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Cancel Thanksgiving
Tha Atlantic ^ | 6:45 PM ET | James Hamblin

Posted on 11/16/2020 6:43:49 PM PST by conservative98

Celebrating Thanksgiving by entering someone’s home and spreading a lethal infectious disease is a little too darkly ironic anyway.

Take the opportunity to think about what you love most about the day. Focus on how to re-create that, and even build on it. Maybe learn to cook one of the dishes that someone else usually brings to dinner. Think of the people you actually look forward to seeing, and call them. Think of the people you don’t look forward to seeing, and don’t call them. Appreciate that you can’t get cornered by some annoying second cousin; you save money on travel; you don’t have to pretend to care about football.

Maybe most important, this year is an opportunity to bond over the moral certainty of the moment. At its core, Thanksgiving is a nebulous day of atoning for the sins of colonialism by eating food and saying thank you. Now families and friends and communities can work together to achieve something meaningful and good: ending the pandemic. All you’re asked to do is eat food at home.

Whatever you do, take heart that this radically different pandemic lifestyle doesn’t have to last too much longer. By next Thanksgiving, if the news of an effective vaccine proves as fortuitous as it sounds, we can go back to whatever traditions draw people to this day. This is a onetime deal. Next year will be an opportunity to be thankful for the elements of the holiday that we tend to take for granted. It will be like a Super Thanksgiving. Or maybe this new way of doing it will work so well, you’ll never want to go back.

(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...


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KEYWORDS: antiamericanism; bloggers; canceltheatlantic; colonialism; fakenews; jameshamblin; soyboy; thanksgiving; waronthanksgiving
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To: conservative98

Tell him, “Hey turkey, just go stuff yourself and STFU”


41 posted on 11/16/2020 7:38:36 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: conservative98

“Men without chests” want you to cower.


42 posted on 11/16/2020 7:39:25 PM PST by lastchance (Credo.)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Flatten the curve! Hell’s bells that was a thousand frickin miles ago....


43 posted on 11/16/2020 7:40:13 PM PST by drSteve78 (Je suis deplorable. WE'RE NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE)
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To: conservative98

PETA will be dancing in the streets...until they find out the Turkeys were killed and frozen months ago...

“Covid, the virus which saved 100,000s of Turkey’s lives...what do we now do with 100,000s of Turkeys? Do we keep feeding them and causing global climate change? Or, do we kill them, to reduce carbon emissions by growing feed for them? Won’t their decaying bodies produce toxic gases?

Maybe we could burn them in a solar “oven” and use them for fertilizer?”

Hmmmm


44 posted on 11/16/2020 7:46:11 PM PST by Hypo2
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To: ProudVet97

It does if you change that to Martin Luther King boulevard.

CC


45 posted on 11/16/2020 8:09:03 PM PST by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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To: conservative98; 100American; al baby; Allegra; BufordP; dp0622; EveningStar; Gefn; GunsareOK; ...

At its core, Thanksgiving is a nebulous day of atoning for the sins of colonialism by eating food and saying thank you.

Hey, Hamblin, why don't you truck on down to Georgia and illegally vote for the crazed pastor and that pencil-neck geek, like your buddy Yang wants you to. In the meantime, we'll continue celebrating Thanksgiving.

DANG!

46 posted on 11/16/2020 8:10:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Hope is not a plan. -- Matthew Bracken)
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To: maggief

COVID is a total Marxist scam. In 2018, there were 2.8 US million deaths. In 2020, there are projected to be 2.8 million US deaths.


47 posted on 11/16/2020 8:11:31 PM PST by CalWildcat
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To: conservative98

Sorry, got my bird today and we’ll eat it..


48 posted on 11/16/2020 8:17:37 PM PST by Bookwoman (And I am unanimous in that.)
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To: conservative98

Fulking prick!


49 posted on 11/16/2020 8:18:59 PM PST by TheGunny
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To: conservative98

My Gaydar is pinging off the scale.


50 posted on 11/16/2020 8:19:59 PM PST by crusty old prospector
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To: conservative98

Because no one should give thanks to any one greater than the government.


51 posted on 11/16/2020 8:22:29 PM PST by Lee Enfield (We win, they whine. Keep up the good work.)
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To: conservative98

No. I will be giving thanks. I will be celebrating Christmas


52 posted on 11/16/2020 8:28:59 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: conservative98

I’d cancel the Atlantic, but I don’t take it.


53 posted on 11/16/2020 8:34:30 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ghislaine Maxwell lives and Joe Biden is losing.)
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To: Nifster

I will be giving thanks too...not for the perfidious U.S. government, but for blessings provided by the Lord. I will not be unthankful.


54 posted on 11/16/2020 8:36:21 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (I did not leave my country, my country left me)
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To: conservative98

Screw this guy.


55 posted on 11/16/2020 8:52:13 PM PST by sauropod (Let them eat kale. I will not comply. Sic semper evello mortem tyrannis. This is how Democracy dies.)
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To: conservative98

NO. We will do as we please, and gather as always. We will not cease thanking God our Father, either, which is the real point of this little prohibition.


56 posted on 11/16/2020 8:52:17 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (But what do I know? I'm just a backwoods engineer.)
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To: backwoods-engineer

They also don’t want you gathering with like-minded people, or family or friends to discuss their evil plans of tyranny, election fraud, or their “reset” plans.

My take.


57 posted on 11/16/2020 8:56:37 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: Kartographer; cp124; metmom; Tax-chick; Jane Long; Trump Girl Kit Cat; conservative98; drSteve78; ..

"Put Down the fork!!!"


58 posted on 11/16/2020 9:11:58 PM PST by 4Liberty (How does a kids car-donation nonprofit pay for so MANY radio ads if it's a charity?)
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To: conservative98

I bet he fawns all over those soup kitchens feeding Thanksgiving dinner to untold numbers of vagrants and drug addicts.....


59 posted on 11/16/2020 9:18:42 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: 4Liberty

Love the come and take the turkey one.

The leftist tyrants are so meme-able :-)


60 posted on 11/16/2020 9:20:32 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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