The talibangeicals are winning.
If girls are allowed to read, then they might be able to figure out how terribly they’re treated. We obviously can’t have that.
Sometimes I think we should just go extinct and be done with this shit.
Oh, don’t lose faith in humanity because of this. This is only happening in the US.
extremist right wins votes in Europe
Oh, shh…
But I was told all politics in Europe are left of America’s left.
The traditional conservative parties in many places are left of US Democrats. But the ones winning now in many countries are alt right or openly fascist.
You were lied to. Look up what’s going on in Hungary.
typical america moment
you get ID’d at the library.
Books? We must protect the children!
Guns? Oh, no take the children before my guns!
Land of the free indeed.
So the under 18 mother who was forced to carry a child can’t take that child to a library or even go herself.
Yep, that tracks.
I wonder how much money is spent on paper and ink for the affidavits. And I guess the extra workers, inside and outside of the library, needed to process and file them all.
Hah! You think they actually put in place the infrastructure needed to support this asinine policy. If there aren’t enough people to get the affidavits signed then those kids can’t go expose themselves to dangerous ideas, presumably including “trans people exist” and “slavery was bad, actually”.
See also voter ID laws that just happen to come into effect as the DMV offices in poor and/or black neighborhoods close down. If they make it a sufficient pain in the ass they don’t have to take the legal or political flak for outright banning it.
Yeah. Keep them kids out of the library. They should be at home on the internet where they will only be exposed to wholesome content.
Then when you need heart surgery, complain that your doctor is from another country.
Risky click of the day
This is the stupidest timeline.
The fact that the stupidity is intentional and the desired result is the rub. Stupid, uneducated people are less likely to think critically and more likely to accept and support whatever bullshit
the political party behind all this shitRepublicans spew out.
If I was a librarian, I wouldn’t enforce this stupid bullshit.
I wonder what the penalty for that is.
as a former public librarian, i can tell you there are absolutely boomer losers with nothing to do who will sit there and make sure someone’s enforcing it. so fucking glad i work at an academic library now and no one can say shit when i put they gayest books in existence on display
I’d be surprised if any do. I haven’t heard of a single librarian that’s been in favor of these shenanigans anywhere.
These lunatics are working on making prison time the punishment for that, so good luck.
I’m willing to be arrested for breaking stupid laws that shouldn’t exist.
Hatred and malice disguised as Christianity
There’s no disguise
Yeah, Christianity used to be way more open and tolerant in the past.
And can’t go to the library.
This is by design.
As a rabblerouser above 18, if I browse the Restricted Stacks and accidentally forget them in the YA stacks, how much shit would those librarians be put through?
Why bother with that? I say go full Robin Hood, steal the restricted books and give them away to the youth. Or, if you’ve got the resources, run a black market library. It would be kinda like a speakeasy, with a password and a doorman and shit. Call it a “readeasy”? Since you’re not supposed to talk in a library and all that.
Depends on whether you’ve got LibsOfTikTok on the case.
Maybe the whole library gets defunded, idk.
I’d say, whatever you do, it has to be obvious that the librarians are innocent. So I’d say ‘accidentally’ forgetting the stacks in the wrong section is out.
They’re not playing the game in good faith. Please don’t help the bad people shut down libraries.
All part of the plan. The less educated the children are, the easier they can be exploited.
We should just landscape over the entire middle with forests and solar panels. Not Louisiana, you can stay but as a warning to everyone between you and New Mexico and Colorado.
Hey MN is cool.
Why do you want Louisiana to stay?
Hard to plant trees in the ocean
Mangroves are the trees of choice in the ocean.
Huh, good point.
Screw Louisiana then, it beginners a mangrove forest. Harder to do, but the ocean has unpaved the way at least.
New Orleans is a national treasure and incredibly left politically. I’m not saying they don’t have gang and gun violence problems, they do, but I feel more free in that city than anywhere else in the US.
Yeah but the problem is New Orleans is inside Louis-
Wait did you say more free than anywhere else in the USA?..
I’ve been to a large amount of states. I don’t think you’ve traveled much.
Been all over the States. I currently work anywhere from Omaha to Brooklyn. I’ve done a decent bit of travel outside the country as well but only many times to Mexico and a few times around other countries in Central America.
Yeah I’m talking about the French Quarter and to a lesser extent the Garden District and downtown. I haven’t gone to Bourbon Street the last three trips, I don’t care for it. Helpful locals will tell you if you’re about to walk somewhere you’re not wanted. Other than that you basically never see a cop and you can chill with anarchic punks that don’t judge. Last time I was there I was just chilling on the street and a kid walked up and pretty much shoved a large psylocibin chocolate bar in my mouth. Couldn’t imagine that anywhere else.
Free as in beer, I think. A phrase you never hear in the French Quarter is “Last Call!”
Restrict access to education and information. Which rule number of acquisition is this?
