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Anon visits a bookstore (sh.itjust.works)
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[-] MudMan@fedia.io 91 points 4 months ago

Is this about the US? Is the US alright?

I was in a bookstore yesterday. I did have a chuckle at this self-help book called something along the lines of "How to Politely Tell People to Fuck Off", which proudly stated to be written by a social therapist or some other Pokemon evolution of a psychologist.

Otherwise it was novels from mainstay authors, young adult stuff whose quality was undecypherable from their "my cousin knows Photoshop" covers and a bunch of pseudo-academic highly specific texts from local self-published authors.

I was disheartened to see that the native minority language section keeps shrinking, especially among children's stuff. And while I was looking at that I also noticed the manga section is bigger than the graphic novel section and that is bigger than US comics, which were now nonexistent. More neutral about that one.

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 47 points 4 months ago

You know very well that the US is not alright, lol

[-] spacecadet@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago

Is there a country you would consider alright?

[-] porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 9 points 4 months ago

No not really, but most are less fucked up than the USA

[-] darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago
[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 months ago
[-] taladar@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 months ago

Politically however it seems to be all right lately.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

for all the idiots that downvoted this, it's a joke, it's a little thing called "word play"

the joke being "all right" as in, it's all right, literally, not alright.

[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 3 months ago

which proudly stated to be written by a social therapist or some other Pokemon evolution of a psychologist.

TBF a social therapist is exactly the type of person that should write that book, they have extensive experience with helping people socialize appropriately, judging by the working title.

this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2025
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