They’re hovering over North America. Bert is clearly their US operative. They’re probably about to check in with Roberto down in Mexico after having just finished with Barthelemy in the Canada office.
And then a week later we have idiots playing with loud and colorful explosives, in an apparent effort to scare all the animals and start forest fires..
Exactly! Around here, around the same time, we celebrate the story of how some dude didn't wanna become bishop, so he hid within a flock of geese, but the geese started to make noise and the dude was found and appointed bishop against his will! As a result, to punish the damn geese, we eat duck....
The planning and execution of the genocide, before people actually started dying.
So it's not celebrating all the people dying, but the successful plan of convincing the ones they were about to kill they were actually a good, caring and giving person while in fact they just future-killed them by giving them a fatal disease. "Those were my ancestors! We should honor them by slaughtering loads of turkeys to show we're capable of doing the same."
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Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 53 pts · 260d
Only in 4.2% of the population. Insignificant really.
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 29 pts · 259d
No, America is the world, see.
artifex@piefed.social · 12 pts · 259d
They’re hovering over North America. Bert is clearly their US operative. They’re probably about to check in with Roberto down in Mexico after having just finished with Barthelemy in the Canada office.
gigastasio@sh.itjust.works · 38 pts · 260d
lividweasel@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 259d
Don’t forget the ritual display of murdered trees
over_clox@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 260d
And then a week later we have idiots playing with loud and colorful explosives, in an apparent effort to scare all the animals and start forest fires..
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 37 pts · 259d
Typical American cartoon. The world is bigger than the US. Thanksgiving celebrates the US genocide, the rest of the world doesn't do that.
MBech@feddit.dk · 15 pts · 259d
Exactly! Around here, around the same time, we celebrate the story of how some dude didn't wanna become bishop, so he hid within a flock of geese, but the geese started to make noise and the dude was found and appointed bishop against his will! As a result, to punish the damn geese, we eat duck....
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 258d
Technically, Thanksgiving actually celebrates the brief period before the genociding began.
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 258d
The planning and execution of the genocide, before people actually started dying.
So it's not celebrating all the people dying, but the successful plan of convincing the ones they were about to kill they were actually a good, caring and giving person while in fact they just future-killed them by giving them a fatal disease. "Those were my ancestors! We should honor them by slaughtering loads of turkeys to show we're capable of doing the same."
DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social · 5 pts · 258d
aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 258d
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 258d
That's fucked up
samus12345@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 259d
"What about the rampant fascism and cruelty?"
"Oh, that shit's everywhere. Nothing unusual about it."
WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 258d
Sigh I don't see why any self-aware enough social species would not develop that.
It is the great filter, after all.
ceenote@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 260d
It's not all bad. If you'd gone door to door last month, you could have gotten some free candy.
over_clox@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 260d
Just wait until they find out about the Easter Bunny. That poor rabbit has to lay millions of eggs just for one silly day..
bizarroland@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 260d
Why do they care what we do with our dead?
If they were alive pumpkins and turkeys, then I could understand the concern, but these are dead things.
Absolute worst case we have bizarre funerary rituals.