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Nov 5th? Is he planning to blow up parliament? (slrpnk.net)

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Trump wouldn't know who Guy Fawkes is. US Election Day falls on the Tuesday after the first Monday of November. It's just a coincidence it happens to be the 5th this year. My comment was mostly a direct reply to OP.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Why have it on a Tuesday? Why not on a weekend so more people aren't at work?

Oh, yeah, that's why.

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It's apparently a hold over from olden times when good Christian farmers weren't going to skip church to travel to the county seat and vote. So Monday is a travel day and Tuesday is when you vote. Or something like that.

Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

Edit: and both are catering to farmers. Those and corn subsidies are the 3 immutable objects in American life, all catering to farmers.

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Voting day and daylight savings time are the two immutable objects in American life.

Unless your George W Bush, in which case DST can be rescheduled by 2 weeks and cause everything with automatic time changes but no updates to be manually adjusted twice a year...

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 months ago

Valid point. In my head I was speaking of the existence of DST, not when it changed. But I did use the word "immutable", so I guess I'm back to 2 of those - Tuesday voting and corn subsidies.