A screenshot reading The New York Times Opinion The Opinions ‘The Rich Don’t Play by the Rules. So Why Should I?’ Why petty theft might be the new political protest. April 22, 2026
A page from the book Days of War, Nights of Love, reading Why I love shoplifting from big corporations by, um, anonymous Nothing compares to the feeling of elation, of burdens being lifted and constraints escaped, that I feel when I walk out of a corporate store with their products in my pockets. In a world where everything already belongs to someone else, where I am expected to sell away my life at work in order to get the money to pay for the minimum I need to survive, where “In a world turned upside down, you have to be a thief to be an honest man.” Mike Fromage, author of Gehenna: One Man’s Quest for Vengeance
It's always 1999 somewhere.
The @nytimes.com is finally approaching the level of political sophistication our collective achieved in the mid-1990s as a bunch of teenage hoodlums.
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