Not to have a roasting hot take, but most of the books being banned are not radical. Reading the catcher in the rye i didnt even realize what was so scandalous about it until we discussed the head petting could be "gay pedo" behavior. People are so incredibly reactionary.
Like 30% or more of my following is "updated 2 years ago" and i know that was me until literally a week ago but... come on guys i need heehee haha posts
just came back from secretly taking my little sister to a dental exam.. she needs 4 root canals and crowns on her molars (both of those cost a little over 1k) and multiple extractions AND fillings to save her front teeth...
one small, achievable thing that can help.. i need $250 to buy the dentist's discount plan. it would take 20-30% off everything for a year and $120 off of the $600 to save her front teeth.. the saved $120 would be almost half the price to get one of her dangerous teeth extracted!
if anyone can throw me any amount of money at all, even very small amounts, i'd be incredibly grateful.. every cent would go towards her because she's my best friend and this is too dangerous to her life to go on any longer, AND our parents won't/can't help us at all.. it feels like we're truly alone
As the price of food and other basics soars, more people are shoplifting. While some see stealing as necessary, for others itâs a form of resistance. Sophie K Rosa reports.
Shoplifters who spoke to Novara Media said the cost of living crisis had pushed them to steal more of lifeâs essentials. âA couple of times Iâve been on the verge of crying when I go to buy Sainsburyâs Basics apple and blackcurrant squash and realise the price has doubled in the past three months,â said John.
Lara, a culture worker from London, has started shoplifting groceries more frequently; she said it has become more socially acceptable in her circles. âI know that other people do it, and Iâve seen how other people do it, and that really helped,â she said. Previously, she avoided stealing because her upbringing and wider moralism had convinced her it was âa shameful thingâ to do.
âBefore, I would have described stealing as this really anti-Islamic thing to do,â she said. Shoplifting is also especially frowned-upon by âparents who come from a working-class or lower middle-class background,â she said, because of how classist âscroungerâ stereotypes âtrickle down to how we surveil and shame each other.â
Nowadays however, Lara sees shoplifting as âone of the few guerrilla tactics we have available to us.â
Alan, a construction worker from London, who, like John and Anna, has been shoplifting around half his groceries in recent months, has âno moral qualmsâ about stealing from supermarkets. âI just think that the stuff in the world is ours, all of ours,â he said, âand that weâve invented a really stupid system for the distribution of resources which doesnât treat them as ours, and treats them as things that can be used for capitalists to make profit.â
He wouldnât steal things if it meant that âsomeoneâs labour went unrewardedâ, he said, but all shoplifting affects is âthe profits of shareholdersâ he said. â[I have] no concerns about that at all.â
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While, for many, shoplifting feels like a form of resistance to untenable living conditions, no one who spoke to Novara Media was sure how to build solidarity between shoplifters. Alan shoplifts food for rough sleepers, but wishes there were more organised approaches to shoplifting â like the mass stealing and redistribution of food that occurred in Greece following the 2008 financial crisis.
Lara believes shoplifting could be ârevolutionaryâ if it could be âmore of an organised operationâ that involved âgetting workers on sideâ.
âI think it would be really radical if there would be a widespread recognition and acceptance of stealing as a necessary mechanism for resistance,â she says. âIf you canât afford the things that you have to buy, then the logic should be that you just take them.â
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