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mucholderthandirt

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21. Back when I was going to bookstores, or anywhere really with books, ...

Reply to Maraya1969 (Original post)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 08:05 AM

3 hrs ago

I would turn over books by the right wingers or Christian types. Sometimes would move them to places they weren't easily seen. Not really hiding them, just making the dumbasses have to really look for them.

My small bit of resistance, and probably didn't work, but it was my "do what you can, where you are, with what you have" effort.

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I did something a little crazy the other day at the 7-Eleven [View all] Maraya1969 18 hrs ago OP

Vive le resistance! Easterncedar 18 hrs ago #1

Hahaha Diamond_Dog 18 hrs ago #2

A store in our town used to have Christmas stockings with single letter initials on them Attilatheblond 18 hrs ago #4

i still take tablloids and turn the title page inward . AllaN01Bear 18 hrs ago #7

Nay, perfume! usonian 18 hrs ago #3

Good thing you did not take the TDS vaccination. PufPuf23 18 hrs ago #5

"" AllaN01Bear 18 hrs ago #6

You mean the kind of masks I used to wear in the winter to keep frostbite away from my nose and ears? Ms. Toad 17 hrs ago #8

I live in S FL Maraya1969 14 hrs ago #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Greg_In_SF 13 hrs ago #19

y tho WhiskeyGrinder 17 hrs ago #9

I turn over books GentryDixon 16 hrs ago #10

So, what you're saying is Greg_In_SF 16 hrs ago #11

I LIVE IN S FL Maraya1969 14 hrs ago #17

And I live Greg_In_SF 8 min ago #31

Gun show flyers Golfnbrew 16 hrs ago #12

Sounds passive-aggressive to me. Intractable 15 hrs ago #13

So? If I was aggressive I would get arrested Maraya1969 14 hrs ago #18

And some of us do pointless things that actually inconvenience innocent others. Intractable 11 hrs ago #20

Weird that your post is turning into a smear job against you, WTH? Clouds Passing 1 hr ago #29

My confession tavernier 15 hrs ago #14

Yikes, that is quite a bizarre thing to do. tritsofme 15 hrs ago #15

Back when I was going to bookstores, or anywhere really with books, ... mucholderthandirt 3 hrs ago #21

You were just making retail workers clean up your mess Sympthsical 1 hr ago #25

Well, you said yourself it was "a little crazy". Jedi Guy 2 hrs ago #22

There are many more on this thread that think it was great and shared their Maraya1969 2 hrs ago #23

You will, I hope, forgive me if I don't frame hiding books and masks as "acts of protest" in my own mind. Jedi Guy 2 hrs ago #24

I know that there will always be people who feel the need to chop down Maraya1969 1 hr ago #26

I'm not criticizing an idea here, I'm criticizing an impulse. The two are different. Jedi Guy 38 min ago #30

The masks that ICE agents wear... BH liberal 1 hr ago #27

"I'd like to put a little slit and spray pepper spray in there, but I'm sure I would get caught and go to jail." Polybius 1 hr ago #28