• @aelwero
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    141 year ago

    If you’re suggesting cancelling Juneteenth because it “overlaps” (“” because I don’t really agree with that) MLK day, wouldn’t you cancel MLK day instead? Emancipation was a little more a step forward than the civil rights movement…

    Of course, if you consult the experts on cancelling shit, they’d most likely say that Columbus day might be a better fit in the chopping block, and IF we need to “make room on the calendar” (also bullshit) in order to make voting a legit day off (is it not? If someone who works for me asks for time off to vote, I’m going to ask them if they need a fucking ride to the polls… Come on people…), I kinda gotta go with Columbus being the least relevant current federal holiday…

    Just my opinion, mind, but cancelling the new shit because “muh traditions” is fucking dumb… Be better…

    • GreenBottles
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      1 year ago

      Columbus day shouldn’t exist because he really didn’t discover America in the first goddamn place

        • @thesprongler
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          41 year ago

          Meanwhile, Amerigo Vespucci: “Am I a joke to you?”

      • @thesprongler
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        21 year ago

        Even if he did, he didn’t mean to. It would be like if we landed on Mars but still celebrated the moon landing.

        • @tallwookie
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          01 year ago

          a land for sugar plantations

      • @tallwookie
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        11 year ago

        yeah, the Vikings did. we need a Viking celebration day

    • @[email protected]
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      91 year ago

      Technically Columbus Day is now Indigenous People’s Day since Biden changed it in 2021, so something much more worth celebrating IMO

      • @aelwero
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        11 year ago

        Lol, so they already cancelled it? Meh…

        It’s funny though… I live smack in the middle of a reservation, and I’ve never heard of this indigenous people day. I kinda don’t think any of the tribe here gives a shit… They have their own government, and at least in our area, thats the only one they give a fuck about :)

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          The point of virtue signalling isn’t to do anything for the people it’s ostensibly directed towards.