Do you buy holiday gifts for your partner's family?
https://lemmy.world/post/40692586
Do you buy holiday gifts for your partner's family? - Lemmy.World
Every year, my partner of a decade and I have Christmas with her family. My
family is Jewish and we also spend at least one night of Hanukkah with them. For
all gatherings (including birthdays) the gifts are almost exclusively chosen and
purchased by the one who is more directly related to the recipient. It always
feels a little weird to me that their family gets me gifts, but they never
receive anything exclusively from myself, it’s just very vaguely implied that
the gifts are from us as a couple. To be fair, their parents give gifts as a
couple (always from their mom). Also, I would never ask my partner to purchase
gifts for my family in addition to theirs, they’re already stressed enough by
finding something for their own family. I’ve never brought this up with my
partner as I don’t want to make them feel either obligated to or guilty about
implicitly declaring that they don’t want to.
OPINION: If your views don't align with either presidential candidate, vote for the one you'd rather protest against for the next 4 years.
https://lemmy.world/post/20060020
OPINION: If your views don't align with either presidential candidate, vote for the one you'd rather protest against for the next 4 years. - Lemmy.World
Nobody likes voting for the “lesser of two evils.” Casting a vote in favor of
someone who is diametrically opposed to your viewpoint(s) absolutely sucks. The
shitty reality is that we aren’t going to change the electoral process in the
next two months. If you don’t see either major candidate as a champion that you
can support, it seems more beneficial to see it as selecting your enemy for the
next four years. I would rather fight against someone that I have a chance of
changing. At minimum I would rather protest against someone that I think has a
lower chance of authorizing lethal force against a march that I attend. Voting
for a 3rd presidential candidate (or not voting at all), is letting someone else
make that decision for you. That said, we have got to get out of this constant
cycle of only having two options. There’s too much money at a national level to
start there. We’ve got to start local and get third party candidates into
offices at a city level, then state, then national. It’s going to take a long
time and it should have happened so very long ago. We can’t change the past, we
can only change the future. The only time to start changing the future is in the
present.
