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How would anyone from Fox “News” know this? They haven’t been to a library since they burned the one in Alexandria down.
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?
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.
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.
They also want to build on it. Billionaires need someplace nice for their 10th home away from us poors
Data Centers
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
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.
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
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.
Ask yourself a simple question: What will make you more money?
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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!
I would definitely patronize the Sex Cauldron
reminds me of this:
Having fun isn’t hard when you’ve got a library card
Where the fuck did I put my library card…
Wow, I’m going to the wrong library. Where is this library?
It’s limited, so you have to sign up in advance.
Fox is going woke now, lol. I think they’re talking about Libertarianism though.
If whoever is writing the lower thirds for FOX had ever been to a library themselves, they might know that the comma there is totally incorrect…
Which libraries specifically? So I can avoid them of course.
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
Seems completely plausible, as part of their rhetoric to turn people against drag queen story hour.
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.
Yep.
LOL, not suprised
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…
I was wondering how long it would take them to attack libraries. FREE books, internet access, and air conditioning?
Books?
I can’t read. I go to my library for free comic books, access to digital streaming services, and printing.
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.
Free and uncensored education? Don’t you realise that’s literally…
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.
