I'm old enough to remember the angst DU used to have over Borders, and how that soulless company was murdering the mom and pop bookstores (which apparently numbered in the millions). Anyone else remember that? How they vowed to buy their lesbian erotica from corner indie bookstores?
Someone upthread said it best: Amazon enables their shut-in lifestyles, so no way are they going away from that. Most of them are out of masks, anyway, and haven't had their ninth covid booster, so how CAN they go out in public?
(postscript: I was at a Sprouts yesterday [involuntarily] and as much as that place has changed, it's still lousy with smug hippie assholes. When we walked in I remarked, 'I bet we see at least a couple of people wearing their ****ing face diapers.' No: there were FIVE. ****ing unreal. Ironically, if any other human touched those petri dishes of effluence and lentil soup remnants, they'd get sepsis and die. But they're keeping liberals saaaaafe

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