What do 15-minute cities have to do with this? Might has well say that the legalization of gay marriage hypnotizes people into stealing if you're going to go full non-sequitur.
I worked in retail for years right up through the pandemic, in grocery and drug stores, and it's really illuminating to experience that environment when you've already been inoculated against these taking points. Because there has been no increase in shoplifting.
Shoplifting has always been easy and commonplace, it happens every single day and it always has. The only thing that has changed is that people who work these jobs are being fed this narrative of a shoplifting crime wave, and have become more paranoid and hostile as a response.
In response to this cultural pressure, this propaganda effort to obscure and deflect awareness of drastically plunging buying power and general impoverishment, petty managers seeking a sense of control over perceived attacks on "their stores" (nonsense serf logic) are chaining everything to the floor. And this of course only worsens their declining sales, because why bother even trying to buy something in the store if you're doing to do so legitimately if you have to ask someone to get it for you? You might as well have it delivered tomorrow by Amazon!
Muricans are worse than serfs, we're totally alienated from each other and even ourselves out here, the serf had a quiet and realistic resignation that things would never get better, Muricans are the Steinbeck quote about the temporary embarassed millionaire delusion while living lives so wretched in some matters the serf's is enviable.
Isn't Walmart one of the richest companies in the US? Oh yeah, I'm sure shoplifting is hurting them so hard that they just HAVE to do this. Couldn't be their own greed.
This 15 minute city conspiracy is annoying me, I've seen these protestors every day for the last two months or so protesting it....I live in a city/town you can travel across in less than 10 mins by car. It's pure brainworms.
These people are just racists, right? The 15 minute hysteria is fear they'd have to live near and interact with brown people. The screaming about school choice is trying to get segregation back. The shoplifting thing is just racism too.
I'm absolutely certain that's the angle chuds are going for. "Don't blame capitalism, blame brown people." If you poke chuds long enough that's what they'll say. They'll use distracting language like "high trust society" or they'll say other countries have universal healthcare due to smaller, more insular populations. But I know what they mean. Ask any chud alive why Japan has such a low violent crime rate, and tell them to not mince words. Ask them to be honest.