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Remember to support your local library(lemmy.world)

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Sabre363@sh.itjust.works
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And yet we still burn the books

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RetroSoul@lemmy.world
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Yep they are awesome, especially Hoopla for comics. Anyone have a subscription to the Marvel/DC comic apps? If you have a library card, you can sign up for Hoopla for free and check out comics.

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chemicalprophet@lemm.ee
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I feel this way about food, housing, and healthcare (I include dental and mental or wtf are we doing?)…

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andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works
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Libraries and education are an investment even for a capitalist. The only beneficiaries of lacking both are religious slave states.

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taladar@sh.itjust.works
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Indeed, there have been studies that education is one of the highest RoI investments a country can make.

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rottingleaf@lemmy.world
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For oligarchy they are not, since economic development reduces the oligarch’s power, which is a thing relative to the total size of economy. Same with social power.

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jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
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If libraries didn’t exist, and someone tried to invent them, I am confident that conservatives would fight them tooth and nail with a thousand bad reasons.

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SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world
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You say this like they aren’t doing it already, filing complaints against hundreds of books at a time that none of them have read

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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Just mention that Benjamin Franklin invented libraries, and they might shut up.

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Todd_cross@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Ha! That communist?! /s

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sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

One of the favorite and often mis-quoted lines for right-wingers. The context here is kind of funny, since it’s basically pro-taxation.

I do like misquoting it though to promote privacy, but that has nothing to do with the actual context of the quote.

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