The Democrat Utopia

[Guy Chamberlin]

Fun fact: retail stores lose three times more money every year to employee theft than they do shoplifting. And that's been the case forever.

 

Interestingly enough, those employee thieves don't see themselves as criminals, and apparently we don't, either. 

 

The problem in San Francisco and other cities isn't the tweakers, teenagers and kleptomaniacs who've always been around,  it's the emergence of organized shoplifters often working in groups taking whatever they want with audacity and intimidation. Some of them may ride Huffys. I don't know. But it definitely demands a new and different level of enforcement. Raising the determining value of theft between misdemeanors and felonies was designed to lower the burden on the judicial and prison system, but that may have some unintended consequences, too. The bill in question responds to untrained, low-wage employees being asked to solve the problem, and it makes perfect sense. 

 

Declaring that libs love shoplifters is an easy but stupid take. Not surprised by the posters who went there. 

[Moiraine]

IMO if stores want something to be done when shoplifting is occurring, they should hire security officers. 

[Archy1221]

The whole “there’s too much crime right now, so let’s stop prosecuting crime” takes are quite astounding.  
 

Declaring someone said Libs love shoplifters is an easy but stupid take.  Not surprised by the posters who went there.  The correct post would have said “pro-shoplifting” Which as AOC famously said people are just trying to feed themselves and looking for bread as they walk out with stolen Nikes and clothes.   

[teachercd]

4 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

 

 

Do you mean to tell me the dudes at the store were not intimidated by an adolescent shoplifter on a Huffy? 

 

They should have b!^@hed slapped you just for owning a Huffy. 

 

I'll chalk this up to another Teach rant against something he hasn't bothered to learn about. 

What you mean is "God, he is right again and I agree BUT I hate agreeing with him/her so I have to pretend that shoplifting is totally awesome"

 

I think every single time we "argue" we end up agreeing that I was right.

[teachercd]

3 hours ago, Moiraine said:

IMO if stores want something to be done when shoplifting is occurring, they should hire security officers. 

I have seen way more of that in the last year or so. 

[teachercd]

3 hours ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

Fun fact: retail stores lose three times more money every year to employee theft than they do shoplifting. And that's been the case forever.

 

Interestingly enough, those employee thieves don't see themselves as criminals, and apparently we don't, either. 

 

The problem in San Francisco and other cities isn't the tweakers, teenagers and kleptomaniacs who've always been around,  it's the emergence of organized shoplifters often working in groups taking whatever they want with audacity and intimidation. Some of them may ride Huffys. I don't know. But it definitely demands a new and different level of enforcement. Raising the determining value of theft between misdemeanors and felonies was designed to lower the burden on the judicial and prison system, but that may have some unintended consequences, too. The bill in question responds to untrained, low-wage employees being asked to solve the problem, and it makes perfect sense. 

 

Declaring that libs love shoplifters is an easy but stupid take. Not surprised by the posters who went there. 

Amen!

[teachercd]

2 hours ago, Archy1221 said:

The whole “there’s too much crime right now, so let’s stop prosecuting crime” takes are quite astounding.  
 

Declaring someone said Libs love shoplifters is an easy but stupid take.  Not surprised by the posters who went there.  The correct post would have said “pro-shoplifting” Which as AOC famously said people are just trying to feed themselves and looking for bread as they walk out with stolen Nikes and clothes.   

You know the easiest way to lower the crime in your city?  Not make anything a crime.

 

 

[Archy1221]

44 minutes ago, teachercd said:

You know the easiest way to lower the crime in your city?  Not make anything a crime.

 

 

Unfortunately, too many subscribe to that theory now a days. 

[Guy Chamberlin]

1 hour ago, teachercd said:

What you mean is "God, he is right again and I agree BUT I hate agreeing with him/her so I have to pretend that shoplifting is totally awesome"

 

I think every single time we "argue" we end up agreeing that I was right.

point to where I am wrong

[teachercd]

1 minute ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

point to where I am wrong

You aren't, we are both right.  You are agreeing with me, again! We almost always agree you just seem to get upset about it.

 

We both think shoplifting is bad, we both think it should be treated as a crime.

 

I think you just don't like how easy I make things.

[Archy1221]

 

[Guy Chamberlin]

14 hours ago, teachercd said:

You aren't, we are both right.  You are agreeing with me, again! We almost always agree you just seem to get upset about it.

 

We both think shoplifting is bad, we both think it should be treated as a crime.

 

I think you just don't like how easy I make things.

 

I can't agree that the answer to these issues is easy, but I do believe you are very simple. 

[Guy Chamberlin]

Say, by any chance did you ride the Huffy that had a steering wheel for handlebars? 

[teachercd]

5 minutes ago, Guy Chamberlin said:

Say, by any chance did you ride the Huffy that had a steering wheel for handlebars? 

I never knew that was a thing!  

[Guy Chamberlin]

Again, if this was the getaway Huffy for your shoplifting sprees, you deserved jail time, even as a minor.