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3215965 No.3215965 [Reply] [Original]

Where do you all buy your books? I use Amazon personally.

>> No.3215972

>2012
>buying books
>buying movies
>buying vidya
>buying things in general

Come on Shig

>> No.3215974

>>3215972
This.

You should never be buying music, movies or video games. Or books.

>> No.3215979

>>3215965
amazon normally—when I buy a book I prefer to get it new, and amazon usually has the best price for that. If I'm already out and near a bookstore/barnes&noble, though, I'll drop in and see if there's anything I've been meaning to pick up

>>3215972
>hurr things I value aren't worth my money

>> No.3215980

>buying books
>2012
>reproducing the capitalist order in your everyday life
>trans eco-feminist anarchists seriously hope you don't do this

sage, because i am shitposting, but still kinda find it funny

>> No.3215981

A used bookstore downtown.

>> No.3215984

>>3215972
>>3215974
>>3215980

you're all undoubtedly hypocrites

>> No.3215986

Costco, extra cheap

>> No.3215987

>>3215984

How so?

>> No.3215991

>>3215981

The library is just down the street though.

>> No.3215999

>>3215987
you can't preach against fueling a capitalist/consumerist system if you spend money on anything at all. that means no arguing that 'well food/gas/power/heat are necessities,' because to pay for those things while preaching against paying for anything at all makes you inherently an ideological hypocrite.

also, if you're old enough to be sustaining yourself financially (which somehow I don't expect is the case), I very much doubt that you're even taking the most principled measure of not paying taxes to the government

>> No.3216008

>>3215999

Well in that case your typing all that out was for naught.
I just don't like paying for shit if I don't have to.

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>>3216008
>implying you 'have' to pay for anything at all

amateur anarchy

>> No.3216021

>>3216013

But that would mean putting in more than the bare minimum of effort towards a cause.
Fuck that.

>> No.3216024

>>3215984
i was jesting, but i still disagree w/your point in >>3215999

the abolitionists benefitted from the infrastructure built with capital raised by slave labor, but that didn't stop william lloyd garrison

it's a question of power. do i have it in my power to live totally independent from the entire system? no; i don't have or own any land, which is the first thing

in terms of social reform, the ideas necessarily precede the reality.

>> No.3216029

>>3216024
rationalize to your heart's content, charlatan

>> No.3216061

I usually go to Powells City of Books. Its a huge fucking store. 3 floors, over 1 million volumes, and still a used book store. Ive used all the Powell stores at one point or another.

I love living in Portland.

>> No.3216086

Every purchase is a political expression.

I just buy loads and loads of cheap, degrading pornography because I want to see loads and loads more made and coming.