what the heck happened to public libraries? : rspod

One of our own, and greatest, dramatards became homeless and shitposted from a public library and died on Jan 5 2001. Had he lived, he could have stopped Jan 6.

RIP JerryFromTomAndJerry. Maybe next time don't do so many drugs.

!oldstrags !boomers !dramatards !historychads

If you live in a hustle and bustle, homeless people have been a problem fro decades.

However, the problem seemingly everywhere is that a lot of people no longer know how to act in public anymore. They act r-slurred, neurodivergent, and like no one else exists.

>Nooooo we HAVE to keep around institutions that only made sense 150 years ago when the average person had almost no access to books, we just HAVE to spend tax money on libraries and schools even though the Internet has made 95% of the actual education value that they provide easy to just get for free online

Being clean, quiet and generally not a nuisance is white supremacy, chud. Do better.

Portland Central Library was one of my favorite places when I was a kid. It was built about a century ago, back when public buildings were supposed to show your city's prestige, so it's got huge marble staircases and cavernous rooms with high ceilings and shelf after shelf of books. Now at least half the people there are homeless and there's sheriff's deputies constantly making the rounds, walking by about every 10 minutes. And they still can't stop people from going into the restroom and pooping on the floor right in front of the potty.

I knew somebody who became a librarian. She was always kind of a leftoid but not in your face about it. When she started going for the library degree I notice she got way more political. This was around the late 2000s and she was already all about Foucault and s and stuff. At the time I thought it just grew out of her own personality, but in hindsight it's obvious that the librarians were just woke way ahead of everyone else. She cared about all these weird issues that nobody else cared about, but around 2014-2016 those issues suddenly became the only thing the left would ever talk about.

I remember the exact moment libraries turned to shit: it was when they all bought a bunch of PCs and let people access the internet there. From that moment on, public libraries have been well-staffed goon caves for the homeless.

I pity Zoomers and Milennials never getting to experience going to a nice library back in the day when you couldn't just google shit. I used to write a list of things I was curious about on a scrap of paper all week and then on Saturday, I'd get to go to the library and read about those things.

someone posted this on the reddit thread and it's right:

The last time I went to a public library I saw a man pooping in a bucket in the parking lot.

happened

Just live in a white rural area??

I regularly went to the public library in order to get a quiet place to study away from home.

The degenerates on the computers are absolute animals. An old guy sitting there watching asian girl fetish smoking videos and getting off on it, another old guy watching videos of half naked kids on youtube (no shit) and the librarians refusing to ban him for it. Kids loitering in the lobby. A few genuine neurodivergent types go and watch videos of bee hives on the computer . There's dedicated shrines to LGBT and anti-racism everywhere, and drag queen story hour isn't a meme it happens at least twice a year. A lot of conservative leaning people avoid taking their kids to the library for that reason.

People still go to the upper floors for the library for study. However, for a good 10+ years at this point nobody gets the books out. You could remove everything but the reference section cut down the floor space 80%, and fire 80% of the staff, and the place would still function the same as a quiet study area. Go take the free computers somewhere else as well, make that a separate government service. In fact, digitize the reference section and seal away the archives in boxes.

The entire place gets by on its reputation of being a "smart person thing", but it's just another bloated public service. The research assistants in the archive section make good money but do literally nothing all day. It absolutely is a useless money sink, but if you suggest privatizing it everyone makes out you're some Luddite because "hurr u don't like education and books".

Homeless aren't that hard to deal with. When I was growing up, there were homeless on every other street pestering me for money. Now I barely see any at all since it was becoming a problem and the city authorities decided to actually do something about it. They just need to be annoying enough and the local government well funded enough to pay someone to deal with them.

rspod is angrily chudding out and doing their best Steve Sailer impression, while redscarepod has become a bunch of Hamasnik TrueAnon posters

Both are equally shitty in their own way

I'm sick of wingcucks

Vote Blue no matter who!

Progressive thinking has turned libraries into hubs for homeless. The library staff deserve what's happening

When I moved into my new town, me and the girl went to the local library. Only one weirdo homeless guy there, mumbling to himself among the other patrons; but he seemed to be doing something actually productive on the computer, rather than openly jerking off to PornHub. So that's re-assuring.

This triggers me because I have a friend who works in a public library, and the stories he tells are just depressing.

Cities basically treat libraries as a community gathering spot, and keeps telling them to do more outreach and events that are completely unrelated to the function of the library. Some library administrators even encourage the staffs to actively bend the rules to accommodate stupid demands. They of course reverse it when they can no longer appease those patrons and pretend they care about the wellbeing of their staff.

Being a public service institution, you can imagine the place is filled by progressive-leaning people in its staff. Seeing them sycophantically cheering at more "innovations" and "caringness" first-hand must have been heck. I will not forget the look he gave me when he told me one of his co-worker's response to the questions "what is the most important thing for a library" was its "welcoming nature."

I hate progressives. I hate them more whenever I hear of their latest antics. Those people are so oblivious of the real world, yet they are so entrenched in the decision-making duty of our cultural institutions.

The internet has largely replaced the traditional societal role of a library. The only people who still go there are the type of people who are somehow otherwise unable to access the internet.

Nobody reads anymore so they're just internet cafes for bums. The most frequent user of our local library is a guy who looks and smells like a hobbit.

I've been to plenty of public libraries and none of them are like this except for the homeless people being degenerates

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