Sunshine @lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agoIn a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloweenapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square12fedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down10cross-posted to: desmoines
arrow-up192arrow-down1external-linkIn a first since 1938, Des Moines, Iowa, kids will trick-or-treat on Halloweenapnews.comSunshine @lemmy.ca to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 hours agomessage-square12fedilinkcross-posted to: desmoines
minus-squarecapital@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·10 hours agoWhy would shifting the day, by one I might add, change the amount of hooliganism?
minus-squarePacattack57@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up25·10 hours agoBecause Halloween is associated with the devil and the religious wackos can’t have our children celebrating the devil.
minus-squareborth@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-29 hours agoSo by celebrating it a day early, it’s a loophole, and god can’t get mad.
minus-squareRagingRobot@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up8·9 hours agoYeah it’s like how butt sex doesn’t count as sex cause it’s just in a butt
minus-squareGlendatheGayWitch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 hours 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-up3·4 hours agoSounds like that could go both ways. “Don’t threaten me with a good time” sort of deal.
minus-squareBoozilla@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·9 hours 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.