You're literally attracted to red flags, and that's gonna color how you interact with the world if you don't dodge it. You're better off following your attraction to men; somehow, against all odds, you manage to dodge the cheaters on that side of the baseball diamond.
Fuck 'em then. I'll light a candle for their nations in celebration when they fall in; 'cause there's no sympathy in my heart for liberal scum, or worse.
And I'll wager my left eye there'll still be western capitalist-sympathizers(because they themselves are not capitalists, as they own no capital nor any means of production, mass or otherwise) having themselves a jolly old wankfest about how we shouldn't be having a good long think about the Robespierre method
Is it unfortunate that civilians were in the splash zone with lpos and rent-a-pigs? Yes. Am I going to condemn the thieves' actions? No. Fuck the police, fuck the elites who rob us day in and day out, and fuck anyone who's gonna sit there and pearl-clutch for them like you're not getting robbed too.
Doesn't matter what they steal. If it's food, it's for their stomach. If it's luxury, it's to resell. Either way, it's not my place to condemn how someone survives and thrives in this fuck of a late-stage capitalist existence.
Fuck the founding principles. The "founding principles" of this shithole have been letting nepo babies, clay-footed 'philanthropists', grifters, and con artists rob the common man for 400+ years. And the 'rise of criminality'(fuckin lmao, okay settler) will only get worse the more the common are robbed. The 'root cause' is the elites being 'elite'; and there is really no way you're gonna get me to condemn actions like what these raiders took in this day and age.
Wrong. Rampant theft of labor, and a tacit refusal on the part of our oligarchs to alleviate the crushing weight of cost of living after accounting for rampant inflation and the constant transfers of wealth from the low and "middle"(lmao) classes to the rich over the last 25 years breeds criminals. The more society rots from within, the more criminals you'll see. It's a civic issue. It's a societal issue. It's unsustainable.
To wit, rising criminality-- if it even exists, which I'm wary to believe given how often settlers cry wolf about it-- will not change until the material conditions guiding our nation changes.
Based, when cost of living is too high, lifting becomes an inevitability. You've heard of the 'invisible hand of the market', now meet the 'ignored voice of the market'. If piracy is a service problem-- and it is-- then it's only logical that shoplifting is a societal problem.
That's probably a war that not a single shot would need to be fired in considering how much money the US owes China. How much US land is tied up in Chinese holdings. All it'd take would be a couple good, concerted waves of property dumping, or a staunch refusal to take on even more American debt, and we're suddenly up a deeper creek than the one we're already in. Collapse is coming, one way or another for the West; it's just a question of how gracefully the mayonnaisians will fold.
Probably the biggest takeaway I had from the appdev courses I took last year.