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Valentine's Day Protest Thread (Fight The Power!)

Pretty sure Mother's Day is the biggest day of a florist's year, but surely Valentine's Day is #2.

Meanwhile, I should've hit the grocery store at the crack. By the time I arrived a little after 10:30, there was only one plant, a lovely white/pale pink begonia in an 8-inch pot for only $3. I could just kick myself for not going earlier. Arrrrgh. The Monday after Mother's Day, I will hit the stores by 7.

Yeah that's true they will do good business on Valentine's day. Play sometimes buy flowers just because for the people I love. so I'm glad the florists do well on Valentine's day and mother's day.
 
Clearly, you have not bothered reading about fascism to associate it with Valentine's day.

The essence of fascism was best laid out by Mussolini's famous: everything for the State, nothing against the State and nothing outside the State. A fascist is someone who believes that the community or the nation must be put before the individual. It is someone who would defend whole heartedly the idea that it is the government's job to police your behavior and your speech so that they fall in line with a grand social vision. It is someone who thinks that businesses should subordinate their activity to this social vision and who thinks that failing to do so warrants punishment. It is, in other words, someone who fundamentally does not believe that individual rights are anything besides privileges the State granted and can therefore revoke. That's fascism.

Now, Valentine's day is an entirely private matter, involving only consenting parties that are not obligated to celebrate it, to celebrate it in a peculiar way if they do opt to celebrate or to be even be together in the first place. This conception of romance and free association is profoundly individualistic and, consequently, it is deeply antithetical to fascism. More to the point, in my experience that it's the people who cry to the facists who are the most eerily similar to them. They're all completely oblivious to it, usually on account that they have absolutely no idea what fascism truly is. Feel free to rant about Valentine's day, but calling things fascists cheapens the word and understate the very real horrors that people suffered because of real, as opposed to imagined fascists.


As for my personal opinion on that day, I think it is nice to have a day on calendar where you plan a special date. It so happens that my girlfriend loves romantic gestures and that she didn't get to enjoy much of them in the past. Last year, I remembered that she told me no one ever got her flowers, so I got her white roses (her favorite color) and wrote her a poem. This year, I knew she was a bit moody because of something that happened at work, so I surprised her with flowers one day ahead. She got the night off both years and we used it to have a nice diner at home.

Why anyone would have a problem with Valentine's day is beyond me. If you do not like it, just skip it.
 
Clearly, you have not bothered reading about fascism to associate it with Valentine's day.

The essence of fascism was best laid out by Mussolini's famous: everything for the State, nothing against the State and nothing outside the State. A fascist is someone who believes that the community or the nation must be put before the individual. It is someone who would defend whole heartedly the idea that it is the government's job to police your behavior and your speech so that they fall in line with a grand social vision. It is someone who thinks that businesses should subordinate their activity to this social vision and who thinks that failing to do so warrants punishment. It is, in other words, someone who fundamentally does not believe that individual rights are anything besides privileges the State granted and can therefore revoke. That's fascism.

Now, Valentine's day is an entirely private matter, involving only consenting parties that are not obligated to celebrate it, to celebrate it in a peculiar way if they do opt to celebrate or to be even be together in the first place. This conception of romance and free association is profoundly individualistic and, consequently, it is deeply antithetical to fascism. More to the point, in my experience that it's the people who cry to the facists who are the most eerily similar to them. They're all completely oblivious to it, usually on account that they have absolutely no idea what fascism truly is. Feel free to rant about Valentine's day, but calling things fascists cheapens the word and understate the very real horrors that people suffered because of real, as opposed to imagined fascists.


As for my personal opinion on that day, I think it is nice to have a day on calendar where you plan a special date. It so happens that my girlfriend loves romantic gestures and that she didn't get to enjoy much of them in the past. Last year, I remembered that she told me no one ever got her flowers, so I got her white roses (her favorite color) and wrote her a poem. This year, I knew she was a bit moody because of something that happened at work, so I surprised her with flowers one day ahead. She got the night off both years and we used it to have a nice diner at home.

Why anyone would have a problem with Valentine's day is beyond me. If you do not like it, just skip it.

I think he was being obtuse in purpose for comedic value.
 
Did Adolf invent Valentine's Day?
That is news to me.

I thought that it was Hallmark and FTD.

I hate the idea of Valentines day that we are supposed to schedule romance to appease the snipe in a diaper. I tried to play along in the past and it always ended badly because it was so forced instead of being spontaneous.
 
I think he was being obtuse in purpose for comedic value.

Then he also sucks at comedy as he does as both logic and satire.
 
How is there no one here objecting to the romantic fascism that is Valentine's Day?

Valentine's Day = LITERALLY Hitler

It's fun when you're a candy-drunk kid, but as an adult... :thumbdown

If Christmas & Mother's Day are bad, VD is the WORST.

Will Bernie ban Valentine's Day as a fetish of the petite bourgeoisie???

I am fairly sure that I have not once had bad VD SEX.
 
I think he was being obtuse in purpose for comedic value.

With the number of people on the far left who make absurd commentaries nowadays, the difference between reality and parody is slim. They are walking caricatures, so I assumed it was serious and that I was dealing with one of those absolute lunatics.
 
With the number of people on the far left who make absurd commentaries nowadays, the difference between reality and parody is slim. They are walking caricatures, so I assumed it was serious and that I was dealing with one of those absolute lunatics.

Precisely, that's why it's funny you have to think about it was he serious. I did for a minute.
 
Precisely, that's why it's funny you have to think about it was he serious. I did for a minute.

It was not obvious due to the lack of context, but I suppose I would have been laughing had it been the plot of a South Park of Family guy episode. I feel a little bit like Sheldon from BBT, unable to tell apart a satire from the real deal, but it's alright. :lamo
 
It was not obvious due to the lack of context, but I suppose I would have been laughing had it been the plot of a South Park of Family guy episode. I feel a little bit like Sheldon from BBT, unable to tell apart a satire from the real deal, but it's alright. :lamo

No it wasn't obvious, I agree. Yeah if you saw it in family Guy or South Park it would be in the context of this is satire. But here there is no context, so here's where we really see Poe's law come into effect, is he a satirist or a fundamentalist... Does it make a difference? It's still hilarious. there's a certain amount of pity for someone who would actually think that Valentine's day is fascism, but sometimes the best way to deal with that is laugh.
 
There's a certain amount of pity for someone who would actually think that Valentine's day is fascism, but sometimes the best way to deal with that is laugh.

I would usually find this funny. That is, until they start suggesting they should get to bully people into compliance on account of their own fringe beliefs. There is nothing funny about an angry mob of complete lunatics running amok.
 
A curious thing. When I went to the store at the last minute for a card, almost every card for "wife" was sold out. None of the cards for "husbands" were sold out.
 
A curious thing. When I went to the store at the last minute for a card, almost every card for "wife" was sold out. None of the cards for "husbands" were sold out.

Guys I don't think care generally about getting cards. My husband and I don't really do that regularly. I'm more into gestures and so is he.
 
I would usually find this funny. That is, until they start suggesting they should get to bully people into compliance on account of their own fringe beliefs. There is nothing funny about an angry mob of complete lunatics running amok.

I doubt even if it was serious there would ever be an anti Valentine's day mob... And if their was, I'd send them a Valentine's day card. Lol
 
I would usually find this funny. That is, until they start suggesting they should get to bully people into compliance on account of their own fringe beliefs. There is nothing funny about an angry mob of complete lunatics running amok.

Well, unless they're lynching that little b*tch Cupid. :2mad:
 
A curious thing. When I went to the store at the last minute for a card, almost every card for "wife" was sold out. None of the cards for "husbands" were sold out.

Well, that's because wives know that guys don't care about all the nonsense, but guys know - or fear! - that the wifey does.

It's fascism I tells ya!
 
Guys I don't think care generally about getting cards. My husband and I don't really do that regularly. I'm more into gestures and so is he.

Exactly & you beat me to it!
 
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