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 Just reading a news article about shoplifting (POV: shoplifting bad).

It's impossible to feel any animosity towards people living with nothing nicking the odd thing from corporations that are posting mega-profits and the ruling classes so blatantly embezzle taxpayer money.

Ooh, look that person stole a tin of soup. Michelle Monaghan bought herself a fucking yacht with blood money.

MPs horses are treated with more deference than their constituents. 
 @0b13872d I'm torn. On the one hand: families nicking food so they don't starve? I didn't see that happening. On the other hand: organized gangs mass-raiding stores, threatening the staff with violence, and systematically looting them? That's something entirely different. 

We need different names and approaches for these things.