>I can’t think of a more egregious example of government-sponsored socialism than the public library. Unproductive citizens without two nickels to rub together are given access to millions of books they could never afford to buy on their own — all paid for with the tax dollars of productive citizens. Does the government pay for people to rent tuxedos for free, sail boats for free, or play golf for free? No, it does not. So why should it pay for people to read books and surf the Internet for free?
Nah, it's different. Libraries and the internet are data repositories requiring self-direction, universities are actual education with courses and instructors and shit. Until universities stop being filled with evil, anti-white Jews and their brown pets I don't see why I should give them money.
Adam Peterson
gen.lib.ru.ec Thank me later.
Logan Thomas
nice flag you larping shit
Ethan Wright
at this point of time, the Library serves 3 purposes in my local town:
1) Bathroom - for homeless to wash their hair, teeth
2) Computers - for viewing p0rn, their "constitutional 1st amendment right"
Libraries were important until the internet. Now, I'm inclined to agree with you, OP. Not that they are "socialist", just that the last time I went, there were a bunch of homeless niggers smoking crack and jacking off to victoria's secret adverts.
Jace Edwards
Richard talked openly to David duke. Mises admitted that fascism almost worked to save European heritage. Both jews. But Any Rand is without a doubt a dirty fucking jew. Without a doubt libertarianism is rampant with jews. But sometimes, the jews themselves are woke, but pretty rarelly
Chase Wood
"I can’t think of a more egregious example of government-sponsored socialism than the public library. Unproductive citizens without two nickels to rub together are given access to millions of books they could never afford to buy on their own -- all paid for with the tax dollars of productive citizens. Does the government pay for people to rent tuxedos for free, sail boats for free, or play golf for free? No, it does not. So why should it pay for people to read books and surf the Internet for free?
The free market should be left alone to distribute books and computers to those who have earned them. With libraries handing out free books, is it any wonder Borders went out of business? Libraries are also repositories for out-of-print books which can no longer make it in the marketplace. Gary can no longer afford to keep its main library open, but you don't see the state bailing it out. That's because Indiana is a business-friendly place that knows how to balance its budget.
In addition, libraries are often used by the homeless to warm themselves during the winter, or to nap during aimless afternoons which might better be spent looking for a job. Advocates of public libraries cite them as “community gathering spaces” -- but can’t the market provide those spaces, too?
As the author of three books, I obviously have a grudge against libraries because they enable the public to consume my work without paying for it. Every time someone checks one of my books out of the library, that’s money out of my pocket. There are 79 public libraries in Chicago. If there were 79 filling stations dispensing free gasoline, don’t you think the oil industry would complain? You bet it would, and it would probably get those stations shut down, because the Petroleum Institute has a much better-funded lobbying arm than the Authors’ Guild."
William Cox
"If the public libraries can’t generate enough revenue to support themselves, they should be closed. Well, not entirely. There is one book that everyone in Chicago deserves to read: Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand. Perhaps we can all borrow a copy at City Hall."
Anthony Gutierrez
The real bullshit of public libraries is that you need a four year degree to be a librarian. I can't even tell if they played themselves or not by having such a ridiculous requirement.
Asher Butler
The homeless just stink up our library
Nolan Martinez
>Libraries were important until the internet. They're still important, so much good stuff hasn't been digitized. If you're into history beyond the basic bitch stuff you can read in an Amazon.com bestseller, you have to go to a library.
Nicholas Cox
that is pretty wild. all it is is organizational skills.
James Ross
two different things you retarded fuckass. Id rather fund the library that supports the community, not the liberal "higher learning" meme university with ball pits and comfort animals for unwashed hippies who think we shouldnt have borders, private property or children. Establish actual institutions for learning useful stuff like STEM, Medicine, Business. Put the liberals arts, music, humanities and other soft sciences in what amounts to adult daycares. Coloring books, cots, snacktime and recess would do wonders for these regressive leftist shitholes.
my local library is so small and its still a fucking gold mine for philosophy and psychology and other things among my interests. I can't imagine the amount of pure knowledge in the biggest library in the world.
Liam Hughes
A lot of smaller branch libraries are filled with harlequin and YA trash but university libraries have a lot of good older material.
Robert Adams
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Jeremiah Nelson
Libraries are where homeless people go to look at porn on the computers and take shits in the back corners. Just charge small membership fees just above what homeless people can keep hold of and pay. Otherwise close them down, I'm tired of funding homeless masturbation centers.
>So why should it pay for people to read books and surf the Internet for free?
On the slim hope that some of them will go there to learn rather than smoke crack and shoot up in the bathrooms.
Ethan Adams
Nah the liberal arts and humanities are fine and good, the problem is how Jewed they've become.
Oliver Carter
>oh gosh you guys I am so stupid just like you guys Later: >our hard-hitting investigative journalism reveals that poltards hate reading
Elijah Stewart
>government-sponsored socialism 75% of them were built by Andrew Carnegie before he died.
Hunter Lee
if your library does interlibrary loans you've got the world by the balls
Jackson Campbell
Libraries serve as an example of how effective locally run social programs can be. I'm all for helping the community i live in, i chose to live there after all. Sending money to the feds or even the state to be redistriubted will never work like it should because the people controlling where money goes are too disconnected from the people no matter how good intention-ed they are
Eli Anderson
because your fellow citizens should be given opportunities to enlighten themselves you moron. do you think jews dont let other jews read books in their personal libraries? they do my dude. learn from the jew, read books and exchange them, discuss them. get smart and instruct your children to do the same.
Henry Brown
>reading (((books)))
Who do you think runs the libraries? Hello
Leo Miller
go buy right wing books and gift them to libraries, they will accept them. if they dont scandalize them on social media for being anti-literature barbarians.
Jordan Ward
Very few people are even browsing the books. Public libraries are full of bums either using the computers are just sitting there staring into space vegetating because they have nowhere else to go and they want to enjoy some free air conditioning.
Carson Sanders
Books are a tool of the left.
The right makes memes.
Landon Phillips
So they learn something and hopefully stop leeching off my tax $$, you dumb fucking idiot.
