“I said on the campaign trail that I wouldn’t be attending, and I’ve made my views on the Israeli government clear,” Mamdani said at the same briefing.
Cinco de mayo is purely a United Statesian holiday. Mexicans have no idea what it is. (I guess United Statesians dont either lol, but it is a US holiday.)
Fun history lesson, Cinco de Mayo was first celebrated in the Mexican communities of California. It celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It was widely popularized by the Chicano movement in the 1950s.
Battle of Puebla Day was and sort of still is a holiday in Mexico, but it’s not on any official observances list, but school children do get the day off nationwide, and there’s reenactments and parades in Puebla. Widespread celebration fell off after the dictator who was fond of the holiday was deposed in 1911.
More fun history, the French won the Second Battle of Puebla a year later and then occupied Mexico City in their attempt to found a new Empire out of Mexico, because Napoleon the 3rd wanted one, but was way too incompetent to war with the rest of Europe. (He did some fighting in the Crimean War, but forgot to bring the artillery, the first Napoleon was an Artillery commander)
It’s not bad faith, you just made an unfortunate choice of example. It’s ok you can just say that wasn’t your intention and everyone moves on. Oops lol hehe etc.
It’s good faith to notice you chose the same country for example A and two neighboring countries for example B, unless you’re saying you chose the objectively two best possible examples or something.
Cinco de mayo is purely a United Statesian holiday. Mexicans have no idea what it is. (I guess United Statesians dont either lol, but it is a US holiday.)
Fun history lesson, Cinco de Mayo was first celebrated in the Mexican communities of California. It celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla in 1862. It was widely popularized by the Chicano movement in the 1950s.
Battle of Puebla Day was and sort of still is a holiday in Mexico, but it’s not on any official observances list, but school children do get the day off nationwide, and there’s reenactments and parades in Puebla. Widespread celebration fell off after the dictator who was fond of the holiday was deposed in 1911.
More fun history, the French won the Second Battle of Puebla a year later and then occupied Mexico City in their attempt to found a new Empire out of Mexico, because Napoleon the 3rd wanted one, but was way too incompetent to war with the rest of Europe. (He did some fighting in the Crimean War, but forgot to bring the artillery, the first Napoleon was an Artillery commander)
The same clown, Napoleon III, declared war against Prussia and got badly spanked. 1870 was a disaster for France.
And St Patrick’s Day is more of an America and Ireland thing. It’s certainly not British.
I never said it was British. What the fuck?
Op said British Day or Mexican Day parade and you responded with St Patrick’s Day and Cinco de Mayo.
OP also asked if there were any other country-focused parades out there. That’s the part I was responding to.
Latching onto the wrong part of the comment to miscontextualize my response is a bad faith argument.
It’s not bad faith, you just made an unfortunate choice of example. It’s ok you can just say that wasn’t your intention and everyone moves on. Oops lol hehe etc.
What? There have been a couple users who responded with good faith arguments, and I engaged with them in good faith.
There were also some who didn’t, and why would I waste my time trying with those?
It’s good faith to notice you chose the same country for example A and two neighboring countries for example B, unless you’re saying you chose the objectively two best possible examples or something.
I wouldn’t call it the objectively best, just the first two fitting examples that came to mind.
In fact, I’d phrase it more like this:
So a response to your comment that was poorly phrased is a bad faith argument? Give me a break.
I learned about that (in detail) from a Youtube channel about booze, of all places. It was surprisingly interesting!
Checks out
Also please, let us pronounce it correctly. “Cinco de Drinko.”
Kooko de Burra