Right? Who cares if innocents are assaulted.
/s We should not be accepting this as a norm in society.
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80 person heist happened yesterday on a Nordstorm in Walnut Creek California
- Thread starter Squarehard
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Right? Who cares if innocents are assaulted.
/s We should not be accepting this as a norm in society.
don't care about the products, but them hurting customers/employees crossed a line. If you're going to shoplift just take your shit and go
always has been but its usually business looting wages and time off of workers.
What the hell? We are defending robberies on this board now???
Oceans 80 really doesn't have tge same writing quality as the others
Not what their post was implying at all. They were wondering why take the time to harm people if their goal was just to steal, not "here's how you steal the right way"
Because they could get away with it
Not what their post was implying at all. They were wondering why take the time to harm people if their goal was just to steal, not "here's how you steal the right way"
This.
Not that I think these lootings/burglaries are a good thing, they aren't.
You get them anyway, honestly. Even in places that don't have high crime rates.
People who are willing to steal don't care about hurting others as they value material things more than others lives
Not defending it, if your gonna steal, dont bother the employees or customers unduly.
Man, the right are gonna absolutely clean up, blue lawless cities are gonna be the main ads and you can't even say its exaggerated because this shit is happening all over.
Minorities who come from dangerous places don't wanna see this shit happen here, look at eric adams getting in on law and order in NYC.
Minorities who come from dangerous places don't wanna see this shit happen here, look at eric adams getting in on law and order in NYC.
You know how you get authoritarian right wing people in charge? I'll give you a hint - it's not by being the party of cheering on criminals.
We're already in a place where the right is in a position to sweep politically over the next couple of years, and the whole 'fuck corporations, steal their shit' attitude isn't helping. You may feel a smug sense of satisfaction for being 'right' about reforming the legal system, but a political party never won on a platform of being soft on crime, especially not as openly so as some of the large city DAs are being as of late. Tossing people in jail isn't always the answer, but letting criminals do what they want out of some twisted sense of Robin Hood-style justice isn't either.
We're already in a place where the right is in a position to sweep politically over the next couple of years, and the whole 'fuck corporations, steal their shit' attitude isn't helping. You may feel a smug sense of satisfaction for being 'right' about reforming the legal system, but a political party never won on a platform of being soft on crime, especially not as openly so as some of the large city DAs are being as of late. Tossing people in jail isn't always the answer, but letting criminals do what they want out of some twisted sense of Robin Hood-style justice isn't either.
Stealing in the presence of innocent people unduly impacts the innocent regardless.
There are posts in this thread encouraging the behavior. You can't cheer the behavior without cheering the criminals. It's fucked up.
This been happening since the eighties. I just don't remember the Polo-Rican mobs hurting anyone.
I'm sure every poster here saying the stealing and heisting is ok would be saying the same thing if they were robbed.
You're either blind or deliberately acting ignorant.
Which is it?
I can quote at least two people who are cheering/OK with it.
The CEO isn't being robbed. The people working for them are.
in fairness, big difference between a big box store and someone's house or a small business. that said, 80 people with crowbars, thats gonna be dangerous as fuck no matter the context. i dunno about people cheering these mass robberies, 80 people, that can make it tougher to catch the violent offenders. like, 80 people with weapons is terrifying so im not sure about cheering people inflicting terror on random people trying to get thru their day.
I mean yeah it's obvious they're doing it for money. A LV bag can cost anywhere from like $1-$10k.
I'd call January 6th far from "well coordinated". (Thank heaven, else we'd have had dead politicians.) In any event, they were all motivated by a cult mindset and dozens of them were actually arrested at the scene. The stocks things, I daresay it's easier to coordinate human behavior online, where no one needs to physically interact with anyone, it's all just keystrokes.
Here, you actually had to get 80 people recruited to physically show up at the store at about the same time in a small fleet of getaway vehicles, storm the building, and flee with armfuls of merchandise in a short amount of time before speeding off in said small fleet of vehicles. I dunno, seems like a prodigious challenge here in the 21st century to coordinate irl human behavior for such a crowd of people at a setup as complicated as a big box store without someone bungling it and getting caught at the scene. (Maybe I'm giving our chronically-online modern species too little credit.) 🤷♀️
Have you seen the sort of shit the people around here have defended before? I also guarantee you that they're going to be the first ones screaming bloody murder once the stores decide to beef up security and people end up getting shot.
How about don't steal?? Also, no matter what when you steal something it affects other people.
ya i really didnt think about it till now, but 80 people coming in is just scary, and some of them had guns, and crowbars, nahh, thats terrifying as fuck, one person in that 80 decides they want to hurt you, naw, fuck that shit, yeah nothing to cheer in that.
If anyone thinks that shit like this will won't get Democrats hammered in 2022/2024, you are delusional. Republicans are going to parade this to suburban voters and show as an example what happens when Democrats hold the state and don't prosecute lower level crimes. You can see an example on what happened in VA a bit with education and crime (and admittedly terrible campaign for Dems).
And this isn't going to play only for white audiences either.
And this isn't going to play only for white audiences either.
Also:
1. Acts like this shouldn't be cheered on.
2. According to a lot people ITT, 2-3 posters cheering it on = the whole forum is cheering it on. Stop that.
1. Acts like this shouldn't be cheered on.
2. According to a lot people ITT, 2-3 posters cheering it on = the whole forum is cheering it on. Stop that.
Yeah there are only a couple people cheering this on and they really shouldn't. Most this thread recognized how horrible of a situation this is. When you get a mob that large to commit a crime it's incredibly dangerous to the public.
an insane level of coordination to get that number of people to accomplish this. The getaway car scene too. These ain't all first rodeo folks here, i've never had that many people steal from my old workplace all at once. Maybe like 5 max but we were also much smaller than Nordstrom.
Right. I hate how this forum acts like only white suburbanites or gentrifiers clutch their pearls over crime. I come from a poor-ass area of Puerto Rico, and we fucking hated seeing theft and other crime in our areas, too. It makes people feel unsafe.
I'm actually willing to bet we referred to thieves in much harsher terms than your average white suburbanite. Where I'm from, being labeled "pillo" is one of the worst things that could happen to a person. It's regarded as one of the worst moral failings.
Damn, I lived in WC for a couple of years, as well as Concord and SF, who all got hit recently (SF being no surprise). Looks like East Bay is going through some changes.
Yep, this makes sense. You already see a lot of areas with majority Black and Latino population actually supporting more police presence. And again, this shit is going to play right into GOP hands during elections.