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!!!
This take but its about a vegan restaurant in my community that has a fridge out front to give food away to homeless people in the city but they'll actually take the time to go in and throw away things that people donate that aren't vegan instead of letting a homeless dude get some milk
That seems like when the chuds all bought Keurigs so they could film themselves breaking them
I'm willing to bet $100 that nobody who did either of those things was a POC
That absolutely doesn’t sound like something certain posters in this website would do.
The ones in the town I used to live in would periodically get filled with reactionary literature about (("crony capitalism" and the evil democrats))
So I'd just make rounds pulling them out and throwing those books in the dumpster. This went on long enough that there started to be complaints about people vandalizing the little libraries and now most of them are gone.
Another behavior I've never admitted before, but there it is.
So I’d just make rounds pulling them out and throwing those books in the dumpster.
:rat-salute:
Yeah did the same bought a few communist manifesto online for like 2$ and would place them once every 2 weeks but gave up after a notice was on it saying they wanted to know who was doing it
I didnt remove books though they were mostly just self help and kids books. Although I do wonder if there were like childfriendly or otherwise inconspicuous pro-com/soc books, if they wouldn't draw ire
Click Clack Moo is a picture book about unionizing, and it looks incredibly inconspicuous
Hm might buy a few to leave around town dont have the disposable income right now for a dozen. But definitely ned to get around to this! Thanks
Edit: This was on the similar too section but maybe too obvious. Of course I haven't read it so it could be lib af
Oh shit I remember that book from my childhood but I didn’t remember it was based!! Nice
self-help
Teach them how to conquer that bread :kropotkin-shining:
And apparently those dinosaur books from yesterday are accidentally(?) turning kids communist
Do you remember the name?
Edit: It was Dinotopia but the books are little too expensive for me to go out placing them everywhere unfortunately
Thatcher? Really? Is she regarded as a girl boss or something?
Yeah there's like 3 within 2 blocks of George Floyd Square in Minneapolis. It's not a well designed social program or even real mutual aid, but it's a place to put free books. Honestly it's the kind of thing leftists without a left complain about because we know we should be filling them with agitprop, but Twitter is easier.
Brink out copies of the little red book at a library staple them with canvas covers and boom.
There’s homeless encampments everywhere in Denver that are torn down regularly because residents complain. Denver is a shit ass ‘city’.
Tbh I've been feeling like I've seen a lot of uselessly contraraian takes like this the party couple of weeks. It's not really anything new to chaposphere culture, but I feel like it used to be more common to come up with a take like this while riffing in the comments and recognize it as partially true while having a laugh.
Coming up with a hot take and posting about it in a really affirmative way is the kinda stuff that really grosses me out about Twitter (which reminds me that this post is ripped right from there 🤢). Even if there's a bit of a point to the concept it feels like I'm being trolled by people "on my side" because at face value it's contraraian to the point of being ridiculous.
its this one user flooding us with hot take nonsense, its basically a meme at this point
Incoherent take, 4chan fashy wording, yep that's a BMF post.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/E1xjmJWWEAkICTv?format=jpg&name=4096x4096
What a bunch of frivolous shit to care about. What a thread on that tweet. Let's be real clear here: little free libraries are upstream of fuck all. They don't matter. It's nice, it's performative, it's useful, or it's the expression of bourgeois psychosexual domination - it's not the cause of jack fuck.
Free Little Library, but all the books are just the Manifesto.
You could just unironically stick theory in there and no one would know
Best case scenario someone geniunely curious might learn something new and grow the horizons of possibility. Worst case scenario someone has a hilarious meltdown on the sidewalk as they cry over the Communist Manifesto
Had a meltdown on the sidewalk over the Manifesto? Yeah man, me too. Powerful shit.
Literary Karens are just as disgusting as any illiterate fascists!!!
:downbear:
I don't have a dog in that race but I would call illiterate fascists markedly more disgusting than the typical Karen
Man, we can't even give shit away without criticism..
I have noticed that some of them are curated with an agenda though.
