• nieceandtows@programming.dev
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    Sure. If looting resulted in redistributing the stolen goods to the less fortunate people, a la robinhood. Not this looting where opportunists loot stuff to make personal money out of an injustice, giving everyone a bad name. These looters are like a lynch mob waiting for an opportunity/justification to lynch somebody. They don’t lynch for justice, they just lynch for their personal pleasure under the safe cover of justice.

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        Where did I say I defend capitalism? Oh so if I say I don’t like these looters that means I’m a capitalist? You are able to read the comment and figure out it’s not capitalistic, but still label me as defending capitalism, that’s on you.

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          You compared looters to lynch mobs. You’re clearly not on the side of the common person

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          My dude, did you even check what thread you’re on? The whole premise is defense against looting is defense of capitalism.

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            Which is a dumb premise - just because a person might not support looting (and rightfully so) doesn’t mean you support capitalism. The opinions on the two matters aren’t mutually exclusive.

            Flip the logic the other way: if you support, say, socialism for example (i.e. anything that’s not capitalist), does that mean you support looting? If I support looting, does that mean I am a left-leaning communist?

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              I’m responding to someone else and you crazies keep defending each other.

              If looting resulted in redistributing the stolen goods to the less fortunate people

              That sounds a little left leaning communist to me. But you didn’t say that so I get you might have a different opinion.

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                I’m responding to someone else and you crazies keep defending each other.

                I’m actually just contributing to a conversation on the internet because I apparently feel strongly about this. Legitimately not tryna to attack you because I think you’re just explaining the premise the dude in OP’s pic has.

                That sounds a little left leaning communist to me. But you didn’t say that so I get you might have a different opinion.

                I didn’t say it, but you’re also cherry-picking statements of the other dude to prove a point. Consider they said this:

                Not this looting where opportunists loot stuff to make personal money out of an injustice, giving everyone a bad name.

                Which, unfortunately, is what looting is a vast majority of the time - so can you say they support looting if they said they only support it in a specific context and not a general sense?

                Do they support looting in an oddly naive and idealistic scenario? Yes. Do they support left-leaning beliefs? Seems like it. Are the two things related to one another? Not a chance - which I also get you’re just pointing out the premise from the dude in OP’s pic, but I just really think it’s a fucking dumb take for the guy in OP’s pic to have.