Shoplifter’s Indignation
“This is not okay,” says she.
“What the hell’s wrong with you?” Variation on a theme.
What’s striking in both cases, and doubtless in countless others, is the almost farcical air of entitlement. The ludicrous harrumphing. Sort of, “How dare you physically stop me from stealing your property!”
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“This is not okay,” says she.
She got off lightly.
Variation on a theme.
The shop assistant deserves a raise.
What’s striking in both cases, and doubtless in countless others, is the almost farcical air of entitlement. The ludicrous harrumphing. Sort of, “How dare you physically stop me from stealing your property!”
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Someone doesn’t skip leg day.
They’re also pretty good illustrations of pretentious victimhood.
“There’s a very fine line between this and a drag queen show.”
True, in much the same way as The Great Wall of China is a very fine line.
There are plenty of liberals who
thinkfeel that it should be a serious crime to use force to stop criminals from stealing.Can we just take a moment to appreciate the craftsmanship of this antique sofa? A hundred years old, more or less, and still able to support the weight of a small car:
https://twitter.com/JamesEsses/status/1632813395211694081
This is what She Hulk would have been, if the writers had any sense. Or am I the only one that finds the security woman person drop dead hot? Tall, lean, and doesn’t take any bs.
If anyone’s getting aroused by this thread, I’m fetching the hose.
Satisfying. Very satisfying.
Well, at least the shoplifter can go home and tweet about how, if she wasn’t white, she would have just experienced (someone else’s) white privilege.
Am I the only one noticing that the shop keeper is a woman and that the shoplifters are all white or white-ish women? We will never have justice in these matters until a white man can protect his business in this manner against black men or women shoplifters. I did recently notice that these shoplifting videos are showing more and more white people getting in on the act. Interesting that it’s ok-ish to fight back against them.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the craftsmanship of this antique sofa?
True, but way back when it was designed it was for three people and she is around four of them.
On top of it she plagiarizes Marx. Might have been Engels, but I think this was from “Wage, Labor, and Capital”.
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People who support soft on crime act in their personal life like they know better. They avoid sketchy neighborhoods and taking the subway. They won’t open a small shop in a bad area. For example, my local downtown is full of small boutique shops (chocolate, gifts, etc) owned and run by women. Because it is a safe place. They cross the street to avoid a homeless crazy. There is a name for this…just can’t quite find it.
Try looking in the DSM-5. 😉
Not like the lot that compiles that can be trusted with a dull spoon.
It’s certain there’ll be some justification for the entitled thievery on display tucked amongst its pages.
This isn’t new, though. I worked at a small chain drugstore in high school some thirty-five years ago and we had in-store plainclothes security. Without fail, the people caught shoplifting would affect towering outrage that you would accuse them of such a thing. It’s not entitlement, it’s a tactic; the habitual offenders know that it’s possible to get people to back off of accusations if you brazen it out. Stores will often value not generating bad publicity over a dozen dollars worth of cheap makeup.
We will never have justice in these matters until a white man can protect his business in this manner
Sooner or later, everyone comes around to the idea of patriarchy.
Even back then, the plainclothes security were always women and the shoplifters were 99% women.
Gotta drop back to the DSM-4, then.
I miss the existence of shame. It did have its uses.
[ Drifts into reverie. ]
True, but way back when it was designed it was for three people and she is around four of them.
Actual LOL.
Oh it is indeed a tactic. And one employed far beyond just the scope of petty crime. You dare to impugn my integrity, sir!?!?
I confess! I shoplifted a roll of Lifesaver candy from a local “dime store” back in ‘ 67. (Later, I snuck them an extra nickel payment to make up for my shame. Despite that, the entire company went out of business ten years later. I’m SORRY, OK?)
I will only believe the tide is turning when I see a single shoplifter of colour being apprehended in this fashion.
Sigh. Many years ago, a morbidly obese man damaged a nice chair that way. There was a big solid sofa, but he chose to plunk himself down in the much lighter weight scandinavian easy chair causing one of the struts to crack. No designer from the land of tall thin blondes ever anticipated such gargantuan man-whales of corpulence.
Okay, then.
Might not be far enough back.
Let me guess – she was from Canada.
I miss the existence of shame. It did have its uses.
Bring back the stocks and pillory in the public square! I’m guessing recidivism was much lower in medieval times.
I’d guess the option would be quite popular among the public, not least victims of predation and antisocial behaviour. Conceivably, it might also prove more effective as a deterrent than some modern alternatives. And more fitting, morally.
When observing reality is a “violent attack.”
Schrödinger’s cat is disgruntled.
I miss the existence of shame. It did have its uses.
There was a time (and maybe it still exists in small ways) where if one’s child swiped a bar of chocolate at the checkout stand, upon discovery, mom or dad would march that kid right back into the store and not just make the child apologize to the owner/manager in public but work out something the child could do in repayment … sweep out the storage room, etc.
Regarding which, this came to mind.
Instead of The Scarlet Letter, how about The Scarlet Pronoun?
Regarding which, this came to mind.
IMHO this kind of frowning on self-defense came along with the weird “self-esteem” movement of the 80s. So many publik skools suddenly got a case of “if there’s a fight we punish everyone involved regardless of who started it”. It was a weird way of hiding bullies in plain sight by punishing “violence” but letting the instigators remain enrolled at the school.
Careful what you ask for. They likely will use them on you first. OK, second. First will be the guy who dares to smoke a cigar at the beach. Ask me how I know.
Yes. Well let’s review the plethora of reasons why that can no longer happen. If I miss any, and I’m sure I will, feel free to fill in. Putting aside the low probability that Mommy or Daddy even care anymore, but if they did…
Yes. This. But it started in the 70’s. Early 70’s, possibly late 60’s by my observation. And half a century later no one can figure out why we have a problem with bullies. See similar re guns. Similar, not parallel.
You may be right about the 60’s, although my personal memory is extremely uncertain.
In more historical reference, Ecclesiastes 1:9 or Ronnie Barker, 1976?
So many publik skools suddenly got a case of “if there’s a fight we punish everyone involved regardless of who started it”.
Worse still, if a small group does something, the entire group is punished whether they were involved or not.
My son’s baseball team shared indoor training with another team. One kid from the other team (the coach’s son) led a group of three kids in trashing the ceiling in the locker room. The coaches from both teams planned to have the entire group of boys clean up the mess. I told the other team’s coach he could go eff himself, grabbed my son and his two carpooling teammates and left. I was quickly followed by every other parent and child from our team.
POC shoplifter: if you try to apprehend you will get the shit beat out of you. If near Oberlin, the whole university will descend on your bakery.
punishing violence in school: this is what they did in my kid’s school–punish all involved in a fight. Saves them the trouble of sorting it out. My daughter dealt with the (male) bullies by shoulder slamming them into a locker and quickly walking away. They didn’t dare complain that a girl got the best of them. Why yes, it was an all white school, why do you ask?
Tyson Fury would say, “No”. A more American piece of advice is to get mean.
Only had to scroll down a bit (on Twitter) for the usual excuses though.
It did bring to mind South Park‘s college-know-it-all-hippies. “But capitalism…” “But corporations…” “But employee toilet breaks…” Before the inevitable would-be mic-drop, “Who gives a fuck…?” Apparently, it would be so much cooler, man, if people – other people – would just let themselves be robbed over and over again.
Somewhat related.
Please do not mention the elephant in the room. Or the one out on the streets.
Matt Walsh shares some thoughts with never-happy trans activists.
No comments permitted, I see.
You are demanding our participation, and what we are saying to you, some of us, is no.
All. Of. That.
It does rather touch on why transgender activism – a demand for “rights” that are very often unilateral privileges – is so fraught and troublesome. Given that it generally entails an assault on probity, on integrity, on a person’s freedom to say that, actually, two plus two does not equal nine. To acknowledge that whenever Mr Eddie Izzard, for example, is referred to repeatedly as she, on the BBC or in a supposedly serious newspaper, it is gratingly absurd. And may, for many, feel like an affront.
At Pride Toronto, denunciations accumulate.
Or, “Gathering of insufferable narcissists and competitive umbrage-takers results in disharmony, bitching, rending of garments.”
Not sure whether to laugh or cry watching this fascinating interview of André de Ruyter the ex-CEO of Eskom, South Africa’s collapsing electricity provider, explaining why he is resigning after an attempt to assassinate him with cyanide.
On the one hand, he vividly describes the absolute state of South Africa’s degenerate culture and crumbling infrastructure: the corruption, the violence, the mafia, the thieving, the sabotaging, the corporate fraud, the political grift.
On the other, in the face of this human and supply chain catastrophe, he bemoans the failure of his primary goal at Eskom – the transitioning of South Africa’s electricity production to renewable energy sources.
Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!
I bookmarked the link to Walsh’s tweet as it is the perfect response to share when the topic of the “oppression” transpeople “suffer” comes up. These same people claiming that while eating a Hershey bar with a transwoman on the wrapper in celebration of women . . .
But it is related to a thought I had this morning reading that yet another bill is making its way through the Tennessee legislature, this one now to require drag performers to get a permit before doing a performance and allowing no minors in drag clubs – if you had not pushed and demanded applause for things like drag queen story hour for little children, this would be a non-issue. No one would care that you are having drag shows in an adult establishment.
The story in my local newspaper includes the problems a brewery who hosted drag shows is having. Their excuse is that the drag shows started as “21 or over” but the parents asked to bring their children. And? Something tells me that if a parent went to a strip club and asked if they could bring their kids in for the show, they would be rightly refused.
Who are these parents?
I was amused to note that Disney’s trailer for their reworking of J.M. Barrie’s timeless classic Peter Pantel and the lost They/Thems has the comments turned off!
I guess “modern audiences” aren’t allowed to talk back.
At Pride Toronto…
I see, angry black man is angry at being accused of being angry as he attempts to fight oppression in (puts on reading glasses) Toronto. Right.
Please do not mention the elephant in the room.
Related…
Speaking of Toronto, this came to mind.
From the videos I’ve seen, the vast majority of the parents appear to be white liberal women – so one might expect a high level of neuroticism and a need to appear politically fashionable. Sufficiently so to bring their children into close contact with psychologically marginal men, a remarkable number of whom turn out to be registered sex offenders.
Meanwhile in Seattle, “Thea Oliphant-Wells, a social worker for Seattle & King County Public Health”, asks you to please OD in public.
Places like buses, where everyone carries and knows how to administer Narcan, of course.
Activists can never declare victory. Feminism could declare victory because 60% of US college students are women, young single urban women make more than their male counterparts, divorce is easy, birth control easy, etc. But no, they just get more strident. They want to be firefighters and cops and in combat, jobs very very few women even want and for which women are too small and weak. Heck I’m average size male and I don’t think I’m cut out for those jobs. And of course feminists don’t push for construction jobs or plumbing jobs.
Trans activists (and commenters on twit) insist that trans are being murdered, but the only (dubious) numbers I’ve seen are for trans sex workers murders. Again, pushing too far. Most people don’t care. Man in a dress? meh. But they want the locker rooms, to compete on swim teams. To be celebrated. Should we celebrate nudists? Flashers? Where does it stop?
Note his admission that he suffers from mental illness.
No surprise that a mentally ill person might be paranoid about disagreement.
No. Obviously two plus two does not equal nine. Read the room, the consensus says it equals 7.8. Try and be reasonable and meet us half way. It’s really for the best of ALL involved, wouldn’t you agree? We do want to win the next election, don’t we? – Conservatives…the Conservatiest Conservarty of Conservaty Conservatives.
Pushing too far: another example, my rather conservative wife and college age daughter happened upon a pride parade in Toronto. There was lots of nudity, topless, and bondage gear. On a public street. Not quite “we just want to be left alone”.
That is the argument for establishment big-government GOP candidates–even though those people, being servants of the powerful, will never appeal to Democrat voters. In other words, we are supposed to win over more voters with candidates that those voters strongly dislike and distrust.
And in the interest of Open Thread, the following advice from the Dali Lama has been fact checked by Snopes.
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Speaking of elephants in the room…
May be they meant fowl play? Those talk-to-text things make mistakes like this all the time.
And of course feminists don’t push for construction jobs or plumbing jobs.
Most contemporary feminists are Leftists first and, regardless of blather, they LOATHE the trades. There are a small percentage of girls, usually those who grew up in blue collar homes, who are both happy & skilled enough to be carpenters or electricians, etc, but they’ll never be the majority. And feminists don’t like them much anyway because the trades – being quite practical and based on easily seen merit – tend to harbor WrongThink people.
Based on what we’ve paid to various plumbers, HVAC, drywallers and house painters, I certainly wouldn’t discourage any of the grandkids – male or female – from pursuing it as a profession/own business.
The difference between don’t start nuthin’ and just let the bad guy kill you because he deserves to live more than you being so bewildering, apparently.
See also.
Note the mistranslation of the Fifth Commandment as “Thou shalt not kill” when it should be “thou shalt not murder”.
The concept of “permanent revolution” is a red flag: Anyone who espouses it has evil intent. Everyone.
There was lots of nudity, topless, and bondage gear. On a public street.
And this behaviour is antithetical to most gays and lesbians who do just want to be left alone. I’m still waiting for the “G”, “B” and “L” to remove the “Q” and “T” from the alphabet. I know, it will be a long wait.
You are too kind. It’s an intentional move. Quite obviously killing went on throughout the scriptures and God was fine with much of it. Even JC’s disciples carried swords.
a pride parade in Toronto. There was lots of nudity, topless, and bondage gear. On a public street
Oh, I know many AWFLs who take their minor children to Toronto Pride every year. When I ask them why they insist on exposing their children to extremely degenerate and dangerous sexual behaviour, they claim that’s right wing propaganda and Pride isn’t actually like that. When I show them video from the height of the parade that shows that Pride is exactly like that they call me homophobic and bigoted.
When I ask them why they insist on exposing their children to extremely degenerate and dangerous sexual behaviour, they claim that’s right wing propaganda and Pride isn’t actually like that.
I remember the blogger “zombie” who lived in San Francisco and documented ‘pride’ on those public streets year after year. Toronto Pride is grade school stuff compared to Frisco (especially what happens on Folsom Street). Zombietime still exists, just do NOT view at work and thoroughly wash up afterwards.
For readers with a taste for the thoughts – and sights – of sad, needy, saggy-titted old queens in cock rings, behold ye.
Indeed! I have given up arguing with people who claim that all gays and lesbians are like the freaks you see at San Francisco “pride” festivals when they aren’t grooming school children. (Except when there are normal people present who are open to evidence.)
Among the pathetic freaks, naked men in their fifties and sixties, getting their scrotums inflated to absurd size.
My thought at the time: “The city allows them to do this on a public street? What else do they allow or even subsidize? Best to avoid this loony bin.”
Female plumbers – there are exceptions
Re female plumbers…Curious how long she’s been in business. The roses don’t exactly sell me on plumbing. Other things perhaps. Maybe euphemistically?
In Orlando about 20 years ago the Slantinel had a story about a company called SheCans. They were bright pink painted dumpsters for use at construction sites, etc. Ooh, they were hitting back at Teh Patriarchy. Not just by being a female run business in a macho man’s world but also by making those icky sweaty macho men use a girly-girl pink dumpster to put their junk in. Yet another metaphor that only occurs to me now…anyway…they didn’t last long.
It is International Women’s Day, so Justin asks to think of the men.
Years ago, when conservatives…”conservatives” went along with the idea of hate crimes, some of us objected. We were met with scorn and heavy sighs. Because suggesting that government trying to look into people’s hearts and determine if ‘hate’ drove them to commit a crime could/would lead to BS like this was simply stupid. Smart people, smaaaart knew better than us uneducated knuckleheads. Even those of us who were “educated”. Leaders, pillars of the community mocked us and held us in contempt. Because they were the grownups.
Not to be outdone by Justin, an award is given – for courage.
And it’s only a “hate crime” if the target is a member of a group favored by the left.
It is International Women’s Day, so Justin asks to think of the men.
TBF Justin’s fighting the disclosure of information that shows about a dozen of his MPs received election support from the CCP. Slight of hand or squirrel? Watch the pea. I’m not sure Justin believes in anything but himself and his god-given justinian rights.
P.S. You should see my daily news feed.
they didn’t last long
There’s a renovations/general contracting company in Oakville that makes quite a big deal about being all young women.
After a couple of glowing news articles in the local fishwrap, an anonymous person distributed documentary proof on social media that every employee of the company and its owners were former strippers and prostitutes; many also had drug charges.
The articles were quickly blackholed and the company seems to have vanished from the Internet.
What is it with Oakville, anyway. Something in the water.
So, this was just a more egregious example of the “award your contracts to the women-owned business” scam?
There’s a renovations/general contracting company in Oakville…every employee of the company and its owners were former strippers and prostitutes…
I don’t see a problem, I think they would be used to ensuring their customers have a happy ending.
WTP: the idea of hate crimes arose out of KKK activities like burning black churches. But now it is a bogus concept used for bogus reasons. The Left has been very reluctant to apply it to attacks on asians because the perps are black.
If this isn’t a piss take, this guy should have been more careful about using birth control.
No. This is the thing, it always was bogus. The concept was stupid and fraught with gross subjectivity. The emphasis is the crime. ‘Hate’ as a factor was to be considered as part of the sentencing. Making ‘hate’ part of the crime, the conviction itself was virtually inevitably going to lead to these very situations.
Eddie Izzard is a man wearing womanface.
As with the drag-queens-and-kiddies devotees mentioned upthread – the ones who very much want to be seen introducing their children to men with a much higher likelihood of being paedophiles – the degree of irrationality and neuroticism is often underestimated.
To use one’s own small children as props in some titillatingly perverse self-elevating drama is, I think, quite a feat. To disregard the obvious warning signs does require some contortion. But it seems that the desire to be politically fashionable trumps more humdrum considerations.
I’m guessing the irony escapes them. As I said a while ago,
Again, the woke tendency to equate gay person with needy, insufferable narcissist or cross-dressing bedlamite isn’t particularly flattering.
In other news man with a barbie pocket still can’t get a date:-
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/lincolnbrown/2023/03/08/dylan-mulvaney-cant-get-a-date-n1676538
Maybe if he ramped up the mincing and squealing and the self-preoccupation…?
Three factors: