So @NYPD deleted this before I could ask if they arrested the babies as accessories after the fact

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43. Everyone on this thread knows shoplifting has become big crime. For profit.

Yet many posts insist on styling all these thieves of standard black market items as in desperate need and pretending it's all redressing society's inequities. How's that for "entitled" people? Entitled to steal. From others of course.

There's such a thing as balance. Extremism and grievance can turn what should be caring and compassion into something else entirely.

Extreme tolerance for crime -- in a nation where no one's starving and almost everyone can find programs to provide diapers -- is yet another manifestation of societal breakdown, a variation on anger at being asked to wear masks and losing elections.

And of course it's not just LW hearts bleeding for a whole nation of victims. RW grievance culture is even stronger and more ruthless, and more broadly radicalized. I'm only surprised they haven't called for the thieves to set the stores on fire as they run out.