• madthumbs@lemmy.world
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    9 days ago

    ‘makes government fund them more’ … ‘rent cds and games and movies’

    (So, they’re socialist BS that destroyed legit rental businesses with taxpayer money.)

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      9 days ago

      Those rental businesses went out of business well before libraries were generally offering non-book media rentals…

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      8 days ago

      Ah yes! It was libraries that killed my good ol’ hometown Blockbuster Video. It certainly could not have been market forces reacting to technological innovation to birth a multitude of subscription rental businesses available through increasingly faster internet connections.

      Curse you libraries! You killed all the bookstores. And record shops too! Is there no end to your socialist devilry‽ Everyday I 🙏 thank the gods 🙏 that we haven’t socialized education. Such a thing would destroy the livelihoods of the great tutors who personally taught each and every one of us our letters and numbers.

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      8 days ago

      Yeah, and hopefully their streaming services can put the little hometown Netflix out of business… and don’t get me started on their streaming services competing with ‘lil Bezos’ Audible…