Wednesday, July 12, 2023

Dumb Nazis and even dumber book store owners.

 I'm not sure if I'm getting a cold. My throat is scratchy and I feel shitty, and could not get to sleep last night until I got up and took some aspirin, then I slept OK but woke up still feeling like I'm getting something. 

Good thing I packed everything yesterday in the afternoon, and only had one thing that was packed and just needed a label printed and put on, so I was out of here, feeling lousy but moving, at the usual time. 

The post office has put their chute back into service but have big stickers all over it saying to be gentle with it. I can get with that. 

Traffic in the parking lot where H Mart and FedEx are was crazy. Thoroughly impacted, and it looked like everyone would be there for a while because there was one lady in an SUV who wanted to back out but Didn't. Want. To. Lose. HER. Space. Meanwhile the person in a car who wanted in, wouldn't give her room. Fortunately I was able to circle around and come in another way. 

I dropped off my packages, picked up a few boxes around back, and stopped at the EMT training school dumpster where I picked up a lot of band-aids and useful plastic bags and stuff. Plus about $20 worth of Emergen-C packets.

That was all the exploring I felt up to, and got back here. I unloaded stuff and went back out with the step-stool and my "getter stick" and got a lot of broccoli and peppers and an onion from the veggie dumpster. 

I cooked up 3 eggs scrambled with chopped onion and pepper, both from the dumpster. I feel pretty crappy and I need to eat healthy things. I'd dropped off the rest of the Korean soba noodles in the veggie dumpster for someone else, maybe, to find. They're great noodles but that much starch is not good. 

I sifted and sorted my band-aids and put my old ones I'd bought at Target and such places, along with some other stuff, in a bag to drop off for the bums. I only kept the band-aids I'd gotten today from the EMT school dumpster because the ones they have seem to be "hospital" quality and stick a lot better, wrappings don't turn yellow in a year, etc. 

The title of this post is because when I got up I turned on the radio which I had on KPFA and they were talking about how some bougie bookstore had someone come in and put Nazi leaflets in a lot of books. 

Now, speaking as someone who actually did this a tiny bit back in the 80s, it was like a stupidity contest. First, you don't put the leaflets in so they stick out like bookmarks. You put them into books that someone open to Nazism might read, and you slip them inside, not right at the front where anyone flipping through the book will find them, but further in, where someone who's really into the book will find them. 

As an example, there's a book literally called "Hitler's Table Talk". That's the kind of book you know will be read by your target audience. 

So that's just dumb on the Nazis' part. Now, the bookstore owner is, if anything, even dumber because they splattered the story all over the radio and said they put the part of the leaflet with "the message" on their Facebook or Pinterest or something page. 

The only thing they did right was do this leafleting in a white, bougie, part of the Bay Area. Because while the white working class, like every type of working class, are certainly being disenfranchised, it's the middle-class and even upper-middle-class whites who are disproportionately joining the Nazis and committing violent acts. This is because they have the spare time, the money to buy guns and stuff, and they know they can afford lawyers. The actual working class is too damn busy working. So choosing a bougie white town was probably the only intelligent thing in this mess. 

Today's haul, not including one onion, one jalapeno pepper, and not counting the plastic bags and band-aids and eye wash and all sorts of goodies. This is $20 worth or a bit more right here.

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