Well, in some countries it’s also 7th region of January, but that’s religious details. Here in Ukraine, we’ve recently switched the official Christmas date, so we kinda have both
While it’s true all of Western Europe is guilty, there’s a reason why people point to Britain first and foremost. Its empire was pretty much the codifier of what people think of when the word “superpower” is used. There wasn’t such an uncontested concentration of power in a single polity that could be projected globally until the UK came out on top from the Napoleonic Wars then went on to subjugate Asia and Africa by the mid-late 19th Century, essentially becoming master of the world market and trade networks (at least until the onset of WWI). Not even the Spanish and Portuguese Empires held such a monopoly. Even after the start of Britain’s terminal decline into becoming America’s lapdog in the cold war, it still influenced world politics in ways that still affect us today (relevantly, it was originally Israel’s patron power before the US supplanted them sometime in the 70s/80s).
It usually says price per total area, but this whole thing is why I just buy the recycled ones. If someone’s going to cheat me it may as well be for a good cause.
Sure feels like Christmas is the only holiday we are allowed to care about. Every store sells Christmas decorations, restaurants have Christmas flavours, the radio stations are plagued with Christmas songs, ads are all Christmas themed, etc.
As an American Jew, I can tell you from 46 years of experience that the only holiday being celebrated is Christmas. Anything else is just throwing a tiny bone towards whoever doesn’t celebrate it.
Alternatively, you can let me put up my damn 5 minutes of happiness tree and the “I like the pretty color” lights. Christmas is literally the comfy smell-good season for me. And Thanksgiving can co-exist. Yeah its pretty much about presents and wrapping paper for the stores, but just because a bunch of assholes like it for evil reasons, doesn’t mean I have to cull my enjoyment to “defeat” them.
TL;DR I’m gonna just keep the Christmas Tree around and redecorate it for each holiday. And I’ll have Halloweenmas, Thanksmas, New Yearsmas, Birthmas whatever other holidaymas.
Same here. Decorating the tree is just fun and it smells good. Plus it’s an excuse to make the outside of the house pretty when HOA normally doesn’t allow it most of the year.
Lol where’d the only interesting comment chain in this thread go? I thought this was supposed to be not like reddit, but are we deleting entire threads of civil discussion now without even acknowledging it?
Hmm ty. Not sure if my ‘sync’ app is glitching or something. But the upvotes I received make me inclined to think I’m not the only one who had that specific chain disappear all of the sudden.
Edit: K so they were deleted as suspected. But why? While some people disagreed with each other, it was a civil discussion with the intention of providing a solution to a real issue. Very concerning such a thing would get deleted at all.
No, it’s the original comment that got deleted (probably by the creator), and then some clients don’t show the following thread because they have no top-level comment to attach to.
I’m in KBin and have the same thread but with the first comment that it seems you don’t have.
It reads “Indigenous land is a tough one. If you stick with that, Israel is just taking their land back, and right wing European politicians have the moral high ground.”
I think Christmas has become the poster child for this unending cycle of “event seasons” that is pushed by retailers. New Year’s celebrations and sales give way to Presidents Day sales and Valentine’s (if you really love her you’ll spend $10K on a real blood diamond) then it’s Easter (gotta buy cute new clothes for the kids to celebrate the rising of the Christian lich god) then Mother’s Day, Memorial Day, Pride Month, Fourth of July, Back to School, Labor Day, Halloween, say hi and bye to Thanksgiving bc Christmas ads featuring white people buying ridiculous shit for their spouses take precedence.
To be fair, people like holidays and it’s tradition far older than capitalism, the calendar in most of catholic and orthodox countries (and afaik the nonchristian religions aren’t that much different in that) since medieval up to even XX century in some places was literally counted not by months and days, but from holiday to holiday and there was dozens of them, so every few days except maybe the great fast there was this or that holiday. Capitalism just took the heavily cutted protestant version and concentrated the holidays even further, but the actual celebrations are just few days (we can’t give proles too much free days, we need the labour to steal!) so that the preparations got extended beyond the wildest expectations.
Macy’s played a significant role in popularizing Christmas consumerism through events like the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and their holiday displays. The first parade was in 1924.
It was around that time Christmas was portrayed as a shopping holiday. It was such a successful marketing campaign that the rest of the holidays were sure to follow.
Meh, at least the blood diamond thing is dying fast and hard. Young people don’t give two shits about real diamonds, and neither do some of us old farts.
Hell, my finance and I are both 52 and the question of “real” diamonds never even came into play. We just got on Etsy and picked a couple of dope rings that we loved, ~$500 for both.
Disclaimer: Her ring appears to have real diamonds, but they’re tiny. For $260, for that ring, I’d say the price of diamonds has tanked.
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