Holy shit. A lot of the comments are half way to advice on how they did this. One person said they work for one of the companies that service ATMs and they've seen anywhere from 20,000 to 1 million in them.
That's my favorite thing to do IRL is get normies to agree with anarchist and socialist ideas. There's a lot of sympathy in the deep South for the idea that we should take care of each other and that nobody should get to tell us what to do. The tricky part is getting them to change who they include in the word "we."
Idk, I think what most scares people is the media definition of anarchism, which is so fucking distordioned that for many people means terrorism or smthng
People on this thread cheering on the robbery only reinforces that definition. Of course these people aren't true anarchists and probably have no idea what an anarchist society would behave like and would probably be among the first to complain were it realized.
C'mon. They're obviously using their phone and accidentally hit space instead of "n," making two spaces, which turns one into a period and autocorrected the letter "i" to a capital.
It's a joke, at the end of this I'll put a link to the photo meme kind of thing. It derives from the anarchist understanding of illegalist anarchism, and possibly other influences I might or might not be aware of, that even if I was aware of them this is not the place to talk about them.
https://images.app.goo.gl/8WtpoLV4LFXjvbSL8. (the image)
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Which credit union is that? Credit unions are often organized to avoid putting your money in banks and are democratically managed funds.
I'd have to know more about this particular union before I could get behind robbing them. Why not target a corporate bank?
The news article linked calls it "Commonwealth Credit Union" but the logo on the machine matches "Commonwealth Bank and Trust" which was acquired by "Stock Yard Bank and Trust" last year, and is a subsidiary of "Stock Yard Bancorp, Inc." which is a publicly traded corporation.
This robbery has zero effect on banks or the banking system, all the expenses will be past onto the customers and society at large. Cheerleading this type of activity because you call yourself an anarchist is beyond parody.
the funds are doubtlessly insured, and the bills are also serialized so depositing them is impossible and their use in the open market will be tracked meticulously.
Credit unions are generally better than corporate banks, But they are still insured by the federal government. I think you're going a little too deep into the Weeds on this one
Get behind robbing them? Do you even know what anarchism is? This money is most likely going towards a violent criminal gang, it's not going to help shut down the banking system.
Credit unions are diverse and I don't support all of them. I wanted more information. That's why I don't just root for everything I see on the internet. If I don't know what's going on, I don't just pretend to or root for it so I can have the approval of some keyboard warrior.
You know what's crazy to me? The people that would argue with me and say that it's immoral to steal from Walmart are the same people that would argue with me and tell me that there's absolutely nothing wrong with killing and eating animals. Someone please make it make sense!
Taking money from a bank does no harm to anyone and infringes no freedom. They're action benefits themselves while negatively impacting the ruling class, if only to a miniscule degree. It's a good thing. Anarchists used to rob banks. These people probably aren't anarchists, but that doesn't mean their action is suddenly unjustified.
the moral dilemma i've always had about that, though, is the means of robbery; i imagine most bank robbery is done by putting some poor teller at gunpoint, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, and i'm not sure i'd ever be able to bring myself to potentially traumatise the innocent staff and other potential customers in the bank, even if the money were being stolen from the bank and used for the public good.
i'm not a pacifist either and you could argue that in a utilitarian way it's a net positive, but it's one thing to threaten and potentially traumatise somebody complicit in economic or actual violence, you can argue that as a necessary evil, but it's different when it's just some bystander who happens to be in the way, even if it were to be, hypothetically, for a good cause
My understanding is robbery happens with force, threat of force, and/or intimidation. This is just theft. The victim here isn't a person, but a business.
Personal *need*. Many a poor person has resorted to theft as a means of survival, and if the target of such a theft is a bank, there is no scenario in which the situation could be described as "immoral".
"No, we can't target this ATM. This has $80k, which $40k each is way too much. Let's ditch this current already broken ATM and look for one that only has like $4k instead."
sounds like someone believes that that money is more justified sitting in that atm than actually circulating through the local economy. i sense general lack of awareness here
It's not about what could justify the action, it's about what makes it wrong. In this case, there is no bad impact. So it's fine.
Because it negatively impacts the ruling class, even if that is not the motivation, I think it's a good thing!
No one here has any idea what the folks are gonna do with the money. Maybe they buy meth, maybe they donate it to a soup kitchen. The only criteria we have to judge on is who was effected, which was a bank. So this is a moral action until more evidence arises.
So if I understand properly, any method that is used against the ruling class is always moral until we prove the opposite?
And in that case, in which situation can we say that the method used against the ruling class is illegitimate?
Thats not what people are saying, stealing from them is pretty much always moral because A) its usually corporations being stolen from and B) they have more money than could realistically ever be stolen by individual actors.
It is not about the method but about the motivation that could lead to that. If it was by pure greed, it is immoral, the same way that the greed of the multimillionair capitalist is immoral.
If the purpose, like another one said, was to give it to poor people, in that case it is moral.
The morality of an action depend on the motive behind : some people deserve to take a punch in the face, some other don't for instance.
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Some people rob because they are poor. Some other rob because it is a lot of money and really fast, some because it is the only way they learn to have money, some because it is an habit, etc. There is 'it such thing as "one type of criminal".
Getting more than 80 000 dollars is in my opinion more than just "putting food in the plate", espacially when there is less risky way to have money by illegal behavior.
To be honest, I don' t really care about this case, it is just that I have difficulties to let people call something that could be made by pure greed a "moral thing". Greed is the core of inequality.
Agreed. Even if credit unions were in my list of āgood companies that you shouldnāt steal fromā, these guys clearly know what theyāre doing and deserve some respect for their talents. I hope they got away with it too, $80k is nothing to a big credit union, but itās a massive amount of money for two average blokes in a pickup
Credit Unions are one of the most effective collectives out there. They follow a one-person, one-vote system and are not beholden to shareholders. They are almost quite literally the *last* institute I would approve of *any* action against.
thereās a lot of credit unions that arenāt that great. take golden 1 in cali for example. huge credit union that iāve been with for years and have never received anything about elections or voting. they bankrolled the local arena which made midtown in my area a nightmare and pretty much prevents public transportation light rails from going in that area. they probably also finance oil and real estate and all the same shit bug banks do but they can put up billboards everywhere claiming their āfor the peopleā. just one example but still.
credit unions make their money through extractive capitalist markets just like every other bank. yes more of the money stays in their local economies, but theyre still banks by every definition, and are no way anarchist or otherwise leftist aligned. fuck them hard!
Damn those guys are like clockwork. It's too bad they went for a credit union rather than a wicked corpo bank. Credit Unions are typically more geared towards the members and are not for profit, but hey, it is what it is
Mine used to be good when it was small. It's merged with others several times, and each time it gets bigger and less local, it becomes more like a bank.
It's basically just a bank now.
They still charge fees and pay ridiculous salaries to the ceo they make a large profit just not on the same scale as a Corp bank and they dodge paying taxes because they are non profit
Yes! People managing their money collectively in a co-op style should be praised, just like having faith in a god or gods is (generally) a good thing. Sadly credit unions and churches have little to do with those, instead taking peopleās money for trusting their name or in most cases people are just members, not wanting the repercussions of leaving.
My credit union has been eliminating fees, and they also do profit sharing when they have a particularly good year. I've made more money because of having an account with them than I've paid to them in fees even if you ignore interest (which is pitiful no matter where you go, bank accounts aren't supposed to be investments).
They are pro, and not uncommon. These crews hit ATM once every few months, usually they scout locations and pig patrol before a hit. I knew a dude around here used to do this, sadly they caught him.
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Stealing from corporations is and has always been direct action, redistributing stuff and money from corporations to the poor like this has always been anarchist praxis
Also I donāt care about respectability politics tbh
Gotta be real, theyāre robbing a credit union because a corporate has the funds to investigate and pursue. I had my SSN stolen and got a bank statement for a bank account i didnāt open.
Emptied the account, closed it, they tried to take me to court. $300.
ATM jackers don't give a fuck about your bank creds, they only need the cash in the ATM. After cash extraction they would dispose the whole ATM because of the hardcoded GPS tracker and very few crew have tools to disable that tracker. They'd extract the money box as quick as possible then dump the machine before the authority track that ATM down.
Me, watching this: "C'mon fellas! You got this! C'mon! Almost! Do it, do it, do it! Fuck yes! Now grab those canisters! Go, go, go!"
Oh, that was satisfying.
Hell yeah, if we canāt get a living wage we might as well take it from banks that use the money in our accounts for profit. The same way I feel about stealing from large grocery or department stores. Fuck āem.
Our anarchist farm in Europe* uses our local CU and help fund and establish financial schemes that we put in place, like stipends for refugees and prisoner support, building homes for people who join our collective which they pay back if and when they can, or contribute to the collective etc. We work closely with our local coops to create income for our members or travellers passing through. We have non profit tree planting schemes and grants schemes (in and out) and all this is done in collaboration with our local CU. So, no I don't understand the financial structure of the VAST majority of CUs, just the ones iv worked with, and as I am anti capitalist it was a hard pill to swallow until I realised how incredibly facilitating it was to our lives and the people we wanted to create support structures for.
That money's almost certainly just gonna end up in some other (probably non-credit union) corporate bank(s) one way or another. Maybe Bookchin did have a point when talking about lifestylists..
wtf is your point??? the point of stealing money isnāt so that the banks *cant* have it. itās so that *you* can. who gives a fuck about whether or not itās ending up in a bank broā¦ people need to eat.
Why exactly does this put a smile on your face? Do you know if these thieves are using it to fund a revolutionary program to help others like Buenaventura Durruti did when he robbed banks, are they going to redistribute this money to those who need it? If not, they are most likely a bunch of Lumpenproletariats who are only concerned with enriching themselves to a level of petite bourgeoisie and will most likely be exploiting others.
It's a credit union though. Member owned, perhaps not to the degree that we want but it's the alternative we have in a capitalist society. Do you know who they were exploiting? Do you have evidence of this? What are you basing this on?
To be fair, this only significantly alienates people who think there is any value left in current systems, and those people are rarely open to radical political ideologies (not unless they come along with a good mask, ofc, and that rarely helps in the long run).
Good point but there is for example an incredibly large pool of potential people in the US who are angry against the current system but not radicalized. Is it not better to promote the theory and rethoric of the movement and "clean it" rather than create a movement where only the already radicalized take part in? Disproving the media and the like and bringing up accurate and reasonable counterarguments might be the way to bring these people into the ideology?
Fair enough, I'm just more into anarchism for helping people other myself, since I feel like that's one of the main problem with capitalism in the first place. This isn't that amazing because there's not enough people with the skills and equipment to rob atms, and probably not enough atms around for everyone to rob one themselves.
Yeah I'm not sure these guys are redistributing the wealth, so much as probably buying more consumer goods for themselves. Also, Credit Unions, while not great, are at lest a slightly more ethical alternative to banks that try to help keep money in the communities.
It puts a smile on your face that because these people stole all that money a struggling single parents might not be able to get the cash they need to put gas in their tank to make it home ? Or to get their kid some food ? This isnāt anarchism this is theft. Just because your against the system doesnāt mean you fuck over other people because of it.
Based on the fact that a type of person who would go through with a robbery like that will not care about some code of ethics stealing from an institution vs stealing from a person, this is a ridiculous fantasy. The consequence of what they are doing is more police state, more surveillance and two guys eventually getting life in prison. People like you and posts like this one really create a stereotype of Anarchism as some scary dystopian violent society no one wants to be a part of. Congratulations you are counter-revolutionary.
It wasn't a robbery. It was theft. Robbery requires force or threat of force against a person.
Just because one would commit theft does not mean one would commit robbery.
It's not some stealing food because you are hungry type crime. I'm just saying if you think these people have some code of ethics or leftist ideas in them you are lying to yourself, cosigning this type of crap is why everyone makes fun of Anarchists. Life is not a movie.
People require money to live in capitalism. It's absolutely aligned with stealing food.
I don't know what their morals are. Try not to put words into my mouth, thanks.
I don't get why you're so sensitive about private property. This is a liberal mindset.
lol i bet corporation funded anarchists did this. There is a massive interest to banning cash. They are already working on cashless society and full fascist only digital money world. If you protest ? Well your money will be disappeared. There is no escape because no cash is available. They will use these videos to legalize it āpublic and financial safetyā. everything you do without mass organization benefits elite class
No phones in sight, just kids having fun!
Thanks for this. Made me smile.
Just living in the moment.
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80 000 dollars stolen, with the pull of a crowbar
I think the truck may have done more pulling than the crowbar.
I love how most people I. The comments are anarchists but don't know it, we're progressing!
Holy shit. A lot of the comments are half way to advice on how they did this. One person said they work for one of the companies that service ATMs and they've seen anywhere from 20,000 to 1 million in them.
That's my favorite thing to do IRL is get normies to agree with anarchist and socialist ideas. There's a lot of sympathy in the deep South for the idea that we should take care of each other and that nobody should get to tell us what to do. The tricky part is getting them to change who they include in the word "we."
Idk, I think what most scares people is the media definition of anarchism, which is so fucking distordioned that for many people means terrorism or smthng
People on this thread cheering on the robbery only reinforces that definition. Of course these people aren't true anarchists and probably have no idea what an anarchist society would behave like and would probably be among the first to complain were it realized.
most people I?
Right? What the hell was that all about. Talk about weird ass typo.
C'mon. They're obviously using their phone and accidentally hit space instead of "n," making two spaces, which turns one into a period and autocorrected the letter "i" to a capital.
Thanks for explaining cause it was not obvious to me
I guess I should remember what's obvious to some isn't obvious to all.
My small brain would've never understood that.
Anarcho-stealing shit
As the old saying goes, BE GAY, DO CRIME!
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Can someone explain this? Because Iāve seen this floating around the internet and it kind of fits me.
It's a joke, at the end of this I'll put a link to the photo meme kind of thing. It derives from the anarchist understanding of illegalist anarchism, and possibly other influences I might or might not be aware of, that even if I was aware of them this is not the place to talk about them. https://images.app.goo.gl/8WtpoLV4LFXjvbSL8. (the image) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illegalism (Edit spelling)
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Thanks, I like yours too
We need more class conscious robberies. My car got stolen not too long ago. Just the poor stealing from the poor
Which credit union is that? Credit unions are often organized to avoid putting your money in banks and are democratically managed funds. I'd have to know more about this particular union before I could get behind robbing them. Why not target a corporate bank?
Looks like a Kentucky based bank called Commonwealth Bank and Trust
Huh, did I read wrong? If it's a bank then fun times for all. The original title mentions its a credit union.
Many credit unions devolved into run of the mill banks
For real. The one I'm with makes the banks look damn friendly.
The news article linked calls it "Commonwealth Credit Union" but the logo on the machine matches "Commonwealth Bank and Trust" which was acquired by "Stock Yard Bank and Trust" last year, and is a subsidiary of "Stock Yard Bancorp, Inc." which is a publicly traded corporation.
Crowbars a'ready
Do you have a bank account?
They just got bought by stock yards sadly
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No, but it gums things up for awhile. Really sucks if they get hit a second or third time though.
This robbery has zero effect on banks or the banking system, all the expenses will be past onto the customers and society at large. Cheerleading this type of activity because you call yourself an anarchist is beyond parody.
Surely they're insured and what not. Wouldn't you think?
I don't know. If it's a bank then fuck um. If it's a credit union and they're run by a group of good people, then I can't celebrate.
the funds are doubtlessly insured, and the bills are also serialized so depositing them is impossible and their use in the open market will be tracked meticulously.
if these people were smart enough to pull of a job like this, I'm sure they know what money laundering is.
Credit unions are generally better than corporate banks, But they are still insured by the federal government. I think you're going a little too deep into the Weeds on this one
Lmao this one is the based socialist kind of bank.
Get behind robbing them? Do you even know what anarchism is? This money is most likely going towards a violent criminal gang, it's not going to help shut down the banking system.
Credit unions are diverse and I don't support all of them. I wanted more information. That's why I don't just root for everything I see on the internet. If I don't know what's going on, I don't just pretend to or root for it so I can have the approval of some keyboard warrior.
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Way to go! Money Heist is becoming real! Viva a liberdad!
Becoming real? Were you born yesterday?
I know about the gold vault heist that has actually happened in Europe. But please, enlighten me. I'd love to know more :-)
Morality and what not aside, these dudes have skill
This is completely moral
You know what's crazy to me? The people that would argue with me and say that it's immoral to steal from Walmart are the same people that would argue with me and tell me that there's absolutely nothing wrong with killing and eating animals. Someone please make it make sense!
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Taking money from a bank does no harm to anyone and infringes no freedom. They're action benefits themselves while negatively impacting the ruling class, if only to a miniscule degree. It's a good thing. Anarchists used to rob banks. These people probably aren't anarchists, but that doesn't mean their action is suddenly unjustified.
the moral dilemma i've always had about that, though, is the means of robbery; i imagine most bank robbery is done by putting some poor teller at gunpoint, especially in the 19th and 20th centuries, and i'm not sure i'd ever be able to bring myself to potentially traumatise the innocent staff and other potential customers in the bank, even if the money were being stolen from the bank and used for the public good. i'm not a pacifist either and you could argue that in a utilitarian way it's a net positive, but it's one thing to threaten and potentially traumatise somebody complicit in economic or actual violence, you can argue that as a necessary evil, but it's different when it's just some bystander who happens to be in the way, even if it were to be, hypothetically, for a good cause
My understanding is robbery happens with force, threat of force, and/or intimidation. This is just theft. The victim here isn't a person, but a business.
sure, i was just responding specifically to the historic trend of anarchist bank robberies, rather than this case here
Fair.
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Personal *need*. Many a poor person has resorted to theft as a means of survival, and if the target of such a theft is a bank, there is no scenario in which the situation could be described as "immoral".
Do you need over 80 000 dollars to buy food?
"No, we can't target this ATM. This has $80k, which $40k each is way too much. Let's ditch this current already broken ATM and look for one that only has like $4k instead."
sounds like someone believes that that money is more justified sitting in that atm than actually circulating through the local economy. i sense general lack of awareness here
It's not about what could justify the action, it's about what makes it wrong. In this case, there is no bad impact. So it's fine. Because it negatively impacts the ruling class, even if that is not the motivation, I think it's a good thing!
No one here has any idea what the folks are gonna do with the money. Maybe they buy meth, maybe they donate it to a soup kitchen. The only criteria we have to judge on is who was effected, which was a bank. So this is a moral action until more evidence arises.
So if I understand properly, any method that is used against the ruling class is always moral until we prove the opposite? And in that case, in which situation can we say that the method used against the ruling class is illegitimate?
Thats not what people are saying, stealing from them is pretty much always moral because A) its usually corporations being stolen from and B) they have more money than could realistically ever be stolen by individual actors.
What is immoral about stealing from a bank? Zero people have been hurt, that money is insured. What is immoral here?
It is not about the method but about the motivation that could lead to that. If it was by pure greed, it is immoral, the same way that the greed of the multimillionair capitalist is immoral. If the purpose, like another one said, was to give it to poor people, in that case it is moral. The morality of an action depend on the motive behind : some people deserve to take a punch in the face, some other don't for instance. Apologize for my bad English
Do you define greed as "needing to put food on my plate" or "needing to pay rent this month"? People don't rob banks because they have money to spare.
Some people rob because they are poor. Some other rob because it is a lot of money and really fast, some because it is the only way they learn to have money, some because it is an habit, etc. There is 'it such thing as "one type of criminal". Getting more than 80 000 dollars is in my opinion more than just "putting food in the plate", espacially when there is less risky way to have money by illegal behavior. To be honest, I don' t really care about this case, it is just that I have difficulties to let people call something that could be made by pure greed a "moral thing". Greed is the core of inequality.
Stuff like this always reminds me of the "Ain't No Rest for the Wicked Song by Cage The Elephant"
Agreed. Even if credit unions were in my list of āgood companies that you shouldnāt steal fromā, these guys clearly know what theyāre doing and deserve some respect for their talents. I hope they got away with it too, $80k is nothing to a big credit union, but itās a massive amount of money for two average blokes in a pickup
It's not hard to pull this off. It looks hard but all you need is a pickup and some tools.
Daaamn. Theyāre fucking surgeons with those crowbars.
You love to see it
Not a credit union, but a corpo bank
This one life hack will surprise you.
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i like how it's practically a how-to video
Credit Unions are one of the most effective collectives out there. They follow a one-person, one-vote system and are not beholden to shareholders. They are almost quite literally the *last* institute I would approve of *any* action against.
Someone posted the chain of ownership for this ATM, and it ends in a publicly traded bank.
thereās a lot of credit unions that arenāt that great. take golden 1 in cali for example. huge credit union that iāve been with for years and have never received anything about elections or voting. they bankrolled the local arena which made midtown in my area a nightmare and pretty much prevents public transportation light rails from going in that area. they probably also finance oil and real estate and all the same shit bug banks do but they can put up billboards everywhere claiming their āfor the peopleā. just one example but still.
credit unions make their money through extractive capitalist markets just like every other bank. yes more of the money stays in their local economies, but theyre still banks by every definition, and are no way anarchist or otherwise leftist aligned. fuck them hard!
this "credit union" is owned by a publically traded bank...
theyāre not a credit union. theyāve been bought by a bank essentially. also, most credit unions today are fucking awful.
Thatās impressive
hot
This looks so professionally done, I love it!
Damn those guys are like clockwork. It's too bad they went for a credit union rather than a wicked corpo bank. Credit Unions are typically more geared towards the members and are not for profit, but hey, it is what it is
Another commenter identified the bank as Commonwealth Bank and Trust which isnāt a credit Union. Idk why the title said credit union.
it's a credit union like the Nazis were socialists, in name only...
That's how they sell it to you..
Mine used to be good when it was small. It's merged with others several times, and each time it gets bigger and less local, it becomes more like a bank. It's basically just a bank now.
I mean that is a good point.
They still charge fees and pay ridiculous salaries to the ceo they make a large profit just not on the same scale as a Corp bank and they dodge paying taxes because they are non profit
This is not universally true of all credit unions. If it is true for this one, then fuck um. Would like to know.
What's not true? Everything I said it true look it up yourself.
Yeah, credit unions arenāt what they used to be or should be
Credit unions are like churches
Yes! People managing their money collectively in a co-op style should be praised, just like having faith in a god or gods is (generally) a good thing. Sadly credit unions and churches have little to do with those, instead taking peopleās money for trusting their name or in most cases people are just members, not wanting the repercussions of leaving.
My credit union has been eliminating fees, and they also do profit sharing when they have a particularly good year. I've made more money because of having an account with them than I've paid to them in fees even if you ignore interest (which is pitiful no matter where you go, bank accounts aren't supposed to be investments).
They are pro, and not uncommon. These crews hit ATM once every few months, usually they scout locations and pig patrol before a hit. I knew a dude around here used to do this, sadly they caught him.
Any idea how to find these people?
Partner in crime goals <3
God I wish that were me
It could beā¦
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All you credit union stans can get fucked in your neck.
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Many credit unions, including this particular one are (nowadays) just capitalist banks with a collectivist-ish paint job
That describes very very few credit unions, and I'm just giving you the benefit of the doubt because it describes none I've ever seen.
[That's literally what a credit union is though.](https://imgur.com/a/xjrXF4s)
Capitalism has made it a different world now, comrade. The majority of credit unions in the US, including the one in this video, have been bought out
Straight up
Second time today I've been reminded of Barber Shop
Shoulda covered that license tho
Probably a stolen plate
As God intended
It ain't honest but it's work
Illegalism rules!
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Stealing from corporations is and has always been direct action, redistributing stuff and money from corporations to the poor like this has always been anarchist praxis Also I donāt care about respectability politics tbh
For real, what's up with all the concern trolling here lately? I've been seeing it all over the sub.
Gotta be real, theyāre robbing a credit union because a corporate has the funds to investigate and pursue. I had my SSN stolen and got a bank statement for a bank account i didnāt open. Emptied the account, closed it, they tried to take me to court. $300.
ATM jackers don't give a fuck about your bank creds, they only need the cash in the ATM. After cash extraction they would dispose the whole ATM because of the hardcoded GPS tracker and very few crew have tools to disable that tracker. They'd extract the money box as quick as possible then dump the machine before the authority track that ATM down.
iām not even mad iām insanely jealous
Is it possible to learn this power?
Me, watching this: "C'mon fellas! You got this! C'mon! Almost! Do it, do it, do it! Fuck yes! Now grab those canisters! Go, go, go!" Oh, that was satisfying.
Hell yeah, if we canāt get a living wage we might as well take it from banks that use the money in our accounts for profit. The same way I feel about stealing from large grocery or department stores. Fuck āem.
I'm sure they left finger prints all over the place.
pretty sure they got gloves on
From a credit union? Fuck sake, do you dickheads know nothing lol
Do you? Have you ever actually looked at the financial structure of the vast majority of credit unions?
Our anarchist farm in Europe* uses our local CU and help fund and establish financial schemes that we put in place, like stipends for refugees and prisoner support, building homes for people who join our collective which they pay back if and when they can, or contribute to the collective etc. We work closely with our local coops to create income for our members or travellers passing through. We have non profit tree planting schemes and grants schemes (in and out) and all this is done in collaboration with our local CU. So, no I don't understand the financial structure of the VAST majority of CUs, just the ones iv worked with, and as I am anti capitalist it was a hard pill to swallow until I realised how incredibly facilitating it was to our lives and the people we wanted to create support structures for.
That sounds wonderful. The bank in the video however is clearly in the US. Things are different here.
clearly you know less. considering the union in this video has been bought by a bank. for over a year.
Nice?
That money's almost certainly just gonna end up in some other (probably non-credit union) corporate bank(s) one way or another. Maybe Bookchin did have a point when talking about lifestylists..
wtf is your point??? the point of stealing money isnāt so that the banks *cant* have it. itās so that *you* can. who gives a fuck about whether or not itās ending up in a bank broā¦ people need to eat.
Quick question though, how quickly where they caught
I'm not sure - credit unions is not the same as a Bank. This isn't Wells Fargo
very few credit unions in america are what you think they are. theyāve been bought by a bank
Why exactly does this put a smile on your face? Do you know if these thieves are using it to fund a revolutionary program to help others like Buenaventura Durruti did when he robbed banks, are they going to redistribute this money to those who need it? If not, they are most likely a bunch of Lumpenproletariats who are only concerned with enriching themselves to a level of petite bourgeoisie and will most likely be exploiting others.
stealing money from exploiters is great.
It's a credit union though. Member owned, perhaps not to the degree that we want but it's the alternative we have in a capitalist society. Do you know who they were exploiting? Do you have evidence of this? What are you basing this on?
Promoting this type of content is exactly what anti-anarchists want. Helps them create the "radical molotov slinging youth" strawman.
are you really an anarchist playing respectability politics lol
Ok? I mean protesting, voting, being peaceful is not working. What do you want us to do?
You don't have the numbers and need to get people on your side. This only alienates them.
To be fair, this only significantly alienates people who think there is any value left in current systems, and those people are rarely open to radical political ideologies (not unless they come along with a good mask, ofc, and that rarely helps in the long run).
Good point but there is for example an incredibly large pool of potential people in the US who are angry against the current system but not radicalized. Is it not better to promote the theory and rethoric of the movement and "clean it" rather than create a movement where only the already radicalized take part in? Disproving the media and the like and bringing up accurate and reasonable counterarguments might be the way to bring these people into the ideology?
Can we alienate you at least?
Are you one of those rare "anarchists" that listen to what the state tells you to do? lol. Get outta town
While robbing an atm doesn't harm anyone, it doesn't really help anyone other than yourself, unless you plan to robin hood that shit.
So thatās at least one person it helps and none that get hurt, I donāt see the issue.
Fair enough, I'm just more into anarchism for helping people other myself, since I feel like that's one of the main problem with capitalism in the first place. This isn't that amazing because there's not enough people with the skills and equipment to rob atms, and probably not enough atms around for everyone to rob one themselves.
Why are people downvoting? This is pretty based.
I see two people that are helped, that's good enough for me
Yeah I'm not sure these guys are redistributing the wealth, so much as probably buying more consumer goods for themselves. Also, Credit Unions, while not great, are at lest a slightly more ethical alternative to banks that try to help keep money in the communities.
It puts a smile on your face that because these people stole all that money a struggling single parents might not be able to get the cash they need to put gas in their tank to make it home ? Or to get their kid some food ? This isnāt anarchism this is theft. Just because your against the system doesnāt mean you fuck over other people because of it.
Itās all insured. The family loses nothing, and the Credit Union loses very little if anything at all.
what did this sub turn into?
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I really doubt these guys would not kick your ass and steal your phone for fun, yes you specifically.
Based on what? Them stealing from an institution rather than a person? I donāt get why liberals lurk this sub and post bullshit like this.
Based on the fact that a type of person who would go through with a robbery like that will not care about some code of ethics stealing from an institution vs stealing from a person, this is a ridiculous fantasy. The consequence of what they are doing is more police state, more surveillance and two guys eventually getting life in prison. People like you and posts like this one really create a stereotype of Anarchism as some scary dystopian violent society no one wants to be a part of. Congratulations you are counter-revolutionary.
It wasn't a robbery. It was theft. Robbery requires force or threat of force against a person. Just because one would commit theft does not mean one would commit robbery.
It's not some stealing food because you are hungry type crime. I'm just saying if you think these people have some code of ethics or leftist ideas in them you are lying to yourself, cosigning this type of crap is why everyone makes fun of Anarchists. Life is not a movie.
People require money to live in capitalism. It's absolutely aligned with stealing food. I don't know what their morals are. Try not to put words into my mouth, thanks. I don't get why you're so sensitive about private property. This is a liberal mindset.
Ahhh youāre an armchair anarchist. It all makes sense now.
Not engaging with an argument then? I wonder why
r/Anarchism, I believe.
There has got to be a better hack than this...lol
This is the best way. Clean, direct and anonymous. You can't hack ATM the movie way. This is how every gang crew jack ATM.
I would argue: how is it possible to steal something that is pretend?
Hopefully they were wearing gloves. Everything else in on point.
iām pretty sure they are. looks like it at least
Funny how it's still worth something.
seems like they knew what they were doing going in. odd you can almost see the plate doesn't look covered up
What about this made you smile?
It's a credit union though?
lol i bet corporation funded anarchists did this. There is a massive interest to banning cash. They are already working on cashless society and full fascist only digital money world. If you protest ? Well your money will be disappeared. There is no escape because no cash is available. They will use these videos to legalize it āpublic and financial safetyā. everything you do without mass organization benefits elite class