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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

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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 Dec 27 OP

Vive le resistance! Easterncedar Dec 27 #1

Hahaha Diamond_Dog Dec 27 #2

A store in our town used to have Christmas stockings with single letter initials on them Attilatheblond Dec 27 #4

i still take tablloids and turn the title page inward . AllaN01Bear Dec 27 #7

Nay, perfume! usonian Dec 27 #3

Good thing you did not take the TDS vaccination. PufPuf23 Dec 27 #5

"" AllaN01Bear Dec 27 #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 Dec 27 #8

I live in S FL Maraya1969 Dec 27 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Greg_In_SF Dec 27 #19

Oops! ProfessorGAC Sunday #35

More like a lot of people understand that protests should be targeted - Ms. Toad Sunday #38

y tho WhiskeyGrinder Dec 27 #9

I turn over books GentryDixon Dec 27 #10

So, what you're saying is Greg_In_SF Dec 27 #11

I LIVE IN S FL Maraya1969 Dec 27 #17

And I live Greg_In_SF Sunday #31

Wrong mask! Maraya1969 Sunday #33

So you somehow Greg_In_SF Sunday #39

Wrong Mask Maraya1969 Sunday #40

You did something stupid Greg_In_SF Monday #41

Gun show flyers Golfnbrew Dec 27 #12

Sounds passive-aggressive to me. Intractable Dec 27 #13

So? If I was aggressive I would get arrested Maraya1969 Dec 27 #18

And some of us do pointless things that actually inconvenience innocent others. Intractable Dec 27 #20

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

I think some people are unhappy and instead of dealing with it they try and Maraya1969 Sunday #34

My confession tavernier Dec 27 #14

Yikes, that is quite a bizarre thing to do. tritsofme Dec 27 #15

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

You were just making retail workers clean up your mess Sympthsical Sunday #25

Oh give it a break! It would take less than 30 seconds to move them back Maraya1969 Sunday #36

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

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

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

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

The masks that ICE agents wear... BH liberal Sunday #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 Sunday #28

There are people PCB66 Sunday #32

I think we have been taken over by MAGAs Maraya1969 Sunday #37