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Location: CA, USA

I have some neighbors who regularly have a huge bash lasting all night long - it's happened every Cinco de Mayo for nearly a decade.

This year - nothing.

The whole town is quiet. This used to be one of the noisiest days of the year. Is anyone else noticing this in their community?

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

They knew it would turn into Cinco De Porto very quickly

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 weeks ago

Also California.

Yeah there wasn't much. Only thing I heard about was a restaurant with marg deals and giving out small cute sombrero hats.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I live in a hispanic majority city in CA and the most I saw were trucks having enormous Mexican flags, made me smile a bit. If I were to see a big American flag it would make me very cautious driving near it

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago

I heard some communities would boycott specific products, common in these celebrations, as they were instrumental in Trump's campaign. Nevertheless, this is news to me since the celebrations themselves are basically mandatory for Mexicans.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 weeks ago

Location: MI, USA. My city is insanely white. The second highest demographic being Black, at around 4%. I have never seen or heard any celebrating around here. But you can expect a 2hr wait at any Mexican restaurant.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

It's a Monday

[–] [email protected] 65 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

They're afraid of attracting ICE raids

[–] [email protected] 31 points 3 weeks ago

There was literally an article yesterday about towns and cities canceling their events due to fears of ICE raids.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 weeks ago

Probably ICE and bad economy

[–] [email protected] 27 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

I expect Chinese New Year celebrations to go down too once they start ramping up the "CCP Spy" Sinophobic rhetoric.

It'd be like the red scare all over again, except this time the Russians already won, and is now... in a proxy war with China via the US?

So now:
Russian agent in the white house = good?
But every Chinese American is now a spy, even with zero proof whatsoever?

What the fuck is going on lol? This Simulation is broken

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

The Russian people I know speculate that the plan was to recruit Russia as an ally against china. Since china is the more dangerous enemy. However it doesn't seem to be working too well because the Russian leadership is just as out of touch with reality

[–] [email protected] 92 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah. Because the usa is now ran by goddamn fucking Nazis

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Nah, the Mexican Catholic Church up the road from me threw another huge party today, and I'm in one of the shit hole southern states.

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