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[Kagus]

I mean, listening to the recording, it really does sound like he's trying to impress her with all his posturing. Just, y'know... In an incredibly stupid way.

Also, I love the whole "Uh, yeah, that wasn't me and I have no idea about any of it, but that unknown person saying those things definitely didn't consent to being recorded (even though this is obviously a smear job against me), and I'm so convinced of this that I'm going to file a lawsuit for unlawful recording on behalf of this person who is not me"

[McTraveller]

To be honest, I never heard of Juneteenth until this year.  And I spent over 10 years of my life living in South Carolina (mid 80's to mid 90's), which you'd think would be a place where such a thing would be prominent, if such a thing were prominent.

[nenjin]

It's a Catch-22, but this is 2021, so I don't expect that small detail to prevent him doing or saying anything else.

To be honest, I never heard of Juneteenth until this year.  And I spent over 10 years of my life living in South Carolina (mid 80's to mid 90's), which you'd think would be a place where such a thing would be prominent, if such a thing were prominent.

I also had never heard of this until last week.

[Dunamisdeos]

I'd heard of it! It was a thing maybe... a decade ago? Fell out of the spotlight at some point.

Seems like a cool holiday to me.

[scriver]

Juneteenth rings a far away bell but I've never made notice of it until right here in this thread. But then again I am not from either of the Carolinas

[Starver]

I probably heard about it (enough to know what it was, and therefore to remember it as more than a cultural reference that I largely let fly over myheaad) over the last few years with increasing news emerging about the various travaills of those who more fervently would celebrate it.

Being white-British, it just doubly hasn't been a direct thing in my life. The 4th of July has as much relevence as quatorze juillet. Mardi Gras is too far away, as (to a lesser constraint) is the Notting Hill Carnival, to worry about when it might be (though the latter reportedly isn't going to be, for the second year in a row, an attraction that draws a couple of million participants over a handful of days in August).


But enjoy your Juneteenth, those for whom it is relevent. I'm not sure the official recognition is going to help (maybe, if a statutory holiday, it might help with otherwise incompatible working hours, but I think you can't even say that for sure given the employment regulations or lack of them), but hopefully the good feeling behind it helps.

[Vector]

I have an ex from Kansas who told me about it (white dude).

[MrRoboto75]

Infrastructure reform: I sleep

Voter suppression (especially of minorities): I sleep

Fun day off on the 18th: REAL SHIT

[wierd]

Infrastructure reform: I sleep

Voter suppression (especially of minorities): I sleep

Fun day off on the 18th: REAL SHIT

A typical day in the life of a Republican lawmaker, it seems.


Don't forget:

President engages in Quid Pro Quo with a foreign government: I Sleep
President incites violence against the legislature: I sleep (after I escape to the panic room, and then sleep through all followup of the event, including the second impeachment)

[Ziusudra]

Infrastructure reform: I sleep

Voter suppression (especially of minorities): I sleep

Fun day off on the 18th: REAL SHIT

19^th

[Frumple]

Depends on what day it falls on and the workplace, practically. Weekend (federal) holidays tend to be observed work wise on the day before or after (depending on if it's saturday or sunday), since many gov't workplaces are closed weekends. Juneteenth (also idle props to one of the easiest holiday names to remember the date of) is on saturday this year, so a good number of the places that scrambled to observe it would have had their day off yesterday.

[Ziusudra]

Depends on what day it falls on and the workplace, practically. Weekend (federal) holidays tend to be observed work wise on the day before or after (depending on if it's saturday or sunday), since many gov't workplaces are closed weekends. Juneteenth (also idle props to one of the easiest holiday names to remember the date of) is on saturday this year, so a good number of the places that scrambled to observe it would have had their day off yesterday.

Except so many of the people that would celebrate this holiday are still so economically oppressed that they can only work jobs that still have to be performed no matter what. Federal holidays are for the privileged. (Same as with those that want to make election day a federal holiday - they don't think about the fact that so many of those that they want to give the opportunity to vote still have to work those days.)

[MrRoboto75]

(also idle props to one of the easiest holiday names to remember the date of)

I mean Juneteenth could mean anything from june 13th to june 19th.  Which I guess is the "point" because not all slaves got the news at the same time, but still.

[Frumple]

I mean, sorta', but it has a literal two letter difference from nineteenth. There's not exactly many federal holidays that explicit as to what date it's celebrated on

[Vector]

Depends on what day it falls on and the workplace, practically. Weekend (federal) holidays tend to be observed work wise on the day before or after (depending on if it's saturday or sunday), since many gov't workplaces are closed weekends. Juneteenth (also idle props to one of the easiest holiday names to remember the date of) is on saturday this year, so a good number of the places that scrambled to observe it would have had their day off yesterday.

Except so many of the people that would celebrate this holiday are still so economically oppressed that they can only work jobs that still have to be performed no matter what. Federal holidays are for the privileged. (Same as with those that want to make election day a federal holiday - they don't think about the fact that so many of those that they want to give the opportunity to vote still have to work those days.)

I literally just had this exact conversation with a friend yesterday. Cynically: I wonder if they holidized Juneteenth in order to specifically avoid giving election day off.

I think we should get election day off, too. And all the feast days! :I

I'm actually not being sarcastic about the first part. The second part is about the reminder that in the medieval period, Europeans apparently got a lot more rest days than we do. You know: the peasants.