“I’m a car thief and I think you’re garbage. Maybe reevaluate your fucking trash lives.”
The baby was sleeping, it’s fine to leave them in the car unless it’s hot. The problem is assholes like this piece of trash who steal from folks.
It’s never OK to leave a baby in a car. Someone could steal it…
Lot of these comments are weird.
I’m fortunate enough where if someone stole my car, its not the end of the world. I work from home. I can afford to pay for Uber or public transportation. My life is mildly inconvenienced.
Where my buddy works two minwage jobs. Steal his car, and he’s going to struggle a lot. I helped him when his car was in the shop, and he was a mess.
And yet commenters here are going, “Poor car thief what a victim of circumstance.” While also totally cool with him fucking over others? Your empathy is fascinating.
The criminals here are the billionaires who created a system where you friend has to work TWO minimum wages job to barely get by. Don’t defend a broken system, eat the billionaires!
Sometimes Lemmy has the bizarrest of takes
why? it’s a conversation about the impact of theft. Theft is wrong and should be punished and shunned, but the only real solution is to attack the causes of crime, otherwise it’s whack-a-mole.
Why is it a bizarre take to say “instead of just plugging the hole the water is coming through, we should also fix leaking pipes causing the flood?”
(note italics to denote caring about several things at the same time, I think its weirder to assume crime has only one cause and one solution: the perpetrator)
They’re not defending the system by saying car thieves suck, you nut
The criminals are also the car thieves, making their own class struggle more.
I’ve stuggeled plenty in my life as well, yet I’ve never stolen anything. I hate billionaires and I also hate car thiefs. Don’t be a douche.
If someone steals my yet to be paid in the next 2 years car, I am going bankrupt for the next 7 years. I plan to sell it once it gets paid, then buy another one. If it gets stolen, I have no perspective and financial conditions in buying a car again just by saving money.
Car dependance is a hell of a drug. The fact that urban design can put people in poverty like that is a wild idea.
That’s what happens when you have the fourth largest land mass in the world and awful public transportation (mostly because of car company lobbying)
I heard that this post is bs since the thief didnt whent to the parents, he droped of the baby at a gas station and asked the attendant to call 911 and then whent off his way.
Its most likelly he done this to not be hunted down by police for kidnapping a child.
So the people that are defending him here probably arent aware of this so i say give them a break but at the same time they are probably using this to push their tankie pov propaganda bs so lol hard at them if you have to.
Yeah the thief is clearly an awful person. The parents are also bad. The only character in this story that deserves empathy is the baby as he will be doubly harmed by having awful parents who just suffered a dire financial set back because of the actions of the thief.
That being said it is easy to commend the thief, even though we shouldn’t, because we automatically have that empathy for the baby and disdain for the parents for being so irresponsible.
Yeah but I’m guessing your buddy never left a baby alone in his car
I think people like his chaotic evil personality.
“Twists and turns are my master plan”.
Are you quoting My Little Pony?
They were trying to quote MLK but made a typo.
Hate to be that guy, but that’s not what happened.
