Talking Turkey With the Turkeys

[Perknose]

Thanksgiving Got Shorter After the 2016 Election, Study Says. You Can Guess Why.

Old squabbles and politics have a way of intruding. And a new study suggests that America’s growing partisanship may have led some to cut their Thanksgiving gatherings short in the weeks after the contentious 2016 election. (You remember the heated rhetoric, the ominous warningsand the angry rallies.)

The study, which will appear in the Friday issue of Science magazine, found that Thanksgiving celebrations that year were about 30 to 50 minutes shorter for Americans who crossed partisan lines for the holiday than those who traveled to areas that voted like their own.

This partisan divide is definitely bad for my digestion.

 

[Jaskalas]

Thanksgiving Got Shorter After the 2016 Election, Study Says. You Can Guess Why.

This partisan divide is definitely bad for my digestion.

Thanks to social media, the party hate never ends. Fresh offenses are created daily. People have no time to calm down and let civil conduct return. Our brains treat political difference as a threat, similar to physical violence. Think about the implications there with our 24/7 news cycle. A politicized social media literally forces people's brains into a more primitive and fearful state.

 

[Jaskalas]

On a related note: STUDY: Too Much Bad News Can Make You Sick...

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

The family is too far and if not we can't stand Trump so we are good. There's a couple who are not blood relatives that show up at a step-inlaw's, never treated me badly but while they are the perfect supporters they can't find a way to defend and so turkey and sides is the only thing on the table

 

[FelixDeCat]

Came here looking for thread regarding Turkey's foreign minister visit to US.

Left dissappointed.