Which libraries specifically, so I can avoid them of course.
Hell yeah.
Submitted 3 weeks ago by Gork@sopuli.xyz to [deleted]
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just2look@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Did fox really report that? I mean I would belive it because fox viewers are absolute morons but I can’t tell whats satire anymore
KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
Seems completely plausible, as part of their rhetoric to turn people against drag queen story hour.
Mikina@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
I found the same image from April, 2024. A lot of 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.
HeartyOfGlass@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
the_riviera_kid@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
LOL, not suprised
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks 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…
baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
I was wondering how long it would take them to attack libraries. FREE books, internet access, and air conditioning?
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
Tiral@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
Katana314@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Books?
I can’t read. I go to my library for free comic books, access to digital streaming services, and printing.
Ramsesder13te@feddit.org 2 weeks ago
Free and uncensored education? Don’t you realise that’s literally…
QueenHawlSera@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Oh my god, that’s disgusting. Where?
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
“Don’t you know the Dewey Decimal system?”
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 3 weeks 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.
rethnor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
That’s probably why they are attaching them. Also libraries promote learning.
chunes@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Wait until they find out you can do early voting at the Library.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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?
sundray@lemmus.org 3 weeks ago
When you join your local Friends of the Library chapter, make sure you upgrade to the Friends with Benefits tier.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Just make sure you return the condom using the reusable items dropbox.
BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Oddly specific info maybe, but I’ve been expressively asked not to dump any organic matter in the dropbox.
SourDragon@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Damn, I need to start going to my library more often
rethnor@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
You can rent movies and games from the library too! It’s totally worth it.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
My local library rents specialty tools/pans for baking!
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks 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 great.
Use ALL of what the library has to offer!
SourDragon@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 📚 🐲
davetortoise@reddthat.com 3 weeks ago
The table legs make it look like the central guy has giant legs
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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?
monotremata@lemmy.ca 2 weeks 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.
Napster153@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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.
mrmisses@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
They also want to build on it. Billionaires need someplace nice for their 10th home away from us poors
Blackmist@feddit.uk 2 weeks 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
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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.
Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks 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.
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.
GardenGeek@europe.pub 2 weeks ago
Ask yourself a simple question: What will make you more money?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Once again, the unhinged Right’s imagined Left (and Center) is infinitely more based than the reality.
bdot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
i hate that comma, placement
deadbeef79000@lemmy.nz 3 weeks ago
It is as accurate as the rest of what is on screen.
AdolfSchmitler@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
And Republicans just believe it because none of them have ever been to a library before
Bakkoda@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
You know this isn’t true because Republicans want to defund them lol
_haha_oh_wow_@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Dang: Mine just has books, music, and movies I can enjoy for free.
FudgyMcTubbs@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
No homeless people jacking off to porno at your library? Must be nice.
_haha_oh_wow_@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
It is!
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Homeless?!
dephyre@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
But which ones specifically?
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
NOTE: You still have to be very quiet, so don’t forget the ball gag.
Squirrelanna@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
That’s just common courtesy!
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My balls did not consent to being used as a gag
some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
You might want to reread the contract you signed when you got that library card
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
How would anyone from Fox “News” know this? They haven’t been to a library since they burned the one in Alexandria down.
Saapas@piefed.zip 3 weeks 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.
sem@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 weeks 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.
Saapas@piefed.zip 3 weeks 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.
Malyca@lemmy.zip 2 weeks 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.
tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Step 1 of the plan to close all public libraries in the US.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks 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.
Paddzr@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I know critical thinking isn’t something a fox news viewer has… but cmon? They can’t be this stupid?
Klear@piefed.world 3 weeks ago
They can’t be this stupid?
You know the answer to that question.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks 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.
bridgeburner@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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.
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world 3 weeks 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
davidagain@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
They’re itching for a reason to hate on anyone that might have learned anything because it proves to them that clever=bad.
lizzzy@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Which ones. Are any local to me?
Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
So libraries have turned in to dens of Hookers & Blow?!
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Just the Presidential library.
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Say what you will about the Trump library, its kids’ section is unparalleled.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 3 weeks ago
They’ve always been that. These dorks just never bothered to go to one.
MilitantAtheist@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Where the fuck did I put my library card…
Kintarian@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Wow, I’m going to the wrong library. Where is this library?
exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks 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!
db_null@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
shittydwarf@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
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