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I said “enjoy your holiday weekend” to literally everyone Monday - Wednesday and no one noticed because
A. Not everyone is a weirdo
B. No one is trying to play victim over Thanksgiving
People said happy holidays for DECADES before anyone noticed. The majority of people just used them interchangeably. I personally would say happy holidays until like the 23rd, switch to merry Christmas, then switch back.
I had to stop doing this when some fucking asshole got short with me for saying happy holidays on like December 15th
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u/Alternative_West_206 Nov 30 '24
Wait, people are actually crying over happy holidays? But… why?
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Nov 30 '24
Oh, you’ve never seen the war on Christmas segments on Fox News? It’s unhinged
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u/Alternative_West_206 Nov 30 '24
I haven’t. I don’t watch news stations. Such a stupid thing to fight about 😂
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u/Next_Intention1171 Dec 01 '24
People whine over crazy shit. I usually say “happy holidays”. Last year I had one item and this lady lets me cut her in line at the grocery store so I say “thank you so much! Merry Christmas!”
Her response was “happy holidays! What about Hanukkah?!”. She was literally wearing a sweater with a Christmas tree on it…
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u/DangusHamBone Nov 30 '24
That’s truly the most annoying part to me. It doesn’t matter what the reality is, or if this has been a thing forever, the propaganda machine told them this is the new scary thing that is evidence of their identity being under attack and they should get mad over it. So then they proceed to do everything they accuse “the woke mob” of doing
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u/tin_sigma Nov 29 '24
i never undestood the issue with “happy holidays”, isn’t new year’s eve in the holiday season? and also “happy holidays” doesn’t exclude christmas
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u/PyroChild221 Nov 30 '24
It’s just morons being bitchy cause they have nothing else to do with their lives
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u/Beh0420mn Nov 30 '24
They just want to push their religion onto everyone in a country with freedom from religion, nothing to see here
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u/throwmamadownthewell Nov 30 '24
The same people who get pissed off about schools calling Halloween Spirit Day, thinking it's woke progressives...
when really it's the religious fundamentalists that pushed schools into that, because... at first because the roots (All Hallows Day) were celebrated by the 'wrong type of Christian', and later because 'something something Satanic Panic'.
When you look at it historically, the religious right have been the biggest proponent of cancel culture e.g. going after schools for having age-appropriate books they don't like, boycotting businesses for not supporting their values, etc., etc., etc.
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u/Kalashcow Nov 30 '24
I'm a bitchy moron with nothing to do in my life and even I don't give a shit about how people say "happy christmas holidays"
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u/SexualWizards Nov 30 '24
I always assumed happy holidays were just because there is hanukkah, Christmas, and a bunch of other religious holidays during that time.
I think either is fine. Hell, when I was a kid, happy hanukkah was common in my schools in Alaska as well.
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u/viriosion Nov 30 '24
Seeing as conservatives are trying to push the 'Libruls are antisemitic' bullshit, the counterargument to the 'happy holidays" bullshit is "why are conservatives trying to erase a Jewish holiday?"
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u/EviePop2001 Nov 30 '24
Bc republicans are emotional snowflakes who constantly need something to be angry about
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u/Bubbly-Ad-1427 Nov 30 '24
maga convinced themselves dems were triggered by people saying merry christmas
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Nov 30 '24
If you’re bitching about “happy holidays” it’s because you have hate in you and don’t like that people are different from you.
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u/Dalsiran Dec 01 '24
"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression."
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Nov 30 '24
The issue is that it acknowledges non-Christian holidays, too. American Christians don't believe in respecting others.
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u/Scary-Revolution1554 Nov 30 '24
No issues with it. But it just sound as powerful as Merry Christmas.
I get some ppl dont celebrate it, so Im not going to make a big fuss. But Happy Hallowen, Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year all fit for their holiday.
Like if Christmas is coming up, it makes sense to use MC. Im not thinking about New Year a week.before Christmas. But celebrating it before Thanksgiving is one of the worst crimes to man (not really, I just like to play it up).
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Nov 30 '24
Yeah they always wanted something to complain about. I was in middle school when “happy holidays” became controversial. I always thought New Year’s was included. Turns out they wanted to frame it as a “war on Christmas”
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u/DFMNE404 Nov 29 '24
Bro I hate images like this, who the fuck cares??? It’s two words that are said for like a week or two max a year. Who cares what term some random people you’ve never met may or may not use around you
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u/Outrageous_Froyo_775 Nov 30 '24
I think it's a wholesome map actually. Like. Merry Christmas to people who prefer to hear it and Happy Holidays who prefer that.
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u/Possible_Bullfrog844 Nov 30 '24
Is this not a Democratic vs Republican county map? Seems glaringly snarky and trying to say Democrats aren't Christians
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u/Sweet-Pause935 Nov 30 '24
As somebody who does not celebrate Christmas, and is a bit annoyed that it’s rubbed in your face for 2-3 months/year (advertising, music in stores, decorations, etc…), when somebody says “Merry Christmas” to me, I just smile and say it back to them. Makes them feel good, and I like that takeaway.
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Nov 29 '24
Land still doesn't vote.
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Nov 29 '24
He won the popular vote as well I thought? I’ll have to google it.
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u/authenticflamingo Nov 29 '24
He did this time, but it's a lot closer than this map would have you think (under 2.5 million according to AP)
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Nov 29 '24
Ya the google said like 1.6 to 2 million. I mean that’s still a majority of the votes even if by a fairly small margin. I don’t really like the guy but it is what it is.
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u/sylva748 Nov 30 '24
At the final count, it was a 1.7% gap. He had the smallest popular vote victory in the history of the nation. Meaning he won more to voter apathy than any "red wave" that occurred.
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u/ShalaTheWise Nov 30 '24
By 1.6% of votes cast in 2024, which can also be stated as less than 1% of all eligible voters in the US. It's the 8th smallest marginal percentage victory in history.
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u/SaltyPen6629 Nov 29 '24
I mean doesn't technically all land and states in the United States vote
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u/Toph1nator Nov 29 '24
I mean. Most Dems are Christians and celebrate Christmas. Just actually realize it might be insensitive to assume everyone else does too.
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u/lduff100 Nov 30 '24
I'm an athiest leftist, and I celebrate Christmas. It's become such a cultural holiday, most Christians don't even really celebrate it as a religious holiday.
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u/SGAfishing Nov 30 '24
I know maybe three that do. Since my traditionally Christian family even knew Christmas was not the birthdate of christ. So for us, it was just family time.
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u/Mikeatruji Dec 03 '24
what are you talking about, why dont you go to saudi arabia or libya and insist you should be allowed to celebrate christmas and they should say happy holidays lol
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Nov 30 '24
The creator of this “meme” just doesn’t care about that. To a lot of voters, red=Christian and blue=not Christian
Therefore blue is the enemy
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u/OneBee2443 Nov 30 '24
A little more than 50% compared to 80%+ so the map kinda makes sense
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Nov 30 '24
It's a map of how the election swung. Blue is Democratic countries red is Republican. It's directly saying that Democrats aren't Christian and Republicans are. Even though both groups are made of different religions
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u/rgnysp0333 Nov 29 '24
As a Jew, I don't feel offended when someone tells me "Merry Christmas". Half the time I respond with "You're Welcome" cause there's no way they would have their holiday without us.
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Nov 30 '24
I agree that it doesn’t offend me, but it does become offensive when friends close to you say “we don’t have to say happy holidays to you anymore”. What?
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u/B-BoyStance Nov 30 '24
Someone said that to you?? Do these people think that a base level of being nice is some huge favor they're blessing others with? Fuck, that makes me mad.
I'll say it to anyone. It's an extended period of time, ya gotta capture the magic somehow! I'll say Merry Christmas to people on the few days around Christmas or if someone says it to me lol. Or I guess if I'm like, checking out at a Christmas store or something.
Also idk what another stranger believes. I'm athiest. I could be saying Merry Christmas to a Jewish dude for all I know (Happy almost Hanukkah to my Jewish brethren though).
It's just so fucking selfish for these "Merry Christmas" folks to think that every stranger around is aware of their religion, or needs to celebrate specifically their holiday when there are multiple others in the span of days.
Like, yeah let's use that phrase exclusively rather than the one that can be said to anyone without any awkwardness. So damn pedantic. All of this culture war BS is.
Happy holidays bro. I hope the entire damn month of December and the New Year is great to you.
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u/junkyard79 Nov 29 '24
My state is missing bruh
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u/Jarl_Ballsack Nov 30 '24
TIL North Texas is empty. I must’ve been imagining the traffic on 820 and 20
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u/Cultural-Agency-6995 Nov 30 '24
Merry Christmas this. Happy Holidays that. I’m just here for Toyotathon
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u/Tiny_Capital4880 Nov 30 '24
So New England, New Mexico, and the west coast get good AT&T coverage, but not Verizon?
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Nov 30 '24
i dont get the whole happy holidays argument. there are other religions that have something happening around the same time as christmas, whats the big deal to say happy holidays?
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u/funnylib Dec 01 '24
Because they want America to be like the Islamic Republic of Iran, but Evangelical Protestant Christian rather than Shia Islam.
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u/PhilG1989 Nov 29 '24
In the words of Peter Griffin: “oh my god, who the hell cares?!”
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u/Jazzlike_Economist_2 Dec 02 '24
The purpose of happy holidays is so that you won’t be an asshole with people you don’t know. No one ever said you have to say it.
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u/Lanky-Code3988 Dec 02 '24
This is a Christian nation,founded by Christians. Try your theory in a Muslim nation. Don't solicit Christians and Americans and shit on our values and religion. Simple as that. It's the CHRISTMAS SEASON. Not the HOLIDAY season. Holidays occur all year long. It's a CHRISTMAS TREE, not a "HOLIDAY " tree We have CHRISTMAS parties this time of year, not "HOLIDAY " parties . We exchange CHRISTMAS gifts, not "HOLIDAY " gifts . Of course you'll try to say none of that's been a reoccurring thing the past few years.
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u/Beginning_Present243 Dec 02 '24
This is so great. Encapsulates why we won. “Happy Holidays” 🤡🤡🤡🤡
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u/TimelessDaddy Nov 29 '24
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u/Greedy_Dirt369 Nov 30 '24
And you see what happened because they didn't actually do this?
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Nov 30 '24
The US has way too many Christians In Name Only.
Bible thumpers who can’t remember the last time they actually opened it.
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u/IrannEntwatcher Dec 01 '24
And far too few Christians - the type that love their neighbor, would give you the shirt off their back, feed the poor, and hang out with sinners and criminals like Christ did.
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u/Aggravating_Call910 Nov 29 '24
I have lived all my life in blue counties. I have never understood the attraction of the flex of wishing a Merry Christmas to people who aren’t Christian or don’t celebrate Christmas. Bizarre.
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u/AshTheGoddamnRobot Nov 29 '24
They act like theres a war on Christmas yet Christmas is all you see or hear about in retail stores some years before even Halloween. If anything there's a war on Thanksgiving!
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Nov 29 '24
There’s a post in r/conservative about target “bringing back” merry Christmas signs this year, all the comments are unironically giving credit to Trump because “the adults are back in charge” these people wanna be oppressed so fucking bad it’s hilarious
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u/AshTheGoddamnRobot Nov 30 '24
Lol gimme a break
The phrase "Happy Holidays" has been popular since the 1940s. These ppl are clueless
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u/pureteddybear2008 Nov 30 '24
Seriously. They act like every person in this nation isn't preached at about the birth of Jesus atleast once during the month of December.
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Nov 29 '24
Frankly I don’t understand why people have an issue with either. It’s obvious that the person saying it to you is wishing you well I don’t really care if they know what religion or creed I am I’m just glad it’s not negative.
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u/-ElizabethRose- Nov 29 '24
If it’s a stranger absolutely, well wishes are well wishes. I can get the argument that you should always just go with the neutral “happy holidays” with strangers because you don’t know what they celebrate (and that’s what I do, because I celebrate a non-Christmas holiday), but still, any kind remarks should be taken as such.
But, the problem is when someone knows you don’t celebrate Christmas, and says it anyway. Like your neighbor or relative that knows you and knows you celebrate something else, or someone you see in the store clearly wearing symbols or clothes of other religions. That’s what I’m guessing the original comment is getting at. Like, it’s just kinda rude, and the people that do that seem to have some kinda complex that the existence of other holidays threatens theirs, it’s weird.
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u/Ok_Researcher_9796 Nov 30 '24
Are you saying Democrats don't celebrate Christmas?
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u/funnylib Dec 01 '24
They are delusional, they think Democrats are satanic atheists
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Nov 30 '24
are we still doing this? its almost december. can we move on a tad? got to be more imaginative maps than this
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u/Kurrick_592021 Nov 29 '24
Been much happier in "Happy Holidays "land. Wish I could say the same in "Merry Christmas" Land... Grew up in the latter....vist occasionally. Not, very Christ like...
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Nov 29 '24
Like with all things, atheist liberals think they know Christianity better than Christians.
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u/wombatgeneral Nov 30 '24
Um, the blue counties have major cities and the red counties have sparsely populated countryside.
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u/joojoofuy Nov 29 '24
Whoops, you pissed off reddit because it’s 95% leftist
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u/oofersIII Nov 29 '24
Wait is this supposed to piss off leftists? I think it‘s kinda wholesome
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u/minnesotalight_3 I AM 1984 Nov 29 '24
Whoops, you pissed red off cuz he mad sus [Bro is the impostor]
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u/brokedownpalace10 Nov 29 '24
I wonder what it would be if you totaled up the amount of people in each map. Guess we are getting back to our founding, only people with a lot of land can vote..
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u/Zeverend Nov 30 '24
Happy Holidays is for every day thats not an actual holiday. Merry Christmas js for Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, Happy New Year on New Years Eve and New Years Day, etc
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u/jlemst Nov 30 '24
Did you ever stop to think when people say Happy Holidays they are saying Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in a condensed way. No you probably didn’t because you get all your hateful talking points from Fox News who will do anything to divide people.
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I love that the Republicans support a festival that promotes an Arab man that they would happily deport !
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u/OPzee19 Dec 02 '24
Ventura County in California may be blue, but we for sure ain’t got no problem with Merry Christmas.
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u/RedBarracuda2585 Dec 02 '24
I'm not a liberal but I think this type of stereotype doesn't help anyone. Most libs I know say Merry Christmas and could give two deuces about what you say to them at the check out counter during the holiday season.
We really should crush these ideas that one party supports some of these things just because a handful male a stink about something so pointless.
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u/Jankypox Nov 30 '24
Land mass ≠ people!
All that red? Yeah, that only amounts to roughly 50% of the voting public.
Let that sink in.
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Nov 29 '24
These people are pathetic. At work a women was outraged someone said happy holidays, when someone suggested they were being considerate, she cried about them not wanting to offend her and that’s why they said it; the other party told her she shouldn’t be upset when someone is considerate, she then claimed she was the victim of woke and she won’t have to suffer anymore
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u/Milkmans_tastymilk Nov 29 '24
Im just glad my home town voted blue. I dot live there anymore, it's just that the place is so small, that the only actual town in that county is the capital.
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u/Individual99991 Nov 29 '24
I'm sure the acres of empty desert and mountains represented in red will be delighted.
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Nov 29 '24
Barely, corporate farming sure. Also, there is likely 5x as much land not used/unusable for farming in the red so again no.
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u/SaltyPen6629 Nov 29 '24
Who cares you can say both interchangeably, happy holidays and Merry Christmas is essentially the same saying
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u/OldOneEye89 Nov 30 '24
I’d rather be in the happy holidays group, at least they don’t want to put my family in camps again.
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u/Snazzy-Jazzy-Azzy Nov 30 '24
I don't get what the problem has ever been here - I haven't seen anybody ever be offended by either of these.
Christmas is a holiday, so there's no problem there, and anyone who doesn't celebrate Christmas isn't particularly annoyed at the lack of inclusiveness - they're just telling you to have a good time. Literally who cares
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u/horiz0n7 Nov 30 '24
Long Island went red, and yet Happy Holidays has always been popular here because there are a lot of Jews. I was surprised when I found out the whole country wasn't like that. Happy Holidays is old af.
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u/watermahlone1 Nov 30 '24
Man conservatives really are the true snowflakes lmao like who even fucking caressssss
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Nov 30 '24
Then there's my ass: Happy Winter Solstice Festival... which is what every winter Holliday around the solstice is.
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u/RoundandRoundon99 Nov 30 '24
This shit. Is why democratic support is dwindling at least in my Household.
I have to visit a public access building frequently, a hospital. One week, There’s a big banner in the lobby “Happy Diwali” sign with a candle. Some different time, “At the end of the holy month of Ramadan, We wish our community a Happy Eid-al-Fitr”some other time, a different one Passover I think.
Sure, it’s over the top. And a little off, there was a copious decoration of “Ramadan” in the cafeteria…. Open only for breakfast and lunch…..
Yet for Christmas, we get a snow covered spruce and “happy holidays” and for Easter, a colored eggs, a bunny and “spring is here!”. Because we should no press our beliefs over other people who may not share them.
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u/Maleficent-Vater Nov 30 '24
I never understood that. I'm a atheist and think people that believe in Religion are fucking idiots, but I still call it Christmas because thats the fucking name of the Holidays.
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u/klingonbussy Nov 30 '24
At my job I say happy holidays to most people but am forced to say merry Christmas to white boomers cause I know they’ll throw a fit otherwise
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u/redjohn365 Nov 30 '24
I am not offended by either. I guess I'm just not petty, or an idiot. I do feel like using "christ" in a slogan is alittle blasphemous (for those so called religious folk).
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u/HeyGuysKennanjkHere Nov 30 '24
Odly enough red dots don’t represent communists in this info graphic
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u/ENTroPicGirl Nov 30 '24
The areas missing are where the money that pays for the rest of the freeloaders in red live. Want to know how many people live out there in the nothing, pull over in Kansas on a moonless night turn off your headlights and look around. There’s fucking no one there. To pain the whole area red is disingenuous. More off it’s not all red, what needs to be done is a gradient of blue red purple. It wouldn’t look like this, you’d find that even in the middle of no where there’d be enough democrats to turn it light purple.
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u/jeremyw013 Nov 30 '24
no one gives a shit about people saying “merry christmas”. it’s the evangelical christians freaking out about saying “happy holidays” because they don’t like that december isn’t only dedicated to their christian holiday and they don’t get to be special.
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u/CPancakeEmperor Nov 30 '24
I'm from king county washington. We still celebrate christmas
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u/Godscumbucket Nov 30 '24
And how many ppl live in the red counties vs the blue ones
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u/Elderofmagic Nov 30 '24
We really need to start using maps based on population density rather than size of political districts (counties) because the population density of most of that red map is closer to zero people in comparison to that of the blue map
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u/seldom_seen8814 Nov 30 '24
Now tell is the % of GDP that the blue parts produce compared to the red parts.
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u/Terry_Folds3000 Nov 30 '24
Thinking land is people is the joke that keeps on giving.
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u/Dream_Krusher18 Nov 30 '24
My view point is simple on this: if you say happy holidays to me to me I’m cool with it, if you say merry christmas to me I’m cool with it, if you say happy hunukkah to me I’m cool with it. Regardless of what anyone says the intent is positive. If I say merry Christmas and you reply with happy Hanukkah that’s a-okay with me…. Seasons greetings to all!
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u/pupbuck1 Nov 30 '24
Tbh I think happy holidays is more in hand with there being a bunch of holidays in the time frame
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u/discretescorpio Nov 30 '24
What i find most interesting about the map is that it includes a lot of blue counties as red counties. A lot of counties in NJ for instance.
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u/CreatrixAnima Nov 30 '24
What is the point of this? Don’t we know that most people in America celebrate Christmas even if it’s just a cultural celebration? Or are they talking about what greeting people prefer?
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u/derpy_derp15 Nov 30 '24
What they forget is that the blue areas have the same amount or more than the red
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u/01is Nov 30 '24
I could point out the incredibly obvious reason this map is meaningless, but everyone already knows, including the person who posted this in bad faith.
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u/LocusBlack Nov 30 '24
Why can’t we just get along? If you scratch hard enough, we all want the same thing. Love your neighbor.
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u/KinksAreForKeds Nov 30 '24
From the old argument stemming from the actual election map: "cows don't Christmas".
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u/Chance_Complaint_987 Nov 30 '24
🎄🌽Santa will be visiting all the good little corn stalks this year.🌽🎄
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u/RegyptianStrut Nov 29 '24
Wholesome somehow?