Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ...
by magicalist on Sunday March 26, 2023 @12:10AM
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I mean, while we're talking "intentionally deceptive"...
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/06/business/walgreens-shopli...
https://www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/Is-shoplifting-forcin...
Re:Cargo theft, led by food and beverage, is surging across ...
by jjulius on Saturday March 25, 2023 @11:55PM
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... completely ignoring the part where I highlighted that GP said "shoplifting is now legal" in a broad sense, and I then specified that that is, in reality, limited to a handful of cities. It would be obvious that San Francisco is one of them, and that I never argued that it wasn't de facto legal there.
Hence the phrase, in the part you quoted, "on a broad scale". Bailing from one city is not a broad scale - I'm sitting in the parking lot of a busy Walgreens in a different state waiting on food truck tacos as I edit this.
Disingenuous? You mean intentionally deceptive?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/san-francisco-shoplifters-theft...
The subtitle says "Walgreens has closed 22 stores in the city, where thefts under $950 are effectively decriminalized." Refusal to arrest or prosecute, which is the reality on the ground, is de facto legalization. If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's not very helpful to say "no, that's disingenuous, you and I both know it's a harlequin mallard."