I don't celebrate holidays
I don't celebrate the holidays because they don't mean anything to me, and I don't believe in them. I'm American, so I'm just talking about the U.S. here. There are endless bullshit holidays. Well, they are all bullshit and unnecessary, in my opinion.
Birthdays are cool though, and I think they are worth celebrating.
The U.S. was built on stolen land and committed evil atrocities to bring itself to what it is known as today. I'm not proud of being an American. There's nothing to be proud of. Instead, I am repulsed and enraged with this country and am also ashamed of this country.
America is filled with white supremacy, white saviorism, egotism, entitlement, zionism, capitalism, gun violence, police brutality, poverty, homelessness, healthcare crises, ableism, xenophobia, Islamophobia, racism, homephobia, transphobia, corruption, failing education systems, and transportation disasters.
Some will say it's all in the way you look at it and perspective, but you have to be bluntly honest looking at these major issues. These are all serious issues and problems that the U.S. has. You cannot look at the bright side when there are people who have no bright side.
I thought about immunocompromised people during the height of the pandemic in 2020-2021 the most. I think about Palestinians the most right now.
It continues to infuriate and disgust me how so many Americans don't even care about others, let alone think of others.
An alarming amount of turkeys are murdered this time of year because Americans are about to celebrate Thanksgiving, stuffing themselves with dead turkeys and overeating when there are people starving.
This holiday happens to be built on mass murder, land theft, and continued violence to Native people. That’s absolutely nothing to celebrate and is unacceptable. Completely vile, evil, and disturbing.
Grocery stores are overfilled with food that end up having to be thrown away because people didn't buy it all when there are people starving.
The U.S. has an overconsumption problem with food, media, capitalism, plastic, and many other things. Nothing will ever change for the best until the entire system is completely and permanently destroyed.
I know there are other countries with flaws, problems, and issues. I'm more aware of the U.S., so that's why I'm focusing solely on the U.S. here.
The overarching major and urgent issue across the entire world is the environmental nightmare that exists because of the reckless, careless, and disrespectful way people treat the planet.
The U.S. continues to participate in genocides across the world, now in particular, giving billions of dollars to Israel for weapons to kill Palestinian children, women, and men when Israel shouldn't even exist in the first place.
There are tons of Americans suffering and not getting the help they need while their government, being the colonizing country they are, continues to help Israel murder children in Palestine.
The U.S. is a slave to Israel when Israel wouldn't be able to do anything without the U.S. or other countries who support them while they wreak havoc on other countries. It isn't just Netanyahu, either. It is Israeli society as a whole. It needs to be permanently annihilated.
All Israelis need to permanently leave Palestine and end the occupation, and Israel should cease to exist. Palestine deserves every inch of their land back that Israel has brutally stolen from them for 75+ years.
No matter who Israel's prime minister is and no matter who the U.S. president is, both countries will continue to do evil in the world.
Karma is very, very real either way.
These are my uncovered reflections and honest thoughts. This is Bare Candor, after all. Believe what you want to believe. I just hope you think for yourself.
All in all, why do people even celebrate holidays? What, truly, are they even celebrating? Watered down, fake versions of sentiments that are supposed to mean something?
More capitalism? More slaughering of animals? More ethnic cleansing? More colonization? More entitlement? More veterans being treated like shit? A country's existence that was born from doing evil to others?
A religious figure's birth and rebirth who not everyone even believes in? Remembering people who have died in vain who should still be alive? Pretending to appreciate workers when they are overworked and grossly underpaid?
If it's spending time with family, there doesn't need to be days dedicated to that. That should be done on more than just the holidays, obviously, or at least as often as possible if it’s important and matters to people.
The main and major holidays in the U.S. are New Year's, Easter, Independence Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Veteran's Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. These aren't all of them. There are more.
Christianity is shoved down people's throats in America when there are many people who are of different religions or no religion at all.
Eating animals are shoved down people’s throats in America when there are people who choose not to eat animals or consume animal by-products at all.
American societal standards and expectations are shoved down people’s throats in America when there are people who refuse to settle for them or abide by them.
So much has been normalized in America that shouldn’t be normalized at all. It’s utterly horrendous and infuriating.
There is red MAGA and blue MAGA. They're both embarrassing and destructive menaces. Frankly, America was never great in the first place.
I used to want to live in NYC and LA, but I really don't know if I want to anymore because they are both ridden with zionists, who don't even deserve to breathe.
The southern states are a big fuck no for me, too, because they're filled with small-minded, close-minded, racist bigots, who also don’t even deserve to breathe. The midwest doesn't seem like a fit at all for me either. So, maybe somewhere in the west and in the northeast here and there.
Within a few years, I will get my dual citizenship by descent to Spain, but I'm not giving up on the U.S. yet. I still have hope knowing that the majority of Americans do not agree with the U.S. government.
The U.S. government does not represent us. I am beyond frustrated, fed up, disturbed, and infuriated with this country and all of their obsessions with capitalism, celebrities, and self-entitlement, and the complete disregard they have for others.
Even though, I will end up no longer permanently residing in the U.S., I'm not done with this country yet and don't know if I truly ever will be for a very few possbile reasons.