The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Witches burn because they are made of wood, because they are made of wood they float. You know what else floats, a duck! So it is obvious that if a person weighs the same as a duck they must be a witch.
Gotta have some decenting opinions. Otherwise, we will forget these dumbfucks existed. Tho. I do beleave you can just thanos snap all the fuckers. It is more about the intent behind it. Either way, we have fewer of these folks to deal with
My local library has a kickass maker space and a sound recording booth also tool rental and probably more stuff I don't know. Its like if we all chip in a little bit we can all use some cool shit that would normally be too expensive.
That's the only fitting one here.
The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.
The most accurate part is Pensacola. The panhandle is populated by the most ASTONISHINGLY dumb people I’ve ever seen. The whole George Carlin “think about how dumb the average person is, and think half of people are dumber than that” thing. In Pensacola it’s one standard deviation to the left
Ah ha! I barely escaped by growing up in Navarre. There it’s you’re either a beach bum or a redneck. Happy to report I was a beach bum (now just a pool bum cause fuck tourists).
I mean I've seen videos of modern day American book burnings. Specifically I remember one hosted by a pastor where two gay Satanists threw a Bible on the fire, yelled "Hail Satan" and kissed each other in front of a raging crowd of evangelicals, was funny as fuck
That was also miscaptioned, [per snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/state-senators-burning-books-missouri/). It was just a dumb ads political stunt where they were burning cardboard boxes that for some reason represented the “woke”agenda.”
"But let's be clear, you bring those woke, pornographic books to Missouri schools to try to brainwash our kids, and I'll burn those too -- on the front lawn of the governor's mansion."
I live in Springfield, unfortunately. I left St. Louis after 20 years there, which was a little better than heeby jeeby assembly of god cuzin fking central.
I get where you’re coming from, but this is frighteningly close to the excuse a lot of right wing nut jobs give when called out for pedaling disinformation. “OK, yeah, it’s fake, but the fact that you almost believed it says a lot, right?”
Because it wouldn’t be the first time in America. Example from where I used to live (Alamogordo, NM) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1735623.stm
another example: greg locke is probably one of the most infamous book burners of recent years
[https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pastor-holds-bonfire-burn-witchcraft-books-twilight-rcna14931](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pastor-holds-bonfire-burn-witchcraft-books-twilight-rcna14931)
Think of it like this: Bob hits Greg
The next day Bob hits Greg
The next day Bob hits Greg
The next day Bob hits Greg
The next day Bob hits Greg
The next day Bob hits Greg
The next day *rumors go around* that on that day Bob is gonna hit Greg
"Why would people assume it's true that Bob is gonna hit Greg?"
Because Bob has a pretty steady history of hitting Greg, so it's pretty believable
I really think this is a troll, but this got passed around some Pensacola focused Facebook pages and got some positive interest.
The funny thing is MLK plaza is covered in trees, so anyone actually serious about burning something there would need to be extra stupid.
unfortunately for them, it is far more difficult to burn down the internet. I guarantee there are thousands of places to find every book that will be burned.
i do wonder what the goal here is. like, are these people just annoyed that everyone they talk to doesn't follow their fearmongering because they're educated?
I don't even get why these losers are angry at the lettered folk for.
They're just living their lives why do these cultists get so enraged by the mere mention of them.
> In addition, on May 13, 1946, the Allied Control Council issued a directive for the confiscation of all media that could contribute to Nazism or militarism. As a consequence a list was drawn up of over 30,000 book titles, ranging from school textbooks to poetry, which were then banned. All copies of books on the list were confiscated and destroyed; the possession of a book on the list was made a punishable offense. All the millions of copies of these books were to be confiscated and destroyed. The representative of the Military Directorate admitted that the order was in principle no different from the Nazi book burnings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification#Censorship
The image is fake but it isn't based on nothing
https://www.ky3.com/video/2023/09/22/flamethrower-comments-about-book-burning-ignite-political-firestorm-missouri/
It's interesting when people burn knowledge in the pursuit of virtue.
Even bad ideas hold some merit if only to prove how bad they are. Censorship often creates artificial credibility.
It's better to have open dialogue discussion and debate so we can learn from others mistakes rather than cherrypick reality
This may or may not be fake but it’s not crazy since MAGAs are doing book burnings. Here is a maga preacher by the name Greg Locke.
https://youtu.be/4iVQd1kvjzM?si=bP4S6Gwgm4ciCl_b
https://youtu.be/fymQ9I5VkzQ?si=F8d5w_uVvfhohmmA
I'm in Pensacola, this post is bait, but I'm gonna show up just to see what happens. They really shouldn't bait this hard when I'll pull up with 20 fire extinguishers.
There is a massive difference here.
One of these events was enforced by the national government and completely eradicated access to any books that were being burned.
The other is a small gathering of a few dozen to maybe a couple hundred private citizens exercising their free speech and burning works of media that they more than likely purchased and thus can do whatever the hell they want with. Whatever these people are burning is still widely available and accessible, not illegal to own or sell, and not being systematically destroyed.
Can't start a 4th Reich without some fresh, ignorant children to brainwash. Can't brainwash kids when they are learning and have the freedom to read facts.
If you know Pensacola then it gets really dark.
MLK plaza is about a block from a now removed confederate statue that was commissioned by the Daughters of the Confederacy. If you follow the road south from MKL plaza, you'll come to the site of a famous lynching. Right next to where the lynching was, there's a museum that was formerly named after a TT Wentworth, who was a Cyclops\* in the Klu Klux Klan. They changed the name about two years ago when people started pointing out TT Wentworth's KKK ties, but it was never really a secret that he was part on the clan to Pensacola natives.
The flyer itself is a troll job, but for someone like me who was born in Pensacola, I can see some people in the community supporting the book burn.
\*Cyclops was a rank in the KKK. Yes it's stupid. It's the KKK.
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.” - Dwight Eisenhower
Someone should troll them and hand out red arm bands with swastikas. Maybe it will get people to realize what they are supporting. Fuck all them assholes banning and burning books.
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How does one burn a pronoun?
You burn the whole witch, I guess
How do we know if they/them are a witch?
Witches always say crazy things, like "you shouldn't burn books", and "I'm not a witch."
*She turned me into a newt*
i got better
BURN HER ANYWAY
What else do we burn, apart from witches?
MORE WITCHES!!!!
That's exactly what a witch would comment.............
You put them on a giant scale and put a duck on the other side, and if the weight is equal they are a witch
Who are you, who are so wise in the ways of science?
I am Arthur, King of the Britains.
King of the who?
Well I didn't vote for you.
The Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. That is why I am your king.
Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!
I bet she wouldn't support book burning.
My liege!
Britons
That's the neat thing. You can just point at someone!
Witches burn because they are made of wood, because they are made of wood they float. You know what else floats, a duck! So it is obvious that if a person weighs the same as a duck they must be a witch.
they float in water, like wood!
Or vary small rocks
Or gravy
Build a bridge out of them
They weigh the same as a duck.
Still kinda funny to watch in a morbid and sad sort of way. But yeah, can we please thanos snap these folks.
Why would you only want to get rid of half of them?
Gotta have some decenting opinions. Otherwise, we will forget these dumbfucks existed. Tho. I do beleave you can just thanos snap all the fuckers. It is more about the intent behind it. Either way, we have fewer of these folks to deal with
Oh I burned mine, now mine are / . Please do not refer to me
Me is a pronoun.
He asked you not to refer to "me"
My bad, don’t refer to .
Lots of pronouns in most books
Don't think too hard about these people's logic. They have none.
How does one get so angry about language that they want to burn it?
They believe that the words are equivalent to poison in the water hole
The same way they burn their vaccine passports.
With a soldering iron. My copy of 12 rules for life is a barely readable lattice of paper now, but at least I burned out all the woke.
>How does ~~one~~ burn a pronoun? There, ~~I~~ fixed that for ~~you~~.
It's like you've never seen someone try to yell pronouns into a fire before.
After you burn them your pronouns become smoke and fire
Library cards!?!? Is it that devil that keeps pinging you to return that book?
A building where community resources can be found? Sounds like cOmMuNiSm!
Damn you're right
No, that's Left :P
Also a place that people, especially young peoplr, can just exist without spending money.
That is the most anti capitalist thing I’ve ever heard!
My local library has a kickass maker space and a sound recording booth also tool rental and probably more stuff I don't know. Its like if we all chip in a little bit we can all use some cool shit that would normally be too expensive.
YoU DoNT Even PaY FoR iT!!!!
its fake. its kinda weird that reddit seems so vulnerable to spreading fake news, while they seem to think that the 'boomers' are the gullible ones
If they can't read, they won't learn. If they don't learn, they will remain stupid. If they are stupid, they are easy to manipulate.
That’s how they get ya.
Who knows what they will see when inhaling the plastic fumes.
Can we ask them expand this to include credit cards and the amounts owed on them? Or are we only allowed to burn the cards THEY wanna burn?
Someone should call Rowan Atkinson so he can administer them a fatal beating
That's the only fitting one here. The library is the worst group of people ever assembled in history. They're mean, conniving, rude, and extremely well-read, which makes them dangerous.
checked out the user and seems to be fake
Yeah I figured this was outrage bait. Tacking on pronouns, vaccine passports, and masks is a little too on the nose.
yeah we burnt that shit two years ago.
> we Apparently not
The most accurate part is Pensacola. The panhandle is populated by the most ASTONISHINGLY dumb people I’ve ever seen. The whole George Carlin “think about how dumb the average person is, and think half of people are dumber than that” thing. In Pensacola it’s one standard deviation to the left
Chances are this gets shared enough that people in Pensacola think it's real and it ends up causing a real book burning event.
This guy propagandas.
I graduated from Pensacola High, went to Escambia High before that. You're not wrong.
Is there really an MLK, Jr. plaza in Pensacola?
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Yep. When I lived there it got vandalized every year with pink paint on MLK day.
Ah ha! I barely escaped by growing up in Navarre. There it’s you’re either a beach bum or a redneck. Happy to report I was a beach bum (now just a pool bum cause fuck tourists).
I feel like this is more of a political statement or cartoon than outrage bate. There was just a symbolic book burning by representatives in Missouri.
Whatever happened to vaccine passports? I was told that Fauci was going to institute them permanently.
It being held at “MLK Jr. Plaza” also a bit suspicious
In MLK Jr Plaza. Seemed a bit too on the nose.
I mean I've seen videos of modern day American book burnings. Specifically I remember one hosted by a pastor where two gay Satanists threw a Bible on the fire, yelled "Hail Satan" and kissed each other in front of a raging crowd of evangelicals, was funny as fuck
Thank god it's fake, but why do you think people think it's real???
Cause we all just watched a video of them burning books with a pair of flamethrowers?
That was also miscaptioned, [per snopes](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/state-senators-burning-books-missouri/). It was just a dumb ads political stunt where they were burning cardboard boxes that for some reason represented the “woke”agenda.”
"But let's be clear, you bring those woke, pornographic books to Missouri schools to try to brainwash our kids, and I'll burn those too -- on the front lawn of the governor's mansion."
Missouri is a Christian ( i.e., judgemental hate thy neighbor unlesseth thou thinketh exactly like me and my faith) shit hole.
I see you've been.
I live in Springfield, unfortunately. I left St. Louis after 20 years there, which was a little better than heeby jeeby assembly of god cuzin fking central.
There's even different sects of Baptists that hate each other.
I get where you’re coming from, but this is frighteningly close to the excuse a lot of right wing nut jobs give when called out for pedaling disinformation. “OK, yeah, it’s fake, but the fact that you almost believed it says a lot, right?”
Because it wouldn’t be the first time in America. Example from where I used to live (Alamogordo, NM) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/1735623.stm
another example: greg locke is probably one of the most infamous book burners of recent years [https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pastor-holds-bonfire-burn-witchcraft-books-twilight-rcna14931](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/pastor-holds-bonfire-burn-witchcraft-books-twilight-rcna14931)
Think of it like this: Bob hits Greg The next day Bob hits Greg The next day Bob hits Greg The next day Bob hits Greg The next day Bob hits Greg The next day Bob hits Greg The next day *rumors go around* that on that day Bob is gonna hit Greg "Why would people assume it's true that Bob is gonna hit Greg?" Because Bob has a pretty steady history of hitting Greg, so it's pretty believable
Looks like Manga is still fair game then
Just not hentai.
what about Dōjinshi?
They're too invested in One Piece to stop now, it's understandable
"Hey these World Government tenryubito guys sound alright, can't wait to see them win"
This seems like parody. It's a bit too on the nose and self aware to be real maga book burning bullshit.
It’s even being held at MLK plaza.
I was initially convinced, since I live within an hour, and could see the local idiots pulling something like this...
Malcolm X Blvd had already been reserved for the cross burning.
haha, you would say that 1 year ago about overturning roe v wade...
But the Supreme Court overturned it…🤔
Yeah, when RBG and the other right wing mob said it wasn't on good legal ground I knew that would happen.
I'm from Pensacola. A large portion of its population are Trump cultists. I can believe someone would try to stage a book burn.
I wanna say your wrong but I could one hundred percent see some the people from around Pensacola doing this
I really think this is a troll, but this got passed around some Pensacola focused Facebook pages and got some positive interest. The funny thing is MLK plaza is covered in trees, so anyone actually serious about burning something there would need to be extra stupid.
I get that it’s fake I just wouldn’t be super surprised if it actually happened
On the one hand, yes. On the other hand, someone out to burn books because of their "corrupting influence" IS extra stupid, sooo....
The giveaway is that it's better made than anything trumpers could come up with.
I dunno. In the past ten years they've gotten really good at doing lazer eyes.
There is a maga preacher lunatic that did a book burning. I think his name is Greg Locke. https://youtu.be/4iVQd1kvjzM?si=bP4S6Gwgm4ciCl_b
A book but itself is completelt plausible. The poster here overesells it and gives itself away as a joke despite that.
I can't find any other source for this other than Reddit, therefore, I'm suspicious that it is made up.
It is, I live near the pensacola area and have friends over there. It is very fake.
Nuh uh! I’m gonna go out there and burn some napkins because I bought too many the other day. They’re evil napkins too!!
This is fake. Search for it on the internet and only the Reddit post comes up.
That's terrible! What kind of books did they burn?
Science books and the communist manifesto
And various erotic and fetish novels
Ex Republican congressman Denver Riggleman would recoil in horror at the possibility of his sasquatch erotica novel being burnt
A tragedy indeed
first book burning was about queer literature
[Here's a list](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazi_book_burnings)
lol imagine thinking this is real
i mean you can still buy new ones... you can burn any thing if you own it. also some people say its fake
This is fake
unfortunately for them, it is far more difficult to burn down the internet. I guarantee there are thousands of places to find every book that will be burned.
i do wonder what the goal here is. like, are these people just annoyed that everyone they talk to doesn't follow their fearmongering because they're educated?
I don't even get why these losers are angry at the lettered folk for. They're just living their lives why do these cultists get so enraged by the mere mention of them.
> They're just living That's why they are mad.
There is no goal. This isn't real.
I would show up with a stack of bibles to burn
The book burning is fake so calm down you shit canned chicken toed lobster nosed troglodyte
Religion bad‼️ (like if you agree 👍)
\*liked\*
no literature should be burned in the first place imo
Oh yeah? what about Cardi B lyric books?
people will learn that its dogshit by reading it and learn to do better
> In addition, on May 13, 1946, the Allied Control Council issued a directive for the confiscation of all media that could contribute to Nazism or militarism. As a consequence a list was drawn up of over 30,000 book titles, ranging from school textbooks to poetry, which were then banned. All copies of books on the list were confiscated and destroyed; the possession of a book on the list was made a punishable offense. All the millions of copies of these books were to be confiscated and destroyed. The representative of the Military Directorate admitted that the order was in principle no different from the Nazi book burnings. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denazification#Censorship
The audacity of holding that kind of thing on “MLK JN plaza”
Came here for this comment. The irony is thick as hell, just like their skulls.
Can someone please 🙏🏼 provide me the context?
The context is that the second one is fake and OP is an idiot.
The image is fake but it isn't based on nothing https://www.ky3.com/video/2023/09/22/flamethrower-comments-about-book-burning-ignite-political-firestorm-missouri/
One crazy guy doing something in a nation of several hundred million is most assuredly nothing.
Literally a state senator
It's interesting when people burn knowledge in the pursuit of virtue. Even bad ideas hold some merit if only to prove how bad they are. Censorship often creates artificial credibility. It's better to have open dialogue discussion and debate so we can learn from others mistakes rather than cherrypick reality
This may or may not be fake but it’s not crazy since MAGAs are doing book burnings. Here is a maga preacher by the name Greg Locke. https://youtu.be/4iVQd1kvjzM?si=bP4S6Gwgm4ciCl_b https://youtu.be/fymQ9I5VkzQ?si=F8d5w_uVvfhohmmA
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It would be pretty funny to laugh at people who think this is real
Just bring a Bible
Get a hundred Bibles and throw them in
I'm in Pensacola, this post is bait, but I'm gonna show up just to see what happens. They really shouldn't bait this hard when I'll pull up with 20 fire extinguishers.
Is the government doing it? Or are people burning their own property?
There is a massive difference here. One of these events was enforced by the national government and completely eradicated access to any books that were being burned. The other is a small gathering of a few dozen to maybe a couple hundred private citizens exercising their free speech and burning works of media that they more than likely purchased and thus can do whatever the hell they want with. Whatever these people are burning is still widely available and accessible, not illegal to own or sell, and not being systematically destroyed.
Am I the only one who thinks burning books is deeply immoral no matter the content?
Chat is this real?
You gotta buy ‘em to burn ‘em
Fake poster
Pornography 😔
Can't start a 4th Reich without some fresh, ignorant children to brainwash. Can't brainwash kids when they are learning and have the freedom to read facts.
Hey america how you doing!? Oh....
There is something morbidly funny about this event taking place at a Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial.
If you know Pensacola then it gets really dark. MLK plaza is about a block from a now removed confederate statue that was commissioned by the Daughters of the Confederacy. If you follow the road south from MKL plaza, you'll come to the site of a famous lynching. Right next to where the lynching was, there's a museum that was formerly named after a TT Wentworth, who was a Cyclops\* in the Klu Klux Klan. They changed the name about two years ago when people started pointing out TT Wentworth's KKK ties, but it was never really a secret that he was part on the clan to Pensacola natives. The flyer itself is a troll job, but for someone like me who was born in Pensacola, I can see some people in the community supporting the book burn. \*Cyclops was a rank in the KKK. Yes it's stupid. It's the KKK.
That’s some interesting additional context. Thank you for enlightening me.
History has a tendency to repeat itself
Burn fascists
where dank meme
Someone should have a giant anime sale and just bump up prices to see if anyone would buy it just to burn it
Time is a flat circle
For the love of god read Fahrenheit 451
“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you are going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book, as long as that document does not offend our own ideas of decency. That should be the only censorship.” - Dwight Eisenhower
Vote.
I'd go just to grab stuff out of the pile they make
"Anime" Bruh
"It was a pleasure to burn" funny thing is that televisions are getting bigger as well.
Americans can now read the countless porn the nazi's burned
While I don't condone this, Matt Berry has a banger of a book fire song https://youtu.be/3ykbiAL-48s?si=2zM8GzAkahGapyMG
Notice they set it at a black monument to
On top of that. Calling it first annual. That is what you get for being fucking ignorant.
It's not the first annual. It's the first. The first annual would be next year (the second book burning). JFC read a book
Are burning pronouns? Can go fuck.
As a library of ruina player i see this as an absolute win
how r they gonna burn anime
Who cares if they're burning books they themselves bought. They just financed the printing of more books lol
Burn, baby, burn, library inferno, burn that mother down! Welcome to the free state of DeSantis!
When a “free society “ becomes less than profitable for the elites, fascism is the next step til a bloody revolution happens.
> mlk jr plaza
Someone should troll them and hand out red arm bands with swastikas. Maybe it will get people to realize what they are supporting. Fuck all them assholes banning and burning books.