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Did you say “looting?!” Uff!

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I meant "undocumented shopping"

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What, producing a credit card to purchase stuff? Shopping suppression!

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It isn't "looting"; it's a purchase that is paid for with tacit permission for the shopkeeper to experience a slight reduction in the self-perception of "oppressors' guilt".

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Shopkeeper? These are corporate stores with paycheck slaves minding the door. Real shopkeepers have been driven out of business in most cities by the Democratic party governance for 30 years. Ever try to manage urban employment diktat without a corporate HR department?

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Most HR departments add to the overhead, complexity and inefficiency when dealing with ineffective employees. True bureaucrats and progressive types.

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Nov 27, 2021
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California residents need to scare the authorities into doing their jobs. Bumper stickers with 3-7-77 might do the trick.

The numbers are connected to vigilantes in the Montana gold fields. The legend is that the vigilantes would write the numbers on a slip of paper, then slip it under an outlaw's door as a warning to leave town. One interpretation is that they were promising a grave, 3 feet wide, 7 feet long and 77 inches deep.

In the fall of 1863, road agents killed over 100 people in the gold fields around Bannack and Virginia City, Montana. In January, 1864, vigilantes hanged 25 bandits, including the "law and order" sheriff of Bannack, Henry Plummer. It seems Plummer was the leader of the gang, whose watchword was the phrase, "I am innocent."

The bumper stickers would be a threat, linked to interesting history that would gain them notoriety.

The vigilantes were described as the good guys when I took Montana State history in 8th grade in Missoula. Your views may vary. However, something had to be done, and the law was obviously crooked in 1864, just as it is today.

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Nov 28, 2021
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This ain't a problem in Montana. Gun control there means you can hit what you're aiming at. A flash mob at Walmart would get shot at, and incur casualties.

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Nov 27, 2021
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They don't sell $1500 per ounce sheep urine anti-wrinkle cream at CVS.

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