shittydwarf 145 points 23 days ago

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just2look 113 points 23 days ago

Which libraries specifically? So I can avoid them of course.

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the_riviera_kid 70 points 23 days ago

Did fox really report that? I mean I would believe it because fox viewers are absolute morons but I can't tell whats satire anymore

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KoboldCoterie 40 points 23 days ago

Seems completely plausible, as part of their rhetoric to turn people against drag queen story hour.

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Mikina 24 points 23 days ago

I found the same image from April, 2024. A few articles about it from this week, but also a few here and there, including one post on 9Gag (wow, haven't heard that name in a looong time), from April 2024.

So, if it's real, it's not recent.

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HeartyOfGlass 17 points 23 days ago

Yep.

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the_riviera_kid 6 points 23 days ago

LOL, not suprised

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wonderingwanderer 6 points 23 days ago

They're acting like they're so concerned for the integrity of public libraries, but this is transparently an attempt to manufacture consent to defund public libraries.

It's so obvious if you pay any attention at all, they've been telegraphing this for months if not years...

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baggachipz 55 points 23 days ago

I was wondering how long it would take them to attack libraries. FREE books, internet access, and air conditioning?

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Malyca 9 points 22 days ago

More specifically, true information is communism. Don't you know history is what the white man says it is? Google has already updated their search results to reflect revisionist history. Once the libraries are gone, that's it.

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Tiral 3 points 22 days ago

Wait, now you can use Libby and borrow books from libraries within hundreds of miles or you....for free? Better end that shit we don't want people learning anything. Statistically the higher your education level the more likely you are to be a Democrat atheist.

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Katana314 3 points 22 days ago

Books?

I can’t read. I go to my library for free comic books, access to digital streaming services, and printing.

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Ramsesder13te 3 points 22 days ago

Free and uncensored education? Don't you realise that's literally...

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QueenHawlSera 45 points 23 days ago

Oh my god, that's disgusting. Where?

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sundray 28 points 23 days ago

"Don't you know the Dewey Decimal system?"

Conan the Librarian

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melsaskca 41 points 23 days ago

Libraries are the last sanctuary for the poor and the lost. It used to be the churches. Save all libraries everywhere and build way more.

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rethnor 17 points 23 days ago

That's probably why they are attaching them. Also libraries promote learning.

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chunes 38 points 23 days ago

The reason fox news is able to make wild claims about libraries is because its viewers haven't stepped foot in a library since they were in elementary school.

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BarneyPiccolo 3 points 22 days ago

Wait until they find out you can do early voting at the Library.

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BigDanishGuy 36 points 23 days ago

Is that like a "library plus" subscription? Or do I just go to the counter with my card and ask for a drug fueled orgy?

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sundray 19 points 23 days ago

When you join your local Friends of the Library chapter, make sure you upgrade to the Friends with Benefits tier.

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Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In 9 points 23 days ago

Just make sure you return the condom using the reusable items dropbox.

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BigDanishGuy 8 points 23 days ago

Oddly specific info maybe, but I've been expressively asked not to dump any organic matter in the dropbox.

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AnUnusualRelic 7 points 23 days ago

Well, you have to rinse it first, obviously.

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SourDragon 34 points 23 days ago

Damn, I need to start going to my library more often

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rethnor 15 points 23 days ago

You can rent movies and games from the library too! It's totally worth it.

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CADmonkey 9 points 23 days ago

My local library rents specialty tools/pans for baking!

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rethnor 4 points 22 days ago

Nice!

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Cracks_InTheWalls 6 points 23 days ago

And if you can't physically get there as often as you'd like, most have a great collection of digital resources for ebooks, newspapers, film, etc. etc. that are pretty awesome.

Use ALL of what the library has to offer!

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CADmonkey 5 points 23 days ago

I do love my Libby app.

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rethnor 3 points 22 days ago

Audiobooks ftw!

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SourDragon 2 points 22 days ago

I'm playing Pokémon Ultra Sun while watching season 2 of Once Upon A Time. Checked out both from the library. Love my local library 📚 🐲

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davetortoise 29 points 23 days ago

The table legs make it look like the central guy has giant legs

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Lodespawn 4 points 23 days ago

Jesse the haunted puppet definitely has tiny little stick legs hidden behind those table legs

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bdot 24 points 23 days ago

i hate that comma, placement

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deadbeef79000 3 points 23 days ago

It is as accurate as the rest of what is on screen.

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AdolfSchmitler 23 points 23 days ago

And Republicans just believe it because none of them have ever been to a library before

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BarneyPiccolo 23 points 22 days ago

Libraries are another example of a purely Socialist concept that is woven into our "Democratic" society, so this is their chance to demonize libraries in their defamation of Socialism before the Midterms. Museums are next.

When they do that, remind them that nothing is more Socialist than the Fire Department, which was originally a private operation, until the citizens made it a socialist municipal mainstay. Do they want to get rid of the Fire Department, just because it is Socialist? How about public parks? How about State or National Parks?

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monotremata 13 points 22 days ago

They absolutely do want to get rid of state and national parks, though. There's valuable minerals on some of that land, and other land that can be repurposed for grazing cattle. They're whittling it away as fast as they can already.

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Napster153 5 points 22 days ago

And the only reason the minerals there are valuable is because they've sucked the life out of all the available zones.

All to drive a lifestyle that was impracticle and unaffordable from the start.

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mrmisses 3 points 22 days ago

They also want to build on it. Billionaires need someplace nice for their 10th home away from us poors

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BarneyPiccolo 2 points 22 days ago

Data Centers

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Blackmist 6 points 22 days ago

I'd really like to see the capitalist Fire Brigade, if only to see Terry Pratchett proven right once again.

Ankh-Morpork no longer had a fire brigade. The citizens had a rather disturbingly direct way of thinking at times, and it did not take long for people to see the rather obvious flaw in paying a group of people by the number of fires they put out. The penny really dropped shortly after Charcoal Tuesday.

― Terry Pratchett, Jingo

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BarneyPiccolo 2 points 22 days ago

The original capitalist fire brigade were local companies that a business owner or homeowner could pay to come and put out a fire. They were given a cast iron plaque, called a "Fire Mark," to put on their building, next to the door. When the fire brigade showed up, and there was no Fire Mark, they'd just watch the building burn down, unless the owner paid immediately.

When cities decided that was a terrible system, those fire brigade companies morphed into the first insurance companies, and they've been parasites on our lives ever since.

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pupbiru 1 point 21 days ago

weirdly i was actually thinking about this the other day and i don’t think it’d go back to that state of affairs. i think we already have an example of what it’s turn into: US emergency departments

they can’t refuse to treat anyone but someone’s on the hook for hundreds of thousands of dollars of inflated costs. if you don’t have insurance, you’re in debts

i imagine it’d be the same with a non-socialist fire department: they show up to a building and put it out as normal and can’t refuse… 95% of people have fire insurance, and if you don’t you’re in fire debt that costs more than the building they “saved” - and then it still probably has to get torn down because of the damage

and then they’d still justify it saying that they protected the buildings around you which you’d be responsible for repairing if they didn’t put the fire out so it’s not even about your building

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Jax 5 points 22 days ago

Pretty sure the Trump admin has been making cuts to the national forest service, the supposed goal is to weaken oversight and boost resource extraction. I could easily see them thinking a forest burning down is a great thing - more room for data centers.

So yes, they probably would try to get rid of fire departments. Fortunately, though, most of them are locally funded - so they don't really get to make that decision on the federal level.

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GardenGeek 1 point 22 days ago

Ask yourself a simple question: What will make you more money?

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BarneyPiccolo 1 point 22 days ago

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Viking_Hippie 23 points 23 days ago

Once again, the unhinged Right's imagined Left (and Center) is infinitely more based than the reality.

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IhaveCrabs111 0 points 23 days ago

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_haha_oh_wow_ 22 points 23 days ago

Dang: Mine just has books, music, and movies I can enjoy for free.

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FudgyMcTubbs 8 points 23 days ago

No homeless people jacking off to porno at your library? Must be nice.

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_haha_oh_wow_ 4 points 23 days ago

It is!

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PattyMcB 2 points 23 days ago

Homeless?!

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dephyre 22 points 23 days ago

But which ones specifically?

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Thebeardedsinglemalt 6 points 23 days ago

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Bakkoda 22 points 23 days ago

You know this isn't true because Republicans want to defund them lol

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JoMiran 17 points 22 days ago

NOTE: You still have to be very quiet, so don't forget the ball gag.

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Squirrelanna 5 points 22 days ago

That's just common courtesy!

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 22 days ago

My balls did not consent to being used as a gag

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some_kind_of_guy 2 points 22 days ago

You might want to reread the contract you signed when you got that library card

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HeyThisIsntTheYMCA 1 point 22 days ago

they got out a special one for me that just said "DEAR GOD BRING THEM BACK IN ONE PIECE" and was made out of brimstone, why?

oh gods what was the THEM

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Paddzr 15 points 23 days ago

I know critical thinking isn't something a fox news viewer has... but cmon? They can't be this stupid?

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Klear 10 points 23 days ago

They can’t be this stupid?

You know the answer to that question.

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Viking_Hippie 7 points 23 days ago

Decades of relentless gaslighting is an immensely powerful form of brainwashing.

When it's combined with a nearly perfectly closed bubble, very few escape with their sanity and capacity for critical thinking intact.

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bridgeburner 5 points 23 days ago

I mean just look at the high gas prices (which are still dirt cheap compared to germany) and people don't realize it is Trumps doing. Or how he slashes Medicaid. Things that are really perceivable in your everyday live and not abstract politics.

So yeah, totally believable that a lot of those people fall for this kinda news.

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Thebeardedsinglemalt 1 point 23 days ago

I work at a nfp hospital and had to hold off on some house reno. Anytime anyone I even suspect is leaning not-left I always say *well that project has been put on hold. With all the Medicare/Medicaid cuts and that being the bulk of our reimbursement...no raises."

Some have a semblance of critical thinking and realize that those cuts actually hurt people while others gaze blankly

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davidagain 5 points 23 days ago

They're itching for a reason to hate on anyone that might have learned anything because it proves to them that clever=bad.

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tabarnaski 15 points 23 days ago

Step 1 of the plan to close all public libraries in the US.

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BarneyPiccolo 2 points 22 days ago

Think of the money they can save, and give tax cuts to the Sociopathic Oligarchs. No sense wasting knowledge on people who are only going to die in slave labor camps anyway.

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Malyca 15 points 22 days ago

Now they come for libraries, the last source of true information. Once those are gone, history is what they say and reality is what they say.

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Saapas 15 points 23 days ago

I've been to some libraries where it's for whatever reason full of people either drunk or high causing a ruckus. Then they sometimes fight, leave needles and stuff behind and yell at random people. The library has hired/asked the mall to get more security, but the library has already got a reputation and people have started avoiding it. It sucks, there's very few nice, calm and quiet community places around.

The situation improved this summer since the drunk or high people spend more time outside but now the close by park has been dug up, so they're back to the library.

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sem 4 points 23 days ago

Yeah I've seen a library that manages to mediate between its homeless polulation and other patrons, but i could see fox news trying to gin up a moral panoc about libraries rather than have compassion for the homeless.

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Saapas 3 points 23 days ago

It's not really homeless people that do that here, it's more just generally addicts. Still sad and a poor situation for everyone.

Most libraries aren't like that though, this particular library just has it bad. I'm not exactly sure why

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Lushed_Lungfish 15 points 22 days ago

How would anyone from Fox "News" know this? They haven't been to a library since they burned the one in Alexandria down.

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lizzzy 13 points 23 days ago

Which ones. Are any local to me?

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DisasterTransport 11 points 23 days ago

damn perhaps we should do something about the underlying socioeconomic problems that cause homelessness and antisocial behavior. No? just shuffle them around some more? oh, okay.

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Kolanaki 11 points 23 days ago

They've always been that. These dorks just never bothered to go to one before.

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Aceticon 11 points 23 days ago

So libraries have turned in to dens of Hookers & Blow?!

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SaveTheTuaHawk 9 points 23 days ago

Just the Presidential library.

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ivanafterall 2 points 22 days ago

Say what you will about the Trump library, its kids' section is unparalleled.

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Kintarian 10 points 22 days ago

Wow, I'm going to the wrong library. Where is this library?

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MilitantAtheist 10 points 22 days ago

Where the fuck did I put my library card...

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exasperation 9 points 22 days ago

I don't think we're talking about love here. We are talking about S-E-X in front of the C-H-I-L-D-R-E-N!

Sex Cauldron? I thought they closed that place down!

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Gork 3 points 22 days ago

I would definitely patronize the Sex Cauldron

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db_null 7 points 23 days ago

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arctanthrope 6 points 23 days ago

fox once again imagining a much more based world to get mad about

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AnUnusualRelic 6 points 23 days ago

Once again, the US is having all of the fun, when we just have plain boring old libraries with books and magazines.

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Grostleton 6 points 22 days ago

Having fun isn't hard when you've got a library card

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mrmisses 5 points 23 days ago

Sex dens, sure, no duh. But DRUG INFESTED?!

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Ramsesder13te 5 points 22 days ago

I am only am realising now that "the 7" was probably also parodying "the 5”.

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VampirePenguin 5 points 22 days ago

If only that were true. sigh

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DaPorkchop_ 5 points 23 days ago

The Onion - Back of Library Smells Like Weed

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gandalf_der_12te 4 points 21 days ago

reminds me of this:

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Caketaco 4 points 22 days ago

Sign me up! lol. I can’t get an erection. I’ve been to my local library a few times, and they have little rooms you can rent for private meetings and whatnot. Definitely heard a couple fuck in one of those, once.

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Napster153 1 point 22 days ago

That sounds like a moral and ethical failure than a institutional one. It should be rational that you'd want to copulate in a private environment, not where you are likely to be disturbed or outright attacked.

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eestileib 3 points 23 days ago

This sounds fucking rad

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osanna 3 points 23 days ago

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WanderWisley 3 points 23 days ago

Finally the anime’s were true!

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