just remember, when you get the call from congress that we need to invade europe again, tell them we're adding stars this time

Geez, that's gonna be a lot of stars... Germany alone adds... ¿12?

16

3 of those are "city states" though

Berlin, Bremen and Hamburg

@Mandatory Carry so many, it's like the fucking golden globes

But seriously though, I need help.

I can't really stand Nicole Kidman but I find her super attractive

What do I do?

Who?

sorry

her slave name is Oprah

serious tho

I think she was married to Tom Cruise a while back?

She is over 50 eewwww

Seek help

Yeah but have you seen her with red hair? Fucking hell.

Yeah, some people age gracefully.

Thank you, @scaevola, 16.
Crap, ¿*CAN WE* add that many stars (and that's just Germany) with switching to dots? And ¿what about Switzerland? 😲

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Hello !

Watashi wa namewa Clive desu

So I got into a small argument with someone irl yesterday about black history month. How many people here think we should have a black history month and how many think we should not? And does your answer extend to other race history months of the year?

No special treatment for any group. So, no holidays or "history months"

Any holiday that doesn't have specific cause for some form of celebration for every citizen should be abolished.

Black history month is inherently exclusive, and doesn't unify communities like holidays are supposed to.

If you’re going to do anything at all any form of stupidity should be wrapped up into one day. And even that’s pushing it.

They're argument was that black people had such a specific and volatile history for a time in America that we need to have a special month to learn about it so we all can learn from it and grow and never do it again. Also every other month is white history month. To this latter point I said history has no race, just a time and a place. Just because we learn about people who happened to be white more in other months doesn't make those months white history months.

My broder point was, Obviously we should learn from our history and not repeat the bad parts, but the problem is that it isn't "black" history. It's American history and by giving black people a whole month all to themselves they now feel entitled like they deserve it and they all (hyperbole) feel this en masse collective sense of racial entitlement because someone a long time ago gave welfare in the form of race based month long history holiday apology

If being oppressed gives an ethnic group the right to a month bashing people over the head for your ancestors oppression, then we would need a lot more months.

Focusing exclusively on the treatment of blacks in the US doesn’t actually help learn the problem in my opinion. The perspective should be broadened to all ethnic groups that have or have been oppressed. This way, people learn that it’s a cycle and the only way to break the cycle is to intentionally focus on what we have in common instead of focusing on minor differences.

*oppression history month*

@Clive
I reject all racism.
#EndBlackHistoryMonth.

But I would get behind *"History Month."* Leave it in February, that's fine (maybe).

All good points, even Mandy LOL, thanks all

The problem with ending racially-based history months is twofold. First off, the people representative of that month and people that get offended on behalf of other people, would both be offended that this particular month of racial history would be removed. The second thing that would happen is that, even if we removed racial history months, people would invariably still talk about racial history in that month and celebrate their race in that month anyways so functionally nothing would change I think

Yeah, like Pride Month isn't exactly "real" in the sense that it wasn't created by the government, but society/corporations have bought into it

So nobody can just declare it null

Yeah, we went to feed the darkness a cookie and it ate the Cookie by swallowing our arm. Now our only choice is to slake the Darkness so it doesn't keep eating its way up our arm or cut off our own arm.

*"Yeah, we went to feed the darkness a cookie and it ate the Cookie by swallowing our arm."*
Stolen.

All of this does the question of where we draw the line

@Legalize
Briiliant plan.
Now we'll have 5Ø different Christ's Masses, 5Ø different Easter's, 5Ø different Memorial Days (oh, wait, that's not a holy day, my bad)...
Great plan. Bravo.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

We’ll have to update the 12 days of Christmas