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artificialavocado t1_j6xm74x wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow! 6 more weeks of winter. by Different-Airport-89

Name a holiday that isn’t pointless? They are all made up. It’s not like it is an actual holiday either. Again, fun, silly, tradition.

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[deleted] t1_j6xme63 wrote

That’s my point. Almost all of the US holidays are valid af and mined for profit. No substance or real reason to have them.

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artificialavocado t1_j6xmkmw wrote

I look at this this way, just because I’m a wet blanket I try not to shit on others for having fun.

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[deleted] t1_j6xqngb wrote

I look at it this way, the dumbing down of America has been happening for a long fucking time and one of the ways that has happened is by stripping meaning from the meaningful and replacing it with vapid consumer bullshit. The fall of society is precisely because of holidays like this and the mechanisms which support them.

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artificialavocado t1_j6xr9i8 wrote

You picked a strange hill to die on. If it was Christmas maybe you would have a point but with this being PA half the people in that crowd are likely hung over. The other half is still drunk.

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[deleted] t1_j6xt8ee wrote

This isn’t a hill to die on, it’s a symptom of a larger ill.

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