699
submitted 4 months ago by stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net to c/memes@slrpnk.net
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] whodatdair 104 points 4 months ago

What kind of monster attacks public libraries

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 115 points 4 months ago

The one that wants to ban books.

[-] Goodtoknow@lemmy.ca 82 points 4 months ago

And free to use public spaces, One of the last enclaves from capitalism. Comfortable third places for people to just exist

[-] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 37 points 4 months ago

Libraries have free books. That takes profit from Amazon.

Libraries have free Internet. That takes profit from ISPs.

Libraries have free research tools and expert guidance from librarians. That takes profit from all sorts of companies that profit off your ignorance.

And worst of all, that stuff is all publicly funded, so when you look at a library you see government helping people. And there's nothing conservatives hate more than government that helps people.

[-] GreenAppleTree@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

Libraries educate people. That takes away their voting base.

[-] BubbleMonkey@slrpnk.net 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Interestingly, I hear people around me complain all the time about public funding for public goods…

We have more than most areas, and almost nobody knows the things are tax funded. And it’s all really nice stuff, like the environmental center is publicly funded through tax and even people who hate public goods rave about it (so naturally I point out that it’s all tax funded or it wouldn’t be nearly so nice and they look like they smelled poop)..

Our major utility isn’t even really a private entity, because it’s a renewable (hydro), and they aren’t allowed to own the river/dictate water movement here. The city does that for them.

It’s like a bastion of public goods in the heart of conservative space, and nobody realizes that it’s all tax paid… because it’s nice.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] frickineh@lemmy.world 39 points 4 months ago

The kind that has a vested interest in an ignorant populace.

[-] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago
[-] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 4 months ago

Conservatives. They're some combination of stupid, ignorant, and evil.

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 6 points 4 months ago

They started it when they refused to show me the genitals of that cute library monster! /j

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 89 points 4 months ago

As a former public librarian and current person who walks their dog, I'm of two minds.

  1. I've seen less drug use and public sex at local public libraries than at interstate rest areas and on hiking trails.

  2. If you're going to overdose, I'd rather you do it in public where you can get help. If you're going to engage in public sex please don't do it around people that aren't into that. There are private clubs for that.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 22 points 4 months ago

If it's a private club, it's no longer public!

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 4 months ago

Well, it's more public than your own home and everyone there consented to being around potential strangers having sex. Consent is sexy!

[-] tacosanonymous@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago

Current public librarian.

Almost no one does that stuff inside the library. Maybe they have more instances in places like LA, Chicago, Miami, etc.

Most abusers drink, do drugs, fuck, etc. then come into the library and stumble around. Like OP said, it’s acceptable bc it’s safer. Just as long as they don’t disrupt services or break policies.

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 4 months ago

Or set off the fire alarm by vaping in the bathroom. I hated when teen boys did that. It was always belligerent teen boys.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 11 points 4 months ago

Yea, but are you a ….. sexy librarian with the glasses?

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 9 points 4 months ago

Yes, but my local dungeon closed during the pandemic so I don't know where to point folks anymore. I'd check on FetLife if I were you. There's also the Queer Liberation Library if you're in America and looking for "objectionable" reading material online.

And I've never been hip with the drug scene, as I imagine the young'uns say.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

I leave now happy sunday

[-] kurwa@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah private clubs like the ones Republicans go to

load more comments (5 replies)
[-] Stalinwolf@lemmy.ca 36 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Why the comma? That use of a comma is weird, right? Is it just me? They used one adjective. This wasn't a drug-infested, cum-covered sex den. This was merely a drug-infested sex den.

[-] WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world 21 points 4 months ago

Whoever writes their captions apparently doesn't spend enough time at their local drug-infested sex den.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] FarFarAway@startrek.website 12 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I think they're presenting it as two separate problems. Drug infested is not describing the sex den. It is drug infested. It is a sex den.

Edit: Here's a good explanation: "A comma performs another kind of abbreviation in a headline, connecting two ideas without a linking word or phrase (often and)

[-] jh29a 8 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

The problem with that interpretation is that you can't have "libraries turning into drug-infested, libraries turning into sex dens." because "drug-infested" is not a noun phrase a library can turn into like "sex dens" is. I also tried misinterpreting this comma as a comma between two adjectives, which doesn't work because "sex" is not an adjective. Maybe "Libraries turning drug-infested, into sex dens" fits your interpretation better. Does it?

[-] FarFarAway@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

I suppose, yes. The library is turning drug infested and into a sex den. The comma is replacing all the words "and into a." Which is essentially what you wrote. I guess i was trying to point out they were two separate situations and that drug infested is not describing the sex den. I was also trying to establish that commas can replace words and phrases. Although the example I gave above only replaced one word, it would make sense they would replace other words, as well, to shorten the headline.

I guess there are actual headline specific grammatical rules that are followed. While not a comprehensive list, some of these rules include leaving out auxiliary and some joining verbs, articles, conjunctions, etc, and replacing some words with various punctuation. Apparently, the list goes on.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[-] luves2spooge@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

You're right because the hyphantion of "drug-infested" causes it to act as an adjective to describe "sex dens". But there's only one adjective so the comma is not necessary

[-] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

or drug-infested, sex-ridden den

[-] jh29a 2 points 4 months ago

sex is not an adjective

[-] someguy3@lemmy.world 35 points 4 months ago

At what point do Fox viewers wake up? Is there any point?

[-] Bytemeister@lemmy.world 28 points 4 months ago

Waking up is woke. They already hate woke, because they won't wake and see the woke rope-a-dope joke these fucks put them on is a slippery slope

[-] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 20 points 4 months ago

Alright Eminem, let's get you to bed

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

You must have forgot about dre

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

20 years ago, they were out in full force because of Bush & 9/11.

Without a Fairness Doctrine that requires news channels to actually, you know, deliver facts... We're kinda fucked.

But fortunately, you can just trust that if the person you're talking to watches Fox News, assume they're a fucking moron.

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] variants@possumpat.io 4 points 4 months ago

When they start getting beat in the street by the same people they thought were on their side for not being the right kind of person

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 25 points 4 months ago

My credibility for Fox has gone even deeper down the shitter after I was at the gym yesterday. They had Fox news playing and they were claiming that people are finding cartoon rat looking men to be attractive. What kind of fucking news story is that?

https://archive.is/5ThzA

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 13 points 4 months ago

Elizabeth Stanton , Larry Fink · Fox News: be ashamed of yourselves

How rude

And the article just KEEPS GOING

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 2 points 4 months ago

Yeah I was watching it while on the treadmills and they had like 4 or 5 news people sitting at the table discussing it. I was appalled by the low effort mind washing shit they pushed out.

[-] Potatos_are_not_friends@lemmy.world 10 points 4 months ago

When I was a kid, I used to pick up newspapers and magazines that were pretty tabloidy, like "Bigfoot stopped moon landing because it will tip the flat earth". Shit that was so stupid but it was fun for me.

I'm so furious that my enjoyment of really obviously stupid news is now moonlit on channels like Fox News.

Schools putting out litter boxes for school kids? And you believe it? What the fuck.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

Where would one find such disgusting dens of iniquity? So one can avoid them, of course.

[-] DancingBear@midwest.social 4 points 4 months ago

We are waiting on the response from the sexy librarian

[-] DannyMac@lemm.ee 19 points 4 months ago

It's cause of all those STEM additions. 3D printers = Sin

/s

[-] nifty@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

If you spent more time at drug infested sex dens, you’d be less against libraries

[-] jh29a 4 points 4 months ago

the comma definitely increases the humour for me

load more comments (1 replies)
[-] dudinax@programming.dev 3 points 4 months ago
[-] shadearg@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago

"There's so many of them, which one?"

[-] mostNONheinous@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

The question was almost rhetorical, because Fox couldn’t tell you if they wanted to.

load more comments
view more: next ›
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2024
699 points (100.0% liked)

solarpunk memes

2783 readers
657 users here now

For when you need a laugh!

The definition of a "meme" here is intentionally pretty loose. Images, screenshots, and the like are welcome!

But, keep it lighthearted and/or within our server's ideals.

Posts and comments that are hateful, trolling, inciting, and/or overly negative will be removed at the moderators' discretion.

Please follow all slrpnk.net rules and community guidelines

Have fun!

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS