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Thanksgiving is one of our sillier culture war battles
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Thanksgiving is one of our sillier culture war battles

People should spend it however they want!

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Ben Dreyfuss
Nov 26, 2021
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Thanksgiving hath come and gone. This is my Thanksgiving post though. It is a day late for two reasons: one) I spent yesterday having Thanksgiving with my family, and 2) I genuinely find the annual Thanksgiving discourse sort of infuriating.

Every year there are certain types of stories that are written about Thanksgiving. There are “How to fight with yo…

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