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[–] [email protected] 119 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

the single most important reason for libraries to be freely accessible...maybe why certain folks want them to go away

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

If libraries didn't already exist, to people in the USA they'd sound like some kind of socialist fever dream.

A place where anybody can go to borrow media for free? Paid with my tax dollars?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 weeks ago

I say this all the time! I use it to try to discredit conservatives when they make up reasons why we can't have good things. Like, look, you love the library, and you know conservatives would make up all sorts of reasons why it couldn't ever work. When they're going on about how free buses (or whatever) couldn't work, it's the same

[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Benjamin Franklin was a lover of life, and he seemed to think that books helped to love life...I honestly can't believe he was so influential as to create one of the finest institutions on the planet. Remember, he hung out with slavers....

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Sure, an American invented libraries, totally /s

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

lending libraries?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The library of Alexandria existed a tiny bit before Franklin.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

lending libraries?