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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[–] 36 points 3 years ago (29 children)

ngl, if i lived near a posho university, i would rob them as often as possible

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (28 children)

    ...that's bad, and not leftism. How is this getting upvoted?

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago (22 children)

    didn't say it was leftism
    i don't like poshos and could do with the money shrug-outta-hecks

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (21 children)

    Yeah, "I just feel like robbing people" is bad. I'm asking why a leftist community seems to think it's worth upvoting.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (20 children)

    some of us don't care about poshos i guess

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (19 children)

    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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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago* (17 children)

    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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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (14 children)

    "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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    That's the mentality on display here.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    "robbing extremely privileged people would mean i could afford basic necessities"

    "you just like crime"

    lol

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    You edited in your economic justification after a couple of comments. Your original comment was just "I want to rob posh people."

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  • [–] 8 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    you know the edit is timestamped right?

    i added it in before you replied to the comment

    and it just had the top line of "they have a lot more money than i do"

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    mugging someone is easier though

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    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.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    It's the most important form of leftism, bullying liberals.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    No, that type of comment is opportunism at best. It's OK to recognize that.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Ok I'll add sympathy for ivy league students who think seeing a black person made them a victim of violent crime to my list of things to care about. It's gonna be right around sympathy for soldiers who feel bad about the war crimes they committed.

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