As he pulled his luggage through downtown New Haven, Conn., a woman handed him a flier describing his new city as crime-ridden and dangerous. It listed alarming local crime statistics and instructed students to “remain on campus,” “avoid public transportation” and “stay off the streets after 8 p.m.” Illustrated with a picture of the Grim Reaper, the flier wished students an ominous “Good luck.”

But perhaps most jarring was the source of the flier, listed plainly in its text: the union that represents Yale’s own campus police.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/25/nyregion/yale-police-fliers.html

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      So if you think someone has a little more money than you do, it’s OK to rob them for no other reason than you would like more money? Again, this is bad, and not leftism, despite the class-based veneer you’re throwing on it.

      Moving from “some crimes are justified, or even good, because they further a leftist project that benefits working people” to “crime is rad lol” creates this type of opportunism.

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        a little more money than you do

        lol

        they have a lot more money than i do

        it’s OK to rob them for no other reason than you would like more money

        that more money would mean i don’t have to choose between power and food, so yeah

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          “crime is rad lol”

          Yep this is about it

          In response to your edit about power and food: assuming that’s true, robbing an individual stranger is maybe the least justifiable type of theft. An electronics store is what you’re looking for.

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              The only reason to prefer mugging a random student over walking out of Target with a TV is wanting to hurt a person, or at least screw them over individually.

              You just want to punch up, which is understandable. But it’s not leftism, and it doesn’t justify victimizing a person instead of a company.

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                The only reason to prefer mugging a random student over walking out of Target with a TV is wanting to hurt a person

                we don’t have target here
                way less likely to get caught mugging some rando
                you don’t really need to hurt them
                again, never said it’s leftism

                you also need to flog the tv
                and get it home

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                The only reason to prefer mugging a random student over walking out of Target with a TV is wanting to hurt a person, or at least screw them over individually.

                stalin chad yes balloon

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                  Stalin robbed banks, not individuals, and he was doing it to fund a proletarian party, not for his personal benefit.

                  Few people want to associate with a political movement that encourages or allows casual violence. Those movements are disconnected from the people and open season for opportunists. It should not be a hot take to want violence to be carefully directed towards political ends.