apprehend or otherwise stop these thieves. OTOH NYPD says making arrests is a waste of their time and efforts. Before they even finish writing up the paperwork perps are back out on streets thanks to NY's new "bail reform" laws. That and coupled with the whole woke, equality and BLM bullshit that district attorneys in all five boroughs now pick and choose what crimes they will prosecute, and low level offenses aren't on that list.

Duane Reade and the others have been closing locations all over city even before pandemic, and that trend has continued. Of the stores that remain open you'll have to look far and wide to find anything open after 11PM or certainly 24/7.

R81 So protesting can only happen in person? One community started a petition, saying the local Walgreens was essential. Again, actual local people describing it as essential. Go lecture them on how they should be breaking down chain retail and support independent retail. See how well that goes over. Maybe then you'll learn a little about the real world, rather than suggesting Walgreens should shut down because, what was it, they have a centrally set layout?

Why so much hate for Walgreens? Is it bad for them to make a profit? Should they be non-profit? Would that make some of you feel better? If you don't like big corporations, shop at small independent stores. Prices will be significantly higher, so that's something else you can bitch about.

R90, you wrote what I was going to, but I’ll add on. There’s been a cop car parked outside the Rite-Aid at Second and 80th many times that I’ve passed by. Literally five feet from the entrance/exit. It’s a 24-hour pharmacy location, so it IS essential; it’s not just a convenience store.

My CVS (near the 6 train at 86th) is now closed at 9:00. The pharmacy hours are ridiculously short. The Best Buy above the 6 train station closes at 7:00! Same with the PC Richards. This is Manhattan, the city that never sleeps.

I talked to the manager at another CVS, who came to a community meeting with NYPD - before the pandemic - and he was absolutely dismayed at how often his store was being burglarized. There’s nothing he can do.

r75

The only thing these skels are feeding is their drug addiction.

In the 70s, they used to rob stores with guns. Now they just walk in and take whatever they want.

I live in a “safe” neighborhood on the UES and I’ve seen them fill a bag with goods and run out. Usually they dash down into the subway and they’re gone.

When this smug bitch gets robbed, who’s she going to call? Bill DeBlasio?

R97, that's the irony: crime hurts poor people more than someone like Nixon whose money can largely insulate her from the effects of being robbed. She can also afford to live in a good area.

R90- That's why those biker BRATS that tried to SMASH that SUV near the Flatiron building last winter. They knew there would be NO consequences for their actions.

Off topic but they gave Miranda the ugliest clothes, hair dye and hair style - was that deliberate to make SJP seem more attractive?

Can you imagine if she was elected? Anarchy.

r100 it was to make her the dorothy. more brains than sense. though even dorothy had better fashion sense than miranda. at least they didn't give her clark kent glasses and call it a personality. so, meh.

R91 a petition! Lol. Yes dickhead, protesting means in person when you’re talking about people protesting something. That dumb petition was probably started by you.

R89 the last thing needed in poor communities is the continuance of the status quo and politicians allowing the cycle of poverty to repeat itself, if Walgreens closing is part of that so be it.

God, the left is turning California and New York into shitholes. And those posters here grasping at straws to condone shoplifting sound insane. Do they not realize this is turning off the average voters? You know, the ones needed to win elections?

R104 nobody condoned shoplifting don’t be so reactionary. This kind of theft is a result of poverty and the GOP causes poverty sorry to break it to you x

It is NOT the result of poverty. It is the result of people like you making sad excuses for petty thieves. You can't eat washing detergent. They steal to resell for cash to be spent on drugs. Don't be dense,and if you need to believe your own delusions, at least stop compelling the rest of us to buy into them.

Lol yes thank you R106 people experiencing poverty steal for money for things other than food. Do you think poverty only exists in a starving children way?

That’s really something, that someone could describe the act of stealing laundry detergent to resell for cash as being somehow separate from poverty.

Is it illegal to shoot someone in your own store if they are caught shoplifting? I bet it is. It shouldn’t be.

If I were buying drugs, I can almost understand the scheme of converting someone else's commodities for money, rather than spending my own. But stealing isn't the best way to maintain civil society.

R108 it should not be legal to shoot someone for stealing wtf - honestly what is going on on this website it’s bizarre.

The videos I have seen of the stealing in stores in SF are absolutely bonkers. They literally are taking entire displays in packs.

I get why CVS or Walgreens would close in areas being hit. Unfortunately, it is the poor, elderly and disabled who will suffer from it.

Where do you all keep copying and pasting this dross that huge corporation chains are somehow the saviors of the “poor, elderly and disabled” lol it’s really weird. They’re nothing of the sort. These huge chains are one arm of the system that maintains poverty in certain parts of our cities. And furthermore don’t you people have any independent thinking that stops you from getting teary eyed over the closure of a franchise business? They’re literally only about profit. If they really cared about the communities then they’d stay open or adapt so that they could stay open to service their “poor elderly disabled” customers but they won’t because profitability is their only metric.

In the last 10 years Walgreens has had $35bn in net profit. Why anyone is on here saying that they can’t afford to keep these stores open is just bullshit sorry.

Republican thread by a transphobic TERF named Boris.

[quote]They’re literally only about profit.

As is every other business.

In NY, they have cops in the store. But if they catch you, they make you take out the items and let you go. They don't arrest you.

I've seen people who go into stores with duffel bags and just shove items in them, they don't care if you see them.

All the people making excuses for these criminals should get robbed a few times and see how they like it. I hope one of these skels grabs your iPhone or wallet and dips into the subway with it. Go cry to Twitter about it if you don’t like the police.

R113 Why don’t you become an authenticated user, instead of typing out that stupid name each time you post?

[quote] You can't eat washing detergent. They steal to resell for cash to be spent on drugs.

But they’re on drugs thanks to capitalism. They can’t find well paid jobs and thanks to not having universal healthcare they can’t seek treatment. They need drugs to function.

Personal responsibility. The two words that will get a thread deleted.

R118: Why don't YOU get treatment for your gender dysphoria? I'm sure you'll feel much better once you finally get that cunt you've always wanted, seeing how you ARE a cunt!

It was just a helpful suggestion, R121. It pains me to think of you having to count out the correct number of ys each time.

R119 Are they functioning, though?

A locally owned business probably wouldn't be as subject to theft as a corporate outfit. It certainly wouldn't stop all theft but many people rationalize their theft from Walgreens vs a mom and pop shop. Unfortunately Walgreens and their ilk worked hard to run them all out of business. I steal from Walgreens regularly just out if principle. Fuck them.

R124 shoplifters are not rationalizing anything. They just take.

If they were smart enough to rationalize anything then they would be able to get a job and wouldn't need to steal.

[quote]It certainly wouldn't stop all theft but many people rationalize their theft from Walgreens vs a mom and pop shop. Unfortunately Walgreens and their ilk worked hard to run them all out of business.

Yeah right. If it's not Walgreens, its Korean immigrants opening up shops in black neighborhoods.

You'll always find an enemy to rationalize your stealing.

Why not ask Tide to donate to church food banks? People need detergent as well as food

Everybody should torrent the new Sex & the City series. Poor people need entertainment as well.

The CVS on Christopher Street in the Wrst Village has ice cream locked up. Obviously, a bunch of fat whores in that neighborhood.

yes, one of the CVS stores I go to has ice cream locked up as well. Everything is locked up.

I went to a target today and they have some things locked up as well.

[quote] Everybody should torrent the new Sex & the City series. Poor people need entertainment as well.

Then I'll collect lingerie for needy sexy people.

Now they're on drugs thanks to capitalism? Why not just argue your case for Socialism on its merits, and stop using the poor and downtrodden as props? Perpetual victimization is a hallmark of laziness. The poor people I know are anything but lazy. They work hard for what they have, and are much too proud to be caught shoplifting Tide Pods from Walgreens or anywhere else.

I should know; I grew up Deep South, dirt farmer poor. My parents would have demanded I be arrested if they found out I stole anything from anyone, ever.

R127 those Koreans don’t “give back” to the community!

But they can get loans in Black neighborhoods easier than Black people can.

R112 Tell that to the stockholders.

These people need socializing and education from the ground up which is why the money should be spend on from pre k up. That's why critical race theory(Disney promotes it a company run by 2 white men who make obscene amounts of money every year and live in 10 million dollar homes but for some reason need to show people they care) and reparations are such bullshit. The problems are with the families and the schools failing the poor and disadvantaged from when they are very young. The graft must be tremendous in the inner cities never having anything to show for the millions thrown at them.

Then you've got the GOP entirely in the thrall of an evil condo salesman and the extreme leftists who have their own crushing bigotries and tone deaf selfishness.

r107 woke for the broke

the entitlement of tankies

R134 You only need to look at that posters response to what actual local people say to see their claims of caring about the poor are full of shit. They only care about the poor as a way to make their own point, and if actual people contradict what they want they dismiss them.

[quote]that someone could describe the act of stealing laundry detergent to resell for cash as being somehow separate from poverty

Like greed?

Let's not forget that Gimbels New York, with the subway station, was considered to have the most shoplifting in the world by the time it closed in 1986. Something that is considered to have contributed to the decline and closure of the chain.

R134 whooosh. That was my whole point. Walgreens has no social responsibility, only profit driven responsibility to its shareholders. Some other commenters were acting like Walgreens only wanted to help the poor disabled and elderly (!!!) which is clearly a total lie.

The remainder of your comment is a mess. It would be great to have greater investment in schools and communities for kids, but that reality doesn’t disprove critical race theory or make the concept of reparations redundant sorry. And since neither are being effected, the setup is redundant.

[quote] millions thrown at them

Still less than the rich kids get. Until it’s level it’s not equal sorry. You’re still advocating for inequality in education and resources for children - that makes you a not nice person.

[Quote]Nobody should be buying their food at a pharmacy, if you can’t see that then idk what hope there is for you.

You seem to be entirely ignorant of old people and their quirks and blind to what you don't want to see. As an attendant to homebound seniors, I take them out for errands including banking (it has to be done in person), healthcare appointments, pharmacy, and grocery runs.

I cannot even begin to tell you how many want to do their "grocery" shopping right then and there at CVS or Rite Aid while getting prescriptions. Even though there's a grocery store in the same center where they'd get the same items far cheaper.

So, extend to the worst of possible circumstances...

r143 no one was saying that nimrod. Are all young people autistic now?

theft is theft.

it destroys community as much as rioting and destroying buildings, to which, no doubt, you'll whine they're only buildings, they've got insurance... while you've got a cause

to steal whatever you want because you're entitled brats living out a fantasy for a marxist revolution, same way you lot excuse the worst dictators and believe they created utopias.

'The remainder of your comment is a mess. It would be great to have greater investment in schools and communities for kids, but that reality doesn’t disprove critical race theory or make the concept of reparations redundant sorry. And since neither are being effected, the setup is redundant.

millions thrown at them Still less than the rich kids get. Until it’s level it’s not equal sorry. You’re still advocating for inequality in education and resources for children - that makes you a not nice person.'

Really so you want to throw money away on critical race theory which is promoted by privileged academics who need to find a reason for their careers and reparations when it does absolutely nothing to solve the problems we are discussing? So I should give a fuck if you think I'm a nice person or not? Then go ahead and buy into all the bullshit that will only deepen and further the divide. Clearly you are one of the extreme leftists crushed by your own bigotries and selfishness. Join Cynthia and her call for shoplifting if you think that addresses and solves problems.

Level? Like that has happened in the world or will ever happen? Your naivete and others is destroying so much.

I'm sure Cynthia wouldn't have sent COVID infected elderly back to their nursing homes.

[quote]Some other commenters were acting like Walgreens only wanted to help the poor disabled and elderly

No they aren't, that's a strawman you made up because you're totally incapable of arguing your position. What people have actually said is that local communities - especially the poor, disabled and elderly - rely on stores like Walgreens, and simply wouldn't be able to afford independent retailers, if they're even available to them.

Your posts on this thread are utterly embarrassing, you've been utterly incapable of genuinely arguing a single point.

Legalizing shoplifting reminds me of proposals to let people get away with not having to pay all of their student debt, in effect letting debtors steal the money.

R150 That is different because it is the government backed student loan industry that created the mess and led to colleges and universities vastly inflating the cost of education just as they opened up to disadvantaged. What should be done is the endowments of colleges should be seized to pay for the mess they created.

when did that start r151

Have these out of touch aging hipsters ever been to Food desert inner cities at all? Businesses barely come there because everybody is scared as fuck. Business leaving, whether big box or not will condemn a place as unliveable as the middle class people will eventually get out. More businesses will then leave because there is nobody left with capability to pay. Maybe in 20 years, if the location is good enough, the grandchildren of these aging hipsters will come back and gentrify the place and push out the people who managed to wait it out. And then gastropub! These social justice turds truly have a plan.

Ignore the one troll arguing in support of stealing. Every post here on that position is from the same person. DL is a bunch of morons who fall for these trolls every time.

Remember those "liberated zones" in Portland or Seattle last summer? That's the model for Cynthia Nixon's society.

Ultimately it's war lords.

R152 1965 with the Higher Education Act of 1965, which was part of Johnson's War on Poverty.

R140, When are these anti-capitalists packing it up and moving to Venezuela? Or some other socialist fantasy country?

I really want to go to their houses and beat the shit out of their parents.

R93

That Rite Aid does not have a 24/7 pharmacy, neither does Duane Reade across street. In fact there isn't a single CVS, DR, RA, Walgreens can think of in city that still has a 24/7 pharmacy. The Duane Reade on 74th and Third across from J.G. Mellon used to have a 24/7 pharmacy (that was my spot), in fact Lenox Hill hospital's ER sent patients there to get scripts filled late/over night. DR stopped that 24/7 pharmacy long time ago, and the store has since closed (about a year or or so ago now).

IIRC there are several problems with 24/7 pharmacies.

One is the shortage of pharmacists which leads to staffing issues. The other problem was (or is) places were being robbed routinely of drugs and anything else thieves could swipe or force staff to hand over. Finally issue was most of those pharmacies just weren't that busy after late evening into overnight. I'd show up sometimes at 1AM and pharmacist was sawing logs (dead asleep).....

That Rite Aid should close overnight like everyone else. Staff say it's nothing but the odd customers but mostly those who steal that come in after 11PM. Them and the group of old ladies that sit in back by (closed) pharmacy reading newspapers and magazines they take from newsstands often using reading glasses off store racks.

The Duane Reade across street on Second at 79th also sees huge shoplifting activity, but they also have been robbed at gunpoint several times. It became such a routine occurrence that NYPD finally started parking outside... They've only begun also switching things up between being in front of Rite Aid as well because that place as mentioned is jacked all the time. I'm not talking about odd bottle of Tide or can of beer, but entire cases or case full of merchandise. One guy left with several bulk packs of beer (at least five or six). The other night it was an entire section of Haagen Daz ice cream. Thieves just came in with laundry bags and began filling them up, then walked out.

Haagen Daz is a big theft item, and again no one is stealing tons of it for personal consumption. Bodegas all over city get large portion of their merchandise as stolen goods. They cannot afford to pay going wholesale prices, and more to point cannot sell such items to their customer base at prices that earn profit. So they turn to black market goods that can be marked up and thus earn a greater profit.

R148 Thank you for pointing out the strawman arguments of that poster. It's why I stopped replying to them, as they have created their own strawman to argue with, or perhaps they lack reading comprehension skills.

R144 I know all about the elderly and shopping (it's... eccentric alright). They really do like those kind of stores for grabbing a little of everything. Hell, I'm not that close to bigger grocery stores and will grab the odd food items at CVS if I'm already there.

This really does suck for communities. I'm on the outskirts of a well known, wealthy town, and even they have had strughles with stealing lately. Something like this could definitely them closed -- the only pharmacy within 20 min driving for me (I'm disabled and need frequent scripts.)

Like it or not, these corporate stores have become the struggling small businesses of the now, especially to certain communities with less options. I avoid self cash out so people keep jobs. The shoppers know the first name of the pharmacists, cashiers, etc... just because they pay shittier (which should be addressed), doesn't mean there's not real people working behind the counters.

Even though I'm not thrilled with how chain stores replaced small businesses, it's getting too late to go back 20/30 yrs, unless there's sudden interest from communities, which idk that there would be -- they're expensive, don't have the variety, and in store shopping in general is declining amongst the younger generations.

I hear a lot of people crying about small businesses but I rarely see anyone bother to shop at them, at least not enough to keep them afloat. It's like the new "support the troops" mantra... meaningless without giving up big stores, stopping online services, etc. Bet you anything the troll/ chain store hater uses the shit out of Amazon, uber, etc., R159.

And troll, a chain shop with a pharmacy isn't better than just a pharmacy. I've utilized both and there's no difference unless you're looking for rare compound mixing that can only be done in person.

*** chain pharmacies aren't different than independent pharmacies or going to a "chemist" as you put it. There's only a couple independent ones left around me and I can tell you why -- their hours might as well be the popular bank hours of the 90s. Citizens bank has dominated over smaller banks for that very reason. A lot of these smaller businesses are like that now, where they have unreasonable hours. I don't expect a small business owner to work 24/7, but FFS, a weird, limited schedule is ridiculous.

R159

"I avoid self cash out so people keep jobs. "

What jobs?

Not everyone employed in retail is qualified or whatever to operate cash registers. Back in the day it was called "register trained" and from large department stores like Macy's down to small shops required an added layer of training and background check. Why? Because you're handling money....

You see same thing at supermarkets. Many stock boys or whoever that just work on floors aren't approved to work on cash registers and don't want any part of them anyway.

Every chance get from Home Depot to now Rite Aid use self checkout. My time is valuable and don't have a lifetime to wait in line while the only two or maybe one register is open.

For supermarkets and stores like Rite Aid self check out is best thing since sliced bread. I don't have time to wait ten, twenty or more minutes in line while some middle-aged or older person checks out full shopping cart of goods asking "how much is that?" after each item is scanned. Then comes "isn't this on sale". "why isn't it on sale". After cashier stops ringing things up and goes to find a sale circular lo and behold customer has wrong item, so now this person further holds up line while they go back in search of proper item that is on sale. This or they say "oh, I don't want it....", forcing cashier to void item. That requires a manager to be found and complete transaction.....

Can go into a place, grab what I need, pay by tap and go, and bang, zoom, boom; am out in record time.

Cynthia is beyond. Her whole life is like a grotesque nightmare of liberalism gone insane.

R163

You'll be hearing more from Ms. Nixon, as word on street is she's going to run for NYS governor (again) next year.

[quote] The Walgreens closing in San Francisco matter greatly to the people in the neighborhood, especially the elderly and disabled who can't travel far.

This is the line of argument i was responding to. This is putting the corporation up on a pedestal, as if it’s a community project, total bullshit. R145, R146, R148, R158 I didn’t write this, one of you losers did, so quit projecting. Then acting like the community is at fault for the damage that is done when businesses leave, when really it’s corporations preying on those communities and the fact that there is no public infrastructure in place once they leave.

R145 destroying buildings, you’re talking about developers? I’m not sure what that has to do with anything?

R146 if you’re gonna quote, learn how to format. And I said your previous comment was a mess sheesh.

[quote] Legalizing shoplifting

[quote] arguing in support of stealing

[quote] Cynthia Nixon: Legalize Stealing

This ^^ is the actual straw man fallacy at play in this thread. Nobody is suggesting that stealing is a positive concept or that it should be legalized yet you all have to rely on that misrepresentation because your points are incorrect. X

[quote] This is putting the corporation up on a pedestal

No it isn't. It's simply stating a fact, one that the members of those communities themselves have said. Again, you're attempting another strawman.

And yes, you did write post R143. You do realise people can view your post history, right?

This woman would have destroyed New York

R166 I’m sorry you’re using anecdotal information that is deliberately confusing, like the poster upthread that said people were ‘protesting’ the closures of these stores when what actually happened was there was some random online petition that was unverified.

The stores could stay, they’re choosing not to, putting profit ahead of the communities they serve, that’s the reality. And posters here are flipping it around and empathizing with the chain stores.

[quote] Like it or not, these corporate stores have become the struggling small businesses of the now

Like this ^^. This type of argument is just depressing sorry. And it’s deceitful, as I mentioned earlier Walgreens made profits of $35bn over the last decade (declared) a struggling small business they are not sorry.

And you misunderstood, I meant I didn’t write the part that I quoted in the start of my comment at 165, not that I didn’t write 143. I forget I’m not dealing with the sharpest of minds.

Moving away from two queens and their drama for a moment....

Walgreens, Rite Aid and similar store are having same problems as other retail; customers are increasingly turning to online for shopping, and that includes much of the health/beauty aids, household products and other things these stores sell.

Even back when "drug stores" were largely independently owned many sold same things Walgreens and others today. Hair care, over the counter products, etc.. They also offered services like film developing.

Over years Duane Reade and others expanded to include more groceries, house goods/supplies, hardware, etc.... This worked out well for awhile, but now online is threatening that business model.

For most of these Walgreen sort of stores it is the pharmacy that earns good amount of money. The health/beauty, housewares, groceries, etc.... may hold their own, maybe not. This is one reason after a few decades of rampant expansion Duane Reade, CVS, Walgreens, Rite Aid, etc.. all have been closing stores lately, and more likely is to come.

And more problems are lurking on the horizon as Amazon is looking to enter yet another market.

Oh and keep in mind Target is on a tear opening stores in many markets.

R169- CVS in particular has opened up FAR too many stores over the years and now they are contracting. There was a Walgreens near me on a busy road but it was NEVER busy and it now sits empty , closed for about a year. It was only in business for about 8 years.

CVS bought the Target Pharmacy so now they operate all the pharmacies in Targets.

Am old enough to remember when only Duane Reade stores were downtown in Wall Street area. If you wanted something you bought it and lugged things home in shopping bags. Then they began expanding further and further northwards in Manhattan, and IIRC to the outer boroughs.

Like Starbucks at first things were good because Duane Reade like Walgreens, etc.. largely killed off small mom and pop or whatever stores (anyone remember Love's Pharmacy stores?).

There was a time in certain parts of Manhattan such as UES, UWS, Village....you couldn't go more than a city block either direction without seeing a Duane Reade store. On UWS they often were within a block or so of each other. That made no sense IMHO and all it did was drive out the little guys.

[quote]Am old enough to remember when only Duane Reade stores were downtown in Wall Street area. If you wanted something you bought it and lugged things home in shopping bags. Then they began expanding further and further northwards in Manhattan, and IIRC to the outer boroughs.

Yup. Their first store was on the corner of Duane and Reade Streets. I guess that's now considered Tribeca. They were the bargain basement drugstore. You'd go there and buy a gallon of shampoo for 99 cents. I learned to not buy chocolate there because they were so cheap they didn't run their air conditioning 24 hours and the chocolate melted. I used to work nights and one time I went in at 3:00 am on a sweltering August night and felt so sorry for the workers because it was obvious the AC was off.

Then Walgreens bought Duane Reade, painted the interiors blinding white, quadrupled the prices on everything, got rid of sections like household items (mops) and toys and enlarged their makeup counter (they were going for the women buyers on a budget. Walgreens also bought Boots The Chemist in the UK. I was surprised they never brought any of their products to the US. Boots used to have a really nice cherry-scented shampoo). But Sephora moved into the NYC market and took away all the budget makeup trade. With KMart failing and NYC refusing to accept WalMart, Target moved in on the household items consumer and Duane Reade and Walgreens are closing stores all over town (Recently saw Astor Place Walgreens has closed. Even NYU students don't want their stuff). I think if they hadn't given so much floor space to makeup, they might still have some stores open.

R174

" Walgreens also bought Boots The Chemist in the UK. I was surprised they never brought any of their products to the US. Boots used to have a really nice cherry-scented shampoo)."

Who done told you Walgreens/Duane Reade didn't sell Boots cosmetics and toilitries? Cause it ain't true. Walgreens and DR at least sell Boots "Botanics"

Trans I know who dumpster dives got two huge bin liners full of Boots stuff sitting outside local DR in trash pile.

r175, I stand corrected. I did not know they brought Boots products to the US.

R175 They also sell No.7 products which is from Boots.

R174- Because Walgreens can't compete with CVS.

Sephora and others killed off Ricky's which I think may be down to just one store in Manhattan.

Truth to tell online also killed Ricky's but then again Sephora and other so called "beauty supply" stores have managed to hold on.

Ray's Beauty on 8th Avenue was another great spot killed off as well. Everyone went there; drag queens, trannies, gays both in the business or not, housewives and other fraus from West Side, etc...

As mentioned Walgreens killed Duane Reade. Soon as they took over prices went up and quality hit the skids. Stopped going to DR when Rite Aid opened in my area. Well only went to DR to get my scripts filled because health plan gave a good prices on things.

R168 Ah yes, it's my fault that your posts are incoherent messes. And that you're unable to understand the definition of words. And if you're confused by my posts...well that says more about you than anything else.

And whoever you quoted is right. In that whereas it used to be the local mom and pop stores that a community relied upon, it's now chain stores. And that those chain stores are struggling in the areas where they're needed the most - areas with high concentrations of poor, elderly and disabled people. Note I said stores. The company as a whole may well be profitable, but the individual stores in these areas struggle and are easy candidates for closure when share prices come under pressure. Meanwhile, more wealthy areas are able to support both chains but also more independent retail.

You seem to think that someone stating a fact means they somehow think that's a good thing. Someone can state something which is true and also disagree with it. Of course, I'm not surprised someone like you, who dismisses anything you disagree with as a kind of fake news, would have trouble understanding that.

Nixon's post dosn't even make sense. She complains about them "locking up detergent" but then goes on to talk about "prosecuting poor people."

If they lock up the detergent, that actually may help prevent shoplifting, ergo help prevent people from being caught and prosecuted. Her post makes no sense.

JC, do you Americans have any idea of how desperate your lives are?

R183, Switzerland’s population is smaller than New York City. And there are no poor black people. What’s the worst you have? Some Serbs? Romany?

Enjoy your peace and quality of life.

R182, and poor people can still BUY the detergent. But they can’t STEAL it.

I guess that’s unfair to shoplifters

What a maroon! Rather than calling for government to help poor people, she thinks that private sector companies should just look the other way when people steal from them? You can tell that Sex & the City is on a subscription channel. If this were network tv, the producers of the show and network head would be telling her to shut the fuck up because they would have to sell the show to sponsors who are private sector companies.

I was at Home Depot last week, checking out at the garden center, this guy rolls past me with a cart full of tools, weed whackers, etc... He just ran through the checkout without paying. The cashier yells for him to stop, and she calls security. She said it happens all the time and there's nothing they can do about it...with tears in her eyes. There's no punishment for theft or property crime, something needs to change.

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[quote] with tears in her eyes

lol 🙄😂

Then Cynthia Nixon should start supplying detergent and other locked down goods to literally every single person who needs or want those things.

She has plenty of money, so have fun bitch.

Enjoy the elevated status you've created for yourself.

R187

Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you!

As stated previously in thread, much shoplifting is by organized gangs or persons and ends up on eBay, CL, other stores, etc....

Fully 60% or more of the health/beauty aids, cosmetics, home care, etc.. stuff you see on eBay, CL, Offerup, and other online is stolen merchandise.

Well Cynthia should just start putting those things on her doorstep.

If I steal from Nixon’s money mama SJP’s shoe store will she be cool with it? How about I steal from her fire crotch wifeys place of business? Her home? Their kids school? This bitch has been chugging the stupid cosmos or whatever overpriced Manhattan beverages her and the other cunts in the city drink.

Do what they do in the Middle East. Cut your fingers if you steal. That will teach people.

yes, in Home Depot, they have CCTV cameras set up close to the detergents in the cleaning section. A recording comes on like "help needed" or something and a staff will come and ask if you need help etc.

In Manhattan.

We need Gay warlords.

Don't understand how people can shoplift much if anything out of that Home Depot on Third Avenue in Bloomberg Building...

Suppose if staff isn't watching it is possible, but since everything is in sub basement level you have to take two escalators or elevator to reach floor where entrance and exits are, but time a thief got up there it would be easy to alert security desk to stop said person.

Bloomingdale's has two way mirrors in ceilings. Many times have seen people who thought they were making a clean get away only to be nabbed just as they reached front door. Bloomies like Macy's Herald Square also has a processing area and jail. Those caught shoplifting are taken "upstairs" to be processed and held until NYPD arrives. Or in some cases simply issued a desk appearance ticket and then escorted out of store. Either way pictures are taken and person must agree never to set foot in store again otherwise will be prosecuted for criminal trespassing.

R198 Maybe because Home Depot has a history of firing employees that try to stop shoplifters. If you google it this is but one example.

R199

This actually just happened at a Rite Aid here in NYC. A female cashier attempted to stop a shoplifter and got beaten up in process. She came back from disability leave and few weeks later was terminated for cause; violating Rite Aid policy about not interfering with shoplifters.

Employees at that place told me corporate policy is *NOT* to attempt to stop shoplifters, just try to ascertain what was stolen and document. This is really the policy now all over at Duane Reade, Walgreens, CVS and other such stores. It explains why so much shit just walks out the fucking front door and people come back for more.

Employees are disgusted and really don't even bother even acknowledging anyone is stealing any more. If corporate isn't going to have their backs, it's more than their barely above minimum wage job is worth getting involved. Let Rite Aid, Walgreens, etc.... explain to shareholders why they have so much loss due to shrinkage.

[quote] Employees are disgusted

No they’re not they don’t get paid enough to care.

R200, CVS and rite aid profit was higher in 2020 than 2019, Walgreens was lower. Profits in business are not guaranteed but they all still profited by hundreds of millions of dollars so I’d say the shareholders don’t need to panic. You can panic on their behalf all you want tho ;)

CVS doesn't prosecute shoplifters. I don't understand why Nixon is picking on them.

They have a cop car outside the store and if employees see you steal something, the cops stop the thief and ask the person to take out the items and let the person go. I've seen this a few times.

Some of these mothers are just trying to feed their kids some Tide Pods. Have a heart.

I used to work in Corrections a long time ago. Well, 15-20 years ago.

Even then, boosting was a "thing". Organized gangs swarming a place and stealing whatever they could. Usually, it was in exchange for drugs/money/liked the lifestyle.

It is obvious when people have never been around the criminal element and their activities.

10 Bleeker St.

Let's go get free stuff at Cynthia 's house.

[quote] 10 Bleeker St. Let's go get free stuff at Cynthia 's house.

That might be difficult. Google street view shows the first floor windows all have steel bars. Cynthia decided she ain't no each target.

[quote] He just ran through the checkout without paying. The cashier yells for him to stop, and she calls security. She said it happens all the time and there's nothing they can do about it...with tears in her eyes.

Get a grip, looney tune. The cashier at Home Depot does not care so much about shoplifting that she was almost crying over it.

I worked in a bookstore and saw a 13 year old (or so) boy steal a copy of Playgirl. I didn't say anything. It felt like I was passing the torch to the next generation.

CLOTHING detergent? What, as opposed to a pussy-wipe?

[quote] Get a grip, looney tune. The cashier at Home Depot does not care so much about shoplifting that she was almost crying over it.

The cashier would probably care because she knows that if it continues at a high rate, corporate will use that as a reason to close the store and she will lose her job. People say "but, they have insurance." Yes, they do. But, like any insurance the more claims you make the more you have to pay for insurance. Sooner or later it becomes too expensive to do business at that location. I've seen people justify it by pointing out the company's overall profits. But, that isn't how it is calculated. They determine which stores remain open due to the sells and profits each location provides. At store near my alma mater was always packed and did very well in sales, however it was in an area that would regularly flood during heavy rains. Corporate closed the store because even though it generated high sales the cost of insurance and the losses from flooding became too much to justify keeping it open. They moved a few miles away and while I've never seen them be anywhere near as busy it remains open because I assume that even with the lower sales it requires less cost to do business. They aren't going to keep a location open if loss or shrinkage for that store, just like flooding, etc., makes it unprofitable.

R210 did the staff cry every time it got cloudy?

I wonder how many of the posters making excuses for the thieves and rationalizing their criminal behavior are shoplifters or crooks themselves. The repeated attempts to justify the thefts using the excuse that the large corporations make huge profits anyway makes me think these posters probably steal where they work and use similar excuses to 'explain' their thieving.

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Vincent said that locking away some of the products was for the good of all customers, who did not want to be confronted by empty shelves, pillaged by looters.

'I just want the people out there to know that we try to keep a safe environment, so when people come out to shop there are items on the shelves. Not stolen. And that's what it's all about,' he said.

'We try to keep it safe and be courteous to everyone. Including the people who come in to steal.

'I hope this gets out there.

'This CVS is not about locking down, and not giving to the customers.

'It's about making sure the items are still on the shelves for them to buy.'

The actress and failed New York gubernatorial candidate tweeted on Thursday that she had noticed her local CVS in SoHo had 'started' locking up 'basic items like clothing detergent.'

'As so many families can’t make ends meet right now, I can’t imagine thinking that the way to solve the problem of people stealing basic necessities out of desperation is to prosecute them,' Nixon tweeted.

She was condemned by people who said the solution was not to invite theft. CVS, Walgreens and Duane Reade have been locking up items for years to deter thieves amid a widespread decriminalization of shoplifting.

Nixon was responding to a tweet which pointed out that several Manhattan DA and Mayoral candidates say they would not prosecute shoplifting because it 'criminalizes poverty'.

Critics said her tweet pointed to how irregularly she visited the stores, which have been locking things up since long before the pandemic began.

The Tide lockdowns began as early as 2013, long before COVID lockdowns...

Bitch is upgrading to a 6 million dollar house from a 3 million. Stay where you are and give the money to charity.

It's going to get a lot worse.

Manhattan’s Billionaires’ Row will soon feature a men’s homeless shelter smack-bang in the middle of it despite a three-year offensive to halt its creation by members of the city’s elite, the New York Court of Appeals has ruled.

Residents of the city’s priciest street fought tooth and nail to halt Mayor de Blasio’s $60.8 million plan to open a 150-bed men’s shelter in the closed Park Savoy Hotel at 158 W. 58th St., arguing the location would be a dangerous “firetrap” and that crime would inevitably ensue on the ritzy block.

^^ cities are not built for billionaires. And people that rich are invariably criminals themselves - i’d honestly worry about the things that they’ll do to the homeless people tbh.

r218 types poor

Violent crimes in broad daylight are already working their way into the Upper East Side, like this one on East 95th, between Lexington and Park Ave where homes routinely sell for $10m and above. There is no way people are willing to shell out to live in a place they don't feel safe.

make sure you carry pepper spray or mace

See I knew I remember Nixon being buddies with Bill De Blasio. (It's the post but still, its the first time item that came up on google.

So Nixon ruined the city twice. First by being part of the Sex and the City influx of would be Carries and then by getting the worst mayor ever elected.

Be gone Nixon.

[quote] There is no way people are willing to shell out to live in a place they don't feel safe.

Who cares? Cities aren’t built for rich ppl.

they are r223? See Philadelphia, The Bronx....

New York is getting as crazy as LA with the far left infection causing issues, I thought New Yorkers were known for not putting up with bullshit?

Cynthia Nixon would have made a better governor than Cuomo who harasses women and wants to further disenfranchise poor folks.

A lot of older might still be alive if Cynthia was governor, or at least she wouldn't be on CNN making a fool of herself while old people died from covid.

R225

New Yorkers who didn't put up with that nonsense are either dying off, moving away or range between can't be bothered to barely holding their own , and those who are fighting the good last fight, (think Staten Island).

Otherwise in New York City, much of downstate and increasingly Albany things are being driven by woke, left, progressive and socialist democrat policies of the poor and minorities.

Upstate once was a reliable conservative counterweight to liberal downstate, but it's emptying out up there, and what's left is leaning left helped by infusion of those from downstate moving in.....

When you have effectively a one party state it inevitably shifts to an extreme

Just sing about it.

R206 According the the NYC "Crime Location Map", Cynthia's immediate neighborhood is an enclave of safety, with zero murders, nearly zero assaults and very few burglaries and other serious crimes committed over the past 12 months.

I'm not surprised, she's Rich Nixon 's daughter after all.

Richard^

...and my sister!

Businesses don’t open, pay their rent, buy merchandise, hire people, pay them and operate to facilitate theft. Providing free good is a charity, not commerce. The whole argument is ridiculous.

Cynthia is a typical limousine liberal. She'll advocate more lenient sentences for repeat offenders and make statements about poverty and crime like the one she just did, but you won't catch her living amongst any of the criminal folk. Why doesn't she sell off her $6M place, donate the money to charities and move to a smaller apartment in a mixed neighborhood if she is so keen on social justice?

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Republicans are currently legalizing stealing elections with voter suppression laws.

Unfortunately, there is no sane Republican Party to run candidates. . The progressives have taken over the Democratic Party. That’s who you can thank for the bail reform that is putting people on the street who should be in prison. Expect more murders and assaults as the weather gets better. Thanks Cynthia for encouraging the shoplifters!

[quote]'Stonewall was a Riot! Pride is a Riot! Pride needs to center Black Trans and Queer People, Culture and Joy. This is not an ask but a declaration of what we will be doing in and off the streets.

Fuck them! Since when do 13% of the population get to be "center" all the time?? Arrest them.

Unlikely, R240. A similar group in my city repeatedly attacked people dining outdoors. Was a shame since restaurants were barely hanging on and indoor dining was not allowed at that time. Many I know, including families, decided to not eat out as a consequence of the events.

[quote] Many I know, including families, decided to not eat out as a consequence of the events.

Oh my god - it’s the apocalypse!

I hope her passenger side mirror gets ripped off her car while she’s waiting at a stoplight. I hope her kids get mugged and they have to give up their iPhones on the way home from their fancy school. I hope their nanny falsely reports them for neglect. I hope her wife gets her identity stolen in a database breach. I hope the copper pipes are stolen from their country house while they’re in the city.

I don’t want anyone hurt, I just want them to see that all crime is bad, all theft is bad.

She’s so right. These greedy shop owners shouldn’t charge anything.