Message from @Clive
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*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.
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We’ll have to update the 12 days of Christmas
By that logic is there now under your plan 400 days of Hanukkah?
You must be asking Leag, 'cause it wasn't my plan. 😅
I can see it now: 400 Crazy Nights starring Adam Sandler
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Wait, maybe Sheldon's into something here... 😲😲😲😲
You ask for too much
the only issue i can think of is that there could be issues with doing business across states
I think he's referring to each state having their own declared holidays, but that still doesn't make much sense
50 Easters would all fall on the same day anyway
although I do support moving halloween to being on the last Friday or last Saturday october unilaterally
@Legalize
*"@MandiCar speak English please."*
I am. 😈
*"I never said I want to "make 50 different Christmases" or "50 different memorial days"*
Well, no... Memorial Day isn't a holy day, so you did **NOT** say that.
*"I think all Holy days of obligation should be government indicated holiday's... Not federally, though."*
Ehem... *"Not federally."* Leaving the states (or, God help us, the cities and counties) to set the date.
But for once your failure to think (at all) *may yet* have proven advantageous; *"I can see it now: 400 Crazy Nights starring Adam Sandler."* Well... That's not necessrily a bad idea...
@C1PHER
*"50 Easters would all fall on the same day anyway"*
¿Do they? We know Christ's Mass was moved at least three times, and several Christian sects do not celebrate the day at all, leaving those sects, and thier states, to set no date at all. And as Clive observed, some states will inevitably revive the holiday entirely on one pretext or another. (Michigan springs rabidly to mind, thanx for not jack shit Barack.)
I'm glad you think moving is so easy. It must be nice to be independently wealthy with no kids or whatever your situation is, but the rest if us must work in the real world, not a fantasy of living out of a U-Haul and transferring our flag on a weekly basis.
@me
kek
dont @me if you @nt me
¿You can't read your own words? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
At least Sheldon *could* read his own words.... 🤣
who is this sheldon you keep going on about?
where?
@Clive
... That wasn't bad... 😉
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From elsewhere:
*"(W)ar should be avoided at all costs."*
***"The Romans, in the countries which they annexed, observed closely these measures; they sent colonies and maintained friendly relations with the minor powers, without increasing their strength; they kept down the greater, and did not allow any strong foreign powers to gain authority... Because the Romans did in these instances what all prudent princes ought to do, who have to regard not only present troubles, but also future ones, for which they must prepare with every energy, because, when foreseen, it is easy to remedy them; but if you wait until they approach, the medicine is no longer in time because the malady has become incurable... (I)n the beginning of the malady it is easy to cure but difficult to detect, but in the course of time, not having been either detected or treated in the beginning, it becomes easy to detect but difficult to cure. Thus it happens in affairs of state, for when the evils that arise have been foreseen... they can be quickly redressed, but when, through not having been foreseen, they have been permitted to grow in a way that every one can see them, there is no longer a remedy. Therefore, the Romans, foreseeing troubles, dealt with them at once, and, even to avoid a war, would not let them come to a head, for they knew that war is not to be avoided, but is only to be put off to the advantage of others; moreover they wished to fight... in Greece so as not to have to do it in Italy... (A) blunder ought never to be perpetrated to avoid war, because it is not to be avoided, but is only deferred to your disadvantage."***
Those of you who say *"we should abandon our allies"* are also saying *"our allies should abandon us."* I could go through the book and find the refrence, but it would be in "How A Prince Should Keep Faith" (ch. 18).
Was gonna say like 4 lines into that that I was pretty sure that was Machiavelli
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Yes. It is.
Machiavelli is an actual manual for monarchy
1984 isn't a manual for communism mmkay gais
Machiavelli is advice for leaders, really
Or rather
The Prince is, to be specific
yeah that's fair