Posted on 03/27/2025 11:25:06 PM PDT by ransomnote
Lee insists he's "famously" a very good Catholic. He's a moral person — his mother raised him right. And by his internal calculation, it's OK to shoplift from Whole Foods. Why? Because of Jeff Bezos.
From about 2020 to 2022, Lee, a 20-something communications professional living in the Washington, DC, area, engaged in what he describes as "grand theft auto-ing" from his local Whole Foods store. He would cheat the scale at the hot bar, pocket spices, or take home four lemons in the self-checkout aisle while only declaring two. Lee has never shoplifted from anywhere else — not Safeway, not a local store. He's largely stopped taking from Whole Foods because he moved to a different neighborhood that doesn't have one. However, he told me, there's one by his gym he'll pop into — and steal from — from time to time.
Lee has weighed the ethics of what he's doing. At one point, the guilt got to be so much that he confessed his misdeeds to his mother. Once he explained his reasoning — Amazon's market power, Bezos' wealth, what the billionaire has done at The Washington Post — she came around.
"If a billionaire can steal from me, I can scrape a little off the top, too," Lee says. Lee is a pseudonym — the same goes for all of the shoplifters and ethically (and legally) compromised individuals quoted in this story.
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Bezos should sue MSN out of existence. Seriously, WTF???
Lee and His/her/it/they Mom are both hopeless dumbasses.
bttt
“‘Famously’ Catholic, huh? Steals with a clean conscience, eh? Well, ya don’ say!” —Go Brandon
[[Lee insists he’s “famously” a very good Catholic]]
Pretty conceited there lee- there are none good. You crimes prove that your inner nature is not good. Stop deceiving yourself
Lee is a CINO (Catholic in name only).
A generation of sociopaths has hatched from their cocoons
Exactly. They’ve bought into the jacobin mentality that hates the wealthy.
Is anyone else fed up with these self entitled commie lowlifes?!
“Lee and His/her/it/they Mom are both hopeless dumbasses.”
“Thou shalt not covet” Comes to mind.
Because the owner of a newspaper changes its editorial policy just a smidgen, its time to go bonkers? What is it with envy with these people. Yeah, Bezos has more money than I—owns more crap than I will ever own and I have contributed to his wealth by purchasing stuff off of Amazon... Does this give me the right to steal?
The morals of some people—
There are a LOT of our fellow Americans who steal ALL OF THE TIME
Every Target, grocery store, Walmart, Walgreens, CVS, etc.
Absolutely no shame
Absolutely no honor
It’s embarrassing and frustrating
Those are the ones we see. And they are bad enough. But they are nothing compared to the stealing going on in DC.
AKA the commies V. 0.1.
It’s amazing how many commies cycled thru Paris.
I hope I see this a-hole in Mr Bezos’ general store. I’ll call him out. He’s stealing from ME.
Setting Teslas on fire is a political act which makes it terrorism.
“Lee” is just a lowlife.
More concerning is that MSN/Emily Stewart is conflating these different kinds of criminal behavior and making excuses for both.
Does Lee have no shred of common sense? Lee obviously doesn’t care about God’s laws. Ultimately, God is not fooled and God is in charge. Cheating God probably won’t end well.
And John Wayne Gacy was a "famously" popular pillar of the community who volunteered to help children and "clown around."
Regards,
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