Author Topic: We R Cute Shoplifters Inside the hidden teenage world of Tumblr’s pro-Bernie, anti-capitalist Bling Ring  (Read 392 times)

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BARBIE’S FIRST LIFT WAS A SMALL, plastic stingray she stole from the dollar store. The toy was the last of its kind on the shelf, and she thought it looked lonely sitting there by itself. She picked it up and concealed it between her phone and her hand. A few minutes later, she walked out the door, undetected by store employees. She didn’t feel a rush, wasn’t even really worried about being caught. How much trouble could she be in for stealing a $1 toy? She was a 15-year-old girl.

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The false rationalizations in the article are amazing - and so Bernie Sanders - theft is not anti-capitalist, it's anti-social.  Theft was considered a sin, and a crime, long before capitalism as we know it developed.