artificialavocado t1_j6xi703 wrote on February 2, 2023 at 4:23 PM

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow! 6 more weeks of winter. by Different-Airport-89

Bro we all know a rodent doesn’t have psychic powers or can affect the weather. It’s just a fun, silly, tradition. It isn’t even just a PA thing the entire country knows about Groundhog Day.

[deleted] t1_j6xkkdj wrote on February 2, 2023 at 4:38 PM

Holidays aren’t supposed to be useless.

artificialavocado t1_j6xm74x wrote on February 2, 2023 at 4:48 PM

Name a holiday that isn’t pointless? They are all made up. It’s not like it is an actual holiday either. Again, fun, silly, tradition.

[deleted] t1_j6xme63 wrote on February 2, 2023 at 4:49 PM

That’s my point. Almost all of the US holidays are valid af and mined for profit. No substance or real reason to have them.

artificialavocado t1_j6xmkmw wrote on February 2, 2023 at 4:50 PM

I look at this this way, just because I’m a wet blanket I try not to shit on others for having fun.

[deleted] t1_j6xqngb wrote on February 2, 2023 at 5:15 PM

I look at it this way, the dumbing down of America has been happening for a long fucking time and one of the ways that has happened is by stripping meaning from the meaningful and replacing it with vapid consumer bullshit. The fall of society is precisely because of holidays like this and the mechanisms which support them.

artificialavocado t1_j6xr9i8 wrote on February 2, 2023 at 5:19 PM

You picked a strange hill to die on. If it was Christmas maybe you would have a point but with this being PA half the people in that crowd are likely hung over. The other half is still drunk.

[deleted] t1_j6xt8ee wrote on February 2, 2023 at 5:31 PM

This isn’t a hill to die on, it’s a symptom of a larger ill.