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Remember to support your local library (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 2 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 2 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Just mention that Benjamin Franklin invented libraries, and they might shut up.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ha! That communist?! /s

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

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.