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The other day I went into one of those big-box antique stores, the kind with forty or fifty separate vendors, to look around. There was a middle-aged-to-elderly woman stationed on a chair near the door; you could tell she was there in some sort of official capacity. Another woman came up to me and asked if I was a first-time visitor or had been there before. I said I'd been there before. She was tall, slender, with longish grey hair loosely tied back, likely past seventy but under eighty; she'd probably been pretty in years past. She told the first woman she'd need to ask incoming visitors what she herself had asked me and keep track; there was a list on a clipboard. “Oh, Big Brother is watching,” said I. The tall woman replied, in a friendly enough tone, that she didn't feel much like Big Brother. “Well, Big Sister then.” She was fine with that. And it struck me that the sinister connotations of the former epithet do not carry over to the latter one, not at all.

One of the vendors, who was not present, sells Trump memorabilia and little else. He had put on display a roll of paper towels, on which I wrote “DEATH TO FASCISM.” The tall woman might have seen me, or seen my words later and connected the dots, but I don't care.

AlanCliffe 6 May 31
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Destruction of property is destruction of property.

KateOahu Level 8 June 1, 2021

D.O.P. is D.O.P.? (Damn, I remember when D of the P meant dictatorship of the proletariat...) Perhaps so, although the sacrosanct character of any and all property, including a single disposable paper towel, eludes me. And fascism is fascism, a rather larger matter than said towel and its inviolability. On a weekend when it's customary to honor the defeat of fascism by previous generations, which required and entailed the "destruction" of a great deal more than that, one tries to do what one should.

@AlanCliffe The holiday yesterday was not to “honor the defeat of fascism”, it was to honor the memory of those who gave their lives in military service in defense of Democracy. Defacing the property of others is not consistent with that. In a Democracy, that vendor has the right the sell. YOU had the right to speak against it, not deface it.

@MsKathleen I take it you don't think the defense of democracy has anything to do with defeating anti-democratic forces; a notion difficult to fathom. At any rate, it is not for you to dictate to me or anyone else what nuance of the holiday is the correct one.

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