Missouri House Republicans voted to defund all the Missouri public libraries. And now the bill is moving to the state senate, which is also controlled by Republicans.
So basically Missouri is like “Fuck them kids! Fuck them poor people! Fuck everyone that uses the services of the public library system!”
Missouri public schools rank 49th in funding they receive from the state. They are ranked 26th in the nation.
And I know, some people without much life experience are like “But why would they do that? There’s no reason for that!” And it’s like, dude.
If you can’t learn certain subjects or read certain books in school, and now you can’t learn anything on your own at the public library… How are you supposed to learn ANYTHING outside of the bubble of your Christo-Fascists parents’ control? And if they’re home schooling you… My dude: You’re not going to pass the state tests and you’re not going to be able to go to college.
They are trapping kids in their “utopia”-vision which likely includes marrying their young children to old people for money. Like, religious prostitution.
It’s very sad and tragic and there’s going to be a lot of misery and death in the next 5-30 years.
Teenagers are going to become adults in a world they are unable to understand and they’re going to be ANGRY at the abuse they suffered at the hands of their parents. There’s going to be an adaptation period, and then those kids are going to be grown ups voting and sharing their opinions to the public at large and its going to be a big mess.
Like, there’s dudes today that are teaching younger men that sperm actually changes the DNA of women’s bodies. That if you have sex with a woman that’s already had previous unprotected sex… the baby that’s born won’t be your child, but the child of the man that “got there first.”
They’re trying to say loony stuff like having sex with a man will affect a woman’s point of view and interests. That if she has sex with a man that believes in aliens, she’s going to believe in aliens. That she will only be interested in reading if she has sex with a reader
There are some dudes that are really spreading the nonsense belief that sperm is MAGIC (hand wave, hand wave, spirit fingers).
There are stupid dudes that actually believe that their having sex with a woman will completely change her personality and way of life because MAGIC SPERM. They are THAT desperate to believe that they’re some kind of special.
And I blame homeschooling.
I blame people that never should have been allowed to homeschool their children raising adults that believe they’re the be-all end-all of human perfection. “All that misbehavior isn’t due to emotional imbalance but to the rightful expression of a wonderful star child!”
And then when those dudes are unable to find romantic partners because they’re NOT wonderful, they’re just weird and rude and unpleasant to be around… They get out their guns and start mowing down roomfuls of strangers. Because they are incapable of dealing with their own human emotions, and they were not taught to recognize that anger is an emotion.
They lack proper coping mechanisms. So rather than dealing with things like normal people do… They throw temper tantrums and vote to defund public libraries because “O noes, if libraries exist my children are going to read books and realize that I’m an abusive fuck that’s systemically destroying their every chance to succeed in life! They’re going to realize that ours is NOT the way the majority of people live but in fact the result of being raised within a cult and that their lives could have been so much better except I’m an asshole that did my best to help ruin infrastructure and destroy the public education system. We have to DESTROY the libraries both in and out of school! Down with education! Let criminal ignorance reign supreme!”
It’s sad and it’s pathetic and it’s a shame. And it’s scary because those weirdos are out there right now, breeding their “master race” of future mass murderers.
Oh, and we’re still in the middle of a plague that has killed MILLIONS of people and disabled many more. And there’s about to be another surge, that some doctors fear will be worse than previous surges. And they’ve stopped masking in doctors’ offices where people go when they’re sick.
And I just found out that n95 masks aren’t as effective as I thought they were, that if you’re in a room saturated with virus, 5% of that dirty air is making it through your n95 mask. So an n95 mask is only completely effective if THE SICK PERSON is wearing an n95 mask too so all their dirty breath is trapped against their own face.
And all those sick people are walking around, maskless and breathing hard. Because science isn’t real or whatever magic thinking they’ve embraced.
Man. I hope they offer the next round of free booster shots soon. I want to get a shot and give it a chance to start working before I get exposed to a virus that can kill or permanently disable me.
Anyways. I hope everyone out there is doing all right. I hope everyone is staying safe and practicing safe practices. And I feel sad for people in Missouri that will be completely without access to good books to read, because only the rich can afford to buy hundreds of books a month.
As a lifelong reader: I am sorry for all the people that won’t be able to satisfy their desire to read.
Because while children will still be able to check out books from their school library during the school year… adults will be left completely without access. And that’s so sad.
I wish people weren’t so evil.
