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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Barnes and Noble on the cross is chefs-kiss

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Borders died for our sins

but in true cracker fashion, we must create a second false prophet, portrayed inaccurately, solely for the purpose of hero worship, and never bothering to point out that the emperor is clotheless

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No crying lady liberty. Not canon.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

The spectre of communism got her in this one, that's how dangerous the little free libraries are. If you see one, you know you're in a "no go" zone and it's already too late for you

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago

Not enough labels on everything, I can't distinguish what I should fear or not

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

relevant BMF post

those "Little Free Libraries" are usually virtue signalling used in racist petite bourgeois suburbs

https://twitter.com/yumcoconutmilk/status/1411351315385667585

“The Free Little Library” was never intended to actually provide books to those who need them, but to give affluent neighborhoods a homey, quirky, intellectual, benevolent aesthetic.

In Denver, the same neighborhoods that have them are the ones that vote to make it illegal for homeless people to exist, because they don’t like the idea of homeless people being near their homes.

This has been an issue in Denver for YEARS, and yet the same neighborhoods that vote for these bans have SO many Free Little Libraries.

THEY LIVE IS A DOCUMENTARY 👁️

I bet nazis had something similar, extremely soy attempt at resolving the contradictions of class society. Literary Karens are just as disgusting as any illiterate fascists!!!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I live in one of the poorest neighborhoods in Portland. An intentional community provided designs and tools in exchange for materials. About 20 houses built these together, then the community helped install them.

We live across the street from a park. In the summer, especially, unhoused people - often with kids - stop by to take books back to their cars and trailers.

My wife is a social worker, and the library has been a great pretext for her to engage with folks, help them find services faster than if they started at the front door, and for us to give them food and water.

We're not trying to reconcile jack shit. We're trying to share and be helpful, and have succeeded a little.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is a hexbear injoke btw, it's a reference to an old post made by a hexbear power user who was well known for getting really angry about minor things and consistently finding some way to claim they're fascist

I'd be immensely suspicious of anyone who actually agreed with the quoted bits I posted.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Well then I'm sorry I muttered "fuck this guy."

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Including the blood drops onto the amerikkka would be hero-of-socialist-labor

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

I want the corpo suit hanging on a cross too lol

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

is it praxis to go around the rich neighborhood near me putting communist propaganda in every LFL?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like to put small food items and toiletry packages in them too. Practical things for unhoused persons, and you can include some reading materials with that.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

"Book Marx" is some legendary kelly order-of-lenin

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I assumed this was made by a lefty to mock conservatives, but the comments have me confused. Did someone actually make this as anti-left propaganda?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

This was made by "Kelly" who is a political cartoonist for "The Onion" which is a satirical website. So it is satire.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

HONEST CORPORATE SALES stonks-down

amerikkka

anti-communism : liberal :: anti-capitalism : leftist

conservatives are liberals too, even if they hate it when we point it out to them

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I tried to explain Kelly cartoons to my dad once, the best I could come up with is that he casts his personal petty grievances into society wide problems. So there really is no unified underlying ideology. But then as another layer it's writer is (i believe) anonymous, for the onion, so its not serious anyway.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Once I described Kelly as like if the magazine that Rorschach reads was a real thing and had a cartoon section.

The cartoonist is Ward Sutton, who also does comics for the New Yorker. He also animated the intro to the show Strangers with Candy. He's a somewhat well known normal type political cartoonist outside of his Kelly persona.

I regret to inform you that he's kind of a lib, but he's one I can forgive since he gave the world this face sicko-hair

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We have socialism-spectre but we need the communism version