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For Lemmy. Moving from the alien site to here has been fantastic.
I wanted to say that too. Of course, family is great too, but I'm always grateful for that. Today it's Lemmy's turn.
Brazil commemorates Thanksgiving? In what bizarro world? I've never met a single person here who ever did that, in fact the vast majority of people have absolutely no clue what Thanksgiving is or that it even exists.
The author is just pulling this shit out of their asses lol.
I was going to say lol, I'd struggle to find anyone who is even aware of it in real life
It is a wishful-thinking style article on the web where some yank once met some yank who lived in Brazil and thus decided from this that every person in Brazil celebrated the USian holiday. Same in Japan, who definitely do not celebrate thanksgiving any more than Brazil does. But the yanks all think the world revolves around them.
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It may be a USA Brazilian thing, the diaspora is quite large.
Maybe, but that's like 0.1% of the population, there aren't many American communities in Brazil. Maybe it's a thing in Americana (a town founded by ex-confederates, I shit you not), but otherwise...
This article in Wikipedia mentions Brazil under "Observance." Apparently there are a couple of Brazilian laws that establish Thanksgiving as a holiday and set its date as the fourth Thursday in November.
So maybe edit Wikipedia? Note to them that it isn't known or celebrated?
I really wish I hadn't mentioned Brazil or Japan. I was just interested in what people were thankful for. I'm truly sorry if I offended Brazilian or Japanese people.
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Thankful for my union fighting hours on hours to negotiate a better job for me. The other day they negotiated until 3 am!
I'm thankful for key lime pie. I may not have it as much as I want, but the idea alone of having another bite some day really keeps me going.
I am thankful for being born and living in Europe πͺπΊ
That's looking increasingly like a good choice you made.
My Pathfinder group, who agree with me that to (fictionally) run screaming at people with a lit black powder bomb in my hands is the right thing to do.
I'm thankful for my wife and family. Also overcoming my years of struggle with depression.
That's awesome!
3 years now. Never did I think I was capable of this kind of mental stability. Thankful every day.
I've had months before. I can't even imagine years. So happy for you β€οΈ
No one in Japan celebrating a fake holiday you Americans came up with.
Itβs called Labor Thanksgiving Day (kinro kansha no hi):
A national holiday for honoring labour.
I mean, all holidays are kind of fake. They aren't self-evident, even kinro kansha no hi.
But happy Kinro Kansha No Hi!
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TIL that Brazil has a Thanksgiving day... But we do not celebrate it, and -unfortunately- it's not a holiday.
Anyway, I'm glad of the friendships that I have and had.
Thankful for two years cancer free, my son is getting good grades and doing good at soccer and martial arts (the two things I did growing up) and the company I work for is growing massively and work is still interesting.
Cheers
That's awesome! How great to be able to say all that where a few years ago you must have felt like the world was caving in on you.
So happy for you mate
Thanks yeah for real
fun place called fediverse
It's been a rough year and I came very close to being furloughed. Managed to get a new client just at the right time and now I'm thriving again. I'm thankful for having frankly a lot of luck over the years which has put me where I am today. I'm not saying hard work wasn't important too, but sheer luck has been helpful too.
So many things are, frankly, out of our control, and we act like they aren't sometimes. I think being thankful is a way of acknowledging that the lines fell out in pleasant places.
Communists all over the world doing their best to make it a better place!
Anarchists too 
Nothing
Oh man, that is so good. So many people living with chronic pain would love one single day of "nothing." Children and others suffering constant abuse would be so grateful for a day of "nothing." In war, what is a cease-fire but some "nothing" for a change?
Thankful for nothing. Yes. Very good π
My husband who i can take to anywhere i like.
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