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Jedi Guy

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

Reply to Maraya1969 (Reply #23)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 09:57 AM

6 hrs ago

It's at best pointless and at worst prankish, even childish.

Also, an appeal to the majority isn't particularly convincing, I'm afraid.

Your stated wish of lacing the masks with pepper spray when you have no clue who will buy them and when it's highly unlikely that ICE agents, the targets of your ire, will buy them... well, that's a look, but it's not the "brave resistance fighter" look you were apparently going for here.

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I did something a little crazy the other day at the 7-Eleven [View all] Maraya1969 23 hrs ago OP

Vive le resistance! Easterncedar 23 hrs ago #1

Hahaha Diamond_Dog 23 hrs ago #2

A store in our town used to have Christmas stockings with single letter initials on them Attilatheblond 22 hrs ago #4

i still take tablloids and turn the title page inward . AllaN01Bear 22 hrs ago #7

Nay, perfume! usonian 22 hrs ago #3

Good thing you did not take the TDS vaccination. PufPuf23 22 hrs ago #5

"" AllaN01Bear 22 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 22 hrs ago #8

I live in S FL Maraya1969 18 hrs ago #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Greg_In_SF 18 hrs ago #19

y tho WhiskeyGrinder 21 hrs ago #9

I turn over books GentryDixon 21 hrs ago #10

So, what you're saying is Greg_In_SF 21 hrs ago #11

I LIVE IN S FL Maraya1969 18 hrs ago #17

And I live Greg_In_SF 4 hrs ago #31

Gun show flyers Golfnbrew 20 hrs ago #12

Sounds passive-aggressive to me. Intractable 20 hrs ago #13

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

And some of us do pointless things that actually inconvenience innocent others. Intractable 16 hrs ago #20

Weird that your post is turning into a smear job against you, WTH? Clouds Passing 5 hrs ago #29

My confession tavernier 20 hrs ago #14

Yikes, that is quite a bizarre thing to do. tritsofme 19 hrs ago #15

Back when I was going to bookstores, or anywhere really with books, ... mucholderthandirt 8 hrs ago #21

You were just making retail workers clean up your mess Sympthsical 6 hrs ago #25

Well, you said yourself it was "a little crazy". Jedi Guy 7 hrs ago #22

There are many more on this thread that think it was great and shared their Maraya1969 6 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 6 hrs ago #24

I know that there will always be people who feel the need to chop down Maraya1969 6 hrs ago #26

I'm not criticizing an idea here, I'm criticizing an impulse. The two are different. Jedi Guy 5 hrs ago #30

The masks that ICE agents wear... BH liberal 6 hrs 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 6 hrs ago #28

There are people PCB66 4 hrs ago #32