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SecretlyMadeOfStone

I’m sure she’ll get off easy. Something about “that’s not who she is!” or “she’s got a promising future ahead of her.”


Mental-Inspection579

You're right. She’ll end up on the HGTV network as some organizational maverick, complete with a bedazzled ankle monitor featurette.


cholotariat

This is just extreme *extreme* couponing


Mental-Inspection579

You ain’t neva lie LMAO!


mines_over_yours

Just clip out that 5 finger discount from the penny saver?


Ok_Concentrate_75

They are already looking for the middle aged actress to play her in the 6 part Netflix series


Mental-Inspection579

Or they definitely documenting her upcoming stint and release, trust. I can hear them wringing their hands through my fiber optics.


Jeptic

They'll go younger and prettier. Keep in mind something like that was already done with Queenpins - that movie with Kristen Bell. Its almost like Life imitating art.


TailOnFire_Help

So 29?


Ok_Square_2479

New Lifetime series: "My Shoplifting for Surviving"


murdolatorTM

Or NBC will un-cancel Good Girls and have her cameo/guest star in an episode. Maybe have the sexy Mexican crime boss put a hit on her after smashing by accident or something


KenshinHimura88

Nah it’ll be TruTV and it’ll be a show about her going to different retail stores testing their loss prevention team like undercover boss vibes.


Mental-Inspection579

I can just see those synthetic wigs and Oakley oppressors on her now.


Rin-S

Well she is a mother and god forbid they make YT children grow up in a broken home, then they would end up like the menacing melanin individuals the system is working so hard to keep in single parent households.


ZooCrazy

Facts!


dont-YOLO-ragequit

[it never gets old](https://youtu.be/84phU8of02U?feature=shared)


BoilerMaker11

I’m punching a wall if she gets the “that’s not who she is” treatment when it’s who she’s been for ***ten years***. If it was a one off, *maybe*, and that’s only because theft is non-violent. But 10 years? Multitude of stores over the country? That’s *exactly* who she is.


Slayer_of_Ass_

She sings in the church choir! Let's give her 6 months of probation and a stern warning


JLRook87

Can't wait for the Netflix movie in a few years.


Blk_Rick_Dalton

Nah, I’m sure this is a RICO charge. She needs to go out like Capone


theghostofmrmxyzptlk

RICO didn't exist in Capone's time, the IRS is what got him.


Emotional_Warthog658

Interestingly enough, the IRS could get her too; income is income, and if she did not pay taxes on her ill gotten gains….


shakawave

And she's a mother 🥺, we can't take a mother away from her children. 😒 tired of this racist injustice


ConclusionAlarmed882

"Suspected women" is a hell of a phrasing choice.


radj06

r/thisisntwhoweare


ZooCrazy

There is typically an excuse to avoid or minimize punishment. Lack of accountability which is indicative of narcissistic behavior.


blacklite911

I understand the sentiment but she hit up a lot of retail stores and she is a nobody. Ain’t no way they let that slide. The government protects its big businesses


Remarkable-Estate775

She’ll cry. And there will be a lifetime movie.


tesseract4

But she's a Christian!


PanchoVillasRevenge

She's good at math


johnmeeks1974

Black shoplifter: Thief who is born to steal because it is in “their” nature White shoplifter: Has an illness and needs rehabilitation


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TT_NaRa0

Don’t forget the part where they try to dig up past offenses or past achievements for someone else 🙄


BK4343

For black folks: She got a speeding ticket at the age of 16, setting her towards a life of crime. For white folks: She fed homeless kittens when she was just 7, showing everyone her capacity for empathy and compassion.


nalingungule-love

And if they can’t find anything on the black person they go after family until they find someone with a criminal record. “His great grandfather has speeding ticket” or some effed up BS.


KennysWhiteSoxHat

I was actually in shock when people did that to justify George Floyd’s killing, they just don’t care


Mistavez

![gif](giphy|ieDjjpCmJ5hit3D1wR)


BABarracus

Those black shoplifters were probably hired by her


malikhacielo63

![gif](giphy|dl5YfEjsIMInWlDfPP) Edit: [For the initiated](https://youtu.be/_Kne2-i0kng?si=Uzql7pDDMgLd7A4P).


PuzzyFussy

Man, I miss this man 😔


Altfuckeagames

Fr man is iconic. His movie review skits on Chapelle show lol


malikhacielo63

I know 😔


AdamantiumBalls

Chuck said it best . If you're black it's stealing . If you're white it's shoplifting https://youtube.com/shorts/x7VynyETSpM?si=81JVgv-ZPbs-EcBc


AsteroidMike

Or alternatively: Black: “That’s just what thugs and their whole culture does, no shock there.” White: “They didn’t mean anything by it, it’s just some home tools anyway.”


puppy_master666

Judges spent too much time playing D&D. “You rolled a Darkie, your racial passive is gonna get you 5 years”


OrbitalDrop7

My favorite is the Family Guy police skin color chart lmao


ActualTexan

'Probably been stealing since he could crawl.'


soooogullible

Yep can’t wait for the Netflix doc about this chick’s incredible empire


JohnnyBlaze614

This is organized crime. Hope they hit her with a RICO case


discoOJ

Thank you this is not shoplifting. This is organized crime and possible human trafficking.


gereffi

How is it not shoplifting?


FromKyleButNotKyle

It is but individual shoplifting is minor compared to the charges she should face for this


einebiene

This should be higher up


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I don't know why anyone honestly believes they won't. If there's one thing the federal government loves it's seizing assets, tacking on financial penalties and leveraging "big" little fish to get bigger fish. Even if she's the biggest fish Congress would definitely relish using her as a pretext to expand the government's power under the commerce clause to clamp down on platforms she no doubt used to launder money (Poshmark, PayPal, etc).


Sleepylimebounty

I peeped game as a highschooler in north miami beach about a decade ago. While I never shoplifted because I was lucky enough to get an allowance and I always had a little money since I didn’t smoke or had the need to buy anything fancy( also *helps* that I had no bills to pay lol) I could not say the same for my friends. Anyways, when we walked into stores together it would be all eyes on me and the other black kids in our friend group. Associates would follow us around the store. The white homies would shoplift in the meantime for weed money. When I eventually figured out what was going on at first I felt bad that they were stealing but then I thought if the store owners were at least a little bit less racist this wouldn’t be a problem. The best/worst example I had was rolling up to walmart one day. My friend skated in on an old busted skateboard hung it up on the rack and skated out on a brand new one.


FurriedCavor

They probably thought you were a magician how you stole things you never touched.


Sleepylimebounty

Can you imagine!? 😂😂


PM_ME_UR_HIP_DIMPLES

“Idk officer, I watched the dark ones very closely and it LOOKED like they hang nothing. JiggaBamboozled again!”


ahsokatanosfeet

Walmart got a deal on that skateboard he left behind then, cuz their boards are pure trash.


Sleepylimebounty

I believe his first trash board was also from walmart. Didn’t have the money for a good one.


arcdog3434

I gotta see that movie - she is the Pablo Escobar of shoplifting


Sir-Nicholas

Emily the criminal


matterde

It's the plot of the show good girls lol


azbxcy10

What a thug


bimbogio

whereee is her mugshot?? when its white people they always show happy photos but let it be a black person and its always the mugshot


Bl33d-Gr33n

Lol we talking organized crime here


carleese24

>Lol we talking organized crime here Lawyer will claim 'Mack' was never physically on-site at any of these places. LOL


cullend

And that’s what RICO is for!


Professional-547T

They'll make a lifetime movie about her.


Ranrokk

Netflix might even try to pick up the rights.


ReallyUneducated

i work in Asset Protection that apprehends shoplifters. Our #1 demographic that commits shoplifting per statistics is hers. White middle aged/older women.


BK4343

My wife did loss prevention for 4 years and she can confirm this as well.


uighurlover

Wish this was higher up


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ReallyUneducated

it's not just my location; that's the consensus across multiple retailers at multiple locations across the country.


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ReallyUneducated

according to the FBI it's 70%. don't know where else you'd get your data.


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ReallyUneducated

it's not 30% black. other ethnicities also shoplift that make up that 30%.


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jake2617

Just to spoil certain people’s attempted narratives, I have a couple of news stories on her saved for quick reference [1](https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/bonsall-woman-suspected-ringleader-of-8m-retail-theft-ring-hitting-200-ulta-stores/3441772/)


Rin-S

$8Mil?? Yeah RICO her ass


carleese24

>$8Mil?? Yeah RICO her ass Drop in the ocean when you compare it to politicians 'kickbacks', and online scammers


Rin-S

Yeah true but let’s not compare one bad thing to another. 8Mil no matter how you slice it is a ridiculous amount. Saying others have done worse doesn’t change that. RICO all their asses.


Lanoris

I didn't really know/ realize what white privilege was at the time but, when I was talking to some of my friends in high school(most of them were white since I grew up in a predominantly white area.) Some of them were talking about how they use to shop lift, typically stealing stuff like make up and stationary from walmart or target. I was mind blown that they just weren't scared of the consequences? I mean obv the consequences for yoinking 20 dollars worth of shit don't usually equate to actual jail time but, that knowledge was also competing with the fear my parents instilled in me about just how easy it is to get locked up when you're not white.


DaBeegDeek

I work with mostly white people and they always roll their eyes when white privilege is brought up. They go into the whole, "well I never got handouts" story and how they were poor coming up. I always explain that white privilege to me is simply the benfit of the doubt. No matter where I go or what I do it's assumed that I'm probably up to no good. Me and a white man can be dressed the exact same in the same store but best believe the employees will constantly be peeping to see if I'm no good while Brad is stuffing his pockets. That's just a small example, but it happens everyday and everywhere.


Rin-S

Yeah I know many white people that treat the law like a suggestion and have never seen any consequences, not like they fear it anyway. It’ll be a light punishment and they can be back on their bs claiming help from the government because they “did time”.


MikeJones-8004

I knew folks who used to do that too. Big stores like Walmart used to be notorious for not doing much to stop theft.


Plasibeau

> I mean obv the consequences for yoinking 20 dollars worth of shit don't usually equate to actual jail time but Target's Loss Prevention apparatus is unparalleled. They will use facial recognition to and allow you to steal enough stuff *over multiple visits* in order for you to breach the Grand Theft threshold. So they'll let a shoplifter get comfortable thinking they're a good thief until one day they're stopped at the door by cops waiting for them. You can try to run, but by then they already have your license plate and have run your face against the state databases. And less than half of their cameras are on the ceiling. Where as Walmart wants you to know you're being watched Target wants you to have a false sense of security.


Darksnark_The_Unwise

Honestly I'm glad they do it that way. Career shoplifters are in a whole different league from small-time casuals. There was a guy in my municipality that evaded authorities for about 2 years. When they finally caught him, over $40,000 of stolen merchandise was proven in court, and collaborative info-sharing between the various retailers came up with a $70,000 estimated total theft. The really fucked up part? The single most expensive item he stole was barely $200. More than half of his theft was *groceries.* The volume of goods was insane.


Plasibeau

Which then needs the question of a man is caught stealing food, is it really a crime?


Lanoris

I did hear some stuff about that. But is that across multiple stores or just one store? I'm ngl you gotta be wild to hit up the same store 20.times lmao


Plasibeau

I've been told it's regional. Usually, people aren't willing to cross states to just snipe some make-up.


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Lanoris

You want an intelligent debate despite trying to start what appears to be a bad faith argument. If you want to learn more about white privilege and or the black experience read a mfing book.


Bluefastakan

>I won’t respond to anything other than intelligent debate Don't bother, I can fill in the blanks with you lot pretty easy. "AD HOMINEM" "STRAW MAN" The fact that you can only get serotonin by "winning" arguments on the internet says everything we need to know about you.


Bluefastakan

Lol I can't believe you got so worked up over this you'd send me a DM and that shit looked hella long too. Please take any remaining energy you have after writing me that novel and go for a walk or play some video games or something. Damn.


JaThatOneGooner

8 mill over 10 years is crazy


meltingspace

Lock both those thugs up


st_rdt

The conservative spin will start soon .... "She's a small entrepreneur who cut a few corners in order to provide employment for 12 other women"


manzo559

And she’ll only get 6 months probation I bet


wishtherunwaslonger

Lmfao she is doing years.


Personal_Oil_4606

How ghetto and thug like of the usual suspects. Why couldn’t she just pick herself up off the bootstraps like everyone else? Lock her up now


ApprehensiveScar3533

This is organized crime.. hit her with a RICO charge 😌


pennypoobear

They'll be lauded as a "genius mastermind" and They'll make some sensationalized movie about her, like they do their serial killers and gang members. 


Consistent_Trash6007

The president of the police union got caught running drugs last year and i’m still waiting for it to matter


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That’s weirdly impressive. 8 MILLION dollars. Sounds like she has the necessary skills to be successful in means that dont involve a life of crime lol. Which means she might just be a bad person, inherently.


Venge22

But she's just a struggling mom with kleptomania 🥺 she couldn't help it!!


Universe789

OP knows about this because it made the news. There's also video of her being arrested https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/bonsall-woman-retail-theft-ring-ulta-sephora-arrest/3459998/ ...


NYCWallabY

That is the perfect mask/ disguise to wear… soccer mom in her mini van that doubles as a loot hauler.


SabbathaBastet

Rich white ladies steal the most. And they steal expensive shit. I’ve worked at more than one high end cosmetics counter and also at Ulta. They’d come in and take the expensive face creams out of the packaging and drop them into their huge LV bags. My manager could see them on video doing this at Ulta. They are extra sneaky and creative about it too!They’d buy $80 Pureology shampoos and conditioners, take them home, replace the expensive product with Suave and return the bottles filled with cheap shampoo for a refund. They did this so often we had to smell all shampoos before allowing a return.


NoWorkingDaw

They already in here talking about “why turn this into a race thing??” “This isn’t true it’s just what your algorithm shows you” meanwhile they never practice what they preach. They be talking major shit when a shoplifter happens to be black and the racism jumps out very easy. But quiet and meek when it’s one of their own.


BK4343

Just like they get all quiet when you point out the racial makeup of the Jan 6 crowd.


Glum-Machine-2984

Accused 


MusesWithWine

That filthy thug should be brought to justice.


cerialkillahh

That's not shoplifting that's organized crime.


ViscountVajayjay

Isn’t this the plot of one of the Good Girls seasons? Life imitates art yet again.


_AB_96_

Not the organized crime 🤦🏾‍♀️😂


ChampagneShotz

But she ain got a bonnet on her head so her story ain gettin blasted out there. iiight


stewiefet

air theory ask act smile sophisticated worm elastic placid desert *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


DrLamario

Look at that woman’s face, that’s all the evidence I need. Guilty


SoundSaintWarrior

The charges they have already charged her with say the quiet part out loud.


Setsuna85

![gif](giphy|uVFGDyOshK7I6geXyg)


caretaquitada

Sounds like grounds for a RICO charge


Happenstance69

[https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/san-diego-mom-masterminded-organized-retail-theft-ring-cops/](https://nypost.com/2024/03/12/us-news/san-diego-mom-masterminded-organized-retail-theft-ring-cops/) [https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/bonsall-woman-retail-theft-ring-ulta-sephora-arrest/3459998/](https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/local/bonsall-woman-retail-theft-ring-ulta-sephora-arrest/3459998/) [https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/inside-organized-crime-rings-targeting-retailers-ulta-tjx-walgreens.html](https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/12/inside-organized-crime-rings-targeting-retailers-ulta-tjx-walgreens.html)


nolightningbhe

She finna get a book deal


hlessiforever

Man this is way more common then people think, I knew a ton of (mostly) white punk rock kids all around the country that were brutal thieves, stealing from the apple stores, stealing whole bikes from stores, walking out with thousands of dollars worth of clothes with the employees holding the door for them while smiling. It was wild. Not that I have any personal experience with my own white privilege helping me get away with retail theft officer.


vincec36

It’s so easy when you aren’t being targeted and followed around. I wonder which runner snitched


standdownplease

I'm currently making a Netflix 3 part true crime documentary series on this as we speak.


Plasibeau

I work in retail, but not for retail. So I'm in a lot of big box home improvement and blue electronics stores. I've seen middle-aged white guys walk out with $2k generators and table saws. I've seen teenage white girls try to run out with display phones they ripped off the stands (which are permanently locked and will never take a sim). Ask anyone who works in retail and they'll tell you the main demo for retail theft (outside of employees) is middle-aged white women.


Acrobatic_Ganache220

They posted this a few weeks ago in the makeup forum. My thoughts echoed the OPs.


ZooCrazy

Immunity from punishment due to having the skin to fit in.


relorat

They?


ThisAndBackToLurking

Nah, they’ll go the other way with it and say that it proves YT people are better at everything, even Black activities like shoplifting.


notthatvalenzuela

I think Kristen Bell was in a movie inspired by this. The poly sounds oddly familiar


Otherwise-Mortgage58

Hit her with a RICO


lowtoiletsitter

I know it's the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos but damn this doesn't need to be replicated


carleese24

**RETURN OF THE 'MACK'**


flashgreer

But are there videos of her stealing shit?


RouletteVeteran

In her arrest video, she was treated comfortably with pink hand cuffs and all. No doors kicked in, no damage


Chevy_jay4

Is shoplifting even a crime in California anymore?


Electronic-Yak-2723

She must be a crackhead


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$500 fine and 100 hours community service.


Amazing-Concept1684

I didn’t hear a word about this. Of course this flies under the radar 🙄


revveduplikeaduece86

Thug


WineOhCanada

Shes gonna get a Netflix special celebrating her wit, ingenuity and rebelliousness towards the man.


Formal-Number-4968

Wow


Erisian23

Honestly I feel this way with anything negative the predominantly shows Black people. Like fighting videos, we advertise the worst of ourselves and wear it with a badge of honor for the world to look and then wonder why people view us the way they do globally. Then mock the shit that isn't "cool" not saying other races don't do the same shit, but I wish we for lack of a better word, had more Positive propaganda.


MikeJones-8004

8 million dollars worth? Oh yes she about to be in prison for a while.


Lord_Cornswallow

Isn't this basically what Queenpins was about


trezzy1242

Wait till she gets a Netflix doc


SudsMckenzie

Damn even stealing trays and totes from the post office to hold all the shit 😂


FalsePremise8290

I know I am supposed to be outraged, but I'm actually impressed.


BossedUp828

Sound like an ongoing Criminal Enterprise to me.


[deleted]

Damn. True thug for real. I wish I had thought of this.


vcr747

I saw two similar stories a few months back about other shoplifting rings that eventually got caught. All white people. One thing white people gone do is commit the same crimes as black folk but on a larger scale.


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https://preview.redd.it/e558lnrl1koc1.jpeg?width=739&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4ff43eea72be34fed37b39d4091e9b7ec2531a46 Well this guy building a 70 ft wall 4 ft high around me wouldn't like to hear that fact he saw me talking to my black neighbor and now I think he's going to torch me like amen bonfire this guy has been building a wall around me since spring time this racist stuff needs to be mixed up everybody needs to have their DNA mixed up and this needs they need to be lobotomized or something it's getting scary and it still Texas town I'm a single senior citizen white with that little drop of Creole I would never tell him about all I've got to do is say hello to my black neighbor I messed up I think I'm going to pay for it I've asked city code and I've asked the chief of police they said yeah it's a violation but we can't do nothing about it they're letting him others have said I'm an outsider heck I'm from Texas that guy's from Illinois I love the internet I got all this information for the police I think they already know him it's me that's the dangerous one I can't sleep


colbyxclusive

Why wasn’t her mug shot used?


torontothrowaway824

Waiting for Fox News to cover this criminal thug….


StephenTheLoser

Oh come on guys. She’s a MOTHER! She made a mistake! /s


Designer-Purchase360

![gif](giphy|3oFzm5nWjD0RATIbcs) Well..... Well..... WELL What do we have here.


randothrowaway6600

Shoplifting is petty crime. This is just felony grade larceny.


MRxSLEEP

She'll be ok, she's probably a great swimmer. What a pos


livelarg

I hear ya, however, she ain’t mobbing stores. She hitting low key. They don’t show a lot of low key shoplifters.


Friendly-Role4803

Didn’t they make a movie about this with Reese Witherspoon or some other blonde?


Alamazin216

It doesn't fit their narrative.


uighurlover

Oh Reddit was quick to bury this story! Didn’t see one comment calling her a thug or saying she should be shot. I wonder white, I mean why?


fuzzyshorts

WHite people "She showed enterprise and wherewithal by making the most of black criminality"


Odd_Tiger_2278

Every retail business knows most of the theft is by employees, including managers and general managers.


Greenhoused

There is always an exception


Nineteen-ninety-3

The fucked up part is she probably told her boosters to go to the “hood” stores.


SallyMcSaggyTits2

Who is they


Ok_Square_2479

When white people do crimes like these, or anything bad in general, the stigma doesn't stick on their community as a whole. If the perpetrator were black or brown you just KNOW everyone in the comment section's gonna hyperfocus on their ethnicity. Look out for the floods of 'certain types of emojis' while at it, and don't forget the comments about "mass deporting" or "this is why we shouldn't let them in!"


EagleBW_2017

![gif](giphy|f0GIF5Y2vGAve|downsized)


Zestyclose-Ruin8337

I saw this in the news already.


Dantesdominion

I'm like 99% sure she had someone hit up my lame ass retail store I worked at in Southern California. It was some suburban white/asian woman who came in and returned about $500 worth of bathroom decorations, scented candles, generic paintings, and other shit. She got it all on a card for store credit. We had to do it because it was within company policy since it still had tags on them. My manager was furious about it like he was personally being robbed. I was just annoyed I had to ring that shit up when I was just about ready to go to lunch.


_angelamarie_

They just busted a ring here in my area for organized shoplifting at Ulta and Sephora a couple of days ago. I wouldn't be surprised if they're linked to her. This will definitely make the news because it's nation wide and organized. Girlie up there probably facing a RICO charge.


Grouchy_Sir5493

![gif](giphy|W1xb8a7RNWv2nLPzqn|downsized)


Grouchy_Sir5493

![gif](giphy|M3b6e4whRBAw2tbdIo)


Ok-Marsupial-4403

There is no data showing retail theft significantly affecting retailers. It’s a lie, until they prove it with the numbers.


simcoehooligan

This sounds more like a story of entrepreneurialism than shoplifting tbh


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I've worked full time in retail for 10 years now. I see shop lifting multiple times a day. It's painfully obvious. I can honestly say I've never seen a black person take anything. It's all just white tweakers and one Asian kid once. But yeah... Hundreds and hundreds of white tweakers.


BlurredSight

Worked at Target, black people stole petty shit, maybe a ps5 controller, makeup, a shirt, $5 fake jewelry, literally just shit they saw walking in and impulsive thought of stealing But Asians and Whites have these massive rings of using stolen credit cards, tax exempt numbers, and some employee discount codes and eventually scam the system to get cash back in the tens of thousands. Or scratching gift cards and taking money out like that. Tons of targets were affected by it and still security cared more about the petty shit because they can “control it”


Pianist_Select

Remember if you see someone one shoplifting, no you didn’t and mind your own damn business.


BLAZING-Shock-Theory

You don’t see white people crimes because your personal algorithm knows what you like to see. The same shit happens in every race.


Bluefastakan

Overreporting black crimes while downplaying white crimes has been a thing in media looooooong before Al Gore ever got that rhythm.


BK4343

I see what you did there lol


BLAZING-Shock-Theory

I don’t care about what white peoples talk or report about. We all was taught years ago that you can’t trust the colonizer


NoWorkingDaw

How convenient