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Milord has no choice but to take measures against the other peasants who have been possessed by woke transgender demons to steal from him π
remember: if you see someone shoplifting, no you didn't
If you see someone shoplifting, begin asking all nearby associates really weird distracting questions
the only parts of the US that could be considered 15 minute cities are some of the richer neighborhoods in NYC
yeah this shit doesn't even exist, these dipshits dreamed it up a year ago and have convinced themselves that every city has completely restructured itself in that year
Iirc it started as a concept with the mayor of Paris and then other mayors have tried to copy it, but there is no actual 15 minute city anywhere yet.
I need a reality check. What's the street value of 64 ounces of 100% pure Walmart brand vegetable oil?
$17,000 USD
TIL
In case this is a sincere question - $9 in rural Ohio.
I think this hints at who is doing a considerable amount of shoplifting. The press around shoplifting (see 
as always) is that it's shadowy organizations paying people to walk in, grab as much expensive stuff as they can, and walk out past employees who are frustrated by how blatant it all is and scared of violence if they interfere.
But no criminal mastermind is organizing this type of granular theft of cheap, heavy, bulky items. The person stealing vegetable oil is someone trying to stretch a food budget by "forgetting" to ring up something like this at self-checkout.
The flashier type of shoplifting does happen (although it's often people with drug problems acting independently and selling to shady pawn shops), but either the second type happens quite a bit, too, or security like this is cheap enough and companies half want to drive people out of stores anyway.
What do 15-minute cities have to do with this? Might has well say that the legalization of gay marriage hypnotizes people into stealing if you're going to go full non-sequitur.
FYI most people who say shit this dumb know it's dumb BS. They aren't actually that stupid, they just say this shut cuz it's supports a narrative that benefits them. They like driving their big dick trucks to Buffalo Wild Wings to gorge themselves on cheap beer and onion rings and they know spreading BS fear mongering about how evil cities are will help protect that.
The only person I've ever spoken with irl about the 15 minute city conspiracy was definately stupid enough to believe it.
I used to feel the same way about my CHUD family members but if you push them enough, or get them drunk enough, or play along, they'll often admit it's an act. It's a big pantomime they all play into to justify the treat train.
Call me the Chud whisperer
They are URBAN and JEWISH and GAY and therefore they are everywhere
They are URBAN and JEWISH and GAY
They got me there (working on achieving that first one tho).
How would a walmart fit in a fifteen minute city? It takes 15 minutes to cross the parking lot.
Easy, you live in the parking lot. Now do you leftists understand the threat we face?
I worked in retail for years right up through the pandemic, in grocery and drug stores, and it's really illuminating to experience that environment when you've already been inoculated against these taking points. Because there has been no increase in shoplifting.
Shoplifting has always been easy and commonplace, it happens every single day and it always has. The only thing that has changed is that people who work these jobs are being fed this narrative of a shoplifting crime wave, and have become more paranoid and hostile as a response.
In response to this cultural pressure, this propaganda effort to obscure and deflect awareness of drastically plunging buying power and general impoverishment, petty managers seeking a sense of control over perceived attacks on "their stores" (nonsense serf logic) are chaining everything to the floor. And this of course only worsens their declining sales, because why bother even trying to buy something in the store if you're doing to do so legitimately if you have to ask someone to get it for you? You might as well have it delivered tomorrow by Amazon!
Is rank inequality and the exploitation of the working class to blame for social problems?
No, it's the walkable cities that are wrong.
Lol conservatives will shit their pants over inflation and biden making gas and food expensive but then get angry that people steal?
Muricans are worse than serfs, we're totally alienated from each other and even ourselves out here, the serf had a quiet and realistic resignation that things would never get better, Muricans are the Steinbeck quote about the temporary embarassed millionaire delusion while living lives so wretched in some matters the serf's is enviable.
Why does he not consider vegetable oil to be cooking oil?
Conspiracy theory among the far-right and "carnivores" that seed oil is feminizing men, ruining society, causing cell death, etc.
I only use high quality extra virgin olive oil, even when it costs $50 a bottle and is wrong for the recipe. In fact, I use it as a substitute for all liquids, including water. But the damn kids keep taking my olive oil and using it as body wash, like the ancient Greeks did. Slippery little bastards.
high trust society
Never seen anyone use this term who wasnβt an outright white nationalist.
Stealing is cool.
It should be legal to steal, escape from prison, and rob a bank. All three are cool. All three have given us great movies.
Isn't Walmart one of the richest companies in the US? Oh yeah, I'm sure shoplifting is hurting them so hard that they just HAVE to do this. Couldn't be their own greed.
Walmart became one of the richest companies in the US because of stuff like this. There's a whole penny-pinching mentality built into their company structure that I haven't seen at any other retailer I've worked for, and they argue that it's how they keep their prices low.
This 15 minute city conspiracy is annoying me, I've seen these protestors every day for the last two months or so protesting it....I live in a city/town you can travel across in less than 10 mins by car. It's pure brainworms.
These people are just racists, right? The 15 minute hysteria is fear they'd have to live near and interact with brown people. The screaming about school choice is trying to get segregation back. The shoplifting thing is just racism too.
I'm absolutely certain that's the angle chuds are going for. "Don't blame capitalism, blame brown people." If you poke chuds long enough that's what they'll say. They'll use distracting language like "high trust society" or they'll say other countries have universal healthcare due to smaller, more insular populations. But I know what they mean. Ask any chud alive why Japan has such a low violent crime rate, and tell them to not mince words. Ask them to be honest.
The fifteen minute city concept is threatening to the right, so like with so many terms they are diluting their meaning to blunt their effect. They did this with "urban", they are doing it now with the term "woke", it's a linguistic sabotage.
It seems like a convenience measure to me, why steal one when you could steal two?
Those are like 5 liter bottles (insert meme about cooking oil and muricans), i would assume shoplifting even one is problematic.
oh no, I have to steal two!
Right wingers have finally caught up to the 2017 leftbook "imagine doing X" format
And are still going with the "fifteen minute cities" thing that was a fad on NUMTOT-adjacent Facebook for like two weeks back in 2021
the 15 minute cities are a 
thing right? I cant even tell whos complaining about what
i think it started in Britain but american idiots seized on the dumbassery and ran with it
15 minute cities is just the idea that it should be feasible to walk to the shops from your house
βIβm not a death cultist! I just think we should worship the death machine, or itβll yβknow, kill people!β
Oh hey, I've seen this dude pop up in my recommends for years and I'm not surprised at all these are the opinions he posts on Twitter
That "fifteen minute city hellhole" remark is so embarrassing he should be shoved into a locker and dropped into the Marianas Trench
its wild how many people love the taste of bootpolish
It's funny that there is no mention of the cost increase for cooking oil. It's one of the items that has increased on avg somewhere between 300% to 400% ($2.35 to $2.50 in 2021 to $6.75 to $8.00 today) for the standard grocery store 24oz bottle.
Then again, it makes sense for the propagandized American mind because they can't blame the free market of commodities or capitalism prioritizing shareholder returns nor can they recognize desperate people will steal if their children are hungry and paychecks no longer can afford basics. Nope, it has to be some bullshit culture war nonsense that helps them avoid that cognitive dissonance.
I swear the consumer price index used for inflation measurements is being intentionally gamed, big retailers have avoided increasing prices more than 10 to 15% on those items in order to help fudge the numbers. Consumer price index isn't tracking the actual staples for Americans that can be effected by inflation, they track items like a gallon of milk which is stupid because dairy actually has price controls rather than being at the mercy of the market. They need to add frozen potato products (tater tots, etc), frozen vegetables, frozen burritos, tortinos frozen pizzas, 12oz can of chili, 24oz cooking oil, and the other things form the average Americans garbage diet... all items that have gone up around 300% since 2021. If they were $2 before they are $6 now when you account for companies pulling bullshit like shrinking package sizes to obfuscate price increases.