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Halloween 2. And soon, comrades, we will march into December and claim Halloween 3.
I guess I should have scrolled before posting. We're on the same page.
Marching orders received. I still got a stud belt in my closet from my goth days. I'll be ready.
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Thanksgiving.
No seriously, the who BS thing with the Indians and pilgrims was tacked on later. It was just a regular Christian festival time that was observed in New England before that. It's just a day to have a big fancy feast with your family.
Just make it a harvest festival. Pretty much every culture since farming was invented has had one of those. No genocide whitewashing necessary.
Make wicker-men in effigy of the white man, and set them alight at dusk as a reminder of what colonizers deserve. Call it the Day of Sovereignty.
This is pretty good. Everyone likes a good excuse to burn stuff. We can roast marshmallows over it.
A holiday that normalizes playing board games with friends instead of eating dinner with families would be great. I feel like people eat meals with their families all the time, sometimes multiple times a day, but no one has time to play board games with their old pal Wertheimer anymore.
I'd sign up for this. Thanksgiving used to be this until all of my friends and family started having kids, now nobody has time for games anymore 
I blame the “mobilization” of the internet for stealing attention away from everyone. Those who are young enough (thinking my kids here) won’t know what it is to be with friends and or family talking and playing board games for a few hours without micro interruptions. It was good while it lasted…
I haven’t been to my family’s for Thanksgiving since becoming an adult. Christmas is for my family, Thanksgiving is for friends. It’s genuinely weird to me that most people I know do see their parents on Thanksgiving.
I've known people who take airplane trips for both holidays to see the same family members! Genuinely weird, as you say. I guess there's just enough time between the two for everyone to get over Covid so they can get it a second time.
Haloween 3, Season of the With. Haloween 2 is mid November.
Can it be basically the same thing but without the genocide? Tbh I love a holiday that's all about coming together with loved ones to share a delicious meal together with no expectations of gifts. Like Christmas without the obsession of buying shit.
I mean that's kinda where it was co opted from...it's basically just "generic harvest festival with a dollop of genocide". So yeah I'd love to just go back to "celebrate your harvest however suits you with your loved ones."
Maybe I'll find a pagan ritual to read this year. It's not too late 
It's already so close to the December holidays, so let's just make Halloween more official. 
Punch the Colonials Day
Spike the Colonials Punch day. Where you spike their punch. With arsenic
A day of national sorrow for all the atrocities the US has committed. 5th graders will read the Jakarta Method.
Nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing.
But then we don't get an extremely needed day off 
I have been awake and running service calls since 630 this morning.
What day off?
Sorry to hear :( That sucks, and is why we need this to be a real holiday for everyone so we can all get the break we deserve.
Which real holiday do we all get off?
I work Thanksgiving, most Xmas day’s, Memorial day, labor day, New Year’s day, etc etc.
The week shall be changed to ten days. Never again will an important date be on a different day of the week. The percent of the week dedicated to weekends shall be improved from 71.4% to 70%. Nineday and Tenday shall be the weekend, and the third day off will change depending on the person and job. Following the twelfth month, a five-day national holiday will be enjoyed akin to the Chinese New Year golden week. Every month will have at least one holiday. The working year will be reduced from 1,800 hours to at least 1,300 hours, slightly below the German average.
Sounds fantastic sign me up
Thanks I stole it from the French. 
fuck that, 7 day week is the only one I will accept, now or ever. I will not be a part of a revolution that opposes Roman cultural imperialism.
There is a festival in a village I read about. Takanakuy. In Peru. They put on masks and get in fist fights to settle scores to start the new year properly. The idea is that you can't refuse the challenge without losing your good standing in the village. America would look a lot better if your boss knew there was a good chance he was gonna get called out and beat by all your coworkers or his credit score would be zeroed out.
A second Halloween.
I mean is it celebrating genocide each year? Like yeah the pilgrim shit is fucked but I don't think I've associated Thanksgiving with pilgrims and indigenous people since kindergarten. It's always been about eating a ton of delicious food with friends and family and as an adult drinking a ton.
I kind of view Christmas the same way -my family growing up was/is atheist we never celebrated Christ but we all gave/got gifts and had food.
Turn it into a fall harvest festival again, like it originated as. Morning wrong with a good feast with family and friends, minus the genocidal shit
Dunno about exchanging it with Thanksgiving (I like the board game with friends idea for this) but we need a holiday where we celebrate dogs/pets and give them lots of love and treats. Maybe we could swap this out with President’s Day, because what the fuck even is that.
Oh I celebrate Cat Day every year for my cats. It's a day I made up just for them. So I already do this
Every day is pet day 
Voting on Spain’s Running of The Bulls… after all it’s traditional
The only good part of the running of the bulls is when the bulls gore people
Second Halloween
Bring back the Fordicalia, sacrifice a cow's fetus to promote the earth's fertility. In addition to offending pretty much everyone, it's also the wrong time of year to do it. But november is a rough month for me, and bringing back an obscure holiday celebrating Tellus would help me feel motivated.
I would just drop the settler colonial narrative and bump the harvest festival up two weeks so it's closer to the midpoint between the September equinox and the winter solstice. The only awkward part is it would be very close to Halloween. Or hell, maybe we should just set the festival on 11/01 with the harvest festival officially starting on Halloween night. I always thought it was bullshit when you had to show up for school the next day after trick-or-treating.
Brazilian style carnival so you get to keep the parade.
Nothing, no more holidays, they’re all cancelled 😤
this post was submitted on 23 Nov 2023
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