In the US, I've seen advent wreaths at churches but not in anyone's home. But I'm sure some people have it in the US. Usually wreaths are hung on the front door as holiday decorations.
We do have the christmas calendars and jokes about eating them all at once.
One of them only tells lies.
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
“I think otherwise,” the door said. “Look in the purchase contract you signed when you bought this conapt.”
In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
“You discover I’m right,” the door said. It sounded smug.
From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
“I’ll sue you,” the door said as the first screw fell out.
Joe Chip said, “I’ve never been sued by a door. But I guess I can live through it.
Philip K. Dick, Ubik
Holy shit the intercept has gone downhill with the AI images.
That seems like a flight of stairs up.
Fetterman never said he was a socialist or anti-zionist. People only ever liked him because he was pro m4a and because the elites hated him for wearing hoodies in the senate. No one knew just how much of a raging Zionist he was until after 10/7. Fetterman is not the reference for Mamdani. That is AOC.
There's nothing to indicate he will about-face like Fetterman. He will endlessly compromise, concede, and triangulate like AOC does and that's what he has been doing, (eg Tisch). That's the inevitable reality of being a socialist politician in a capitalist state and why Marx advised against actually getting elected, especially to an executive. Believing he was secretly a fraud all along is Hollywood brained.
With all his experience I'm genuinely surprised he only managed to kill one guard.
His model would be AOC not Fetterman. Platner is the next Fetterman.
Chocolate filled but not really restricted to children. They also aren't like mandatory.