But wasn’t it you that said the looters are just down on their luck and it’s ok?

I don’t feel sorry for the looters. Fuck them. Theft is theft. They are fucking over consumers.

Erin Marquis strikes again! I mean seriously, what are you doing here at Jalopnik?

1st Gear: Before offshore drilling along the west coast tar balls were a common site on Socal beaches. Its weird to say but the drilling is keeping beach pollution at bay. Theres lots of easily available oil which is a big reason it became so popular.

First gear:

I wonder if Erin would be quite as cool with stealing if thieves broke into her home and took her stuff. The thought experiment can assume that these thieves are “suffering from income inequality” or are “desperate”. Perhaps “shit has even been real” lately for them?

Me after reading this article excusing blatant theft

Yeah, my sympathies are with the people who paid (a lot—they’re not cheap) for epi pens to save their lives and didn’t get them, not with the vandals and thieves that _really_ need a hit of meth and trashed the life-saving pens. They’re not stealing food and blankets to care for their families, they’re just stealing…

“Now, every outlet is calling these folks thieves, and sure, that’s technically correct.”

I should’ve stopped reading the first time Erin offered excuses for criminal behavior. But I kept reading and found more of it.

This weird apologist take is just bad. These people are thieves, stealing things from OTHER people who legitimately bought something despite the poor economy. This isn’t a stick-it-to-bezos thing. This is impacting folks like you and me who work to pay their bills, then get their hard-earned shit stolen by someone who…

What a joke. Half the Golden Age writers worked for either the DoD or defense contractors at some point or another (Asimov, Heinlein and L Sprague de Camp all worked together at the Naval Air Experiment Center; Heinlein in the Navy itself; Niven - SDI, DHS and others; Pournelle - who can count? Army, Boeing, Aerospace…

The Federation makes photon torpedoes. Photon torpedoes kill people. Is the Federation now forbidden from participating in the Khitomer Conference because it makes photon torpedoes?

Decades ago, I saw a contestant lose because she added the word “the” before the phrase “New York Jets.” That doesn’t even rank in the top 100 of most painful losses related to the Jets.

It’s not about just being understood, it’s about fair and consistent enforcement of the rules.

So, the “freelance” salesman dude did list the 2016 Mazda CX-5 in his bankruptcy plan (in October of 2021) and, as part of the plan, intended on paying $271/mo. on the reported $14,580 balance for the next five years.

I’ve never heard of someone working as a freelance salesperson

This is a pretty simple statement of claim:

Call me when the EPA goes after the highest polluting countries in the world (China and India) or starts cracking down on the highest polluting industries (shipping/transportation and airlines). 

Sure that works in Cities, but for the 1 in 5 people who live in a rural area where that doesn’t make sense there has to be other solutions.