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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by jjr on Monday October 22 2018, @12:19PM (4 children)

    by jjr (6969) on Monday October 22 2018, @12:19PM (#751941)

    I'm sorry, but you're doomed. Here in Spain we didn't have these too, but about 10 years Halloween (specifically people in costumes and kids performing the trick or treat) started substituting the All Saints celebration and while we have both, Halloween is gaining terrain each year. And for Black Friday, since the online shopping explosion like 5 or 6 years ago, all big stores promote a Black Friday nowadays. At least Thanksgiving has no place here.
    I'ts like the Borg, resistance is futile.

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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by takyon on Monday October 22 2018, @07:57PM (3 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Monday October 22 2018, @07:57PM (#752123) Journal

    IT would be pretty fucked up if we got the shithole countries like Australia and Spain to celebrate God's American Thanksgiving ha ha ha.

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    • (Score: 1) by jjr on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:04PM

      by jjr (6969) on Tuesday October 23 2018, @12:04PM (#752441)

      In the world we live nowadays.... never say never ;) but yeah, preeeetty weird.

    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @06:46AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday November 05 2018, @06:46AM (#757876)

      A little-known fact about Thanksgiving is that it celebrates the result of abandoning communism. Yep. Marx wasn't the first to come up with that bad idea.

      Initially, the settlers agreed to share nearly everything. They would work the fields together. They would harvest together. They would equally share the results. Even the clothes washing was a shared duty.

      Men objected to women caring for other men. Women claimed they were too frail for the farming work. The farming barely happened, leaving people near starvation. Many died.

      After a couple years of this, they were desperate. The governor abandoned the original plan. He allocated individual plots of land to all the families. This changed everything. Women worked, and they brought along their kids to work. The resulting harvest was plentiful.