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Jedi Guy

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30. I'm not criticizing an idea here, I'm criticizing an impulse. The two are different.

Reply to Maraya1969 (Reply #26)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 11:19 AM

2 hrs ago

Hiding those masks accomplished absolutely nothing apart from inconveniencing other people, and I'll grant you that it's a very, very minor inconvenience. It didn't affect ICE agents in the slightest, though. Trying to frame it as some act of resistance is, to be very blunt, laughable.

As for the pepper spray, would you have gone through with it if you knew for absolute certain that you wouldn't have gotten caught?

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I did something a little crazy the other day at the 7-Eleven [View all] Maraya1969 20 hrs ago OP

Vive le resistance! Easterncedar 20 hrs ago #1

Hahaha Diamond_Dog 20 hrs ago #2

A store in our town used to have Christmas stockings with single letter initials on them Attilatheblond 20 hrs ago #4

i still take tablloids and turn the title page inward . AllaN01Bear 19 hrs ago #7

Nay, perfume! usonian 20 hrs ago #3

Good thing you did not take the TDS vaccination. PufPuf23 19 hrs ago #5

"" AllaN01Bear 19 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 19 hrs ago #8

I live in S FL Maraya1969 15 hrs ago #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Greg_In_SF 15 hrs ago #19

y tho WhiskeyGrinder 18 hrs ago #9

I turn over books GentryDixon 18 hrs ago #10

So, what you're saying is Greg_In_SF 18 hrs ago #11

I LIVE IN S FL Maraya1969 15 hrs ago #17

And I live Greg_In_SF 1 hr ago #31

Gun show flyers Golfnbrew 17 hrs ago #12

Sounds passive-aggressive to me. Intractable 17 hrs ago #13

So? If I was aggressive I would get arrested Maraya1969 15 hrs ago #18

And some of us do pointless things that actually inconvenience innocent others. Intractable 13 hrs ago #20

Weird that your post is turning into a smear job against you, WTH? Clouds Passing 2 hrs ago #29

My confession tavernier 17 hrs ago #14

Yikes, that is quite a bizarre thing to do. tritsofme 17 hrs ago #15

Back when I was going to bookstores, or anywhere really with books, ... mucholderthandirt 5 hrs ago #21

You were just making retail workers clean up your mess Sympthsical 3 hrs ago #25

Well, you said yourself it was "a little crazy". Jedi Guy 4 hrs ago #22

There are many more on this thread that think it was great and shared their Maraya1969 3 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 3 hrs ago #24

I know that there will always be people who feel the need to chop down Maraya1969 3 hrs ago #26

I'm not criticizing an idea here, I'm criticizing an impulse. The two are different. Jedi Guy 2 hrs ago #30

The masks that ICE agents wear... BH liberal 3 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 3 hrs ago #28

There are people PCB66 1 hr ago #32