• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      the idea we need to export or celebrate more america is brainworm

      I’m not. But if people in a local area are already doing it, like they are where I live, there’s an option to not participate by leaving the front lights off for a few hours. No one would want your high and mighty speech about your righteous non-participation if you were here.

      You’re arguing that living in a place that has a tradition that makes kids happy, while I have no actual means or ability to leave, has some arbitrary ethical mandate for me to not make kids happy on one fun day a year where kids wear costumes and run around collecting candy because you disapprove of it?

      The “invite” is just leaving the front light on, or decorating. You’re being sanctimonious in a way that kids around here would find hilariously lame. They’d be fine not getting candy from you, but the speech is just… stop.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]@hexbear.net
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      the idea we need to export or celebrate more america

      TIL, having fun by dressing up is a uniquely American tradition that nobody else in the world has ever done.

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      Yankees gonna yank. Bacically every christian country celebrates the 1st november in this or that way, but the halloween is uniquely US thing, way more than even current iteration of consoom christmas, and its spread should be worrying since its only spreads on the wave of US cultural offensive.

      Like we even have this in Poland now ffs despite (or rather thanks to) our version of that holiday is probably the most boring and awful of entire world. We should get the LatAm version instead, but the TV drilled the pumpkin shit into heads for good now.

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      What no grass does to a mf

      As I said, have fun. Let me not have fun

      No. I will not “just let people enjoy things” nor will I “just let people not enjoy things.”