Anonymous #4 21w

Also we have a very severe literacy crisis. It would be a terrible idea to remove free libraries

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Anonymous #1 21w

Nah not my post but I posted something similar a while back. Certain places like libraries, cafes, fast food restraunrs dunkin donut ect.. become camping grounds for homeless people and drug addicts and get ruined for the rest of us

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Anonymous #2 21w

I mean paper. iPads, phones, computers Kindle’s ect… exist. No point in physically going to library to read

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Anonymous #4 21w

Even the few times before that I visited it’s always homeless people and boomers without computers. Or little whose parents don’t want to look after them

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Anonymous #3 21w

Have u ever been to any public facility brother? Go to one then report back here. Spend at least an hour

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Anonymous OP 21w

Oh wow you’re like actually fucking braindead You’re right, libraries don’t own anything important lol. They don’t need funding. Ignore the fact they often have massive historical archives, communal resources, that not every book has been digitized, that there’s stuff housed there not available for checkout, or anything like that. Not that you would know bc you clearly don’t give a shit abt what resources libraries actually have

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Anonymous #2 21w

Ban homeless people and drug addicts and I wouldn’t have a problem. Libraries aren’t very safe anymore. Less regular people go which was a big deterrence for that and now it’s just a influx of the bad crowd. Literally just becomes a camping ground.

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Anonymous OP 21w

Bruh I LIVE HERE yes I have 😭 how tf you call our cities shitholes and then cry when we successfully fund our facilities like there’s nothing that will make you mfs happy

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Anonymous OP 21w

Seems like a good amount of people that get use out of it, no?

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Anonymous OP 21w

You just admitted to not stepping into a library for three years bar one instance. Quit acting like you know the day in day out experience of how it is in a library lmao

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Anonymous #2 21w

Bro I’ll literally go to 3 different public libraries tomorrow and take a picture and it’s just gonna be the type of people I said. I deadass want one of yall to spend a day at the library and come back here. Public libraries aren’t like our highscool or college ones bro

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Anonymous OP 21w

You know what my hometown library does? It holds classical guitar concerts, it has art shows, it has movie rentals, kids summer camps, crafts nights, audiobooks subscriptions, free internet and computers, and thousands of books. I have driven an hour away to a massive public library in a nearby city because it had an exhibition of rare local Native American artifacts.

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Anonymous OP 21w

It’s funny because even throughout high school I would hang at my local library (not my high school one) because I was living with abusive parents, and in that entire time period not once experienced any problems with any of the people there. That includes homeless people. You’re just afraid of homeless people because you haven’t interacted with any for more than five seconds

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Anonymous #6 21w

The library in my new town is a center for community. It holds game nights, support groups, crafts classes, instrument clubs, writing classes, health seminars, pine needle basket weaving (sad I missed that). It’s a center for community and for education and I swear to GOD how in the year 2026 do you not realize it’s important to have physical media that doesn’t require a subscription.

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Anonymous #2 21w

I’m sure OP think though me avoiding my parents was just me being a bum though, because in other comments they’ve said people like me “ruined” public spaces

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Anonymous #6 21w

art show, concert summer camp, and free internet are the only valid things you listed. And I don’t have a problem with the libraries themselves just that they mostly attract homeless and drug addicts then ruin stuff like art shows and concerts for everybody else

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Anonymous #2 21w

Well clearly you should have just bought yourself a kindle and…idk hidden in the closet? God forbid someone use a public space

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Anonymous #6 21w

This actually got me looking at the calendar and there’s another pine needle basket weaving class next week. Definitely gonna go to that.

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Anonymous #6 21w

Yeah OP prob is gonna say that i should have just done that lmaoooo

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Anonymous #6 21w

Community centers and public spaces like library’s can be good if they are done correctly and security is appropriately enforced. Yall know exactly what I mean but acting dense. When I walk up to the door I don’t want to be greeted by a homeless man sleeping at the door and have no idea if he’s gonna attack me. Then that makes me not want to visit those public spaces anymore

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Anonymous #2 21w

Also like tbh, feels like they might have an underfunded library and are just basing this on that. The library in my hometown is extremely well funded and it’s incredible. $9 million budget.

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Anonymous OP 21w

Tbh i just haven’t had that happen at any of the public libraries i have frequented. Also if he’s sleeping just leave the guy be he’s not bothering you. They’re not rabid.

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Anonymous OP 21w

Name three people you know irl who have been attacked by a homeless person and required hospitalization. Go on, I’ll wait

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Anonymous #6 21w

Also I gotta say the entitlement in the original post is wild. Not everyone has $100 for a Chromebook. Especially kids.

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Anonymous #6 21w

We have a library in my community which which only residents can use. That one has zero homeless people and drug addicts because the community is gated and they have actual security in the neighborhood. But it’s a ghost town because everyone in my neighborhood owns a laptop and kindle already or books at home. Only time it’s ever used is like 2 weeks in summer bc they do something for kids

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Anonymous #6 21w

And bro they literally made the chromebooks that price so everybody can afford. $100 is for a brand new one. You can get a used one for $10-50

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Anonymous OP 21w

Can’t notice you haven’t been able to answer my question

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Anonymous #2 21w

What question

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