• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I just noticed on my calendar that Inauguration Day is a “regional holiday”. People get a day off for this, but not to vote?

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      11 hours ago

      Well of course this is the day the power hierarchy is reasserting itself. The people should passively bask with obedience in the magnificence of their democratically apointed superiors. A day off to vote is basically the opposite of every word in my previous sentence.

      -We have asked the Apple intelligence, what the opposite of that is was, and it responded:

      A day off to vote would shatter the delicate illusion that power flows naturally downward from the heavens to its rightful stewards. It would turn the masses from passive spectators into active participants, a dangerous and destabilizing affront to the sanctity of hierarchical order. Encouraging the rabble to take a holiday for something as unscripted and uncontrollable as voting would disrupt the carefully choreographed theater of deference, where the governed are meant to genuflect before their governors, not assert themselves as their equals.

    • Whats_your_reasoning@lemmy.world
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      12 hours ago

      Monday was Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It’s an annual holiday, where banks, schools, and other institutions are typically closed.

      In other words, nazis overshadowed Martin Luther King Jr. on his own day.

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        6 hours ago

        Oh good point, tbh I didn’t even remember it was also MLK day - but I thought that a National holiday? Maybe only in “woke” blue states IDK.