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As a library, we're not here to judge, we're here to help (gruenesocial-userfiles.nbg1.your-objectstorage.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 113 points 3 days ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 59 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 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] -2 points 2 days ago (1 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] 1 points 2 days ago

Sure, an American invented libraries, totally /s

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