Dude, who even knows.

4th February 2018

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Met a friend, checked out a botanical garden. Shoulda considered that it’s winter but a lot of it was interesting trunk forms/ferns/ground cover with a winter-blooming section. Better than when I took someone to the rose garden off-season and they were just spiky bushes.

Then she used her card to take me to CostCo and man! At first I hoped to get away being whelmed but no, I was overwhelmed.

Even for Clackamas the patrons vibed red tribe as hell I noticed that right off. Next off though I was struck this was a *very* distinct vibe from Wal-Mart, which by comparison was closer towards the old Fred Meyer in Felony Flats on 82nd

Like, snapshots:

Dad with his 9th gradeish daughter in a tie-dye sweatshirt from the regional Last Chance Cheerleading Tournament

3 Hispanic guys buying work pants and gloves in English

Old puffy guy in a Vietnam Veteran cap with his younger but not young asian wife

Mom in gingham dress pretending to spoon-feed her daughter inside the demo cedar wood playhouse

I mean I guess the membership structure favors the not-rich but with available property, long time horizons, an ability to live at least one payday out

I guess it read like a red utopia, a bunch of yeomen and skilled workers and laborers rewarded for their earnest labor, like how red tribe idealizes itself without the underclass

  1. glittzysunflowermaze reblogged this from kontextmaschine
  2. ghostpalmtechnique reblogged this from isaacsapphire and added:
    This is not true of the BJ’s Wholesale Club I frequent. (I mean, there are obvious small business owners there dragging...
  3. tentativelyassembled reblogged this from isaacsapphire and added:
    I always associate Costco with communism. In part because I’m always buying collectivized groceries when there, but...
  4. isaacsapphire reblogged this from redantsunderneath and added:
    Huh. I grew up with a family BJ’s membership (6 people, half of whom were teenagers simultaneously. We went through a...
  5. kontextmaschine reblogged this from kontextmaschine
  6. redantsunderneath reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    I live in purple-dom, and we have Sam’s and Costco here. I frequent Sam’s more often, but for complex reasons having to...
  7. poipoipoi-2016 reblogged this from kontextmaschine and added:
    In Michigan, it trends rich liberal. In NYC, it trends “Everybody nut-balls enough to own a car in NYC”, which....
  8. femmenietzsche said: Actually there was a schlub in a Superman onesie once. Not sure what that was about.
  9. femmenietzsche said: Everyone in my Costco is a notably unattractive soccer mom.