Sunshine @lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoIn a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloweenapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1115cross-posted to: desmoines@midwest.social
arrow-up1115external-linkIn a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloweenapnews.comSunshine @lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square15fedilinkcross-posted to: desmoines@midwest.social
minus-squarecapital@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·1 day agoWhy would shifting the day, by one I might add, change the amount of hooliganism?
minus-squarePacattack57@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·1 day agoBecause Halloween is associated with the devil and the religious wackos can’t have our children celebrating the devil.
minus-squareborth@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up19·edit-21 day agoSo by celebrating it a day early, it’s a loophole, and god can’t get mad.
minus-squareRagingRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14·1 day agoYeah it’s like how butt sex doesn’t count as sex cause it’s just in a butt
minus-squareGlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10·1 day agoUnless you both have a penis. Then they put you in a camp and attach electrodes to your chest and shock you while showing you porn and call it therapy.
minus-squareBrundleFly2077@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·1 day agoSounds like that could go both ways. “Don’t threaten me with a good time” sort of deal.
minus-squareBoozilla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoWe love our moral panics here in the US. Especially Satanic panics.
Why would shifting the day, by one I might add, change the amount of hooliganism?
Because Halloween is associated with the devil and the religious wackos can’t have our children celebrating the devil.
So by celebrating it a day early, it’s a loophole, and god can’t get mad.
Yeah it’s like how butt sex doesn’t count as sex cause it’s just in a butt
Unless you both have a penis. Then they put you in a camp and attach electrodes to your chest and shock you while showing you porn and call it therapy.
Sounds like that could go both ways. “Don’t threaten me with a good time” sort of deal.
We love our moral panics here in the US. Especially Satanic panics.