I... I'm thinking about this and while, textually, that's the outcome of the kind of practice I'm advocating for, I also would _utterly love_ for the holidays to be dead forever because I'm not at all convinced they don't bring out the absolute most wretched behavior in peoplehttps://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1330599217790939141 …
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I don't actually think I've ever seen a holiday that wasn't awash with the American masses losing every fucking ounce of their sense of courtesy towards others They're just a frenzy of privileged people enjoying themselves at the expense of people who can't afford to do so
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And the fact that we literally have an economy that depends on Christmas is the surest evidence that we should probably abolish it People HAVE to celebrate it or, like, institutions fall apart? It's a load-bearing holiday? What the absolute fuck
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I mean COVID be damned, the second somebody got trampled to death on a Black Friday we should have blown the whistle on all this shit The idea that we just uncritically accept this state of affairs as an inimitable element of our culture is absolutely disgusting to me
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The Purge reminds me a lot of Black Friday....
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During the brief window when people cared about Hunger Games an acquaintance got written up at Wal-Mart for playing the cornucopia scene on loop on Black Friday.
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The darkest thing I've seen is this video of a Target manager unironically using Randy Marsh's speech from the Black Friday episode of South Park (a pastiche of Aragorn's speech from Return of the King, "Our strength will not fail today") to actually rally his employees
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That's horrifying. But I'll admit I put off a lot of video game buying til BF when shit hits 15 and i can 1-click ship it.
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