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Ms. Toad

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

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #35)

Sun Dec 28, 2025, 07:36 PM

Dec 2025

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

And FWIW - my reaction was Saturday.

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I did something a little crazy the other day at the 7-Eleven [View all] Maraya1969 Dec 2025 OP

Vive le resistance! Easterncedar Dec 2025 #1

Hahaha Diamond_Dog Dec 2025 #2

A store in our town used to have Christmas stockings with single letter initials on them Attilatheblond Dec 2025 #4

i still take tablloids and turn the title page inward . AllaN01Bear Dec 2025 #7

Nay, perfume! usonian Dec 2025 #3

Good thing you did not take the TDS vaccination. PufPuf23 Dec 2025 #5

"" AllaN01Bear Dec 2025 #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 2025 #8

I live in S FL Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #16

This message was self-deleted by its author Greg_In_SF Dec 2025 #19

Oops! ProfessorGAC Dec 2025 #35

More like a lot of people understand that protests should be targeted - Ms. Toad Dec 2025 #38

y tho WhiskeyGrinder Dec 2025 #9

I turn over books GentryDixon Dec 2025 #10

So, what you're saying is Greg_In_SF Dec 2025 #11

I LIVE IN S FL Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #17

And I live Greg_In_SF Dec 2025 #31

Wrong mask! Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #33

So you somehow Greg_In_SF Dec 2025 #39

Wrong Mask Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #40

You did something stupid Greg_In_SF Dec 2025 #41

Gun show flyers Golfnbrew Dec 2025 #12

Sounds passive-aggressive to me. Intractable Dec 2025 #13

So? If I was aggressive I would get arrested Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #18

And some of us do pointless things that actually inconvenience innocent others. Intractable Dec 2025 #20

Weird that your post is turning into a smear job against you, WTH? Clouds Passing Dec 2025 #29

I think some people are unhappy and instead of dealing with it they try and Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #34

My confession tavernier Dec 2025 #14

Yikes, that is quite a bizarre thing to do. tritsofme Dec 2025 #15

Back when I was going to bookstores, or anywhere really with books, ... mucholderthandirt Dec 2025 #21

You were just making retail workers clean up your mess Sympthsical Dec 2025 #25

Oh give it a break! It would take less than 30 seconds to move them back Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #36

Well, you said yourself it was "a little crazy". Jedi Guy Dec 2025 #22

There are many more on this thread that think it was great and shared their Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #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 Dec 2025 #24

I know that there will always be people who feel the need to chop down Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #26

I'm not criticizing an idea here, I'm criticizing an impulse. The two are different. Jedi Guy Dec 2025 #30

The masks that ICE agents wear... BH liberal Dec 2025 #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 Dec 2025 #28

There are people PCB66 Dec 2025 #32

I think we have been taken over by MAGAs Maraya1969 Dec 2025 #37