I did something a little crazy the other day at the 7-Eleven

[Maraya1969]

I saw they were selling those stupid masks that the professional thugs are wearing while kidnapping brown people in this country. There were about six of them so I just kind of took them and shoved them behind the. Metal shelf that they were hanging on.

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.

[Easterncedar]

1. Vive le resistance!

[Diamond_Dog]

2. Hahaha

One time I was at Sam’s Club and in the book rack there was a book all about the orange shitstain with his ugly mug on the cover. I took Kamala’s book and put it over top of his.

[Attilatheblond]

4. A store in our town used to have Christmas stockings with single letter initials on them

Some people were constantly 're-arranging' them to say things about Trump back in Trump 1.0

Noticed they did not have them displayed prominently this year, and certain letters were not available.

[AllaN01Bear]

7. i still take tablloids and turn the title page inward .

[usonian]

3. Nay, perfume!

[PufPuf23]

5. Good thing you did not take the TDS vaccination.

If you had been arrested, could have written the 21st century version of Alice's Restaurant.

[AllaN01Bear]

6. ""

i still take tablloids and turn the title page inward .

[Ms. Toad]

8. You mean the kind of masks I used to wear in the winter to keep frostbite away from my nose and ears?

I'm betting that, at most, you deprived folks who work outside in the winter (farmers, mail carriers, road crew, etc.) of needed protection. I'm sure glad you couldn't find pepper spray or something to slit it with.

I get the impulse, but as someone who grew up walking a mile to school in the bitter cold and wind - not cool.

[Maraya1969]

16. I live in S FL

[ProfessorGAC]

35. Oops!

Must be overreaction Sunday.

[Ms. Toad]

38. More like a lot of people understand that protests should be targeted -

Not random symbolic acts, which make life difficult for innocent people.

And FWIW - my reaction was Saturday.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

9. y tho

[GentryDixon]

10. I turn over books

from Conservative authors while in Costco. Simple guilty pleasure. 🤷‍♀️

[Greg_In_SF]

11. So, what you're saying is

that you did nothing that will affect ICE agents in any way shape or form but, instead, made it more difficult for people to find masks during winter flu season.

Brilliant!

[Maraya1969]

17. I LIVE IN S FL

[Greg_In_SF]

31. And I live

in Orlando. What does that have to do with anything?

[Maraya1969]

33. Wrong mask!

[Greg_In_SF]

39. So you somehow

know that no one might want to buy one because it's flu season, or because they are already sick?

I don't think so. What you did in absolutely nonsensical, including your reason for doing so.

[Maraya1969]

40. Wrong Mask

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRdZfwiVeFwhu2ORPyPsyLgkBQk15a3yZjG9w&s - Covid mask


My mask - Not even close to being able to stop Covid and a nonsensical argument

Now leave me alone I am tired of this and you.

[Golfnbrew]

12. Gun show flyers

Occasionally, at a cash register, my wife or I will see a stack of flyers for an upcoming gun show. We scoop them up and toss them in the trash.

[Intractable]

13. Sounds passive-aggressive to me.

[Maraya1969]

18. So? If I was aggressive I would get arrested

Some of you are so judgemental

[Intractable]

20. And some of us do pointless things that actually inconvenience innocent others.

[Clouds Passing]

29. Weird that your post is turning into a smear job against you, WTH?

[Maraya1969]

34. I think some people are unhappy and instead of dealing with it they try and

hurt others.

And thanks

[tavernier]

14. My confession

I saw they were selling the chocolate croissants and there were only two packages left and I bought them both.

It was kind of a dirty trick but I did it anyway.

[tritsofme]

15. Yikes, that is quite a bizarre thing to do.

[mucholderthandirt]

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

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.

[Sympthsical]

25. You were just making retail workers clean up your mess

I will never understand this form of "activism"

The only person bothered was the minimum wage stocker who got to deal with it long after the self-satisfaction left the building.

[Maraya1969]

36. Oh give it a break! It would take less than 30 seconds to move them back

[Jedi Guy]

22. Well, you said yourself it was "a little crazy".

Looks like some DUers are inclined to agree with that assessment.

I don't think people are being judgmental, I think you're just not getting the reactions you hoped for when you posted it.

Lastly, I'm inclined to doubt that ICE agents get their masks from 7-11 so I'm not sure what your action was intended to accomplish other than inconveniencing people, and in a convenience store, of all places.

[Maraya1969]

23. There are many more on this thread that think it was great and shared their

own little acts of protest. Go read through.

"Well behaved women rarely make history" (men too)

[Jedi Guy]

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

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.

[Maraya1969]

26. I know that there will always be people who feel the need to chop down

any idea someone else has. It serves no purpose except for their own need, whatever that may be . And I said I would not put pepper spray in the package so why try and criticise for it unless for that own personal need?

[Jedi Guy]

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

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?

[BH liberal]

27. The masks that ICE agents wear...

are gubmint-issued and likely from China. Messing with 7-11 masks is decidedly a pip-squeaky response. At least go up and hurl a sandwich or a snowball at the thugs!

[Polybius]

28. "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."

As you should if you did that. Seniors buy those masks. Glad you didn't go that far, but what you did was impulsive, and did more harm than good.

[PCB66]

32. There are people

who have nothing to do with ICE who buy those mask to keep warm when it is cold.

[Maraya1969]

37. I think we have been taken over by MAGAs

It was about 80 degrees last week