A right-wing Tennessee school board member backed by the Moms for Liberty group has been arrested on shoplifting charges.Keri Blair, who was elected in November 2022 following a campaign against tolerant “social agendas,” is accused of stealing items from Target seven times between Nov. 25 and Dec. …

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    222 years ago

    This is one of the spots where I wonder if the whole “If you see someone shoplifting, no you didn’t.” thing breaks down a bit.

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        2 years ago

        The rest of your reply chain, and seeing past iterations of such conversations, is exactly why I didn’t specify. You’ll find some versions of this conversation can go pretty far down the path of “you don’t know other people’s struggles” and “poor women deserve to feel like they look nice sometimes”.

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        282 years ago

        Food, diapers, etc. If they’re shoplifting a luxury lipstick or whatever while getting in their brand new SUV, that’s different…

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          92 years ago

          And if they’d try to shoplift a big-ass plasma TV I’d shoplift a bag of popcorn to watch that. Not exactly food, but I don’t think someone would judge me harsh for that.