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Kinda tired of celebrating genocide every year, so let's imagine a world where you can replace the yearly genocide party with something else. What would you replace it with? What would you call it?

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[-] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 37 points 1 year ago

Halloween 2. And soon, comrades, we will march into December and claim Halloween 3.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I guess I should have scrolled before posting. We're on the same page.

[-] GrouchyGrouse@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Marching orders received. I still got a stud belt in my closet from my goth days. I'll be ready.

[-] Chapo_is_Red@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Came here to post this

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[-] Great_Leader_Is_Dead@hexbear.net 33 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Outdoor_Catgirl@hexbear.net 17 points 1 year ago

Just make it a harvest festival. Pretty much every culture since farming was invented has had one of those. No genocide whitewashing necessary.

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

This is pretty good. Everyone likes a good excuse to burn stuff. We can roast marshmallows over it.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

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 kitty-cri

[-] makunamatata@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

Haloween 3, Season of the With. Haloween 2 is mid November.

[-] CommunistBear@hexbear.net 19 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 20 points 1 year ago

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 sicko-charging

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

It's already so close to the December holidays, so let's just make Halloween more official. hexbear-specter

[-] Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago
[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

Spike the Colonials Punch day. Where you spike their punch. With arsenic

[-] barrbaric@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

A day of national sorrow for all the atrocities the US has committed. 5th graders will read the Jakarta Method.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 11 points 1 year ago

Nothing. Absolutely fucking nothing.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 15 points 1 year ago

But then we don't get an extremely needed day off chopper-cry

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

I have been awake and running service calls since 630 this morning.

What day off?

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

marx-joker

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.

[-] Feinsteins_Ghost@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

Sounds fantastic sign me up

[-] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

Thanks I stole it from the French. gui-better

[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] TupamarosShakur@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] TheDialectic@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

A second Halloween.

[-] Bnova@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Nationalgoatism@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago

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

[-] pooh@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Every day is pet day dog-screm egg-dog doggo-matapacos swole-doge

[-] makunamatata@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 year ago

Voting on Spain’s Running of The Bulls… after all it’s traditional

[-] Infamousblt@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

The only good part of the running of the bulls is when the bulls gore people

[-] buckykat@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Second Halloween

[-] GreenTeaRedFlag@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 6 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] theposterformerlyknownasgood@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Brazilian style carnival so you get to keep the parade.

[-] TupamarosShakur@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Nothing, no more holidays, they’re all cancelled 😤

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