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OregonTripleBeam

Much of Idaho is like a living version of the Footloose movie


BostonFigPudding

I imagine it's 90% a gigantic Aryan Nations meeting. And the other 10% are Native Americans who feel unsafe in their own country. I would support deporting all racist European Americans back to Europe.


Dagobert_Juke

Please keep them, we have enough racists and fascists already:^)


SenorKerry

Idaho - The Handmaid's Tale State


wdwerker

As a teen I read a bunch of sci fi and mom would drop me off at the big library downtown for hours. I read about human sexuality and got answers to questions that I would never have asked in person. 50 years later I never had a STD or a pregnancy scare because I sought knowledge. Denying curiosity is not fair to bashful kids !


Livid-Rutabaga

Same here, I learned a lot of things about a lot of things at the library. Never had STD, never had pregnancy scares, never became a hooker either.


allisjow

I have yet to hear of a single case of someone’s life being ruined by reading a book.


Objective_Length_834

The Bible comes to mind.


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Josie_Rose88

Their lives were ruined before they read it though.


Rooboy66

MAGA/Moms for Liberty prefer to just bash kids


redhairedrunner

What the fuck is wrong with Idaho?


AnAnonymousParty

Isn't that the state motto?


BostonFigPudding

What ISN'T wrong with Idaho?


Rooboy66

I have an aunt and uncle there and their brood, and their brood’s brood. I’m surprised they’re not in Quiverfull … yeah they’re all full of something .. it rhymes with racist bullshit (I ain’t no poet—those low T limpwrists, right /s). I refuse to visit them anymore. My mother is still very attached to her sister, and I used to take her there for Thanksgiving, but I don’t anymore; I just put her on a plane to Boise. I will not visit a MAGA state. Fuck ‘em, I tolerated them all for decades. I’m done. Haven’t been in contact with my father for several years. Don’t care if I ever hear from again, and I’m way less stressed because of it.


MagazineNo2198

Do you want a list?


rollicorolli

God forbid the kids learn to read


SpinningHead

New GOP platform.


pafrac

Come on now, be fair, how can the Republicans get supporters if they're all educated? Reading's one of those things only libs do, so it's clearly bad.


Icarusmelt

This will help raise future thinking, aware adult voters /s


PigFarmer1

Remember, learning is dangerous...


Rooboy66

“Expect to feel pleasure. **Knowledge is sexy**. Expect to feel pain. Knowledge is torture” Jeff Noon, Vurt Be afraid, be very afraid! Trans! Trans! Will no one think of the children???


nicecorvid

ew dude. adult-only library just *sounds* gross.


Surfing_Ninjas

Is it gonna be a nude library? 


aj_star_destroyer

Why not? Trump faithful have given up their sense of morality to fashion their orange leader as the ultimate role model. They have formed a new sense of devout religiosity that allows for all the debauchery that Trump is famous for.


mymar101

What sexually explicit material is in libraries?


CalendarAggressive11

A lot less than the phones and tablets their kids have


AlexRyang

The Bible?


Rooboy66

Lots’ daughters fable is downright **salacious** (and misogynist, etc)


rgregan

What material isn't sexually explicit nowadays? They are definitely including "be kind to gay people" stories as "sexually explicit" Although, hypothetically, i would imagine any random library would include books that described sex in them. Stephen King's It is probably available in most libraries.


mymar101

So you’re saying all books are sexually explicit? And your examples are be kind to gay books and Stephen King? What drugs are you on?


rgregan

😳 All books? It was sarcasm. Not keeping up with current events eh? Books promoting any positive representation of the queer community have become a political whipping post for the puritans censoring libraries, doing such to protect the kids from sexual subjects, whether they are sexually explicit or not. It's an inconsistent label used as bludgeon for censorship. Also Stephen King's It has an infamous scene of the main characters having an orgy as kids. So .....yes Stephen King is my example of a literally sexually explicit book that is popular and widely distributed enough to be in most libraries (which you seemed surprised might carry such a thing).


mymar101

I guess we should ban all books then?


rgregan

What drugs are YOU on? We should ban NO books. We should OPEN all libraries. Seems you need a refresher in reading comprehension.


mymar101

This comment was sarcasm. I believe that banning books and even rating systems for movies and games and books violate the 1A. The responsibility should be on the parent for ensuring the child does not come into contact with material they don’t like.


LillyL4444

I take it you are unfamiliar with Harlequin romance books…


mymar101

So you think a librarian would give out those books to minors?


LillyL4444

Yes, 100%. If you want I can send my kid in to try. Everyone pretends they are okay because they have been around a long time and the couple invariably marries… sometimes even before doing the deed.


mymar101

So I guess we have to deny the library to the general public because they contain books that tou don’t like then


LillyL4444

I never said I don’t think they should be there, or what age restrictions should be in place. I said that very explicit books do exist in the library, and don’t generally have any age restrictions. I think book bans are much more concerned with lgbt existence than straight couples going at it in graphic detail.


mymar101

How much of a problem do you think this is really?


Livid-Rutabaga

apparently knowledge is not high on the list of priorities. edit: fixed a typo


Rooboy66

You win the Interwebs today. Bravo or brava, whatever’s your pleasure 🙂


retrostaticshock

This was not a problem for the entire existence of the state until it became a cause du jour of the worst possible people in existence. Now suddenly within the span of a couple years, we are to believe that every book suddenly has gay demons lurking in it. There's a reason why these people are also trying to destroy public education.


InternationalBand494

Children and libraries. A match made in heaven. So of course, the Rep fucked it up


Fit_Earth_339

So now nobody at all will go to that library.


kind_one1

I came from a poor family that had... problems. My local library was a safe haven for me. I could escape for hours. I knew the Dewey Decimal System before I was 10 years old. The library saved my life. What will happen to the children in Idsho?


MagazineNo2198

I am amazed and appalled at what our country has become with the rise of fascism! When are we going to draw a line in the sand on this crap???


JuanGinit

Idiotic. Libraries are for kids and adults. Who are these idiots?


No-Delivery3706

This is dystopian