All the people who've NEVER gotten to "do Thanksgiving" or "do Christmas" For YEARS Because they had seasonal jobs, because they were poor, because they're alone and have no friends and family You all apparently didn't think that was much of a problem back then
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*Other* people not being able to do holidays wasn't a problem worth raising your taxes by 5%, or staying in with that family you love so much instead of going out shopping on Black Friday or to see a movie Christmas Day, or doing anything at all
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But *you* not being able to do the holidays like you planned is such a big fucking problem it's worth it to kill hundreds of thousands of people to indulge you Fuck's sake Listen to yourselves
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All this fucking garbage you have to sit through about the basics of human social psychology, how we crave face-to-face interaction, how "touch starvation" induces anxiety and depression, etc, Yeah how do you think we discovered that It's not something that started this year
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There have ALWAYS been people living lives of exhaustion, isolation, deprivation, ALL AROUND YOU And you thought this was a natural phenomenon, just part of life, unavoidable And you think this is a big problem NOW because it's happening to YOU and to people you know
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And you're openly willing to deny reality and deny the laws of nature and tell God you're fine with the deaths of millions of people because YOU CAN'T LIVE THIS WAY, not even for a year -- some of you not even for a month God fuck you
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The City of Omelas runs on leaving the one kid inside the closet because they're supposed to be there so they're used to it and that's okay If you proposed "Hey how about we all take turns in the closet one day at a time, so it's fair" the city would collapse in a week
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What’s amazing is how some folks have used this as an opportunity to reflect on the injustice of american society, and others have used it as an opportunity to complain how it’s actually bad because it’s not unjust _enough_.
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ffs, I worked in a pharmacy for a few years. We worked on holidays so ppl could get their meds. why are people so incredibly assholish about this?
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I’ve missed Rosh Hashanah a bunch of times when I couldn’t get the time off from work.
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