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    My family only talks about facts

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    Quote Originally Posted by evince View Post
    Its nearly here



    what will families talk about
    Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

    It is simple and pure. Just sharing a meal with family and friends.

    And I like to pig out!

    It never fell victim to the consumerism and commercialism of other holidays, there is no pressure to buy anything, and the only expectation is to cook, eat, talk, and visit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tranquillus in Exile View Post
    Thanksgiving only started to be hyped as a national holiday in the Civil War. It was to distract from the fact that the first English colony in America was Jamestown, Virginia.

    It worked, too. Now most people think that the first settlers were the Pilgim Fathers.
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony was vastly more successful than the Virginia Company of London, to include birthing the American Revolution. Of course, the Thanksgiving story is about Jamestown, so, there is that.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cypress View Post
    Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday.

    It is simple and pure. Just sharing a meal with family and friends.

    And I like to pig out!

    It never fell victim to the consumerism and commercialism of other holidays, there is no pressure to buy anything, and the only expectation is to cook, eat, talk, and visit.
    I like the atmosphere of Christmas and the religious experience of Easter. But, your point about Thanksgiving is good.

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    I enjoy any time I can spend with my family. I am very thankful for that!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Threedee View Post
    The Massachusetts Bay Colony was vastly more successful than the Virginia Company of London, to include birthing the American Revolution. Of course, the Thanksgiving story is about Jamestown, so, there is that.
    'Thanksgiving' referred, I believe, to the thanks offered to God by the Pilgrim Fathers after surviving their first year in Massachusetts.

    The interesting thing is the contrasting motivations. The Pilgrim Fathers wanted to practice "purified" religion, shining city on a hill, and so forth. The Virginians went for free land.

    You might say these are two dominant strands in Americans, or at least WASPs, ever since.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kacper View Post
    The genes in me from the losing side of that genocide don't seem to mind some free punkin' pie. Reparations are reparations.
    You're full of shit.

    William Bradford, the former Governor of Plymouth and one of the chroniclers of the supposed 1621 feast, was on hand for the unspeakable massacre of 1637. He described it thus in his History of the Plymouth Plantation (@1647): Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire…horrible was the stink and scent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave praise thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory.The rest of the white folks thought so, too. This day forth shall be a day of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots, read Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop’s proclamation. The authentic proclaimed Thanksgiving Day was born. Few Pequots survived.

    Most historians believe about 700 Pequots were slaughtered at Mystic. Many prisoners were executed, and surviving women and children sold into slavery in the West Indies. Pequot prisoners that escaped execution were parceled out to Indian tribes allied with the English.


    https://popularresistance.org/genoci...ksgiving-myth/

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    Quote Originally Posted by cawacko View Post
    My family only talks about facts
    You should join them in that someday.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fentoine Lum View Post
    You're full of shit.

    William Bradford, the former Governor of Plymouth and one of the chroniclers of the supposed 1621 feast, was on hand for the unspeakable massacre of 1637. He described it thus in his History of the Plymouth Plantation (@1647): Those that escaped the fire were slain with the sword; some hewed to pieces, others run through with their rapiers, so that they were quickly dispatched and very few escaped. It was a fearful sight to see them thus frying in the fire…horrible was the stink and scent thereof, but the victory seemed a sweet sacrifice, and they gave praise thereof to God, who had wrought so wonderfully for them, thus to enclose their enemies in their hands, and give them so speedy a victory.The rest of the white folks thought so, too. This day forth shall be a day of celebration and thanksgiving for subduing the Pequots, read Massachusetts Bay Governor John Winthrop’s proclamation. The authentic proclaimed Thanksgiving Day was born. Few Pequots survived.

    Most historians believe about 700 Pequots were slaughtered at Mystic. Many prisoners were executed, and surviving women and children sold into slavery in the West Indies. Pequot prisoners that escaped execution were parceled out to Indian tribes allied with the English.


    https://popularresistance.org/genoci...ksgiving-myth/
    That "history" is so wrong and convoluted it is nauseating. No wonder you are fucked in the head.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    That "history" is so wrong and convoluted it is nauseating. No wonder you are fucked in the head.
    Oh I'm well aware you prefer the white washed eurostory.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fentoine Lum View Post
    Oh I'm well away you prefer the white washed euro his story.
    I only go by facts. Unlike you. Read your own link and the inconsistencies are clear as day. Easy to confuse folks like you. They rely on it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    I only go by facts. Unlike you. Read your own link and the inconsistencies are clear as day. Easy to confuse folks like you. They rely on it.
    Right, and we were entitled to the land.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fentoine Lum View Post
    Right, and we were entitled to the land.
    Stick with your link and Thanksgiving. You always try to change the subject when you get your ass handed to you with your own blind stupidity.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sailor View Post
    Stick with your link and Thanksgiving. You always try to change the subject when you get your ass handed to you with your own blind stupidity.
    I know you hate the connectivity of the overall program of genocide you wish to deny.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Fentoine Lum View Post
    I know you hate the connectivity of the overall program of genocide you wish to deny.
    I accept your surrender uneducated one.

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