tastygreenapple

Nah, the progressive DAs are really reluctant to prosecute property crime, this discourages the police from making a case for prosecution.

I know a filmmaker in Oakland who had thousands of dollars of electronics stolen from their car (and receipts/insurance to prove the value of the electronics). One of the items stolen was an iPad that was phoning its location home, the filmmaker tried to direct the Oakland police to the house with the stolen iPad (itself worth >$950 dollars) but the police said they didn't think the case would stick and declined to go address the situation.

It may be 'in fact' that theft over $950 is a felony that police should take seriously, but in practice, it's really rare to see a thief prosecuted.

It's not cancel culture when you opt out of something, it's cancel culture when you decide for others that that they can't do something.

Throwing these books away isn't cancel culture. Telling other people they can't sell or buy the book is cancel culture.

There's a huge hidden cost to price controls through - they don't promote innovation as much as markets do. The US develops over half the world's new pharmaceuticals, if we imposed price controls today, we would have fewer life saving medications tomorrow because the companies couldn't afford to do as much R&D.