Libraries are usually in the center of a town. I doubt this shithead drove through town centers. It's just Yankee trash continuing it's abuse of southerners.
Yeah. It will keep on happening until the South forms it's own nation. There is no one more discriminated against than a Straight White Male Southerner.
I know for a fact that this guy actually saw libraries if he was on I-40 between Knoxville and Ashville. In Knoxville alone there are about three of them visible from I-40 if you know what you are looking at. But you can't tell a Library from any other building just by looking at it, whereas a church's structure gives it away. Nearly every incorporated town in Tennessee has a library. Even little one street towns.
Edit: For the hell of it, I decided to determine the number of public libraries per capita for both TN and NYC:
Tennessee has 293 public libraries serving 7,126,489 people for a per capita of 1 per 24k
NYC has 92, 61, and 62 public libraries across the NYC, Brooklyn and Queens Library systems serving 23.6 million people for a per capita of 1 per 109k.
Yeah, it's the yankees that don't have enough libraries.
True story, I found out the library in downtown Seattle is the weird looking building across the street from the small skatepark. I never knew until I moved.
Libraries are shared resource centers that benefit from scaling when pooling resources in a single location. Churches are community focused and have significantly lower capital benefits from pooling resources in a single location and higher benefits from easy accessibility.
Midwits that don't understand the first thing about town planning are trying to dunk on rural areas for having perfectly reasonable low population density infrastructure. Standard smug lefty shit.
Throw in free internet access, and you also run into the issue of people (see bums, teenagers, and degenerates) consuming or attempting to consume porn in public.
Rumor has that in the largest public library where I live, the staff are less concerned with stocking books and more with policing the behavior of the homeless that are taking advantage of the "...free indoor space with AC/heat."
I cannot verify the behavior part, though the last time I was there, the place reeked of unwashed human with the unhoused taking up most of the benches and chairs with not a book to be seen.
This is the effect of the ALA pushing the idea for about two decades that libraries just need to change with the times and stay heckin' valid in the modern climate, man. Old school libraries still see traffic, and still have a function (protip dangerhair MLIS holders: it's those icky things full of paper on your shelves).
Did they check that those churches didn't have libraries connected to them since quite a few churches I know act as community centres or could they not risk it because they'd burst into flames touching consecrated grounds?
Come to think if it, I haven't seen that many dedicated libraries anymore, they're usually attacted to something, the obvious being a place of education but sports centres, town halls etc.
I hate those skinsuit churches the most, I'm a bit of an architecture nerd and I LOVE some of the historic buildings you get in Europe, Asia and especially places of worship with the craftsmanship often over many generations into creating them.
To see them desecrated by these degenerate false idol worshippers just sickens me, I'd rather they be turned into family homes or just basic community centres than that.
I also find it retarded how little white leftists know about what their own side is doing because churches have been cucking themselves hard to woke ideology these days.
Their Boomer parents forced them to go to church that one time and now they're terminally mad, capital-A Atheists™.
Do you believe that a Black, Asian, or Hispanic leftist would somehow be more aware of and intelligent about their assessment of small-town libraries, or kinder in their opinion of small-town Whites?
I googled this faggot. He is a Democrat who ran for his representative seat in his NC district. He's also running a victory lap about his twitter views and whining about conservatives bothering him.
It's bizarre to me that there are would-be politicians trying to bait engagement online, as though that makes them a better candidate. I learned of another one like this from a past post related to the 'presidential acts' Supreme Court ruling.
I’ve been seeing this a lot more lately. Don’t politicians usually try to keep a low profile so when they say something stupid it can be dialed back? I’ve seen dudes like this post constant blatant lies and nobody seems to give a shit. It really just makes the guy look stupid as fuck so I don’t get what the point is
I'm sad to say it because I'm fond of them, but who really needs libraries in the internet age anyway? Most people are very literate but hardly anyone reads actual books anymore, and those who do can either buy them cheaply on Amazon or source them elsewhere online.
Aside from that there's, what, borrowing DVDs, reading newspaper archives, and going online if you somehow don't have the internet at home? They do have value as community spaces, but I doubt he's referring to that, and often that value is subverted by using them as staging grounds for propaganda.
Does having a library in a town have any practical role in making its populace more educated, as he implies?
This is actually a great example of how many progressive beliefs are purely performative. I doubt "KP4NC" and his son have stepped inside a library for years. I think they by default believe that saying "Yay libraries!" is the enlightened, sophisticated position and they don't think even a single step beyond that.
(I'm including his son in that because it sounds like they were sniffing their own farts together for the whole trip, which is sad)
My local one is rather great for what it offers kids and teens as a place to hang out and play video games or do other random tasks to keep themselves occupied. Its usually quite full with the poor kids in town who'd never be able to afford a video game. No drag queens yet, so that hasn't been exploited.
I think the original purpose as a book center has long since lost its use, but the libraries themselves have adapted to make up for it overall and people who don't use them (like rich self-centered liberals) never noticed.
When I volunteered with my local big brother type program my buddy always wanted to hang there and do exactly that with a bunch of other 12 year olds. A lot of the time it was even the exact same flash games I had played a decade+ prior.
The only notable difference Minecraft mixed in and videos about GTA Online on youtube.
No manga for the poor kids? Other than that I agree that library has changed to be more of a meeting space rather than completely be about lending of books.
The problem with manga from a library is that its a complete trap.
They'll have a portion of a series, which gets you addicted to it, and then you want to spend money on the rest which you cannot afford and should absolutely spend on something with more lasting usage (reading a volume might get you an hour or so every few months). For the clever ones who learned where to read it online they are fine, but then they don't need the physical editions to begin with.
Not to mention, most manga worth reading is pretty inappropriate for kids. The things that aren't are either way too niche for a small town library or part of a super massive series like Naruto which compounds the prior issue.
Physical books are more enjoyable to read than electronic. And if you read a lot, like a book every week, the cost will add up. 52 books at $15 = $780 per year. A lot of money for a poor person.
Agreed. And if you're an avid reader purchasing your own books, space quickly becomes an issue too.
I prefer to buy my own but that might be a privileged position. There's certainly value in being able to borrow them.
I don't mind electronic for the convenience, but holding the real thing in your hands, and knowing it can't be fucked with by asshole censors, feels good.
I encourage everyone to actually look and see what their library offers these days because it's probably more than just books. Mine allows you to borrow video games and consoles, instruments, and tools. Some local museums and venues have special events where showing a library card gets you discounted admission. And while I doubt anyone here wants to read the fake news, the library's online services let you bypass the paywalls even when you're browsing from home. You can also access some online classes.
Yeah, I was probably a little quick to dismiss libraries.
This guy is still an idiot for his surface-level, smugly self-congratulatory view of them, however. He can't perceive the reality behind the symbol, which is ironic considering he's essentially calling other people dumbasses.
He probably thinks wearing glasses makes someone smart.
45 minute drive from Eastern TN to Western NC? You went from nowhere to nowhere. Your journey would have started and ended in some very small towns, and we know a good liberal would never have been doing that. That's extremely mountainous area you're not going to make much progress in 45 minutes. I'd be shocked to see enough communities large enough to have 23 churches. He just made this up to own the dumb rurals, who have probably read more books than any of the monkeys in his urban ghettos.
Next up, I'm going to drive through West Texas. Omg I drove an hour and didn't see a single building. These people are so dumb they can't even build a building.
Churches are highly visible, placed in locations where they can be seen.
Libraries are not.
I hope this has been educational.
Edit: So not being from the area, and have never been to either of the carolinas, I clicked Charlotte NC on google maps, because it's a big city, then typed libraries in the search and hit enter. There are 14 in the city, and 4 in surrounding suburbs.
18 in one half hour drive area. Not too many rural, obviously, but let's try that in a more rural area.
I next clicked Hendersonville NC. Sort of eyeballing a halfway-ish point between Charlotte NC and Knoxville TN. There are 10 libraries. But one is one of those little lending libraries people can pop up on their front lawn, so 9 plus 1.
Do I have to keep going? Is that not enough? I mean, this is a pretty shitty take to begin with. Especially when you're running for some sort of office in north carolina. "Y'all are dumb because libraries don't exist, but churches do."
Considering that many churches, even modern ones, are very distinct in their design while libraries tend to look like community centers or office buildings, I can't imagine that there were actually zero libraries along the way. More likely, they just missed them. Even more likely, this is make believe and never happened, or is full of embellishments. Notice that there aren't any towns listed for us to look into and fact check.
Shitlibs have such a bizarre romantic attachment to fucking books. They act like burning a mass produced copy of some trash novel is equivalent to burning the Book of Kells.
Why would anyone need a library when there's digital libraries that give you everything you want without the ass pain of going to the library proper?
Apparently there is also this new thing called the “internet” sounds made up but you supposedly can read stuff. On this internet you can get books magically dropped off at your house by a guy named Jeff or something. They even have “e-books” sounds more like an “e-scam”. Amirite.
Libraries are usually in the center of a town. I doubt this shithead drove through town centers. It's just Yankee trash continuing it's abuse of southerners.
Yeah. It will keep on happening until the South forms it's own nation. There is no one more discriminated against than a Straight White Male Southerner.
I know for a fact that this guy actually saw libraries if he was on I-40 between Knoxville and Ashville. In Knoxville alone there are about three of them visible from I-40 if you know what you are looking at. But you can't tell a Library from any other building just by looking at it, whereas a church's structure gives it away. Nearly every incorporated town in Tennessee has a library. Even little one street towns.
Edit: For the hell of it, I decided to determine the number of public libraries per capita for both TN and NYC:
Tennessee has 293 public libraries serving 7,126,489 people for a per capita of 1 per 24k NYC has 92, 61, and 62 public libraries across the NYC, Brooklyn and Queens Library systems serving 23.6 million people for a per capita of 1 per 109k.
Yeah, it's the yankees that don't have enough libraries.
Sounds like there’s too many Yankees.
Would be nice if you could give this as an answer to his post.
He basically made it so that only ppl he mentions can reply after getting too many people telling him he's a moron
And you have to dox yourself with a phone number in order to get a community note.
True story, I found out the library in downtown Seattle is the weird looking building across the street from the small skatepark. I never knew until I moved.
Libraries are shared resource centers that benefit from scaling when pooling resources in a single location. Churches are community focused and have significantly lower capital benefits from pooling resources in a single location and higher benefits from easy accessibility.
Midwits that don't understand the first thing about town planning are trying to dunk on rural areas for having perfectly reasonable low population density infrastructure. Standard smug lefty shit.
Yeah even the shit hole towns down here tend to have libraries
Yeah, even the most podunk of towns tend to have a cute little community library if they have any semblance of a Main Street whatsoever.
Throw in free internet access, and you also run into the issue of people (see bums, teenagers, and degenerates) consuming or attempting to consume porn in public.
Rumor has that in the largest public library where I live, the staff are less concerned with stocking books and more with policing the behavior of the homeless that are taking advantage of the "...free indoor space with AC/heat."
I cannot verify the behavior part, though the last time I was there, the place reeked of unwashed human with the unhoused taking up most of the benches and chairs with not a book to be seen.
This is the effect of the ALA pushing the idea for about two decades that libraries just need to change with the times and stay heckin' valid in the modern climate, man. Old school libraries still see traffic, and still have a function (protip dangerhair MLIS holders: it's those icky things full of paper on your shelves).
This does not mean there are no libraries, a library is not as visible as a church.
hell my local library looks like a church
Did they check that those churches didn't have libraries connected to them since quite a few churches I know act as community centres or could they not risk it because they'd burst into flames touching consecrated grounds?
Come to think if it, I haven't seen that many dedicated libraries anymore, they're usually attacted to something, the obvious being a place of education but sports centres, town halls etc.
I hate those skinsuit churches the most, I'm a bit of an architecture nerd and I LOVE some of the historic buildings you get in Europe, Asia and especially places of worship with the craftsmanship often over many generations into creating them.
To see them desecrated by these degenerate false idol worshippers just sickens me, I'd rather they be turned into family homes or just basic community centres than that.
Their Boomer parents forced them to go to church that one time and now they're terminally mad, capital-A Atheists™.
Do you believe that a Black, Asian, or Hispanic leftist would somehow be more aware of and intelligent about their assessment of small-town libraries, or kinder in their opinion of small-town Whites?
I don’t believe him. He just hates the south
It might be that he hates religion. He had another whiny tweet recently comparing the number of churches and hospitals somewhere.
Can’t say I’m surprised
I googled this faggot. He is a Democrat who ran for his representative seat in his NC district. He's also running a victory lap about his twitter views and whining about conservatives bothering him.
It's bizarre to me that there are would-be politicians trying to bait engagement online, as though that makes them a better candidate. I learned of another one like this from a past post related to the 'presidential acts' Supreme Court ruling.
I’ve been seeing this a lot more lately. Don’t politicians usually try to keep a low profile so when they say something stupid it can be dialed back? I’ve seen dudes like this post constant blatant lies and nobody seems to give a shit. It really just makes the guy look stupid as fuck so I don’t get what the point is
I'm sad to say it because I'm fond of them, but who really needs libraries in the internet age anyway? Most people are very literate but hardly anyone reads actual books anymore, and those who do can either buy them cheaply on Amazon or source them elsewhere online.
Aside from that there's, what, borrowing DVDs, reading newspaper archives, and going online if you somehow don't have the internet at home? They do have value as community spaces, but I doubt he's referring to that, and often that value is subverted by using them as staging grounds for propaganda.
Does having a library in a town have any practical role in making its populace more educated, as he implies?
This is actually a great example of how many progressive beliefs are purely performative. I doubt "KP4NC" and his son have stepped inside a library for years. I think they by default believe that saying "Yay libraries!" is the enlightened, sophisticated position and they don't think even a single step beyond that.
(I'm including his son in that because it sounds like they were sniffing their own farts together for the whole trip, which is sad)
It's where the drag queens read to children
My local one is rather great for what it offers kids and teens as a place to hang out and play video games or do other random tasks to keep themselves occupied. Its usually quite full with the poor kids in town who'd never be able to afford a video game. No drag queens yet, so that hasn't been exploited.
I think the original purpose as a book center has long since lost its use, but the libraries themselves have adapted to make up for it overall and people who don't use them (like rich self-centered liberals) never noticed.
My local one is always full of tweens playing
flashHTML5 games on the computers. Some things never change.When I volunteered with my local big brother type program my buddy always wanted to hang there and do exactly that with a bunch of other 12 year olds. A lot of the time it was even the exact same flash games I had played a decade+ prior.
The only notable difference Minecraft mixed in and videos about GTA Online on youtube.
No manga for the poor kids? Other than that I agree that library has changed to be more of a meeting space rather than completely be about lending of books.
The problem with manga from a library is that its a complete trap.
They'll have a portion of a series, which gets you addicted to it, and then you want to spend money on the rest which you cannot afford and should absolutely spend on something with more lasting usage (reading a volume might get you an hour or so every few months). For the clever ones who learned where to read it online they are fine, but then they don't need the physical editions to begin with.
Not to mention, most manga worth reading is pretty inappropriate for kids. The things that aren't are either way too niche for a small town library or part of a super massive series like Naruto which compounds the prior issue.
Physical books are more enjoyable to read than electronic. And if you read a lot, like a book every week, the cost will add up. 52 books at $15 = $780 per year. A lot of money for a poor person.
Agreed. And if you're an avid reader purchasing your own books, space quickly becomes an issue too.
I prefer to buy my own but that might be a privileged position. There's certainly value in being able to borrow them.
I don't mind electronic for the convenience, but holding the real thing in your hands, and knowing it can't be fucked with by asshole censors, feels good.
I encourage everyone to actually look and see what their library offers these days because it's probably more than just books. Mine allows you to borrow video games and consoles, instruments, and tools. Some local museums and venues have special events where showing a library card gets you discounted admission. And while I doubt anyone here wants to read the fake news, the library's online services let you bypass the paywalls even when you're browsing from home. You can also access some online classes.
Yeah, I was probably a little quick to dismiss libraries.
This guy is still an idiot for his surface-level, smugly self-congratulatory view of them, however. He can't perceive the reality behind the symbol, which is ironic considering he's essentially calling other people dumbasses.
He probably thinks wearing glasses makes someone smart.
Did you even try looking for them? Try Google maps. You might have heard of it,
45 minute drive from Eastern TN to Western NC? You went from nowhere to nowhere. Your journey would have started and ended in some very small towns, and we know a good liberal would never have been doing that. That's extremely mountainous area you're not going to make much progress in 45 minutes. I'd be shocked to see enough communities large enough to have 23 churches. He just made this up to own the dumb rurals, who have probably read more books than any of the monkeys in his urban ghettos.
Next up, I'm going to drive through West Texas. Omg I drove an hour and didn't see a single building. These people are so dumb they can't even build a building.
And then his
wife'sson clapped.Churches are highly visible, placed in locations where they can be seen.
Libraries are not.
I hope this has been educational.
Edit: So not being from the area, and have never been to either of the carolinas, I clicked Charlotte NC on google maps, because it's a big city, then typed libraries in the search and hit enter. There are 14 in the city, and 4 in surrounding suburbs. 18 in one half hour drive area. Not too many rural, obviously, but let's try that in a more rural area.
I next clicked Hendersonville NC. Sort of eyeballing a halfway-ish point between Charlotte NC and Knoxville TN. There are 10 libraries. But one is one of those little lending libraries people can pop up on their front lawn, so 9 plus 1.
Do I have to keep going? Is that not enough? I mean, this is a pretty shitty take to begin with. Especially when you're running for some sort of office in north carolina. "Y'all are dumb because libraries don't exist, but churches do."
Why would there be a library near the highway you stupid faggot
Considering that many churches, even modern ones, are very distinct in their design while libraries tend to look like community centers or office buildings, I can't imagine that there were actually zero libraries along the way. More likely, they just missed them. Even more likely, this is make believe and never happened, or is full of embellishments. Notice that there aren't any towns listed for us to look into and fact check.
Yeah, the problem is too many liberals are allowed outside when they should be cowering in their closets, living in abject fear.
Shitlibs have such a bizarre romantic attachment to fucking books. They act like burning a mass produced copy of some trash novel is equivalent to burning the Book of Kells.
Why would anyone need a library when there's digital libraries that give you everything you want without the ass pain of going to the library proper?
Kp, glad you saw your reflection in the review mirror. Took you long enough.
Libraries are bugbrained communist training camps. Walk into any library in 2024 and every single employee is a masked, tattooed androgynous weirdo.
They probably counted zero violent crimes or mass lootings in progress as well.
Most everybody is walking around with all the knowledge in the world a few clicks away. Libraries are pretty much obsolete.
Apparently there is also this new thing called the “internet” sounds made up but you supposedly can read stuff. On this internet you can get books magically dropped off at your house by a guy named Jeff or something. They even have “e-books” sounds more like an “e-scam”. Amirite.
everyone knows libraries are for homeless to congregate
He might want to ask his wife's son how to read books online.
If he wants to go to a physical library, here is a search database for public libraries in Tennessee :
https://tnsos.net/TSLA/PLD/index.php
Also, It's likelly all the schools have a library. My small town semi-rural school had one back in the day.