• Vandals_handle@lemmy.world
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    First European colonizers thanksgiving. Indigenous peoples celebrate fall harvest with thanksgiving and have done so for thousands and thousands of years.

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    I know Thomas Jefferson opposed the idea of thanksgiving because he thought it was too religious adjacent.

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      Based TJ moment.

      Bogged down by all the other horrible things he did but at least he made a copy of the bible that cut out all the wizard bullshit.