Thanksgiving

At the GNU Public Dictatorship we are nothing if not sensitive to cultures other than our own, which is why we generally try to avoid forcing our holidays on peoples of other cultural backgrounds who may not celebrate them.  In some cases, however, the holidays have such universal messages that, whether or not people elect to celebrate them, it won't hurt them to consider the message of the holiday.  One such holiday is the traditional holiday of Thanksgiving, which the United States is observing today.  While many mistakenly observe that Thanksgiving is about gluttony and cutthroat competition for amazing deals with total disregard for the humanity of other participants in the ritual, the truth is that Thanksgiving wasn't originally about the cheap electronics available the next morning.  In fact, it was first celebrated before electronics were cheap at all.  As it turns out, the real focus of observing Thanksgiving is not about eating a turkey or buying iPads, but about being grateful for what one has and has been able to accomplish.  At the GPD we ask our supporters to contemplate for a moment what we all have to be grateful for, including but not limited to lower brad sales, a lower incidence of brad-related deaths in children, hole punch trade-in drives, and the recent collapse of the Parent Corporation and the Unholy Brotherhood of the Hole Punch.  When we stop to consider the progress we are making, we will have the energy to see it through all the way to the New Future!