Thread to keep track of all Black Friday mayhem.

[giblets]

I don't understand why stores would cut prices on the day Christmas shopping begins.

[Thoth]

This is the perfect, totally perfect, condensation of everything that's wrong about America.

'cause buying needless crap is what keeps Ahmerika free. *


















*from what, we're not quite sure, but sanity isn't it.




Stop buying crap and hurry up and overthrow that despotic ****hole of a "government" you yahoos keep supporting.

[giblets]

Stop buying crap and hurry up and overthrow that despotic ****hole of a "government" you yahoos keep supporting.

No.

[Thoth]

No.

Then you deserve everything you get.

Two party state YAY! It's one more than those other ****hole countries get with their one party states!

YAY!

[giblets]

Then you deserve everything you get.

Two party state YAY! It's one more than those other ****hole countries get with their one party states!

YAY!

majority conservative government for five years because it got 40% of the vote YAY!

[Elok]

Oh, is that what that Harper business is about? See, this whole situation is unfair. Canadians criticize our government with impunity because they know most of us don't give enough of a damn to find out how their country works and criticize back. I propose that, whenever a Canuck mocks our country, he contributes an embarrassing factoid about his own. That way we learn and can eventually take over the duty for ourselves.

[Elok]

One of my old college friends remarked on FB:

Engage in the fetishization of consumerism: Get pepper-sprayed and physically assaulted. Protest the fetishization of consumerism: Get pepper-sprayed and physically assaulted. Be the one holding the pepper spray: Get an Xbox and a paid vacation.

TRUTH.

[Asher]

I don't understand why stores would cut prices on the day Christmas shopping begins.

Me neither.

In Canada our "black friday" is December 26th.

[Asher]

majority conservative government for five years because it got 40% of the vote YAY!

You mock such a system, but it's rid Canada of the dysfunction that plagues the US stalemate.

[Imran Siddiqui]

I don't understand why stores would cut prices on the day Christmas shopping begins.

Because otherwise no one would go anywhere the weekend after Thanksgiving - people start getting into their heads when Dec 1 hits, Oh I have to shop for Christmas. Cutting prices a few days earlier extends that time & more days equal people potentially buying more.

[ZEE]

I wonder what all the rich, top corporate bigwigs really think about the Black Friday deaths that Oerdin showed us?

[Asher]

Because otherwise no one would go anywhere the weekend after Thanksgiving - people start getting into their heads when Dec 1 hits, Oh I have to shop for Christmas. Cutting prices a few days earlier extends that time & more days equal people potentially buying more.

Canada solved this problem by not having Thanksgiving so ****ing close to Christmas.

[giblets]

You mock such a system, but it's rid Canada of the dysfunction that plagues the US stalemate.

Yes, a one party state can certainly get things done.

[Asher]

Yes, a one party state can certainly get things done.

Let's be real - the GOP and Democrats are more alike than they are different. The US has had a one party system for many decades now. The only thing that changes is the name of the ruling party and trivial policy issues. You don't have any true right or left wing parties. The US government is famously dysfunctional because the minor policy issues are inflated to seem like massive chasms in philosophical differences. Then your government just becomes a bunch of bickering little schoolgirls who can't decide on anything. Every time.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Canada solved this problem by not having Thanksgiving so ****ing close to Christmas.

We still blame Abraham Lincoln for this