The shop owner is a piece of shit. You fucked up by buying merchandise from a piece of shit. Own your mistakes and do better next time. The correct move is to simply leave the store as soon as you see that shit. The store owner is a piece of shit and doesn't care what you think. He has plenty more hats to sell to plenty more pieces of shit.
this post was submitted on 19 Aug 2025
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I bought a pair of shorts the day before after driving 5 and a half hours. The hats were hidden in the very back of the store. Excuse me for not scouring the store to make sure it was okay to buy from first.
No, I'm saying you bought it when you damaged it in a childish tantrum.
Nah, fuck that noise.
Destroying fascist propaganda is a win.
He didn't destroy it. He bought it.
No, i destroyed it. I paid for it bcz the police officer told me the shop owner was going to press charges if I didnt pay for the hat. Aka, get arrested for trespassing on my vacation over a hat, or pay for it and leave with my family...I would do it again in a heartbeat. Ain't selling that dirty ass white hat to anybody else. I count it as a win.
Right, you paid money for the hat. The shop owner doesn't care if it is destroyed, because their goal is profiting from the hat, which they did. The hat served its purpose.
It's like the people who buy books to burn them, and then the book ends up on the bestseller lists.
Its not like buying a book and burning it. Im sure you'd do the same thing if a police officer approached you in a restaurant and told you to pay fir the hat or get arrested.
I didnt literally buy the hat and go set it on fire.
No, but your choices had a predictable outcome. You break it, you buy it. Getting the police involved is just extra steps.
I'd do it again too. I don't support profiting fascist merchandise...this is like selling Awschits t-shits and then tepling me to calm down about being upset that i saw one... Its a fucking concentration camp, and youre an idiot if you think its a childish tantrum to vandalize that stuff.
But you did support profiting fascist merchandise. You literally paid for the fascist merchandise you stomped on.
The irony is that if you’d just stolen the hat and stomped it outside, they probably wouldn’t have noticed.
I can only hope this is a troll and you didn't actually go full Karen.
Maybe you're cool with people profiting off others misery, but im not. Selling alligator Alcatraz hats is about the most vile thing you can do right now that isnt actually participating in that shit. Go fuck yourself, juat in case my view wasn't clear on the matter.
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Best $14 spent this year.
Right!? The police honestly looked like theyd rather be anywhere else and they were annoyed this dipshit shop owner was even contacting them. The hat wasn't even ruined.