Don't Steal This Book On "In Defense of Looting”

taibbi.substack.com ^ | 9-5-20 | Matt Taibbi

[stinkerpot65]

We have yet to grasp just how truly evil Democrats have become.

[caseinpoint]

Had to laugh at an interview with him/her where the question was what about the charge that looters are hurting local small business people, their own neighbors? He/she answered (I’m presuming with a straight face) that there was a small, independent bookstore which was untouched in the middle of a looted section of the city so obviously the looters were sensitive to the “little guy”.

[aquila48]

Bookmark

[blueplum]

She added riots reveal how “without police and without state oppression, we can have things for free.”

Well, that only works the first time. There is a very immature assumption that store owners will just restock out of their own pockets. A very wrong assumption. The businesses close. Leaving the only source of ‘free’ stuff, people’s homes. Who, law or no, have greater abilities to protect their things. And without police around, who’s to say, who was killed looting and who was killed in revenge killings. It’s a very slippery slope.

[trebb]

“I wouldn’t bother to steal it unless I was out of toilet paper.”

Or kindling...I guess that according to those who back the book, it would be OK to light that kindling while it’s still on the shelf of the book store...

[Rummyfan]

Adherents to this theology are characterized by a boundless, almost Trumpian capacity for self-pity, even as they’re advocating setting you on fire. They can make wrapping fishwiches sound like digging coal in Matewan, being deprived of a smartphone like being whipped by Centurions, and they matter because everyone, including especially Democratic Party politicians, is afraid of the fallout that comes with telling them to shut the fuck up. So their “ideas” spread like cancer.